IDEAL TROLLS For me the new Oathmark™ Trolls are just perfect for Tolkien normal cave or hill Trolls, just the sort to chuck big rocks or turn to stone in sunlight, and ideal for what I wanted. Best thing is to read OATHMARK EXPRESS from the start, click here, or briefly, wargaming buddy John Treadaway and I wrote a series of articles detailing the fast building and painting, in lockdown and beyond, of some Lord of the Rings armies for Oathmark™. True I did have one Troll, a big lovely double-headed bruiser, sculpted by my friend Mr Copplestone for Frostgrave, and it was fine and good, but I wanted a whole unit of three, and the two heads thing still bothered me a bit, not being quite, err, quite Tolkienesque enough, if you follow me… and if you haven’t been following my fast painting lockdown and post lockdown escapades you won’t have a clue what I’m on about. They were in the rules, so I hoped they would be along sometime and I could get one more of the different troops I wanted for the evil side in my quest to build Lord of the Rings armies unofficially for Oathmark™. I also had planted on the bases of the two trolls not throwing a big rock, a couple of big rocks matching the one being thrown! These are slate pieces I pinched from a neighbour’s drive and placed them whilst the basing compound was wet, and they were stuck firm as it dried, and then I painted and washed them to match the rock being hurled by the other troll. Once the compound was thoroughly dry and hard it was dry- brushed with Desert Yellow, then painted the base edges with Oak Brown and covered the base with various flocks. It is self-coloured and dries to a rock hard mostly matt dark brown textured finish. FINISHING I used the same mixed up basing compound as on all the Oathmark Express troops, which is made up by John by the bucket. VARNISH As before these models are to be troops on the table not cabinet pieces they needed a good protective coat of varnish, two coats of Anti-Shine Matt Varnish, brushed on. Then the Big Rock got a coating of Quickshade Washes Blue Tone Ink overall, and once it was dry, I painted on some small blobs of Green Tone and a tiny bit of the Mid Brown Wash as a nod to weathering processes. As I still had some Green Tone about I splodged a bit of it the fur and hair at random just to see what I would looked like. Everything but the green flesh and big rock got one or two coats, or more, of Quickshade Mid Brown Wash, adding more till I was happy with shades.
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