Today we have a few figures from the Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit/Middle Earth SBG model range(s). I’ve had these since back in the day and a few years ago with the advent of Contrast Paints, I pulled these out and based them (along with a couple of other ranges of figures) with the plan to paint them all quickly and efficiently with Contrasts, since they’re essentially a mixture of just near-civilian figures. Trash mobs, NPCs, etc – Hobbit Militia obviously falling into the former of these. That didn’t happen in the end since I find that unadulterated Contrasts just don’t work for my style as I much prefer to use them as glazes and washes over paint before highlighting in the usual manner.

Since these four are a set that’s even still available today (at least here in AU), I decided to post these up first. There are of course quite a few more Hobbitses for me to paint. Since they’re a civilian militia at best, I painted them all as individuals in naturalistic colours, and since they’re nice Hobbits I gave their arrows green fletching.

Obviously these can be used in the smaller skirmish-type versions of the different SBG battles, but my probably most likely use (if it ever happens) will be for use in the various scenarios published for the game, particularly The Scouring of the Shire – should I ever manage to have enough focus to paint the models to get through the huge, epic campaign(s).

This post is slightly dedicated to our friend Kuribo who I’ve seen agonising over selling his SBG collection – remember, a project can take years to come to fruition, but as long as you work on it from time to time it can still be rewarding – so don’t give up forever on your ME stuff!

They also represent another little batch for Dave Stone’s current Paint Whatchoogot Challenge for 23-4.