Building The Lonely Mountain Part 3

Our work continues at a glacial pace. The dwindling days till Cold Wars should amp up our drive to get this done though. One huge problem still faces us, waiting for lead. We have a big order in for hundreds of Orcs/Dwarves and men. Placed almost a month ago, and we are waiting. If we don't get those soon, we might not be able to pull this off.

That's enough doom and gloom, what progress have we made? Lets see.

 Our order from Eureka came in. 180 elves. Thanks to Rob for getting us these order ASAP! Great company to do business with. Now if only I could paint them as fast as he sent them.

Test fit on base stands. These are really great figures. Very clean with almost no flash.

 More work on the front gate.

Lou sketched up a concept for us. He has loads of talent.

Dollar Store foamcore, stripped of it's paper for columns.

 Done. Now that we've made it, we have to "dragonize it"

Gluing the whole thing together.

Hard to see, but we started carving out chunks of foam to age it and show dragon damage. Lets face it, Smaug is not getting his deposit back.

Waiting on the gate to dry. Once the gate is done, we will build the mountain around the gate. Tonight I will glue the gate in place and start the mountain. I'm starting to wonder if I will be able to get this out of my basement.

While waiting on the gate, I started rebasing Orcs we've had for more years than I want to count.

This is Dale. We just wanted Dale to poke on to the end of the table. It will go on the end of the board as an edge piece. Lou built this at home and brought it over. We will glue it down to the board when we get to that section. Right now everything is waiting on the gate.

Lou is the MacGyver of scratch building.

More updates to come from our BOFA Team.