EFGT - Completed

It has taken a while and a lot of effort but I think I can call this finished.

This has been my biggest project to date, measuring 75cm x 20cm with 55 painted figures. And to think this started when my wife bought me the set and said ' I want a bridge ' She is delighted with the result, I am a lucky man to have a wife so interested in what I do.

Back to the project and here is the final overall view.

I almost feel like these two dead !!!

Thanks for looking and I hope you like it.

Bag End - Scratch built

This was one of my biggest, yet rewarding moles I have made.
It was based on the John Howe design for Bag End, though sadly I had to leave out a couple of windows as it would have been too big.

 Each of the windows started life as a piece of card that was cut to shape and small pieces of balsa wood were added for the window frames. I found that a sieve served as excellent leaded lights.
Once painted, the decorations you see were things like flowers and lumps of cork to represent the stones.
The path was made up from milliput.
Two different types of grass were used, an 18mm long grass from Noch and a short version, ideal to represent a well tended lawn.

 The well was also sculpted from milliput and the straight parts of a paper clip were cut and glued together to create the winch. That was somewhat time consuming to get it right...

 My first hand made tree and one I was very pleased with, though if anything was a touch small in the end.

 My favourite window being the kitchen window complete with a drain, again sculpted from milliput.

 Frodo doing what bosses do, sat back in his vegetable patch. He was from the Captured by Gondor set. A little bit of cutting and filing removed the tree stump he was attached to.

 The iconic front gate. To give you the idea of scale it is 11mm across.

 No Bag End would be complete without it's own bird house.

And the overall view.

The End of Things

My latest diorama depicting an alternative end, where Mordor wins. This is the final over thrown with only Prince Imrahil, a standard bearer and one Fountain Guard remain.

 The tree was a twig I found and I went about sculpting the roots from Milliput. Using a few tiny roots to make up the top branches.

The water effects started as Woodland Scenics realistic water and the using a variant of Woodland Scenic Water Effects and some clear silicone sealant, the type you would use in a bathroom etc. I used a toothpick to tease out the splashes.

The claret on show was Games Workshop Blood for the Blood God mixed with a tip of black to darken it down and look more Orcish. I couldn't go too dark as the translation of a fresh kill may be lost if I had used pure black, as is Orc blood. I suppose my own artistic licence.

Thanks for looking and I hope you enjoy it.

Three Trolls Diorama

Here is an example of my work. This was my last project and was a my version of the three trolls. As always, I try to put lots of little details into my big projects and this was no exception

Here you can see the view into the troll cave and the obvious additions of Tom preparing a horsey snack as the next victim gets a bit distressed...

And a view looking from the rear of the diorama, back up toward Tom.

And a waterfall, complete with a flowing stream.