The local model show is now safely behind, and I managed to (almost) finish the Moria board on time...barely. The only thing I did not have time for was to add churning water with water effects to the area where the Watcher most likely is in game situations - but that was, perhaps, a blessing in disguise as you'll see later. The realistic water in the creek had hardened, but was still a bit opaque. I added the final white drybrushing early Saturday morning, just before packing my car...
I had an area of my own - like a small part of Middle-Earth cordoned separately from all the other model tables. Here are few overview photos of the three boards I had there: Moria west gate, Ford of Bruinen, and Weathertop.
An overview and a couple of close-ups of the Ford of Bruinen board, with the nine Ringwraiths and Arwen & Frodo. I wrapped aluminum foil on the bases of five wraiths and painted the foil blue to better blend the figures onto the river.
...and overview plus some close-ups of the Moria board, with Watcher (from Thomarillion), Ori, Oin and eight Khazad guards, depicting an event close to the end of the dwarves' unsuccessful reclaiming of Moria (some 53 years after the Hobbit):
Here are two shots of the Weathertop - the hill is the same two-part large hill we have already used in three different ways in the first campaign scenarios. The scene shows Gandalf having an unfriendly encounter with the nine wraiths...
I entered these three boards, plus the "Watcher-out-of-the-water model in the category "miscellaneous", and a mounted Arwen in one of the figure categories. The judges awarded me the second prize in the misc category for Weathertop. Now, I was a bit surprised at this because Weathertop definitely required the least work of the boards. Perhaps the judges thought that the ruin was scratch-built? Personally I think the Moria board to be superior. In any case, here are photos of Arwen and Watcher models, too.
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