it is the best speech in possibly any film ever! these are awesome dude! MORE LOTR!!!!!

Lotr has been my first and true wargaming love since I was a kid; I'm admittedly a little bit jealous of the aragorn and boromir sculpts you snagged there 😜 But please do more lotr content, you know this world needs more of it

Yes MESBG is GW's best game. So nice to see it getting some love.

Painting a hooded Aragorn model with your own hood up was a great touch ;) I find hobbying to be a great refuge from everyday problems, focusing on painting keeps stupid thoughts out of my head. I'm really happy that there's a model range that covers one of my favourite universa as this adds even more flavour! It's quite funny but I think all the Middle-earth miniatures are my one, huge passion project that I'm very thankful to have :D Oh, and an edit further down the episode - I really enjoy how you explained the feelings and reasoning behind every single one of these picked Fellowship models!

Great little passion project. Can’t go wrong with a fellowship! Love the production value as always.

I always love seeing people's painting progress. Helps people to see that everybody has weird painting problems when starting out. Don't get discouraged when you're new to the hobby, there's always room to grow and learn, especially for those new to the hobby.

This is absolutely fantastic Ben. I love the points you make about being in a slump or mental block with painting, that's exactly how I felt coming into the year and that's why I started my lucky dip painting challenge; to really try adding some variety and focus back into my painting.

Fun video…nice painting and some excellent “food for thought”….thanks!

Gandalf is lit 💥but the stone on his need some white :D

Brilliant video, and great painting! Love that strider model.

Well you got my sub, I’m binging your videos now instead of doing homework or painting.

I feel like every second of my paintig projects is a passion project like this. But they‘re the moast fun. When I finished my armies, I‘ll for sure moastly be doing projects like those. They‘re the best.

My dad back in 2003 when the films came out collected 2 of every magazine that was released for the LoTR films. They were your classic £2-3.99 per month for each issue with some paints and some miniatures. This was before gamesworkshop had the LoTR battle strategy and it was wizards of the coast doing them. I still have everything he collected and plan on painting them up in the future

Cool disappearing Frodo trick 😃

literally painting the fellowship right now

Damn this makes me want to get on and paint the ambush at Amon hen set

Excellent! Love these middle earth miniatures

This video was such a nostalgia trip for me too, I remember painting the Return of the King era Fellowship models when they came out! Particularly fond of the Gondor Pippin and Rohan Merry sculpts as favourites.

amazing paint job!

We've got an almost identical fellowship. We'll have to have a fellowship royal rumble when the world is feeling better!

Another good video, really enjoying your channel, I'd definitely like to see a selection of minis you've painted to show us how you've progressed over time.

Great video!

This video reminds me of why i started painting. I'll never forget walking into a games workshop with my dad and seeing a shelob's lair diorama and being given some wood elves that christmas!

Very inspiring video! I will try this out :)

nice vid Ben. Just started painting fellowship too

I"m passionate about your face. Nice video man. 😀 Now I want to do my LoTR. 🥰

Love it! I have a very similar passion project...painting the good ole fellowship of the ring from the citadel metal minis

Great video Ben, made me want to put some lotr minis to the front of the paint que. Also noticed you are dressed very snug, cold days in the hobby shed at the moment!! Love the new camera angles btw

nicely done, now a year later and I might do mine!

Brilliant video, have subscribed, all the best Garry

Great video Ben. Lovely paint jobs and I totally agree, sometimes you just need to reset with some models that are just for the love of painting. Would love to see more MESBG content!

This was a great video.

I really like the freedom from AoS and Warhammer 40k that push the "build your own team/warband/army" narratives and designs. I try that for Middle Earth too, but it always seems so final, that it kind of feels wrong not to go with official color schemes and named characters. But that won't keep me from trying. I'm building a "Dark Dwarves" army right now, lead by a Champion of the (Dark) King. And I think Easterlings have some good potential for creative background writing and design updates as well. Really want to try them with Obsidian Armor instead of the classic gold and red.

Been looking for that Aragorn sculpt for ages! Can’t find it anywhere, banging job you’ve done!

Great video dude and nice work on the minis. I've got a few projects I wanna do but not got round to them yet, might actually get on with them this weekend!

My passion project is a 100% rogue trader crimson fist army. Dam its expensive. But I love it! Not even painted 10% of it yet 🤣

Great video! I’m currently getting back into the hobby and I’m painting up some old, unfinished LOTR trolls!

Very nice, funnily enough I go back to the LOTR to have a break from other things.

Great video! I am looking forward to painting my fellowship soon! I love that Aragorn model, really cool pose. Would love to see a paints list, being a complete noob, would be good to know where to get started. I could watch lord of the rings stuff all day.. nice one!

Awesome vid! More lotr stuff!

Great stuff, chief! cant wait to unseal some lotr gw magazines and go through this exact same good feeling.

I just bought the Battle and Balin's Tomb game just to paint the fellowship as I really didn't feel like painting anything and was currently reading LotR books again. Looking forward to painting it!

Excellent video, new sub, looking forward to more videos.👍

I'm from the channel The Broken Sword and was curious as to if you actually sell any of your miniatures, Legolas in particular, but would also love a complete set? LOVE THE VID

Your video is amazing! Could you list the paints/paintset required for this set? Please and thank you!

Ay you've got the same blender as me lmao

Great vid, loved the cinematography. You are so right, it's too easy to paint just for the shake of painting, then getting sick of them. /cough (40k) Nice to see some Lotr.

Nice vid man, great paint jobs, but we really need to have a chat about the amount of water in your wet pallette! ;)

Do some more LOTR!! Please!! A battle report would be awesome!!! Thanks duder!!!

what paint set should i buy to do this set.thanks

Hi you got a colour scheme when you painted fellowship of the rings

Is that a garden shed? Nice

I'd love to hear more about the Middle Earth game, I always skip over that stuff in White Dwarf. Even as a fan of the LOTR movies, the models don't seem to grab me...

By chance how did you prime metal minis, I wanna get into metal minis but I got no idea how to start em.

What colours did you use for legolas? He looks amazing :)

Wow, seeing that Helms Deep Legolas brought back some memories! I had that set when I was 7-8, and I could not for the life of me get the detail on Theoden’s breastplate!

Hey man, what's the name of that plataform you use to make your minis rotate?

What happened to Merry's cloak? Looks like a big ooops brush stroke with brown that wasn't fixed :P

Definitely be cool to see some comparisons of older paintwork to modern and more MESBG! Gotta say though, weird decision to add an empty base at 08:16... Like, it's a good base, but maybe stick a mini on it?

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What camera do you use?? it's amazing!

Yes to more Lord of the Rings videos!!!

I think that pretty much every army that I paint is a passion project! This hobby is what I am passionate about after all and I only paint stuff that I love otherwise I am not sure what the point of the hobby is

Did this replace other projects entirely whilst you were working on it?

Love the video and the channel but that mold line on Aragorn arm is so distracting.

You're not stealing, you bought the kit. When you buy a kit you get everything in the box and can use it as you wish. Actually you are doing more justice to the kit itself by not wasting any of it. And let's not forget that GW always charges at least double what it should for every mini anyway. Who's doing the stealing??

You need a Warhammer passion project... thumbnail is lord of the rings 😂

No no I don’t but thanks anyway for the entertainment.

it is games workshops best game because its lacking the constant powercreep and rules bloat due to the missing release avalanche Age of Sigmar and 40k are suffering from. The balance was able to stabilize on a decent level without the constant need to sell miniatures destroying it over and over and over again.