The Taproom

Priming problems??

Well I had no such problems with my 2 Trolls (the first 2 guys made) , so it seems to be a problem of the later primer used. But thanks for using your influence, master Elf and master Tree. The figure sculpts are great, the priming idea also. Now after the priming problem is going to be solved, ther must be some solution for that marketing problem.
Why the hell is it no possible to sell more of the nice little figures if the product is so great?
Maybe the Elf and the Tree must use their influence too, so that Aule will talk to Eru himself?

Huooommmm … Master Estel, as for your query about that MX vignette … huomm … you mind the singular, please … huoomm … though that vignette will consist of several smaller vignettes, depicting different scenes, so to say … rhuoommhom … this is why it might be compared a bit with the old ‘Prancing Pony’ series … but this MX is not meant as a series of releases of those smaller vignettes … rhuoomm … it’s meant to be one piece once it’s finished … hom … so we’ll see … being not too hasty about this … huooooommmhom

Huoommmrhuoomm … not at all, Master Barliman … huom … well, yes … rhuoomm … that’s the point … huommhom … it’s difficult, as there are at least three sceneries to cope with … huom … let me try to explain … huoommm … first there was that Gandalf and the Hobbit … huoomm … yes, Bilbo that was … rhuoommm … you know … hom … poor Bilbo was a bit puzzled about how to provide food and drink to all those Dwarves who unexpectedly met at his place … rhuoomm … and he didn’t know why … huoomm … so all he could do is to serve them well … huom … so he did … huoommhom
hom … in between that Gandalf was discussing with that Thurin-called Dwarf some matters … rhuoom … smoking their pipes … huoommm … then after having nearly everything eaten up …
there’s the music … huomm … all those instruments them Dwarves brought along … rhuoomm ..
and those songs … rhuoomm …
… alas … Master Barliman, you might guess how difficult it is to put all this into one scene … rhuoommm … difficult it is indeed … but I can rely upon someone who will make this possible and have it to become real … rhuoooommmmmm hom … it’s not me, the tree …. huommm …
that’s all I can say about it at the moment … rhuoommhom

I was actually wondering if we’d see the dwarves playing their instruments, harps and all, since, in the first pic you show us they are eating… so I had guessed there would be no music playing… but now that’s a very good news!

warg-riders are usually forming raiding parties indeed…. Though I can imagine an orc firmly grasping a warg with his legs , letting him carrying a standard… this is out of place because standar-bearers are for armies, organised armies…. And I don’t remember reading anywhere that warg riders were considered a “cavalry” in the mordor armies… though mounted it can’t be considered a “cavalry”… but well, there are those wargamers around that need to have every “army corpse” represented on each side and I suppose an “orc army” on a battlefield would somehow require a cavalary for gaming rules… and the standard bearer being the focus point of the “faction”…. still, it fits for wargaming purposes… it doesn’t if you want to remain true to the texts…

I think there were warg riders on the pelennor fields but not considered cavalry here neither, they were some striking and fast force nothing more… as for “Gothmog riding his abomination-of-a-warg” a la Peter Jackson no comment indeed