Thursday, 26 September 2019

Mythical Earth- the baddies

As promised here are the Mythical Earth bad guys. They are still a work in progress and victim to my indecisiveness regarding basing. What you see is various attempts at basing and my general lack of coming to a consensus on this. Plain green , individual,element based, textured etc they stand testament to the ongoing work. So here are the figures. By the way what do you think re basing ?





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18 comments:

  1. The Good Soldier Svjek26 September 2019 at 12:38

    Is that a Britains baby elephant masquerading as a war elephant ?

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    1. tradgardmastare26 September 2019 at 16:00

      Sadly no , it is a hinchcliffe elephant masquerading as a mumakil.

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  2. Ross Mac rmacfa@gmail.com26 September 2019 at 13:40

    Always good to see these figures. Ahhh the Nazghul's winged mount, I was very fond of mine. Ahh well.

    I like the darker, mottled, green on the Uruk Hai better than the bright green or the flocked ones.

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  3. tradgardmastare26 September 2019 at 16:02

    The bright green was a product of a cunning plan using coloured sand to base figures. A low point not to be repeated.

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  4. Maudlin Jack Tar26 September 2019 at 18:02

    Splendid collection Tradgardmastare. What a fine unit of Giants! I only had the one. I agree with Ross on the basing style.

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  5. tradgardmastare26 September 2019 at 18:27

    The giants are one of my favourite figures. The patch on their clothes and their clubs are charming.

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  6. Springinsfeld26 September 2019 at 19:55

    Yup, plain green bases suit these old figures. Normally I would rant about having individual figures, but the multi basing works well here. I am getting tempted to do some ME figures myself.

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    1. tradgardmastare26 September 2019 at 21:03

      Give into that temptation, you won’t regret it!

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  7. Rick Priestley26 September 2019 at 21:33

    Very impressive... I thought I had a lot of ME Man Orcs... now I know different! Nice bit of remodelling of the Balrog whip too.

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    1. tradgardmastare27 September 2019 at 07:33

      No one needs a broken balrog. Do you game with your ME figures?

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    2. Rick Priestley27 September 2019 at 12:55

      Ah well - the odd piece finds its way onto the table - but it's really a 'project' - one of those - that I started a few years ago. The idea was to rebuild an army that I had in the day - and I just got into the habit of buying up models - and before I knew it I had 13 Ringwraiths on flying beasties! Some are harder to get than others - I found the Harad and Southron infantry fairly uncommon, and the cavalry both uncommon and usually broken. I'm 'restoring' some Harad cavalry lancers at the moment.

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    3. tradgardmastare27 September 2019 at 13:19

      I look forward to seeing some pictures of them one day. I know what you mean, some of the figures do indeed appear more often for sale. I can’t seem to get hold of orcs , dwarves or hobbits so readily or the goblins in hoods,

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    4. Rob Dean30 September 2019 at 12:58

      I lucked into a find of two dozen Harad infantry and 7 dozen man-orcs a couple of years ago, so I just need to come up with a nice paint scheme for them...

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  8. Sprinks26 September 2019 at 23:53

    A beautiful array of old school goodness, lovely collection.

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  9. Fitz-Badger27 September 2019 at 03:58

    I think the darker green bases work, but also the flocked bases the giants are on. Looks like quite an army! Nice work!

    I've been dithering about basing for ages. Most of my minis are on various individual plastic bases. Lately I've been using round bases, but many of my earlier figures are on square bases (just because that's what they came with back in the day). I do like the idea of multi-figure stands for battle games, but I tried removing some minis from their plastic stands in order to affix them directly to small plywood bases. But then you have to decided whether to try to blend them in and texture/flock or pin them to the base or what. And how to get texture and/or paint between them. The other thing I tried was just to glue them with their individual plastic bases onto the plywood bases. That's less work, but is it even worth it? Or should I go for some sort of movement trays (with magnets? as many of my miniatures are also based on washers). Hence, dithering. ha ha

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  10. tradgardmastare27 September 2019 at 07:36

    Basing, perennial dilemma. I have tried movement trays but they are so bulky l felt.

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  11. Rob Dean30 September 2019 at 12:59

    I’ve gone with flocked bases for mine, but the mottled green looks pretty good too...

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