I'm not sure when I will get around to painting him ... frankly, I'm a little intimidated by it ... but I will eventually get up the courage to throw some paint on him. Here he is. I included the female elf figure for scale comparison.
And another follow up on the Norman and Saxon figures. I have now managed to drop a base of the infantry from waist height or higher twice now, and both times, after a gasp of panic escaped me, the bases of figures landed base side down (rather than on the head or side of a figure) and were completely undamaged. I think the bases are so heavy that they fall in such a way so that they will always land base side down, unless the distance they fall is not very far, and in that case they probably would be fine anyway. For a guy like me who likes to run games at conventions, where figures get dropped all the time, this is very good news.
Wow! Now that is an impressive piece! I have to ask about the horns though. Are you going to paint some pattern, like curled ram's horns or something, and that is why you used split eggs?
ReplyDeleteHow about a video of you doing the "water bottle flip" only with miniatures? :D
Ha, ha, you give me too much credit for forethought. I used the split eggs for the horns because they fit the best of all the pieces I had to work with . But yes, I will paint some sort of rams horn like pattern. I am going to try and stay as close to the movie Balrog as I can. For example he will be painted with an open mouth as if he is roaring.
ReplyDeleteHa, ha, I should do a figure drop video like that, you are right.