MX vignette

Ah, Milo, the names are not a problem at all. With this I refer to the way Chris (and later me, as you can see in the pics I provided) assembled the vignette. Chris told me the names as follows (from left to right):

Ori, (sitting) – Nori,(standing) — (flutes)
Gandalf(seated and smoking), Thorin(seated with map), Balin,(standing and listening)
Bifur,(standing with tankard) – Bombur,(seated with food) – Bofur,(seated)
Bilbo, (confused in the middle)
Kili,(standing with fiddle) – Dwalin,(carrying plates) – Fili, (seated with fiddle)
Gloin, (reaching forward, taking food) – Dori,(carrying plates) – Oin,(seated with food)

As for painting the vignette I would like to recommend to re-read the first chapter of “The Hobbit” again, as Mr J.J.R. Tolkien at least gave some clues about the colours for the Dwarves there.

I hope I could help with this.

Huooommmm … rhuoommm … no thanks to me, please, Master Milo. It was The Man sculpting this vignette – not me, a tree.
But be careful with drilling the base. Well, it’s massive enough as you might have witnessed. But trying to place the figures exactly at those places where Master Tubb thought of them to be placed might turn out to become a bit difficult (cf. the sheet in the box).
May I add some of my experience in assembling the vignette … ?
I tried to cope with assembling the piece once I had it in my hands because I also wanted to provide pictures of the vignette right here in this thread (that “antique-finish version” I provided here).
So ….

The template for drilling (sheet inside the box) is very useful to mark the places of the figures at the base. This only is a first step to start.
Keep away from glueing anything. Mind the figures and their positions, read Chris’ “Assembly Guide” again. Many of the “pegs” provided with nearly each figure have to be cut off.
Then place the “Party” again at the base. Here you might find out that some of the “locator holes” are still open and visible. Then you might turn a Dwarven’s foot over that hole to make it invisible. (Also Chris had to re-arrange poses and cover locator-holes before he primed this piece for display in public)
… and so on.
It needs some time to assemble this, you shouldn’t be too hasty.
Well, and if you really do want to paint this vignette, you know: never glue before each and every part is perfectly painted … and there’s a lot of details to be painted, which to me means a lot of joy … once I have the time

Well, Master Milo, just don’t haste … certain things take certain time … rhuoommm .. 😆

Master Thingol, could we have a picture of your finished vignette here, please? I’m very much interested in your way of arranging the figures and in the carpet.