Friday, 10 May 2019

Journeys in Middle-Earth: Heroes and comparison to GW

I succumbed to its dark call, and got Journeys in Middle-Earth, a cooperative campaign boardgame. I had a lot of fun painting the miniatures- here they are on my criminally underused Realm of Battle:

Journeys in Middle-Earth heroes
 I really enjoyed painting their cloaks.

Aragorn

Legolas

Gimli

Bilbo

Beravor, female human ranger

Elena, female elf musician
The miniatures quickly grew on me. They're not identical to the wonderful Peter Jackson/ Alan Lee/ John Howe/ Weta Workshop visions, but are certainly similar and recognisable. I had thoughts of using my large-ish collection of gorgeous GW figures, but they are more fragile. And there's a significant size mismatch:
GW and FFG
Next week: the baddies!
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12 comments:

  1. Stuart S10 May 2019 at 22:13

    Fantastic job on these.
    The cloaks look great.
    Cheers
    Stu

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    1. Barks11 May 2019 at 10:57

      Thanks, Stu, I really enjoyed painting them.

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  2. Jay11 May 2019 at 01:28

    Prime stuff, Mr. Barks.

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  3. Mad Padre11 May 2019 at 02:06

    They are lovely figures and so well painted. Pity about the mismatch with the GW sculpts, I got quite excited for a moment. Do tell more about this co-op ME game!

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    1. Barks11 May 2019 at 11:02

      You could use the GW figures, but I got enthused with my new toys and they needed painting!

      JiME is similar to Mansions of Madness 2nd Ed. Your heroes run about, explore, and fight and an app reveals the map, controls the monsters and does the book-keeping. It runs as a 14-mission campaign. It has been challenging and entertaining so far!

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  4. Michael Awdry11 May 2019 at 16:56

    Beautifully done Barks and thank you for the comparison shot. I had been wondering about the size compassion as I have a collection of GW metals stashed away somewhere and was thinking something similar.

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    1. Barks12 May 2019 at 09:39

      I wasn’t particularly enthusiastic about the plastic heroes initially, but they paint up well. FFG has come a long way with its figures in the past few years.

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  5. Simon Quinton 13 May 2019 at 02:10

    Very nice they turned out great. Decent looking sculpts as well.

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  6. Suber14 May 2019 at 08:06

    Well, scale issues apart, they are really interesting. Nice work!!

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