They get discussed occasionally and I love miniatures so thought I'd start a new topic for us to post any pictures of our miniatures or links to pics online that would make good miniatures for use in TOR.

Personally I'm a pretty average painter (compared to the amazing results of some people out there) so mine are made up of my own paint jobs and commissioned or bought ones. Although I'm not a big fan of RPG rules that rely on using miniatures I do like how they aid in describing and setting a scene - a picture paints a thousand words, and all that jazz...

In TOR I use my miniatures as tokens on my Stance and Travel Mats or in more traditional ways in a battle to roughly describe relative positions to opponents, etc. I try not to 'pixel bitch' when using them for this though as the physical representation is to support the gameplay and not change it into a visually based tactical skirmish or wargame. Those are fine, I just don't want that when playing TOR!

Anyway, enough verbage, here's some pics to start us off.

I bought these GW goblins as I thought they'd make excellent Mewlips due to their deformed physique:





I painted these myself and I'm *really* happy with the results. They looked fairly crappy until I used a wash. It's the first time I've used something other than a black wash (Reikland Fleshshade in this case) and it added a whole new level of shading.

Will post some more of my own but please feel free to use this thread to link to great miniatures and/or pics of your own.

These are miniatures for my PCs in my "Fellowship of the Free" campaign...

Gilbrannon the Wood Elf


This figure is really Legolas from the pack The Three Hunters.

Brand the Barding


I think this is a ranger figure but I'm not sure.

Thogrim the Dwarf


A Gimli figure. Really is gorgeously painted - not by me, obviously!

Iwgar the Woodman


A rohirrim figure but I thought it made a passable Woodman and the player liked the pose of the miniature.

... And Wolf, his faithful hound


I did this one!

I picked up two GW Stone Trolls (from the Hobbit range of miniatures) to use in my "Three's Company" hobbit-only campaign. They weren't amazingly well painted or based so I added a strong wash and lots more detail/foliage to the bases. I really like the results.



Note that Bert here is using the "Spoon of Doom".



Whereas Ernie uses a more conventional knife... But look at that big nasty hand reaching towards you - duck!

... Will post more to bore you all with later!

Prince August had a wonderful collection of miniatures named Mithril, definitely worth a look.

But, since I'm an awful painter, I'm trying to find enough Lego figures from The lord of the rings and The hobbit's lines to use on the battlemat.
Besides, it's easier to change a bow with a sword or an axe.

Rich, I'm a huge fan of the GW LotR miniature line and find they work really great for our game as well. Many of the Dunlending minis (particularly the Dunlend Thanes) work great for player-heroes of Beorning or Woodmen cultures. The plastic Hobbit set Dwarves make good player-heroes, providing your character is outfitted in one of those 13 ways (but at least they look like individual characters, instead of stock/vanilla "I'm a dwarf warrior with an axe and shield, grrr!"

Any combination of the Hobbit goblins or the LotR goblins work great for adversaries, you just really can't go wrong with that line.

Use Boromir, or Aragorn as Bardings.

I really love the Ruins of Middle-earth/Osgiliath to give the impression of an ancient world and I tend to use those liberally over our playmat, along with some free-floating trees just to give it atmosphere.

I'm a bit more on the crunchy side of tactical play, so we do measure out movements and such, it's just what I like as I'm a wargamer as well as a role player.

I'm still partial to those Otherworld ghouls for mewlips.

http://cubicle7.clicdev.com/f/index.php?tr...&showtopic=3190

Sadly I never found any.

Yeah, I like those Otherworld ones from that thread:



They have tiny todgers! Poor Mewlips!!

Not sure about the other two pics though - Big Hands Andy and Barmy Drummers United!

I based up the plastic D&D mini of a Roc:



I think it makes a decent Great Eagle.

... And I couldn't resist these on Ebay. Frodo, Sam, Pippin and Merry respectively:







... Look at the detail on Merry's waistcoat, it's quite staggering. The standard that some people can paint to is bloody incredible.

Feel free to post pics of them here. Would love to see what other people have/do.

You did a great job painting these Rich.

I agree that they would make some solid Mewlips.

BTW, the original post for this got buried in the Forums, but this is pretty cool:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6ntMbUEjf0

Mithril just announced a big vignette about Bilbo surrendering the Arkenstone to the Elvenking and Bard. It looks awesome and matches with TOR's current temporal and regional focus.

Cheers
Tolwen

EDIT: I just noticed that you need an account to see it. Will try to find a workaround. Is there any way of adding an image directly into a post (i.e. not with a hyperlink to a remote )?

I don't think so, you have to link as far as I know. At least on this site. Save the image and load it up to a Flickr account or some such, though, assuming you have something. Even if you don't they are easy to setup and pretty useful.

