A shadow elf and some wandering zombies

Here are the latest additions to my Mordheim warbands. As usual they were finished a while ago but I haven't bothered to take pictures.

I also made a little road sign out of a piece of skewer and some scrap bits of balsa. It got the generic fantasy treatment to work in as many settings as possible!

I tried an old school freehand shield design on the zombies shield. Unfortunately I overdid the orange glaze which took away some of the highlights and depth of the design. Its also a bit assymetrical but I'll probably get better at painting more symmetrical freehands with some practice. For a first attempt I think it went really well and I'll definitely be doing more old school shields in the future.

A Tolkien Bestiary

Yesterday I got this:

Tolkien was what got me into fantasy in the first place. I got the Fellowship of The Ring as a Christmas present from my aunt as a kid, finished the trilogy, proceeded to The Hobbit and Silmarillion and later got into Warhammer. I never had the Bestiary, but seeing it mentioned in a forum discussion about pre Peter Jackson LoTR and hearing about the artwork meant that I just had to get it. A quick check on Amazon and finding out that used copies are going for about 1 penny didn't make it a tough decision.

Overall the artwork has a much more dark age feel to it. Everything just feels more dark and sinister (and everyone wears chainmail). I haven't got time to look at anything more than the pictures so here are some photos taken with my phone camera.

See, John Blanche! 

Really cool map of Arda. Not all parts existed at the same time, but seeing it laid out made the different changes to the land much easier to grasp.

Look at those Uruk-Hai! 

Battle of the Five armies. I really love this one.

Necromancer wip part 2

Today I finished the hat and added a skull to the staff. Unfortunately the skull needs pinning and as I couldn't find any wire of appropriate width this project will have to be put on hold until I do. The paper clips I normally use were too thick for the staff.