Hello,

I recently posted photos of my 4,000+ piece collection of Painted LOTR figures. Someone suggested that I post here, so here is a link to it:

viewtopic.php?f=88&t=23598

I have new troops out being painted which will make this collection top 5,000.

I welcome comments,
Brian

Wow! that is some great painting! And so many figures Funny my dad was complaining this morning that I had to many... i think i need to show him some pictures from here ...

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

You should definitly invest the time and put some battles with you figures together (e.g. pellenor) and make some good photos of that. That would be even more impressive. I think many would like to see that.

What's scary is that this is posted in the Work in Progress section

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Namarie

Beautiful collection! You must be able to play great battles. Will you expand your collection when The Hobbit miniatures are released? How is your terrain? I think you should send in pictures of your whole arrayed collection to GW and WD when the movie premiere draws close. They will be sure to publish it. As suggested already by others you could stage battle scenes from the books and movies, and send GW some of the best pictures. They will be sure to publish some pics.

Do you have any of GW's Lotr dwarves on the painting table? Since at least I and my brother consider them to be amongst GW's best sculpts ever for any system, I hope you have some queued up. But then I'm a dwarf fanatic.

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Admiralty Miniatures

Killerkatanas, I'm still shock with your collection, I have a lot of minis too, but you have inspired to me for a lot of things this morning, as the storage system... I'll copy you very soon.
Thank you very much for show this to everybody. Thanks.

here I was thinking i had alot with my 1000 minis... That is an amazing collection, and great painting too.

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"make me lunch... worthy of Mordor"

What does Dragon Painting Service charge per model?

Thanks for the comments. To answer a few of the questions:

I cannot take any credit for painting the models, though I can take credit for the many conversions. I am terrific at conversions, but I can't paint well. My armies were painted by several people -- Matt Sturbenz (dead), Patrick Belfiori (Mordor, Harad, Easterlings), Barry Holden (Moror), Stefan Brohl (Galadhrim Elves), Ciaran O'Connor (wood elves) and Dragon Painting (all others).

Yes, the army will grow in size. I have an Angmar force out being painted by Dragon right now, Patrick Belfiori is doing a massive Dwarf army (with 48 vault Wardens) for me, and Matt Sturbenz is doing my Moria troops. I also have a Numenorean and Arnor army that needs painting.

When the Hobbit comes out I am sure my armies will increase more. I will definitely do a Dale army, and will add the special units for the Elves, Dwarves, and Gobblins, but I'll be damned before I buy anything like Dwarf boarriders. I will most likely stay away from Finecast stuff. My armies by the way are all metal or plastic, and I currently only have 3 finecast models.

Dragon charges $7.50 a foof figures and $15 for a mounted figure. The price does go up for characters, captain, and banners. Some troops (High Elves) cost a little more to paint. Howevr, the cost decreases with large orders, and my current ones are large enough to obtain a 20% discount.

I have some good terrain as wel, most made by ESLO (or ELSO), a German terrain making company. I posted pictures of my Realm of Battle that I did (have 2 of them), along with the Osgiliath bridge by ESLO. I have numerous other Osgiliath ruins made by ESLO, even some homes that can double as ruined and intact. I also have an Easterling Temple and tower, Rohan stable, homes, and barns. In addition, I have two Minas Tirith sets and one Helms Deep set. A fellow in the UK is making me curved walls for the Minas Tirith sets, and 4 Mordor Siege Towers--Grond to follow latter.

Brian

Please pass that info along

European Society of Lingual Orthodontics Please pass along the link too
Thanks

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

http://www.esloterrain.com/
may serve you better Oldman Willow, depending on the state of your teeth of course...

Thanks for the link That was very useful

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

I've seen some of your excellent piece in your gallery, nice Abrakhan Guards by the way. I would look forward to seeing even more of your models to drool over (metaphorically of course).

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"I am the Flying Spagetti Monster. Thou shall have no other monsters before me"
-FSM.

The person to contact about LOTR terrain in the UK is Ryan. His email is ryanwestney@googlemail.com

Brian