The gate of Minas Tirith

2016-04-02 Khaiell

The project was created with plaster of Paris blocks cast in-house and glued together with simple white glue. Then undercoated and drybrushed. The structure has been used extensively in various demo games of Games Workshop's Lord of the Rings line

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The gate of Minas Tirith

I built the Gate of Minas Tirith with Jaroslaw Grabowski of WargamingZone and BuyPainted fame who is also the author and the producer of the moulds.

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