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I can recommend this group on Facebook - "Wargaming in Middle Earth", great place to ask about minis & get ideas.
"This group is non rules, non figure scale, non manufacturer specific. The only thing that is specific is the Genre & "Period" - Tolkien's Middle Earth - anything from 1st Age to 4th Age is cool. So whether you play/collect 6mm, 10mm, 15mm, 20mm, 28mm, even 54mm - then this is a great place to share what you've been up to. Anything from rpg skirmish, with a few figures, up to epic battles, is welcome."

https://www.facebook.com/groups/151243738922969/

jacksarge wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 21, 2018 9:21 am

https://www.facebook.com/groups/151243738922969/

Yuck, smelly Facebook!

Butterfingers wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 21, 2018 9:18 am

Any ideas for Wild Men of Mirkwood? The best I can think is Foundry Savage Germanic Tribes, there are two blisters with spears and they're nude or with bits of fur clothing...I don't want them looking too muscular, as I imagine they'd be thin and miserable due to being spider thralls.

I'm going to use these:



They appear appropriately savage, although they are still pretty muscular they are slightly less heroic in stature/proportions compared to other miniatures so I reckon they will fit the job.

Far too heroic for my taste, to be honest... they look more heroic than our companion minis!

Plus they have metal weapons etc, I'd convert those Germans so they have flint spears and so on?

Butterfingers wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 21, 2018 3:09 pm

Far too heroic for my taste, to be honest... they look more heroic than our companion minis!

Yep, those shrunken heads really hit that heroic bullseye!

Good luck in your search in finding something suitable and not boring.

I keep forgetting to post some photos of this little barrow I finished off over Christmas. FIgures from Red Box Games. Super TOR-suitable.

Pure heroin, Jon. Gorgeous. What evil lies inside, waiting...

Some solid looking Dwarves, here:

Butterfingers wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 21, 2018 9:18 am

I've considered Lucid Eye and Copplestone Castings primitives, but they look a bit too chunky, I think?

You mean these guys:



?

Got my Sorceress of Mirkwood miniature. Now just need to paint her:



Raven hair and dark purples and reds for her dress, I think.

That's gorgeous Jon! I like Red Box stuff and it's super-compatible with LoTR minis, which is a bonus.

@Rich: who makes those dwarves?

I think those LE minis are the Neanderthals? I was thinking of the Cromagnon more. But I think they're both rather robust. I want something a little more skinny. Like the pic in Heart of the Wild.