Ridgeback Miniatures Sculpt Up Their Own Hog Riding Dwarf King
June 19, 2015 by brennon
Over on the Great British Hobbit League Facebook Group one of the main presenters of the show, Jamie Giblin, bought this rather awesome take a familiar Dwarf King from The Hobbit to my attention by Ridgeback Miniatures. He's based on a certain movie that came out...
What Better Mount For A Dwarf King!
You can see the sculpt for the model below with the legs missing on the one side to make it easier to cast. Also the final model has the hammer separate too. It's quite a cool miniature which is fairly accomplished for an individual project. They've captured the look nicely and I don't think it's a million miles away from something Games Workshop would do...
Of course with something as cool as this it needed to see the light of day and so you can see him in metal below.
Metal Dwarf King On Hog!
Here he is in all of his metal glory with the various components lain aside too. Games Workshop seem to have left The Hobbit to die so it's great to see community members who love the hobby picking up the slack.
Of course I'm sure you all know exactly who this is meant to be and it's going to be fun seeing if Ridgeback paint him up and if they begin to sell him too. Apparently the company/sculptor is a German enterprise so it might be something for the Continent but might not go much further than that.
What do you think?
"They've captured the look nicely and I don't think it's a million miles away from something Games Workshop would do..."
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Looks fantastic. I’d love to pick one up myself. Personally I’d swap the hammer for an axe but other than that it’s great.
Middle-earth fans are not really getting a lot of love at the moment. Any little helps. I have mixed emotions about this one as the boar-riding melarkey is straight out of PJ’s mind and not from the book. The mini looks fine for what it is.
true enough, not to say that little elaborations such as this don’t add a nice bit of character to Tolkien’s universe… Same can be said of a lot of renditions of LotR themed mini’s if you ask me, at least if you don’t like one particular interpretation, there are so many imaginings of what different factions/characters look like, part of the fun as far as I’m concerned 🙂
The problem I have found is you can ask a room of people who are fans of the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings and every opinion will differ. Nothing is going to be exactly right for all which is fine since it is fantasy after all. I am not sure where the fault lies in the merchandising of the films by GW. Was it the film makers? Was it GW’s usual avarice? Sadly for fans it would appear whoever is at fault a golden opportunity for gamers who are fans of the genre has been messed up. Now… Read more »