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What will you buy?
Poll ended at Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:38 am
Radagast the Brown 10%  10%  [ 9 ]
Yazneg ft. and mtd. 6%  6%  [ 6 ]
Elrond ft. and mtd. 9%  9%  [ 8 ]
Rivendell knights 18%  18%  [ 17 ]
Grimhammers 27%  27%  [ 25 ]
Great Goblin lobbing goblin 2%  2%  [ 2 ]
Nothing! 29%  29%  [ 27 ]
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 9:30 pm 
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erm... is it??

For now I guess that is what we will do but in the long run Im hoping for a 3might hero with F5ish
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I doubt it. He will be like Golfimbul IMO.

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Guitarheroandy I checked your blog and your painting is amazing. I much prefer the silver, rather than the golden armour on the Elves.

When you recommend that the wash should dry for 24 hours, do you mean the GW washes? I usually leave them to dry for 30mins, I cannot detect any gloss after 30mins.


Thanks Constantine. PM sent to avoid hijacking this thread...

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Nothing at this stage. But if i do buy anything it will be second hand off ebay. GW prices in Australia make the prices in other countries look cheap!

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erm... is it??

For now I guess that is what we will do but in the long run Im hoping for a 3might hero with F5ish

Just get Fimbul then, he fits your description quite nicely.

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It will probably take me 10 years before I paint the ones I currently own, so I'm trying to control my greed (well having no money helps :lol: ) and I guess it's going to be a while till I get anything new.

Some of the new models are really cool though.

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I love all of the models but I don't need any of them. So nothing.
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Draugluin wrote:
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erm... is it??

For now I guess that is what we will do but in the long run Im hoping for a 3might hero with F5ish

Just get Fimbul then, he fits your description quite nicely.

Or you could use Yazneg as Narzug since there is no mounted Narzug model.

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Azog looked like trash in the movie imho so I'm not very excited for a mini of him. Yazneg, on the other hand, looks fantastic in both. Thought it was a shame he had such little screentime, really glad to see he's such an imposing mini.

Of course, I haven't decided if I want to do an actual orc hunter warband or if I just want to pool the new wargs in with my existing mordor force, in which case I might modify him a little. We'll see. His warg is absolutely stunning, can't wait to get hold of one.

I'll also be getting a set of grimhammers, the look like they'd be fun to paint and I've wanted good dwarf warrior sculpts for a very long time.

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I'm not the only one getting Yazneg then.

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His warg is absolutely stunning.

That's because it is actually the White Warg. It just isn't painted that way.

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Azog looked like trash in the movie imho so I'm not very excited for a mini of him. Yazneg, on the other hand, looks fantastic in both. Thought it was a shame he had such little screentime, really glad to see he's such an imposing mini.

Of course, I haven't decided if I want to do an actual orc hunter warband or if I just want to pool the new wargs in with my existing mordor force, in which case I might modify him a little. We'll see. His warg is absolutely stunning, can't wait to get hold of one.

I'll also be getting a set of grimhammers, the look like they'd be fun to paint and I've wanted good dwarf warrior sculpts for a very long time.

Yazneg wasn't actually in the movie. The one who looks like Yazneg was a different character altogether. This Yazneg figure is what the original Azog looked like, but he wasn't imposing enough to be a real threat.

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No, the one in the film is definately called Yazneg, though he is a different Yazneg to the original with which the model is. The model is when Yazneg rode the White Warg leading the attack at the end with the pine trees, and yes he was likely called Azog then. The one who gets eaten is still Yazneg - just look at the credits.

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Yea, I meant that that's not the original Yazneg.

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Elrond, Grimhammers, and Rivendell Knights are all great minis but sadly I have to go with the very last option.

$40 CDN for 12 plastics!? Come on. When they had cut a box of 24 down to 12 they also had slashed the prices, not by very much on basis of $/model, but no sooner did it raise back up to meet the price as if it were 24 models. Ridiculous, I feel sorry for the ones just now entering into this hobby and they made it impossible for the average joe to collect unless he's fanatical. And I was a fanatic myself up to a certain point.

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GothmogtheWerewolf wrote:
That's because it is actually the White Warg. It just isn't painted that way.


That explains a lot. I wonder what they'll come up with for the white one.

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Owing to the excessive prices (even by typical GW standards) and my massive backlog I don't think I'll be getting much soon.

However I think I might get Darksword Miniatures version of Jon Snow, from Game of Thrones (Song of Ice and Fire).

I want to use him to represent Aranarth, heir to the last King of Arnor (King Arvedui), therefore making Aranarth the First Chieftain of the Dunedain.

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When Aranarth was still a youth by the standards of his people, the Witch-king of Angmar destroyed the Northern Kingdom, overrunning Fornost. Most of the people, including Aranarth, fled to Lindon, but King Arvedui went north to the Ice-Bay of Forochel.

At Aranarth's urging, Círdan sent a ship to rescue Arvedui, but this ship never returned. It was later learned that the ship had sunk with Arvedui on board.

By right, this made Aranarth now King of Arnor, but since his Kingdom had been destroyed he did not claim the title. Aranarth rode with the army of Gondor under Eärnur and saw the destruction of Angmar.

Aranarth's people became known as the Rangers of the North (or Dúnedain), and he was the first of their Chieftains. In time, their origins were generally forgotten by the common people of Arnor.


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In my head I'm dreaming up a cool story of how Aranarth went north to the Ice Bay of Forochel to search for his missing father King Arvedui, recovering the Ring of Barahir (heirloom of the Dunedain which Aragorn later inherits) from the Lossoth and being hunted by the remnants of the Orcs and Wargs of Angmar.

I think Darksword's versions of the Game of Thrones (Song of Ice and Fire) Wildings would work well for the Lossoth.

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GothmogtheWerewolf wrote:
he is a different Yazneg to the original with which the model is. The model is when Yazneg rode the White Warg leading the attack at the end with the pine trees, and yes he was likely called Azog then. The one who gets eaten is still Yazneg - just look at the credits.


This is how I see it:

The model called Yazneg released by GW was the original big bad for the first film. You can see this from the fact that the Lego set had him turning up (on the white warg) at the pine trees attack at the end very much named Yazneg.

When PJ decided to change his appearance they also changed his name to Azog and changed the film chronology which would have otherwise matched the books closer (the description of Azog in The Hobbit rulebook says he was thought killed by Dain, this would imply that for a while the film followed the book's Azog story). It's also interesting that Azog is an evil participant in the scenario representing the warg chase to Rivendell, alongside the model of Yazneg. whether or not this means he was originally called Azog or whether it just shows GW's last minute confusion is unclear.

I've seen the film 4 times, although wasn't looking out for this especially, and thought that the Yazneg character looked like the Yazneg miniature in the Warg chase scene (which would have been shot before the re-design) but not in the Weathertop scene (which would have been shot afterwards).

Tis very strange, just goes to show how much confusion merchandising tie-ins and the internet can cause!

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No, here's how it goes: the Yazneg model is what Azog was originally going to look like. When they changed Azog's design, all of the toys and such had to be changed, so they gave the original Azog design the name Yazneg, which is the name of the orc that Azog threw to the wargs in the film.

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And that is where the worst named character took over.
Fimbul
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But Fimbul is Golfimbul's nickame :razz:

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