Lord of the Rings Minifigures

[hewkii9]

Well, I am endeavoring on a great endeavor. Build lots and lots of Lord of the Rings stuff. My first goal is to build the characters-without modification, editing, or any such manner of miscreancy. So here's my first purist batch-

THE SECOND AGE

From left to right- 2nd age Gondorians, Isildur, Elendil, Sauron.

Second Age Gondorians

I tried to stick to a black and light grey scheme for these infantry, and gave them flared helmets. [Note-Gondor will be the only flared faction.]

Elendil with Narsil

Elendil was quite easy. I gave the royal house of the Second Age dark blue, and grille helmets to differ them further from the infantry. Since I lack chrome broadswords, I made Narsil from a supersword and two grey minifig hands to make the pommel resemble the blade of the long spears.

Isildur

I simply created a younger Elendil without Narsil or the cape.

Sauron with One Ring- first image

Sauron-second image

Sauron was really fun to build. I took a plain black minifig, added armor [and a shade helmet *wub* ]. My real challenge was making a minifig scale mace that resembled the actual one, but could be held on one hand and looked more powerful overall. I used a yellow stud for the Ring [should replace with a gold one], and used black teeth for height.

MISCELLANEOUS THIRD AGE -part 1-

From left to right- Mouth of Sauron, Dunlendings, Eomer

the Mouth of Sauron

I must admit, I deviated from Tolkien's vision of the Dark Lord's herald. I gave him a halberd.

Dunlendings

You can see, I make two figs whenever I'm doing a faction. For Dunlendings, I made them look wild-and angry, ready to charge on Helm's Deep along with Uruks. I won't be using Viking helms much either [unless I also make Valar].

Eomer

I don't have any comments on this guy, except I like how I built him. What you see is what you get.

The Men of Umbar

Red is a nice color for them, don't you think?

To be continued...

[SWMAN]

VEry nice. They all look really good.

[Capn Kirk 911]

I recommened you building some easterlings, but so far they all look good, but for Eomer you may want to spary paint his chest gold and than put a decal sticker of a horse on it, along with the helmet it would look more like the real thing.

OH, and you can buy stuff for elfs like helm's, spears, bows, and shields on brickforge, heres the site =

http://brickforge.com/

[El Bucanero]

Not so bad, but I must say, some look a bit too much like normal minifigs... And I reccomend you to change the head of the mouth of Sauron. The Darth Vader or the ghost in the first Harry Potter castle head would look better I think.

Mr Tiber

[oo7]

Not so bad, but I must say, some look a bit too much like normal minifigs...

Yes, that's what I was thinking to, almost all look basically exactly like the 2006 KK. Besides that the designs are good, but you emphised the green on Eomer way too heavily. Idealy, there should be mostly dark red and brown, with some dark gray and black etc.

Keep up the good work. *y* The new 2007 Castle will definately help your Gondorians.

If you want an insiration I will provide you with my best link, but I warn you that it will most likley become harder to think of your own ideas and easier to plagerise other's once you veiw thier work. So here.

The only thing I dislike there ^^ is Gimili above the torso, Aragorn's head, Legolas's white knives, and the hobbit hair pieces could be better. I've made some good LOTR figs myself..........haven't gotten to doing anything with them..........

[Mike F]

I agree with oo7, the 2007 line will help a lot.

[hewkii9]

Yes, that's what I was thinking to, almost all look basically exactly like the 2006 KK. Besides that the designs are good, but you emphised the green on Eomer way too heavily. Idealy, there should be mostly dark red and brown, with some dark gray and black etc.

That is probably because that, along with Vikings, is all I have to work with right now. :-$ See why there ae no hobbits and I'm building in stages? 2007 will probably bring 3rd age Gondor, the Dead, Saruman[seriously hoping the evil wizard doesnt have red eyes in the final product], Aragorn, and Haradrim. If I can get Bricklink by then/buy off friends- Hobbits, Gollum, maybe Nazgul and Arwen.

I did Eomer the way I did because I wanted each faction to have a general color[in this case green]. Theoden, as I'm hoping to build him, will be more like that.

Mr Tiber, I was actually planning on using the Darth Vader head to make Gollum.

And Capn Kirk, I'm doing this to see how well they look using only Lego parts as well as cause I'm a LOTR nerd.

[Capn Kirk 911]

Though says I'm not too!