I use this mini for one of our dwarves. Raven of the mountain and all that.



and this is the other dwarf we have played with, it's a reaper mini 'linroc bright rune' or somesuch I think.

Some of the adversaries we use [or will use]

The secret shadow father.



I couldn't afford the Other World 'mewlips' but I thought these were pretty good, albeit they have weapons instead of just claws, but I liked how they looked.



For orcs and gblins I use a lot of the 'legendary encounters' prepainted plastic figures because they're reasonably cheap and I don't have to paint them like the others. I also use Pathfinder's wolves for wargs and such

These are all awesome (and you do a better job of painting than you give yourself credit for). Thanks for sharing them with us, Rich!

I mostly use either GW's Goblins from LOTR or some relevant D&D minis



http://i.imgur.com/A4JUF.jpg

I forgot about Mithril, and look! They updated their site! It's still not the prettiest page but it's far easier to navigate now. I've got more than a few GW models but not much beyond Goblins that I can make much use off as an addition to TOR.

Well, like I said, I think I'm pretty okay but not great. Remember, though, that I haven't painted them all!

Although I did this miniature (a Saxon King) for Pendragon. It is my best work, I think, so wanted to show it off as I'm very proud of it!





What do you guys think it'd be a good match for in TOR? Anything? Beorn? A Beorning? A Woodman? ... I'm not sure.

I can see him as a Beorning or Woodman or even Beorn himself!

I second this, that would make for an amazing Beorn mini.

He's a bit on the grey side but maybe this is Beorn in a few years time!

And now for some creatures. I didn't paint any of these by the way.

I would use this as the Cold Drake Raenar in Tales from Wilderland but unfortunately he has wings:



... Perhaps I could describe him with wings but they don't confer flight - maybe he was injured in a previous battle. Seems a shame to not use the figure.

My gorgeous Red Dragon:





... No idea when I'll use this beauty!

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Here we go. Shelob the Great:



... This one got damaged during delivery. I had to glue back on a couple of her legs. Let's just say, I'm not the biggest fan of spiders, so it wasn't a task I enjoyed. I still hesitate to handle this miniature. God, I'm such a wimp!

Those are some great miniatures! I like the Saxon king. He would make a great Beorn. He'd also make a good Odin figure (Okay, not Middle-earth, but still); just replace the axe with a spear and add an eye patch.

Yeah, these are beautiful! Thanks for posting them, as they're fun to look at!

It's a pleasure. I love looking at miniature pictures, personally, so it's nice to see what others have done as well.

Nice looking figures peeps. Mainly my stuff is GW just because it is what I had. My Mordor orks have also doubled as brigands etc. I am also going into 10mm using pendraken for the vast majority of stuff with copplestone figures for the heroes and main villains.

I've got a ridiculously huge collection of the 54mm Sabretooth Combat Hex miniatures which I have started using. They're pre-painted which is handy, and being plastic I'm not worried about them getting damaged. On the down side there's no spiders in there (Moria goblins will be taking on the role), but there's a load of cavalry and some warg riders which will come in handy. I've also got the impressive Balrog figure form that range - I think if the players ever see me digging him out it will be a brown trouser moment

I'm still in two minds whether to sell the lot or not - i know some of the rarer figs can go for a few quid on ebay, I think i'm just lazy and cannot be bothered to piecemeal them out on auctions.

Many fine works here, I add my own:





I'm about to start a serie of articles regarding this very topic, miniatures for role play gaming in Middle-earth (hopefully appearing in the webzine Other Minds). I'll keep you updated.

If you want any input based upon my miniatures then I'm more than happy to help out.

I've picked up the following miniatures and found the following images of them. I'd really like to replicate the colours and shading used for them. They are Game of Thrones miniatures. If I remember correctly, the first is a Wildling whereas the second is Theon Greyjoy.

I think this one makes for an excellent Beorning or Woodman:



This could be a Barding, Lake Town Merchant/Warrior, or even a prince:

And this arrived last week...

NAZGUL!!!



Probably will never use it but it was too groovy to resist!

Gerroff m'land! Grip! Fang!!

These new GW miniatures of Thorin and Kili are really nice but COMPLETELY USELESS AS DWARVES due to being far too tall and lacking any kind of stocky build. They make decent humans though:

Two miniatures of Haldir but I picked them both up as I think they look different enough to be elven archers should the need arise:



The guy who did this one STRINGED THE BOW!

Finally, for now (!), a nice miniature of Galadriel. I think she'll also be useful to depict the elf Irime from TfW's "Those Who Tarry No Longer".

Fantastic work, Rich!

None are my paint job on this page unfortunately - they are just commissions or random ones I've picked up thru' Ebay.

Well then, great collecting!