The Nine-But eighteen??

 Hi, I received the Black Riders from Alliance ..Indeed accurate representation from the 9 Peter Jackson Ringwraiths/Nazgul, including a foot witch King and a mounted Mouth of Sauron...

some if the poses were added to my own custom Horse and Foot Nazgul (with armors and Helmets, quite inspired by Ralph Bakshi old film and other old references)..So I completed  9 of each!!

Easy fast painting Work of black-grey-white

I Will also make another flying Fell-Beast conversión and the remaining figures Will be possibly painted as genéric ghosts por wraiths for Undead fórces.

Nine Rings for the Kings of Men (Part iii)

Hi, I have my house made a mess of figures at the moment...
I rescued also old ideas.. I should go on with the 9 Ringwraiths..

At least I completed a selection of candidates for the 9... (actually 9 mounted + 9 on foot)

My idea is definetely to make armoured individual Nazgul (like Bakshi film or other representations, as Angus McBride ).. Anyway I will keep one or two just with cloaks as the P. Jackson version

I made a nice discovery some months ago: these Ral Partha "wights" are very nice..  I bought the set,  and I took  for team nazgul just the one with helmet and the other with hood+sword 8the one with scythe will go to my undead army) They are true 25mm figs, which means they match good with 1/72 (in the bigger side )

Tee selection comes from:

-TUMBLING DICE (metal) Crusaded Brethen Knights-Foot and mounted

 (nice looking with diverse semi closed helmets, capes and cloaks and mailed armour)

-Some heroes from rare metal Minikinght sets "Lord of Fantasy Series"  (also several interesting amroured guys with wome evil looking...) 

-PLastic Gamepieces form War of the Ring Boardgame 

-PLastic Game piece form BAtlllore 2 Ed-Expansion "Heralds of Dreadfall"

-One plastic Continental Man-At-Arm from Redbox

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-Ral PArtha Wights as mentioned

So here my selection, all together (with three already painted figs till the moment)

After painting them, I will still need to choose the Wicht King among them... And my plan is to find a flying beat or wyvern as mount for him in the Pellenor fields..

Here my first idea (again Ral Partha, a 15mm model).. But in my taste it looks too tiny..

Maybe I go for  this another whuch is bigger  (Orc Wyvern from demonworld range. . I love Demonworld...) It costs however around 12 eur!!!

Nine Rings for the Kings of Men (Part ii)

I finished yesterday my 2 Test figures of Nazgul-Ringwraiths,


I am quite satisfied with the result; I believe  red eyes are a "must" :)


Dry brush with a mixture pale greeen-dark grey  was good for the clothes


You can see here the 2 figures: armoured Nazgul  and Peter Jackson long-robe Nazgul .
They definetely can make the job :)

 

I prefer however the armoured version. My opinion: they are supposed to be ancient powerful Kings and Warriors, not just ghost-spectres. And they should have a little-minimal individual character.

The version which appeared in "The Hobbit: Battle of Five armies worked also this way

I can go on now developing the whole 9 Ringwraith group..

I will prepare mounted figures, and for the Witch King I guess i will search for  some wyvern- winged fell beast :)

In the last picture I added Saruman the White who stills waits for a painted Horse (such powerful Wizard former Leader of the Wizard council should not ride a dirty smelly Hyaena-warg)

..mm He looks too much like Gandalf the White :(

 

 

Nine Rings for the Kings of Men (part i)

I show you here  how i spent Last night.


I got recently the Redbox russian War monks just as a curiosity and for give variety in certains armies or groups (some of them will join Alexander Nevsky, some others will got recruited by Ivan the terrible ansd the streltsi, another just as plain fantasy magicians).


One of the figures is rather interesting (in the red circle, pic from Plastic Soldier Review):

That man is full of posibilities

I imagined that those long robes and attacking pose looks very similar to these well known fellows



So I started to make something similar to have the first true 1/72 NAzgul or the Nine Ringwraiths you´ll ever see :)..

first impriming and black base coat.

 Face was not difficult to remove, then i needed a proper sword...



Here after some shading and dry brsh (and the sword of course), it looks quite similer..picture is not so good.. But i think it works.


I will show the finished version







I do not know if to add eyes like the Bakshi´s animations film 1978 version (a pictue here.. that scene was copied by Peter Jacksin in 2001 )... opinions welcome

And linking with that.. in the same animation film you see  in aniotgher scene retroscopic armoured Nazgul... They are pretty scary and i liike them much

With the intention of representing this armoured version as well, i was searching a lot for armoured-cloak-dark-evil looking knights in all the 1/72 databases


  I got some metal "brethren knights" from Tumbling Dice models 1/72 medieval range (yes they are alive still.. even if so less pictures in the web!) Figures get actually much what i was looking for

Here is what I achieved so far--- work to do still.. And again what about eyes¿?¿?


Next chapter. finishing thiese tests and also try to make mounted Nazgul!

And finally, as usual, my last batch of converted undead skeletons. I am experimenting the corrosion /oxid effect... not 100% happy so far with it, but the horde looks fine