Well I will start by hoping that Evan is sitting down when he see's this. After purchasing the GW LOTR system when it was released way back in 2001, its been stashed with all the other LOTR items that followed in my crawlspace.
Now the interest was certainly there to get them started, but other systems & life in general & perhaps a bit of laziness on my part never actually got them to the paint table. Time passed, with many swap meets seeing me snag more figures as during the lull of the system, people seemed to be unloading it. So I bought more....again stashed.
Well this year I have decided it was time to start painting them! So lets go back to the original stuff first The Fellowship of the Ring Starter set, with 2nd age Men of Numenor & Elves with some Moria Goblins.
As I looked through my pristine copy (still on sprue) I figured I would dig out all the loose figures to start & then maybe can sell my new set further down the road. I am pretty sure I will have enough figures to make a force.
With prep done it was time to start on my first 12 Men of Numenor. (They originally called them Men of Gondor I believe). I watched a couple of Youtube videos of people painting these & enjoyed this one the most from Mini-Earth.
So I managed to complete 4 of them today & have pretty much figured out which colours I am using where.
I didn't go with quite the same colours as Mini-Earth, but am happy with how they turned out.
So looking at the rules, there is mention of having Officers within the troops, so I started with painting a yellow dot on the 'officer' figure, but then wanted to define them on the figure themselves. So I decided that the Officer would have golden wings on the helm vs just the Gold edging seen on the common troops.
So here they are on a ruined tower display just for something a bit fancier.
I also have the buildings I am working on for the store in progress as well as the dumpsters for Zombicide, so they will likely be getting a view soon. So thats it for today's post. Thanks for visiting & I hope you don't get sick of seeing more of these fellows appearing in the weeks ahead!
