The start of something beautiful

I'm more used to setting trends then following them but when three former friends started their own up I felt obligated to make my own and show them how it is really done.

Its pretty dark as I write this so no pictures of my gloriously painted models are avaliable however I can give you a run down of what I am currently collecting.

I collect generic LOTR men and heroes, have some Gondorians some Rohirim some Goblins and lots of heroes.

Also a big fan of space marines. I have a 1900 point space marine army before fancy add ons to individual guys which would knock the points up to around 2500.

I've also recently been tempted into collecting a fantasy army, my first choice of Ogre's was already being done by somebody else so I settled for second best in Beastmen. When I made the choice it was purely on browsing through the pictures on Games Workshop and deciding that they by far looked the second best.

So I went along to games workshop with the intention of picking up the £60 battalion set and not buying anything else until I had them painted instead I ended up buying the £60 set some minotaurs Malagor the dark omen and a spray gun as well as numerous paints.

As it stands nearly all my men are painted most have been batch painted as I had so many to paint some look pretty impressive some look distinctly average. My gor bannerman for example had the misfortune of falling into a bucket of dirty water when I was spraying him. He has never really recovered from the ordeal.

Painting for now however has been put on hold due to the death of my detail brush instead I figured I'd try  my hand at making some scenery. Over the course of a few visits I stole roughly 60 hot drink stirrers from Subway and McDonalds which I used to make a few ladders and moved onto making a fortification. The fort turned out pretty poor so I scrapped it and started a new one using ice lolly sticks. 16 lollies in one day and a few hours work later I was left with this:

I intend on addind two more walls putting battlements around it and painting it as well. I also hope I can figure out a way in which to be able to move the portcullis up and down. The blue tac holding it in place I will either PVA some "dirt" on to it or add gravel depends on how I feel when I get round to it.