LotR: Work in Progress

This Mumak is actually mostly done at this point and you can see him in a few of my battle pictures.

It was a challenge building a large scale model like this and I really enjoyed it.  I learned a lot that will help when I do my next two.

For this one I wanted to give it "Tusk Weapons" per the rules and there are some great examples of such additions in the Return of the King movie. I elected to go with the sweeper...a long tree trunk tied across the tusks and covered in spikes.  I created this by tying and gluing three dowel rods together, then drilling them out a little and inserting the tips of toothpicks cut with some variation.

As with my other Harad models I have painted it with purple rather than red highlights.

I have learned a bit more about painting since I finished this and I plan to do some additional work on the tusks and hide when I get a chance.  Also, rather than use the Pelennor base that came with the model I am mounting all three of my Mumks on custom bases. These are cut to the same dimensions as the official base but will be done up to look more like the desert-edge scrub I envision the army coming from.

On a side-note, the figures are some of my collection from Sideshow Collectibles.