Shades and Hagia Sophia

   For those who asked me what I would do with the remaining two Myrmourn Banshees, since the first two I used as barrow-wights, this is my answer: conversion to Shades.

The two Shades

   I already had two original Shades miniatures, so I painted the new ones with the same colour scheme. I had one problem though! The bases of the Banshees are 30mm but those of the Shades are 40mm. Since I wanted to use the original bases because they were very nice, the only solution was to make a hole in the 40s and glue the 30s as you can see below: 

 

   After that I added some putty and sand to the rings around the 30mm bases.

Shades and bases ready for painting

Shade A

Shade B

   Recently my wife and me, we visited Constantinople, the European side of the city.

Hagia Sophia

The Blue Mosque

Bosphorus Bridge

Haveran Sultanahmet Cafe

Tavuk (chicken) with fries and rice

and EFES beers.

   That's it for today! Stay tuned for more!

Barrow-wights

   The Moria & Angmar rulebook has a scenario "The barrow-downs", where the participants from the evil side are four Barrow-wights. Since I had only one, it was time to use my Chainrasp hordes and Myrmourn Banshees miniatures of the "Age of Sigmar" game. I bought them because they are very nice and cheap if you compare with the Lord of the Rings miniatures.

The Barrow-wights

The Chainrasp Hordes box miniature

My old original Barrow-wight and the two Banshees

   The Banshees come with 30mm bases, which I used to put two of my Giant Bats.

   I followed the colour scheme of my old Barrow-wight in order to look all as a unit.

The family photo!

   I wish you all a very Happy New Year!

   That's all for today! Stay tuned for more!

Barrow Wight and Gijón de Asturias

   A while ago I bought a couple of old Lord of the Rings box sets from the local store and the owner gave me one of the Barrow Wights as a gift. It is really a very nice miniature.

   To continue with our trip, next stop is Gijón de Asturias. A very nice port city of the northern Spain. The old part of the town has plenty sidrerías, where we tasted the famous sidra de Asturias. It is a low alcoholic drink with a strength 3 to 8% vol. One of the most outstanding characteristics is the way they serve it. They pour it in the traditional manner, in very small quantities from a height into a wide glass, with the arm holding the bottle extended upwards and the one holding the glass extended downwards. This technique is done to get air bubbles into the drink.

Puerto deportivo de Gijón

Rey Pelagius and the Palacio de Revillagigedo

Colegiata de San Juan Bautista

Casa Paquet

Iglesia de San José

My wife in front of a Sidrería 

A statue of empty sidra bottles!

and me!

   That´s all for today! Stay tuned for more!

Primitives

   These are some old Ral Partha miniatures. I call them primitives because I don't remember and can't find their type. I will consider them as warriors of an Angmar army. If someone has a better idea how to use them for "Lord of the Ring" games, please be my guest.

   That's it for today! Stay tuned for more!

   Baconfat welcome on board!