Warhammer Wednesday - Lord of The Rings

Well it just so happens that I have found my Lord of The Rings (LoTR) "Mines of Moria Strategy Battle game play set. This set I bought a while back and even though I assembled all the pieces and had painted most if not all of them, I was surprised that they were still in relatively good condition, given the fact that the box it came in is completely busted and ragged.

So I decided to pull it all out of the box and started to paint the bits of the models that I hadn't gotten round to painting. Sadly my Games Workshop (GW) paints have gone missing and I had a good £100 worth of paints that were in great condition, but ever since my husband's father and his fiance decided to clear up the back room (where the paints were) I have never seen head or tail of them since. My guess is that they must've thrown it out along with all the other junk. So that was a good lot of paints GONE !! So recently last week I proceeeded to buy some acrylic paints at our local Wilkinson shop in town. The paint set only cost £2.29 and you got a good set of 12 paints in metal tubes, I could've gone for the plastic tubes which had more paint in them, but they were 95p each so it would've cost me double the price!

I have always wanted to find a cheaper way of painting warhammer models and to be honest acrylics would be the next best thing as they stick to anything from paper, wood, plastic and even metal. Now don't get me wrong GW paints are great as well, but they cost about £2.20 approx a pot and that's very expensive for a 12ml pot of paint. There is another Spanish brand by the name of "Vallejo Model Color" and they are not as expensive as the GW paints, yet there is no shop in my nearest town that sells them except Glasgow which is much further away!



The Mines of Moria Game

Now being only a painter or "hobbiest"  I have never even played the game or even tried to as i always thought that the rules were too complicated to follow. Yet having read the Pocket rule book and also having read through a few of the scenarios in the other scenario book, the game play doesn't seem to be too difficult, although I think that by having another person to play with and go through the game play will more than likely make things easier as I am more of  a DIY person when it comes to instructions rather than actually reading instructions. So when it comes to it I can hopefully get the hang of it all and how to play and maybe it will get me more interested in playing the Game rather than just painting models and never being able to Play the game itself and who knows maybe I can get my other half interested in it too rather than the PS3 getting used. I have always been in favour of boardgames, card games etc rather than console games.


May the Gods bless you and Keep on Fighting