Hobby Recap - March

Orcs, DND and LOTR SBG

This is the first real post on this blog, a hobby recap of sorts. The plan is to keep track of the progress I made in previous months so I will feel more motivated during the rest of June.

Anyways I’ll get right to it then. In March I had the brilliant idea to start a dnd campaign. My friend had run a few of previously and I felt I had the creative force to start one on my own. In reality it was mostly an excuse to print out minis from Bestiarum miniatures (who have beautiful sculpts btw).

Unfortunately I don’t have a 3d printer, however I have a friend with one. So after some patreon trickery I got files from their welcome pack and two of their sets. The issue was I hadn’t realized how much work it would be for my friend to print out all these, so after great hassle I only had the welcome pack printed. The larger models were printed hollow (foreshadowing) and I had absolutely no way to cure the inside. After resin started leaking from the bottom I moved them to my deck outside do they wouldn’t poison me. Where they remain to this day.

A skeleton glistening with toxic uncured resin

In preparation for that very campaign I painted up some townsfolk and guards from wizkids. Nothing fancy, just enough to get the job done. I picked these guard models because they reminded me of Godrick soldiers from Elden ring. I painted them red and green to match the game. If anyone sees anything resembling knights from that game let me know.

Old guy with torch. I’m quite fond of this one

Aforementioned soldiers 

Around the same time I had the thought that I could use Bestiarum’s Calden Keep models (which never got printed) in LOTR sbg. So of course I bought the Mordor battle force to go with them. I already had a witch king model but thought I would like the new sculpt more. I now have two unpainted witch kings (four counting mounted). Nice.

On the plus side I got some orcs painted. A net loss in the battle against the gray though.

One of the nice beakie orcs

March was a good painting month, even with the 3d-printing issues and I look forward to the eventual DND game. I will post the April recap soon and will try to get some thorakitai painted for June.

Anyways, thanks for reading (if you got this far) and have a nice week!

March group shot