The world is grey, the mountains old,
The forge's fire is ashen-cold;
No harp is wrung, no hammer falls,
The darkness dwells in Durin's halls;
In Moria, in Khazad-dum.
As noted in last post about Talisman, my terrain-building bug is back. However, with very little time on the weekends to work on terrain, and no driving force to get any done (as I don't actually
play any wargames anymore), progress is slow. However, my first project to get me back into the swing of things is now complete. I had an extra piece of 2x2 plywood lying around, so I figured a general terrain board was in order. A Moria terrain board for my Lord of the Rings Mines of Moria guys, that is.
First, the boring shots:
I followed the tutorial on the games workshop site to get the little broken tiles and whatnot on there. It looks a lot better with terrain and minis though. Here's some Balin's Tomb attack action:
Aragorn defends the doorway...
Boromir and Gimli attack the Cave troll...
Nothing makes bad paint jobs on Gandalf stand out like a close-up shot...
Strangely, the flash causes the bases to look really light in the pictures, but they are virtually the same color as the table itself in real life as far as I can tell. Oh well, the trials of an amateur photographer.
Now my challenge is to convince Mary that she really wants to learn how to play the excessively-complex Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game!
The tree groups are built upon some carved foam, and covered with some grass matting. Then I hot glued some stumps down, and glued some sand and rocks down. Once dry I painted them with scorched brown, and then drybrushed them with snakebite leather and skull white. Then glued down some grass flock to cover any unsightly seems, and then clumps of foliage as bushes. They turned out pretty good. Here's some pics of the trees themselves before I figured out to turn off the flash under macro mode.
A goblin hides in the trees for scale.
Of course, no goblin is going to be able to skulk around the Riddermark without the Riders of Rohan (led by Gandalf, of course) venturing forth to purge their lands of such evil!
*gulp!*
