Miniatures for TOR

[farinal]

I will post more in the evening but here some of the old stuff I used in the Tales.

[Tolwen]

Just to make it available, here are the links to Mithril Miniatures, who are still in business:
main site
forum

Finally, there is a loyal community collecting these. Under the following link you can get tons of information (including 2nd hand pricing, images etc.) about all minis made so far by Mithril since 1988.

Many Mithril Pages

For human, dwarven and elven characters (as well as "personalities"), the Mithril's are IMO far superior to GW, who are the movie characters (e.g. main characters are sculpted to make them recognizable). Personally I mostly prefer the more realistic proportions and poses of Mithril, but for some minis (especially creatures and monsters) I deem the GW movie designs are much better (e.g. Trolls or Mûmaks).

Cheers
Tolwen

[Sputnik]

Many moons ago I had a large collection of Mithril Minis but I gave them away to one of my cousins as I got fed up painting them.

Years later TOR comes along and my painting muse awakens, since them I have got about 40+ Mithril figs and painted about 2/3rds.

Some purchased from Mithril, some from the Tolkein shop (a shop in Holland that has loads of Middle Earth stuff) but mostly from EBay sellers.

[Rich H]

Years later TOR comes along and my painting muse awakens, since them I have got about 40+ Mithril figs and painted about 2/3rds.

Share some pics then, please, that's the point of the thread!

[farinal]

Edit: auch. the images were off scale. giving the links just click on them.

Okay, not putting any "hero" characters here. Only MONSTERS

I use these guys for Wights in general.

http://i.imgur.com/zp1KwwL.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/YjI3IF5.jpg

might use one of these "Castellans of Dol Guldur" for the Nazgul in Dol Guldur.

http://i.imgur.com/SFG3d94.jpg

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

Some orcs. I got many orcs

http://i.imgur.com/q4Hg1DN.jpg

some goblins. I love goblins.

http://i.imgur.com/XzCy9Pxh.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/PqeA8VTl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/psITzgFh.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/AUkks2Jh.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ffW6xgkh.jpg


for uruks:

http://i.imgur.com/EMkgLVvh.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/9HeSX9oh.jpg

I lack spiders and wargs...

oh also the guy in my avatar, I might use him when I get an Easterling plot written up...

http://i.imgur.com/4idExPth.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/cTzbL9Rh.jpg

[windsurfjunkie]

These are very well done, Rich. You keep surprising me. Too bad we we are not on the same continent for a social beer and a game.
cheers

[Jez]

We've started using the cardstock Pawns in our Pathfinder game and they've been fantastic. It's really easy for me to find a full character illustration .jpg and turn it into a pawn. So with that in mind, just know you can download any of the white-background mini shots off Games Workshop's LotR and Hobbit online catalog.

[daddystabz]

How about pre-painted figures for those of us that suck/not patient enough to paint.

I need recommendations for the different PC races and some of the creatures.

[Rich H]

Edit: auch. the images were off scale. giving the links just click on them.

Thanks for sharing, good stuff. Some of those goblins looking like they're at a rave!

[Rich H]

These are very well done, Rich. You keep surprising me. Too bad we we are not on the same continent for a social beer and a game.
cheers

Thanks fella!

That's one of the curses of forums, particularly ones as good as this. Would love to meet up with many of you - think it'd be good fun.

I'm going to endeavour to get to Dragonmeet in London this year as I've tried to do the last two years and failed. Think once the dates are announced I'm actually going to take a few days off work either side so I don't get swamped with stuff to do. Hopefully if others here attend that we can organise something - flicking salted peanuts of Jon and Dom perhaps?