Hey everyone, hope you've all had a great holiday period. I've been busy collecting over the holidays for my plan for this year. A complete battle of the five armies display board including Erebor, Dale and Raven Hill.
I've decided to work on the miniatures first and the board/scenery later on once the extended dvd is released so I can get a more movie accurate terrain board.
So I'll run through 3 of the five armies being Elves, Dwarves and Men. My other 2 armies will be Dol Guldur (Dol Guldur orcs + orcs on foot) and then Gundabad (Fell wargs & Orcs on Fell wargs). I will also have 4 eagles and Beorn.
First up is my Elf army, I've included 6 Palace Guard to add some slight variation and to signify Thranduil bringing his personal bodyguard to the battle. I've already ordered another pack of spearmen and hoping to order one more of swordsmen and I think that should be enough although the Elf army was quite large in the movie so may add another pack of archers down the line. This army should number in the 40-50 bracket
Next up is my Dwarves, I have 6 more Grimhammers to assemble then got my fingers crossed for Dain and probably 3 clampacks of each Ironfoot variant if they do get released. This army will again be around the 40-50 mark.
Here's my completed force of Men, I'm quite happy with the number and variations I chose with this lot. I used 2 packs of each militia variant but thought a rag tag army won't be looking too ragtag if they nearly all look the same, it works nicely for Elves but not in this case.
With that in mind I decided to use Lake town armour swords and bows as former guards may have escaped Lake Town with their gear. I also decided to use some Men of Dale, the theory behind this was the best soldiers left were given full access to what was left of the Dale ruins armory.
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I cut up one of the Goblin Town ramps and used them for moulds so I could produce bases for all my EFGT set without losing all the scenery to being cut up.
