To make awesome terrain pieces like those of Longbottom Leaf! Once again, that's a cool terrain piece, LL.

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And yeah, Great model! ... ... ... This was the topic with the mine-work thingy right? Sorry, I'm bad at staying on-topic.

Anyone know a good place to buy cheap chain-like necklaces though? I suppose going to the jewlery store across street and buy a silver necklace for a lift is abit overkill.. =o

Edit: Eep! Eep! Girly! Run! ... Bad idea to search on google!

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Yeah, I have trouble being on-topic too.

A pawn shop would be a good place to get some seconhand jewelry. (Or ebay.)

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Sweden is such a dull country sometimes... There's like one quite good hobby store in the entire country - in Stockholm of course. Things such as "Pawn shops" or "Second hand stores" are raa... wait, the salvation army! They might perhaps have somethingly chain-like.. But seriously, that's about the best Sweden have to come with - The bloody Salvation Army for modellers!

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Edit: removed everything just in case, as most was off-topic.

Yes, well. I'll look around abit for a chain.

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Yes you two, please do stay on topic. This a project is one which I really would appreciate feedback on, as I'm writing an article on it. I just searched through an entire page with barely a reference to the project, and virtually no feedback at all...

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Really nice work Josh. The whole thing looks great and very realistic. Looking forward to seeing more of your constructions!

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Leaf is right. This topic's subject is quite clear and it's definetelly not popsicles. I deleted a bunch of posts from a few users because, lets face it, it was an entire page about popsicles and not a single word with advice, suggestions or feedback about the model.

Please stay on topic. Members who regularly hijack threads will end up being officially warned.



Leaf, the whole structure is looking pretty good. That 'scafolding' looks really good with that lick of paint. Maybe its lacking a bit of weathering in there, but I bet you are leaving that for later.

Keep up with the great work.

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Sorry, I'll try stick to the topic.

So, to the thingy - It looks fabulous, I love the paintwork on it, but I'd very much like to see a model next to it to get an idea of size.

The second ladder though, doesn't leave much space for anyone to get infront of to begin climbing, perhaps tilt it just alittle more upwards and move it in, or put a small platform infront of it so it would be easier to access?

I'd go for tilting it abit though, since I wouldn't dare try to add a board infront of it, as the entire piece looks just about perfect as it is.

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Josh, when you told me a while back you were going to build some Khazad-dûm terrain, my thoughts were: “alright, let’s see what’s gonna happen…” But man, this is serious stuff! It is my guess that a mini reaches up to about halfway the height of the first ladder (?). That would make it a delicate miniature. I love the metal work and the traces of red paint on the wood.



Now I think this contraption has been standing in the mines for ages; Moria Goblins might have used a plank or two for a bonfire… another plank has broken but it’s still in place – more or less. Bits of the wood have been chopped off, first during mining, afterwards by passing Goblins. Maybe you can add a bit of “dust”, some Goblin-graffiti, wear and tear, a broken pickaxe… But don’t overdo, because IMO it’s already perfect!

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Thanks very much for the reply, Adrian. Great guess on the scale, that's just about right. Thanks for the modeling sugestions, I'll certainly keep those in mind. I am a little heistant to weather it too much though, as that's exactly how I destroyed the first version.

I should be able to begin doing more work on the board itself in a week, untill then I'll keep busy by further perfecting the mine workings, and also possibly starting work on more.

Thanks again for all the helpful comments. And also, a big thank you to Miguel, for being such a great moderator.

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necklace chain? wow, nice one. free and well painted, well covered yet not too thick! nice stuff

I am gonna look in the local model shop for model chains they sell for the ships like the HMS victory and stuff....

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Sorry about getting off-topic Longbottom Leaf.

The whole platform really looks good, only needs a bit of weathering.

I agree with the others, a pic with a mini for size comparison would be great.

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Apologies accepted, from both of you.

Just please refrain from hi-jacking my thread in the future. It makes it hard for me, when I have to search through looking for helpful comments. It also makes it hard for RWs, MacGothmog was kind enough to remove all off-topic disscusion from my thread; but he had to temporarily lock it to do so.

Now, let us put this in the past, and move onto discussing the mine working again. I will certainly try to post a picture with a mini on it, Adrian's guess as to the scale was correct, which should give you some idea of the scale. It seems that I'm out of balsa wood, so I won't begin work on any more mine workings for a little while. Once again, I should be able to begin work on the board itself sometime next week, I have to order my Spectre Hobbies Basing kit for a few of the materials I need.

I have to say, working with little strips of balsa wood for so long can get very annoying, I'm looking forward to working with Hirst Arts Blocks when I make Fornost... Woops, you guys weren't supposed to know about that project yet.

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FORNOST? . That's gonna be cool! If you own BFME2, I find it's a great inspiration for terrain projects.



So it's about 7" tall? Or did I miscalculate?

Keep up the good work.

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Take a little trip to MacDonalds, and whilst you are there, avail yourself to a generous handful of coffee stirrers.

I have a box full of them that I plan on (someday) turning into Isengard mine workings.

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maybe its just me being hyper critical, but how exactly were the dwarves supposed to real in the chain?

I guess it was used as goblin fire wood

Might want to add some weathering seeing as this structure has been inside a hole in the ground for literally ages

still, all in all a terrific piece. you should be proud

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Sorry for it taking so long guys, but I finnaly have a pic with models for scale comparison.

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Master hobbit, for having such hairy feet and being rather short, you make great pieces of dwarven structure!

Nice to finally see the size with some models, it's great! =)

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