The Road to Adepticon 2012: Display base for LotR Championship WIP

In order to have a different approach to the display base for my LotR Khazad Dum army and still fit the theme, I decided to go for a 'King's Hall' approach. The idea is that the army is being reviewed by Durin inside Khazad Dum.

Inspiration for this board was found on one of the cards from the LotR Living Card Game from Fantasy Flight:

Another source of inspiration was Bruce Hirst King's Hall piece for D&D games.
I used for this project Hirst Arts Molds # 42, 45 (gothic dungeon blocs), 205, 201 (floor tiles) and 85 (accessories: also good for objectives).

Having cast using Durham Rock Hard Water Putty enough blocks, dried them in the oven and sorted them out, I was ready to start construction.

I started to glue the tile pieces on a 1/2'' thick pink foam board that was 1 foot x 1 foot:

With all the pieces glued to the foam board:

Then, to add a more finished look, I glued around the base some wooden decorative borders found at Home Depot in the ceiling molding area. Then I filled some of the gaps with filler and applied Gesso on the back of the foam board to add some durability (bottom side of the board):

Next step: painting!

The Road to Adepticon 2012: Display base for LotR Team Championship made by my teammate

These are some pictures of the gorgeous display base made by my teammate for our LotR Championship army at Adepticon. As seen on the pictures, this will be for the Khazad Dum Dwarf Army I have been working on.

Kudo Chris, this display base is beautiful!

Painting in Progress: Empire Greatswords advancement

Greatswords:

-the metal armour is done,
-the mechrite red basecoat is applied on the sleeves and parts in a empire type quartered sheme
-a devlan mud wash was applied on the red parts.

Next steps:

-bring up the red part to a deep blood red with GW scab red and blood red.
-Start leathers basecoat with GW Scorched brown
-Start white clothing basecoat with GW foundation Denebh Stone

Empire troops unit filler

Here I sculpted some additional legs of the fallen horse as well as its tail. Started painting the empire troop guy like the greatswords and the horse.

Sam, what is the basing on the rest of your army (sand, flock) and what is the color for the edge of your bases? Also, the other guys have this quartered look color wise right?

The Road to Adepticon 2012: Finished Vault Warden Teams

The Road to Adepticon 2012: Finished Dwarf Ballistas

Finished the two Dwarf Ballistas from my Dwarf collection