Muster the Rohirim, Another OTTer's Heading Into Middle-Earth!

My first impression when I opened the lid – that’s a lot of sprues. I tend to get put off by the assembly part of building, I have generally enjoyed pre-assembled miniatures from the likes of Steamforged, and was a little anxious with a few of the tiny pieces from a few Malifaux sets I had purchased in the past.

Middle-Earth is my comfort zone, therefore if I am going to know where anything goes on a character – chances are I am going to not have to rely on the instructions so much.

Instructions were pretty easy to follow in all fairness, it threw me off a little knowing that there were two builds for the head of the Fellbeast so for a while I was like “Why he got two heads?”, but I figured it out in the end!

After getting the Fellbeast and Witch King off the Sprue, I had found myself with A LOT OF PIECES. I messaged Gerry at this point asking if he was aware of the ridiculousness of a fellbeat’s anatomy.

However, I took time to compare them side by side with the assembly instructions to put them in some kind of order. Rather than a pile of plastic Fellbeast limbs.

Once I started to put them into piles, I gave them a little tidy up with a file to get all of the excess sprue off! Removing from the sprue is not my most favourite part of the process, so I do try as best as I can! I am certainly no master. I did also notice how many lines there were too on the larger pieces. So I also softend them a little so they didn’t show up after the base coat goes on.

After using a lot of glues, and getting used to each texture on different materials eg plastic, resin, metal etc. The best combo that works best for me and plastic is Tamiya Extra Thin Cement. Didnt need to sit there awkwardly and hold it still for a long period of time, the longer I held, the more it bonded and was bonding on it’s own.