Lord of the Rings (good & evil heroes) and Naousa of Paros

   The other day a friend of mine gave me some old LotR miniatures. Some of them I had already had, some others not. Below you can see the first group of them.

The three hunters

Faramir and Boromir

Frodo and Sam

Frodo and Invisible Frodo

Merry

Merry, Frodo and Sam

Ugluk, Uruk-hai Captain and Berserkers

Ugluk and Uruk-hai Captain

Uruk-hai berserkers of Demolition team

   In other news, we have been here, on Paros, for a month now. Recently we visited the beautiful village of Naousa for an early dinner, where we had the opportunity to taste the local specialite "Gouna". The gouna is sun-dried salted mackeler fish.

The little port of Naousa full with fishing boats

A "pirate" cat

Pasta with mussels

Greek salad with local products

Gouna

Our table

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

Beorn with axe, a bear and our new home (again!)

    Beorn is the skin-changer of The Hobbit, who can assume the form of a great bear. Beorn is an old metal figure of Mithil Miniatures and the bear is a low-priced plastic toy.

   Recently we moved to a new house, in a new place. This is the sixth house we change since 2011, the year I started this blog. This time we are in Paros, a very nice island of Cyclades in the center of the Aegean sea.

My wife in front of the building we live

Me and our stuff

My assistant

My spot

The assistant got tired

The beach close to our house.

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

Grishnakh and Mordor Catapult

    After six years I publish another post of Mordor! Specifically, Grishnakh the Orc Captain,  and a War Catapult. The Orcs of the siege engine are original Games Workshop metallic miniatures but the catapult is just a toy! Now, I have to find a Troll to complete its crew.

Mordor Siege Engine

   Apart from the catapult the plastic bag had also some knights, a ballista (perfect for Isengard Assault Ballista), movable palisades and some extra rocks.

The Knight Set bag

   I added some metallic pins, a barrel and green stuff on the catapult here and there.

The catapult crew

Grishnakh

   I used mainly two colours, Beige Brown for the wooden parts of the catapult and Gunmetal for the metallic. Both are Vallejo acrylic paints.

Ready to fire!

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

Napoleonic Russian Generals and Hussars

    These two Generals and the two Hussar Cavalry units are parts of my Napoleonic Russian Army for Valour & Fortitude, and not only. I also have the PM Uhlans and the Dragoons, which are waiting patiently in their boxes, as well as plenty of infantry soldiers!

   I didn't like their metallic horses so I swapped them for Pike & Shotte horses of Warlord Games, which are bigger.  

   During the First Patriotic War of 1812, there were twelve Hussar regiments in the Russian Imperial Army. I chose green colour for the uniform of my Hussar cavalry units in order to match with my Infantry units. Two of these twelve Hussar regiments that wore green were the Olviopol Hussars and the Pavlograd Hussars. Both belonged to the 3rd Hussar Division. By the way, the city of Olviopol was named after the ancient Greek city of Olbia.

My twenty four Hussars

Olviopol Hussar uniform

Pavlograd Hussar uniform

   This is the 400th post of my blog, which I started back in 2011 when I was in Athens. After that I moved first in El Puerto de Santa Maria of Spain and then in Souda Bay of Crete. Now, I have to move again. I consider it a nice opportunity to post photos from new places, new food, etc. apart from my little soldiers!

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