Thursday, May 28, 2020

Painting Mordor Orcs (Lord of the rings)

I have started on my next project. I will involve painting 202 miniatures if I got my total correctly. Someone was selling all of his LoTR minatures (Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, etc)

I was too late to buy the Elves and the Dwarves, but I did get the Mordor Orcs.

He was selling at about 40% of cost so I jumped on the deal.

The following list is an inventory of the models.

The Dark marshal (ring wraith) 2
Kardush the fire caller 1
Orc with pennant 2
Mordor Uruk-hai 15
Black Numenorean Warriors 4
Black Guard of Bard-Dur 4
Mordor Troll 3
Mordor War Catapult 1
Warg Riders 14
Morannon Orcs 33
Mordor Orcs 114
Gorbag and Shagrat 3
Mordor Orc Commanders  4
The mouth of Sauron 2

I have a few pictures of my challenge. The following are the models not in a box.

















and these are the models in boxes.




















Painted: 0

Total for 2020: 76

Working on: LOTR Mordor Orcs

Backlog: None

Total for 2019: 299
Total for 2018: 375
Total for 2017: 392

Thursday, May 21, 2020

Painting Skaven (Warhammer Fantasy)

Mike had a box of Warhammer for Island of blood. The box contains an Elf  and Skaven force.

Mike decided to paint the Elves and gave me the Skaven force.

I have been in a huge kitchen reno, so not much time for painting.

My force
















The Skaven Warlord

























The Skaven Warlock Engineer























40 Skaven clanrats























2 Skaven Ogres
























1 Skaven Warpfire Thrower















and 1 Poisoned Wind Mortar






















A total of 47 models to paint.

Painted: 47

Total for 2020: 76

Working on: LOTR Orc force

Backlog: None

Total for 2019: 299
Total for 2018: 375
Total for 2017: 392

Team Yankee Firestorm Red Thunder Campaign - wrap up.

I forgot all about the final wrap up of the campaign.

Mike (NATO) and I (WARSAW) played game 14 on 12 February.

Mike wrote a battle report at

http://michaelswargames.blogspot.com/2020/02/battle-report-team-yankee-50-points.html

The result was a WARSAW PACT Victory.

Games 13 and 15 were played at the club on 1 March 2020.

Game 13 was between Mike (NATO) and Jeff Burnett (WARSAW)

Mike wrote a battle report at

http://michaelswargames.blogspot.com/2020/03/battle-report-team-yankee.html

The result was a WARSAW PACT victory

the last games was battle 15 and was between Serge (WARSAW PACT and Jeff Young (NATO)

This was a very close battle that almost ended in a draw, but after another turn the Canadians pulled off a victory.

The last three battles saw the WARSAW PACT lose 6 VP but gain 5.

So the WARSAW PACT finishes the campaign with 59 points which is an

Operational Victory

The final map








































Thanks for everyone that played.