Odds and Ents

In parallel with preparing some plastic Lord of the Rings (LotR) figures to send off for painting by Fernando Enterprises in Sri Lanka, I had been working on a few LotR odds and ends from eBay.

The Ent, Treebeard, was purchased assembled but unpainted, so I can claim this one, at least, to be all my own work.

The dead figure, is one of a larger batch I bought painted from eBay.  While nicely painted, I felt the grey scheme made them look more like stone than the ethereal figures in the film who had a definite greenish tinge.  So, as a trial, I gave one a couple of coats of dry-brushing[1] and re-did the basing to match the other figures in my collection; the photo shows the test figure and one as purchased.

The troll however, is just a re-touch.  I did mean to paint him/her/it(?) to match my existing troll who is much paler (based on the appearance in the film of the cave-troll encountered in Moria).  But ... I really thought the darker paint job was nicer, so I re-attached the arm that had come loose in the post and re-touched the paint job which had also suffered.

So, what next?  Well, I'm hoping to try and kit bash an Early Wars Miniatures UNIC P107 U 304(F) troop carrier into a 7.5cm Pak 40 Somua MCG S307(f) inspired by the fantastic memoir 'D-Day tank Hunter' by Hans Hoeller (who took the photo below).

A quick comparison of the kit against a drawing of the desired article shows that only the weapon, radiator grill and running gear don't need fabricating from scratch.  So, it's quite possible this may be a conversion too far and something else will end up taking its place on the work bench.

We'll just have to try it and see ...

Notes:

[1.]  The first cost was a mix of Army Painter Malignant Green and Vallejo Yellow Green, and the second a mix of Vallejo Yellow Green and Vallejo White.  Yes, Gasp, Shock, Horror - I used acrylics and not enamels, maybe old dogs can learn a trick or two.

[2.]  The original base texturing was, to be honest, nicer than my method, but my incipient OCD wouldn't allow them to be different to all the others.