Re: New Lord of the Rings models from GW

Posted by MortiS-the-Lost on Feb 01, 2012; 2:46pm
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/New-Lord-of-the-Rings-models-from-GW-tp7239636p7243226.html

Marchomer wrote

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...

The DeAgostini magazine series was out in the UK too, I got a few of them for the miniatures which came with them (it worked out cheaper than buying from GW and you got a magazine with big glossy pictures of Liv Lyler . Win-Win!) I also from time to time got GW LotR miniatures in sales and so on, but I've never got around to doing much with the LotR miniatures because of the smaller scale, but they are rather nice (especially the one of Liv Lyler!). The large monsters how ever are not constrained to scale in the same way the human sized figures, so I do have Trolls, Balrogs and other LotR monsters which I use in my regular games

Here's another picture of what I shall from now on be calling 'The Watcher Not In The Water'

 ^ it appears to have a tail with tentacles wrapped round it

The Demon model is called a 'Dweller in the Dark' and seems to come with a variant Arm and Head


It seems to be another example of GW making shit up so they can make more miniatures to sell

"The Dwellers in the Dark are creatures of incredible evil and murderous instinct. For many centuries they will slumber in the depths of the world, only awakening when the sound of battle reaches their dark domain. In these times of battle they will seek out mortal champions to slay, their power growing ever stronger."

this sounds a lot more Warhammer than Tolkien - I guess we're going to see squads of 3-4 of these lead by a Balrog