Re: New Lord of the Rings models from GW

Posted by Marchomer on Jan 31, 2012; 9:55pm
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/New-Lord-of-the-Rings-models-from-GW-tp7239636p7241327.html

Preamble:
I am counter-current. I think that TLotR miniatures are the best fantasy miniatures by GW and I have a lot of them, due to an Italian company called 'DeAgostini' (specialized in magazines and hobby) which released some years ago a TLotR collection in 96 instalments, containing miniatures (mine are assembled but unpainted), rules, hobby suggestions, painting guides, settings, and so on...
And IMO the rules (by Alessio Cavatore, the guy behind KoW, Warpath and WH40K 5th edition) are quite good too.

Regarding the recent GW releases I have a different idea, some of the books released (especially the new ones) totally suck (Harad for example...) because there's nothing that comes from the Tolkien's books! There are only inventions without foundations by GW designers.

Regarding THESE stuff, I think that the 'Great Beast' (mentioned by Tolkien in The Return of the King book but never described) is quite good, what it seems a new Balrog is good too.
But the Watcher in the Water miniature is a real bullshit... Why this thing isn't in the water like the name suggests and the legs... THE LEGS!!! *facepalm*
I remember that in a White Dwarf there was an HOWTO that explained how to create your own Watcher (basically 8 long tentacles glued on 8 water-like decorated bases), I think this is the only way to use a Watcher in a battle).

By the way there are only a couple of problem even if someone (like me for example) likes some of these stuff... £ineca$t and the price. So even if GW can produce some nice model... no one with a brain could never be interested to them.

PS:
The Easterlings are voluntarily not mentioned.