It seems to have been pretty dead in here so I figured I would post up some of the mini's I have been working on this. The setting and scale really appeals to me, so over the past 6ish months I have been working just painting and assembling models and finding "counts as" models to use for things beyond the Games Workshop offerings:
I recently finished these guys. They are 15mm Picts from Cooplestone that I thought were perfect substitutes for half trolls if you wanted to copy the Games Workshop style for them (which I did). they are smaller than the troll miniatures by a decent amount, though they do look a little too big next to the BoFA plastic miniatures which are on the small side anyway. They look better and more in scale with the metal 10mm mini's I have found.
In the background is the 28mm GW half troll, and a GW hill troll and uru-kai for scale.
I also just finished up 220 easterlings from Tajima. They are a little large and the castings aren't the best but I like them overall and certainly the most film like easterlings I have found:
http://www.tajima1.co.uk/index.asp?pageid=362663
This next image isn't the best but I also picked up some 10mm elephants with howdah and elves on stags from Eureka minis.The elephants I just painted as they came for mumakil but the elves I picked up solely to convert one of them into Thranduil on an elk. They are all in the pic here:
http://eurekaminusa.com/collections/fantasy-10mm-by-alan-marsh
Eureka also makes some 18mm armored trolls I picked up that are the perfect size match for the trolls in this game and I plan to use them as Olog-hai. Their tree trolls also make great ents.
http://eurekaminusa.com/collections/fantasy-armoured-trolls
I've also painted up some far harad forces, which I am using zulus from Pendraken. For the mounted cavalry of them I am using Sudan/Egypt 1882-85: Mahdist camelry, sword/spear. To make the Mahud king mounted I just took the zulu king figure and swapped torsos with one of the Mahdist Camelry:
http://www.pendraken.co.uk/SC21-p6539/http://www.pendraken.co.uk/Colonial-c16/Zulu-Wars-sc100/
For additional easterling and some gap filling in Gondor I am using a bunch of Old Glory figures, here is the list I ordered and am waiting on:
SAR-106 Arab Infantry Archers SAR-110 Arab Infantry Command
SAR-105 Arab Infantry Spearmen SAR-109 Arab Light Cavalry
SAR-102 Ghulam Cavalry , Armored Horse SAR-103 Ghulam Cavalry , UnArmored Horse
SAR-100 Saracen Mounted Command
SAR-101 Seljuk / Turcoman Horse Archers
SAR-104 Arab Armored Cavalry
In addition to the other Cooplestone recomendations from others I picked up the 15mm shapechangers and bears to use as Beornings in humanoid and bear form. The bears are a little larger than the Beorn figure that comes in BoFA box but they look great and still work:
http://www.copplestonecastings.co.uk/range.php?range=FMI've also painted up a bunch of dragons by Darksword Miniatures to use as various dragons of middle earth (Smaug from GW is in here as well):
