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Ya know, it looks like I'll be able to make a Mithril Lamedon force using Gondorian shields and the new and older Dunlendings. Maybe some "other" Beornings as well.
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If Master Estel isn't back, who did I just serve a drink to?
And all of the new Helm's Deep release are going to be good, I'm sure, Master Archer. And I'm also very much looking forward to the White Council release, about which I confess I know absolutely nothing. But I wonder what the prices of these new releases will be. Are we in for another shock? I'm not sure I could stand it at the moment. I only hope the prices don't sour our joy at the appearance (at last!) of some new M figures!
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I am not sure I can stand another shock either, though I think I'll be getting a set of Knight of Dol Amroth around my birthday: the new Helm's Deep series will have to wait a while. Especially after the pain-in-the-bum saga of the undercoat of doom last time.
Gavin
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Master Barliman: You are c o m p l e t e l y right !
I for myself do look forward to the white Council also, and this news makes me shiver . . .
Time for a strong drink!
At this point of time we are able to pay for it . . .
There could be only one thing which sours: the lime juice inside my italian Bitter . . .
Concerning that by Master Gavin mentioned "pain-in-the-bum saga of the undercoat doom: I have ordered some of the Rohan warriors from the HD 1 serie last week!
All covered with that sticky stuff . . .
Did I forget something? Did "they" forget something?
The reason to visit this pharmacist woman for a bottle of aceton . . .
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I couldn't even shift the crap with acetone. It required...lots of different things, followed by manual scraping.
Some of the regulars here were able to order un-undercoated variants though 
I am tempted to email them and say: attention PA, I will be buying Helm's Deep series 2 in December. I do not want them with undercoat. Please be prepared to sell me non-undercoated figures (ie, set a few full sets aside, sans GOOP) or I am not purchasing them for you. Because the things were expensive and it took me months before I could start painting them because of the goop.
*snarl*
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... I hope HD 2 will come without bad or any undercoat.... I was last time also spend a week to move as you write above "sticky staff - called crap ".... those figures on newsletter pictures are remarkable...
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What are you all worried about? Surely the grey goop issue was resolved some time ago - or so I thought. Am I wrong? My latest three orders from the factory have all had a perectly acceptable grey undercoat. Of course, there may very well be some older stock that was sprayed before the complaints all went in, but I don't anticipate any new figures being covered in it. Look at the latest Fellowship releases - they've all been fine.
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What are you worried about, just dump the minis in scrumpy it'll take all the goop of.....
and it you lucky it only desolves parts of the figures:lol:
Well, Acetone is not the best thing anyhow!
If you get a thinner for nitro laquer and bath the little fellows in it for a day, then scrubb them with a hard toothbrush I'm sure you get the undercoat of. If not the first time, repeat the procedure. With that method I got all of mine cleaned up... so far.
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A toast to our new member industriousmatr! It doesn't matter if it is a orc, at least we have another reason for celebrating...

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Any excuse will do.
I use Nitro Mors to strip the paint. Follow the same procedure as with the Master Caster's concoction. It works excellently - probably even better than my scrumpy.
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Huuoommm ... I think Master Barliman is right ... hom ... I also think that the problem with that grey stuff has been solved quite a while ago - thanks to The Man .... huoomm ... I thought I reported about that somewhere around here ... huom ... so, Master Gavin, I think you were unlucky to have bought one of the sets with the old slimily-smeared-greyish undercoat ... hom ... I also guess what Master Barliman mentioned before, that it must have been one set of the old production ... rhuooommm ... in that case note what our Master Caster advised to do, using a "bath of nitro-thinner" and a hard tooth brush .... rhuoommmhom ... that'll work ... hom
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Huuooommmmmrhuommm ... hom ... Master Barliman, would you please serve liquids for all regulars around here, please? ... huoomm? ... yes, of course, mark it on my tab ... grrrruhuom ... and, alas, I nearly forgot to tell you to give the Man in the Dark another fill of that smokey-thing he uses to burn in his pipe ... huuoommmm .... not forgetting Nob to take part in this, please ... huom ... the cat, of course ... gruoomm ... you might even ask Mrs B to join our pleasant company then ... homm ...
........ why? .... ahem, well, celebration that is ... 2400th entry ... rhuoomm ... hasty I was with all that ... sorry ... houuuOooOMmmmmmmrhuom ... kloppediklopp ...
<-- first smily I used as an Ent in all those years .... hooooommmmm ... cheers, mefriends .... hom!
and keep on, please ...
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A voice from a dark corner says:
"Why thank you Master Ent, you are always remembering me, which is greatly appreciated!"
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Huoouummm ... the Man in the Dark reveiled some presence lately, which he usually does not ... huommm ... in here, you can neither see or hear him, though he's always present ... gruuoouuhuommm ... I only witnessed that there was no more smoke coming out of that woodely-thing he uses to burn some plants .... rhuoooommm .... some plants from the shire, I guess ... huoommm ... but I still wonder why that Man in the Dark thought that I did forget him ? ...
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I Didn't think that for a moment, if I may be hasty.
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Wow, the White Council is gorgeous:
I had sort of conflated the idea in my head with the Council of Elrond, so I was expecting Erestor, Galdor and so on.
But this is beautiful. I love how Galadriel looks like she has a migraine coming on and would like Saruman to quieten down.
Also, I am going to be getting these new Dunlendings as Beorning warriors (throw in a couple of the "official" Beornings to give them a thematic continuity and give them all red or blonde hair). Later I'll collect them as actual Dunlending. Be surprising 
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Oh, boy, buy two and use one as the basis for the Council of Elrond!
, looks the bizz! I love the way the figures are designed to interact with each other, it looks like the 'real' deal.
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The Man at his unquestionable best. Superb!
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ddaines wrote:
Oh, boy, buy two and use one as the basis for the Council of Elrond!
, looks the bizz! I love the way the figures are designed to interact with each other, it looks like the 'real' deal.
Yeah, I know.
Who needs that food stuff anyway.
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this diorama is simply AMAZING!!!
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The Man at his unquestionable best . . . as to quote Master Barli.
This vignette is surpasing all expectations . . .
W H A T A B R I L L I A N T M A S T E R P I E C E !
And I agree to David, the poses are sooo amazingly dynamic, wonderful. I can just hear the discussion.
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What more can be said . . . amazing.
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And Turin's out already?
Damnit, I was vaguely hoping to get a double-figure discount on "my" bard. 
Ah well.
Means the Lady will be out by October, by the looks of things, though.
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