#model making

[daves-miniature-adventures]

A little closeup of the armoured prows on the Dauntless Class Light Cruisers I’m working on (with lots of refining and cleanup still to do!)

And a look at the colours on my wet palette during the painting. I don’t have any of these fancy wet palettes, it’s just a large sponge cut to fit inside a plastic tub, with some grease proof paper on top and water added!

Hoping to finish these ships today and with that, complete my BFG Imperial Fleet: Battlefleet Agripinaa.

I still need to paint up an orbital station but that will be independent from the fleet itself.

I also have a few other Imperial ships which will form a smaller, separate strike group consisting of an Inquisitorial Black Ship and three Deathwatch Frigates (old Forgeworld minis that I have stripped for repainting).

Happy Hobbying!

Dave

[jbry]

Davy Jones, Captain of the Flying Dutchman

Found this model for free on MakerWorld/the Bambu slicer program and I couldn't resist.

I made my own base for it though as the one it comes with is not the best looking. I did no work on the print itself, just primed it and went straight to painting because sanding this would be a huge pain in the nuts.

[jbry]

Smaug

A 3d printed model of the dragon Smaug, from The Hobbit movies.

File was purschased on Cults3d, it was ~$12. Great model. This one is printed at 66% scale and is the first model that I painted mostly by airbrush.

He's very hard to take good pictures of so sorry for the bad angles.

[ikbeneenvos]

Chimera proxy? (Ignore the Bavarian in wrong colours)

[jbry]

Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game

Mordor and other Nasty Things

Sauron and the Olog-Hai Troll are free 3d prints that I found and scaled down to match their official models because I only want to give Games Workshop so much of my money.

Tried my alternative colors on some orcs, and painted a pack half red/half yellow. The pictures look awful but in person they are visually distinct on the tabletop. My Easterlings look great though.

The new Shelob kit is very nice, but I'm not really a fan of the diorama base with the rocks, but I leaned into it anyway.

I ended up with 3 Smeagols to paint all at the same time so those are here too.

[jbry]

Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game

Hobbits, Dwarves, Istari, and the White Council

Part of my new job treat your self purchases was a bunch of hobbits and Radagast, so now I have all the Wizards (yeah i know there's 5 but the blues dont have models) and the Dol-Gulder crew/White Council. The Eagles were bought used so I had to make my own stands but I'm happy with them.

I wanted to really get my moneys worth out of Radagast so I made the sleigh into a bit of a diorama.

The hobbits were fun to paint because they are one of the few factions in Middle-Earth that have discovered color and I made one of Farmer Maggot's dogs look like my dog.

For the Dwarves, I bought the 3 pack of captains to go with my used half pack of dwarf warriors, and painted them all the same to match. I've decided one of the dwarves is Durin IV so I can use him in a Last Alliance narrative game.

[jbry]

Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game

Fangorn and some more Rohan

Normally I avoid making custom bases for my minis, but Treebeard and the Ents are my favorite part of the book (and his feet wouldn't glue flat) so I went for it with this one.

Because I wanted more ents, and don't want to pay several hundred dollars for them, I made some out of clay and found some free ones to 3d print. My sculpting skills aren't the best, but it cost me nothing to make them, and was a kinda enjoyable activity.

I also bought some used, open and not painted, Rohan soldiers, so painted them with yellow gear. Continuing my money saving, I bought that captain pack and decided one was Elfhelm, because $50+ for someone who has like 2 pages of "screentime" is just ridiculous. There are also a trio of royal guards.