The Scouring 0f the Shire is one of my favorite parts of The Lord of the Rings. I was very disappointing that it was left out of the movie. Of course The Scouring 0f the Shire is one of my favorite supplements.A few years ago I set out to make sure I could play all of the scenarios in the book. After I had collected and painted the figures necessary and built the terrain. I decided that Odovacars Bolger's Promenade needed special attention. After all the hobbits deserved to be chased around the old forest by appropriate trees. I set about converting the 27 black hearten trees for the scenario.I had a hard time finding enough until the bottom fell out of Mage Knight. I ended up with well over 200 treemen of various kinds. After several years of hard use, some aggressive 10 year old's and inadequate storage they are the worst for ware. Time for a refit. I am going to restore 27 to fighting trim while I wait for some supplies so that I can start painting Treebeard.




I am going to start with some matte varnish and I will repair the foliage and up grade the bases. Some new hills will be nice, too. Entmoot next

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A new Wotr army, lol! Good work by the way.

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Painting Lineup: Mumakil x2, Rohan Heroes x8, Haradrim, SKoDA

Thanks
Entmoot next

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"the same as a duck you must be made of wood"

I really like the trees. I also just read your signature. Nice to meet another Holy Grail fan!

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"When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer."

WOW! That looks fantastic!!
The Mage-Knight Treekins remind me lots of the GW-LOTR Shades! They would fit perfect for a cheap shade aswell! hehe.
Or.. a shade converting into a black hearted tree... hmm...
Interesting!

Looking forward to see more mate!

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I share your sentiments about Shire matters. It dates from the days that I was happily playing the Black Label ‘Fellowship of the Ring’ PC game (if you do not have the game I recommend you to get hold of a copy; just walk through the Shire and Old Forest levels, enjoy the pleasant surroundings and the accompanying music and your image of the Shire will never be the same, believe me! ).

Don't get lost in that forest or we'll never see the end of it.

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My young nephew hooked me on LOTR online when he visited for the summer. He is a fan of your site as am I.

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Some of the D&D and horror click figures would work well too. I will have to try it.

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I have started work on the Entmoot . I could not help but followed up on the Buckland Brewer's suggestion of LOTR Shades.I will have to look through some friends bit boxes for more. This first shade is from some spare D&D figures. the figures are soft plastic and pre-painted. I will experiment on some spare soft plastic figures to see what I have to do to get paint to stick.
I primed the Majestic Bear Birch Tree and started on the Willow. I will say the numbers help a lot.

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You can click the thumbnails and view the album. The shade thumbnail was just to small to be interesting.

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I concur its a fun PC game. Shame they didnt follow it up.
Only problem was got stuck trying to kill the Balrog...

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I already felt like sculpting a huron of an ent, this only encourages it. Maybe it's also the bad influence of all those ents and trees i am seeing in various wip's. Hm enoying, i always get seduced by starting new projects... And no time at all lol. Nice work old man Willow. You are right that the scourcing of the shire is nice piece in the books. I really loved to read it. I started the simillarion yesterday. I love the part where the dwarfs are beging not to be smashed under that hammer.
I actually wondered how u guys do those leaves? - Doesn't it come of when u touch it?

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goblin: "people associate me with boogers because i am green"

You have to take care or the foliage comes off.

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Any particular reason why you're putting the Willow on an 80mm base? Just curious.

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You don't have to be great to start. But you do have to start to be great.

I used the larger base to match some of my larger trees.

He is probably going to get platform shoes like Oldman Willow and the Treebeard from the 1970's
I am in the middle of a Old Forest renovation. A lot of models need to be varnished flat. Most need the foliage cleaned or repaired.The D and D tee needs to be redone. All I did was drill a hole and plug a plastic tree in his head.

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Looking forward to further progress They like nice so far.

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goblin: "people associate me with boogers because i am green"

This sounds like a fantastic project. You certainly have plenty of species of tree's around (including that brilliant Willow tree ) Looking forward to more progress on this. The Mage-Knights are looking pretty good, I mistook them for Shades at the beginning!

Drum

The drive failed
I have not looked at computer hardware in a great while Can I still get a 3 1/2 drive I will look at new cameras
No more instant photos for a time

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I made a trip to the railroad convention last week and picked up some need supplies.I have 50 trees to repair in this batch but I did put a dark base coat on The Birch and Willow. I did get most of the trees cleaned. They get dusty after awhile.


I worked some on the watcher so that I can get him out of the way.
I really want to sculpt my own treeman but I have some projects to finish up first. I am going to try to finish up the repairs over the week end. I will post photos of the willow and birch when the paint is further along.

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I would like to see that sculpt of a treeman. Maybe u can take it between ur other projects; greenstuff needs to dry anyways. So u can do like 5-10 minutes of sculpting a day.

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I just had another hard ware problem. I hope a new cpu fan will do the trick. This pc is too slow to use any more. I'll be back when the good pc is fixed or with a new one.

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