There is but one Lord of the Ring...

 ...and he does not share power!

I was momentarily disrupted in my quest to work through my unpainted pile, thanks to the arrival of some 3D print lads.

$10 for a 3D print sure beats $78 from Gee-Dub. I dislike resin but in a model this large it's sturdy enough. 

$15 not $84. The mace is cool but a bit iffy - fragile. I glued the mace head to the base to strengthen it. Oh well, if it breaks I can buy 5 more and still have saved money...

I can upgrade my scratch-built goblin drum, and get a 'non essential but cool' dwarf unit. I must say I really hate the changes with MESBG (a ruleset which has pretty much had 2 editions in 20 years). 

Dwarves got kinda screwed when they were split up into two sub-factions and then Iron Hills (Hobbit) powercept them with more flexible/better in pretty much every way.

While MESBG is one of the few GW games I recommend, unfortunately GW doesn't release many new models (or even base 'core' models) but they ARE now releasing these 'supplements' with 'legendary legions' - usually OP sub factions which you need the codex supplement to play.

A few barrow-wights... my son likes Angmar and its mix of ghosts and monsters....

He also loves wargs, so I boosted my warg pack. $4 for a warg chieftain, $1.50 per warg? That's an easy impulse purchase... Also the relatively solid sculpts are good in resin, compared to the more obviously flimsy wights. But  the 3D company sent me double the wights for the same price so *shrugs* who cares?

I wanted a mounted Elrond (mounted heroes are always better), but at $84 for an official model that was a hard no. $12, on the other hand...

While the official GW support and pricing is pretty crap for MESBG, the mix of secondhand ebay minis for base units, and 3D printing heroes/specialists means I can collect without selling any kidneys...

One of my self-imposed rules is "before buying any new models, have to have painted double that from the existing pile" and "all new buys must be painted in a week." Well I finished these with 5 days to spare and since my fortnight model count is 205 (now 226) I'm Ok with buying new toys as I know they will be quickly table-ready.  I also know they will get "table time."

LotR "painted" count for the entire year is 466, as I continue to slowly build balanced forces for all the LotR factions (not the Hobbit, that movie is not canon!. Only Dunland remains though I need to paint some of my existing vikings before I buy more (I want wilder and more varied Victrix, not the sensible-but-bland Warlord ones I have already)....