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Hobbyists share some of the products of the last few months, and some thoughts about their armies.
GBHL Harry P: "For many, these last few months have been among the most productive for hobbying ever. With the lack of commutes, or furloughing, much more time has been dedicated to painting or building toy soldiers. An excellent way to keep connected to this wonderful hobby of ours, even if we can't roll dice at a table. Here I've collected some photos and thoughts from some folk in the GBHL about what they've been working on and why:"
Sean Sproule:
"2020 is my year of evil, where I have dedicated to completing an army in service of Sauron. I set aside an entire ‘Shelf of Evil’ on my display cabinet and throughout the past few months have managed to fill the whole thing.
I didn’t want to draw from any single army list. Instead I wanted a diverse range of models and this meant I’d need to rely on the paint scheme to unify them. The metals have all been painted in the same fashion across every model to provide some consistency and I chose a fairly dark, rusted/chipped look that I think suits the orcs. Purple is the central colour for the army and features most heavily on the Morannons and heroes with a light blue as the ‘secondary’ colour. Skin colours were kept fairly chaotic to keep the horde looking varied although I chose to make the Moria goblins a little more homogeneous (and mainly to preserve my sanity). Finally most of the sorcerous/magical elements of the army have been painted with a bright fluorescent green to stand out and catch the eye, whilst playing into the idea that they’re all drawing from the same malign well of power. (For anyone interested I posted a step-by-step on how I did my Morannons and found it very helpful as a reference guide for myself when batch painting - Search for Zen Sproule in the GBHL Facebook page).
A fairly neutral rocky base ties them to my other armies visually with some scattered dead grass and flowers for the juxtaposition.
I’ve built the army around a theme of a ‘what if’ idea of an alliance between Moria and Mordor. Gaming wise I wanted to challenge myself to make the union work and honestly I couldn’t not try to force the Balrog in after spending so long painting him. If Mordor was to try and summon forth the Balrog I felt they would need to send some of their more powerful sorcerers to do so and a Ringwraith and Kardush felt appropriate (although the true leader of the army is the final model awaiting completion).
At the start of lockdown I only had Guritz and 6 Morannon orcs painted as a test scheme. I’ve now finished 72 models with only 4 more to go. The project has been great fun and I’m really happy that I’ve managed to keep a consistent look across the army whilst still improving my painting skills. The army has definitely saved my sanity whilst working through lockdown and I’m keeping hopeful that I’ll be able to show them off at a tournament before the year is out. If not they’ll provide a good base for forays out in 2021.
Aaron Pullen:
"My newest project over lockdown, Rangers Of Ithilien. As you can see I've gone mad on the bases as I think this captures the scene of lurking rangers in the forest preparing to ambush there enemy.
I love the models and I like the way you can base them too, also I’m loving shooty armies at the moment. The only thing is, I won’t be using them that often as I know people don’t like the "OP Rangers List" - although I’m tempted to expand the list to play at higher points games so they might not be as harsh to play against.
I loved painting this army and as always I loved making the bases."
Alastair King:
So I generally wanted to pick slightly different colour schemes to the norm for my armies so they stand out and look a bit different.
With that in mind I chose a predominantly green scheme for the Numenoreans, who I also wanted a feel of the sea with. To that end I have based them as if they are landing on the beaches of middles earth with the waves washing up round their feet and sand.
With the Easterlings I wanted to avoid painting large amount of metallics as I am not a fan of painting them. I used a brown and cream as the main colours for them, which also enables the bits of red to stand out as well. Basing for these guys I decided to try out some paving stone resin based for the first time and was very pleased with the results.
Finally the Gondor/Rohan alliance was based on the Fields of Cellebrant. The Gondor forces under the king had waged a long war by the time of Eorl the Young joining so I decided earthy tones would be appropriate, the Rohan elements would incorporate the same scheme to unify the force, but I mixed it some blue to identify them as independent and fresh to the war.
All the armies have been built up to at least 700pts, and are a capable competitive force at those levels in my opinion. While there isn't a particular theme for the Easterlings, the Gondor/Rohan alliance is very much about the battle the Eorl made his name and led to the founding of Rohan. The Numenoreans is an Isildur based list which vaguely represents the Battle of the Gladden Fields when Isildur was killed and the Ring was lost.
GBHL Harry P: "That's all for now, but do you have an army you've worked on during lockdown? Drop a comment below and we will feature it next time!"
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