With my return to work and general antipathy for painting Cavalry, my plans for my Gondor unit for the 6-month “Take of Gamers” painting challenge got diverted, even moreso since I started playing Rainbow Six: Siege this weekend. So I thought I’d spend much of this post complaining. Without enough time or the inclination to finish that cavalry unit, I found another Gondor unit that satisfies the criteria: Forlong the Fat, Captain of Lossarnach.
A casualty of the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, I started Forlong at the same time as I started the Axemen of Lossarnach. That is to say, roughly a year ago, and possibly a couple of months longer. As he’d been sitting on my desk for a year, he’s actually an ideal hero figure to complete for this challenge. Now, he’s not much to look at up there, but the rear view will show why it took me so long to complete.
Sure, it looks nice now that it’s done, but that goddamned tree is such an anti-motivator to paint. It’s a combination of all of the swirls and twirls along with the need to keep it as (close to) perfectly symmetrical as possible. Anyway, like much of the Gondor army, it’s not that much fun to paint, but looks nice when it’s done. I still need to add the static flock once his spray varnish dries, but I’m calling him done now.
Of course, I got a ton of other stuff finished in January. 65 models so far, and while some of that are scenic pieces, only 22 are scenery. Off to a good start to beat my 288 from 2015. Let’s see how it goes…
Dude, he’s really cool! That cloak is quite brilliant 🙂
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Thanks Alex. Good to see how it came out, but a pain in the arse to paint!
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Excellent freehand on the cloak and the rest is also very well rendered. What is the story reason for him to be called the fat?
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Thank you, I’ll get a picture of him alongside “his” unit shortly. Story-wise he’s a minor background character known both as “Forlong the Fat” and “Forlong the Old”, so my best guess is that he’s an older warrior/captain/etc who was probably renowned in his youth and has has grown a little wider and more well-fed as he has gotten on in age.
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