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#1 Tue, Mar20 2012 9:14pm
- ddaines
- Skilled Artisan
- Registered: Tue, Jan29 2008
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The Great Goblin
I’ve been a little busy of late with other things and thought it about time to return to my great quest (try and finish painting all my Mithril figures afore I go to the Halls of Mandos 
), so here is The Great Goblin.
The little raised platform is by Grendel Miniatures and was originally earmarked for something else, but I thought it would make for a nice base for The GG.
This was also a good opportunity to use the three goblin imps who are prodding, poking and threatening the bound up Thorin Oakenshield.
It was also a good opportunity to use M452, Orc Animist, who is screaming with range and pointing to Orchrist as it lays on the steps, and also M95 Saviga the king’s consort who though listed as a half-orc suited my purpose and finds a home at last.
The rock back-drop is a plaster casting from Woodland Scenics. Orcrist by the way has been ‘stolen’ from the GF Ingold figure 
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#2 Tue, Mar20 2012 10:24pm
- Mornedhel
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Re: The Great Goblin
Nice scene master artisan daines.
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#3 Tue, Mar20 2012 10:39pm
- Gildor Inglorion
- Wandering Elf
- From: Montpellier, France
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Re: The Great Goblin
very nice!!
"Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill." (Gildor Inglorion, LOTR1)
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#4 Tue, Mar20 2012 10:55pm
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Ah, a wonderful combination of figures going together well with an idea. Many old ones mixed with the "newer" M452. I especially like the way you found some "function" for those "imps", which I do really like. Then the Dwarven captive, the Uruk-Hai guard, Saviga and M178 and the Orcrist at the steps. - Great work, Master Ddaines, indeed. - I just enjoyed to have taken some time to have had a closer look at your pics. - Thank you very much for providing the pictures. 
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#5 Tue, Mar20 2012 11:09pm
- Turambar
- Archer of Mirkwood
- From: Germany
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Re: The Great Goblin
Ha Ha !
Now I know the reason for his absence . . .
Well, David, I would like to follow the Tree´s explanation: Great concept. Great combination of these different orcs . . .
And yes, I also noticed these imps . . . Never knew a sense in those figures . . .until now!
And the dwarven victim is the final touch!
I also like this "aztec" - character of the platform. Great choice as well.
Maybe the magic was the most powerful force in the world. But that was long ago.
The dragons are gone, the giants are dead and the children of the woods are forgotten.
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#6 Tue, Mar20 2012 11:57pm
- cameosis
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Re: The Great Goblin
great concept and realization!
Last edited by cameosis (Tue, Mar20 2012 11:57pm)
Esse quam videri. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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#7 Wed, Mar21 2012 8:40am
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Excellent! It deserves every compliment! Excellent choice of figures David! Particularly interesting to me is Saviga... exquisitely painted work...
....and Finaly .... Another magical diorama from the mithril world....
.... Farewell to Middle-earth at last. I see the Star above my mast!
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#8 Wed, Mar21 2012 10:45am
- Milo
- The Attic Warden
- From: Toulouse, France
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This is a great diorama, with fantastic choices and concept.
Everything deserves many applauses David !
Milo Gamgee-Took of Bywater
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#9 Wed, Mar21 2012 6:59pm
- ddaines
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Re: The Great Goblin
Thank you all for the nice comments it had been at the 'almost finished' stage for a while and just needed a final spurt of energy
Using the imps, Saviga and the animist vindicates my decision to keep Mithril's for many years unpainted and unused just waiting for an idea to come along 
(that's my excuse and I'm sticking with it).
Actually what I always liked about Mithrils were the characters that while not necessarily canon give the flexibility to use them in scenes like this.
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