28mm LOTR Minas Tirith

 And now for Minas Tirith. It was mainly made in heavy card and the usual styrofoam. This piece are in fact some 20 pieces, and the final result is this one.

The parts are separate for easy storage and space. One of this days I will show you my Osgiliath, but it still has to be built.

Not as many levels as in the movie. Just trying to pick the flavour of the movie´s model and, one day, wargaming it.

Kinder Eggs are good for eating and modelling.

My kid still must be thinking: " were is my cowboy´s tree?".

I built eleven  of the formidable trebuchets Minas tirith was defended by. Seven  are GW (glups!).

Dr Jackill...or is it a Troll as PC says?

28mm LOTR Helms Deep

During those mad years of LOTR I built a large collection of GW fantasy 28mm figures and accessories.

But the larger models- the fortressses and cities, for instances - had to be scratchbuilt.

Here it goes my approach to Helms Deep, using mainly styrofoam.

The door is one of the few elements made of wood and it opens with the help of some pegs.

The broken statues were made of Green Stuff.

The stairs are plastic glued to the styrofoam. This model gave me a big pleasure to build as you can work styrofoam quickly and with nice results. I tryed to use the same techniques I saw in GW magazines of the days ın which LOTR was rocking copying shamelessly those big modellers and painters they have.