So four more arrived – with two sprues and 3 metal miniatures.
BGIME70 is Haradim themed, so you get a sprue with a set of these guys and a painting guide. These are really colourful compared to most other characters in the game, but they also provide several other colour variations for painting these. The scab red/desert yellow/bleached bone is by far the best one. The modelling workshop is a boring set of Pelennor Fields base boards. Nothing to see here, please move along. You get some mounted forces of good, namely Gamling, Eowyn, Theoden and a couple of royal guards in the cutout range to play the Siege of Minas Tirith scenarios.
Issue 71 I was interested in as it came with a Metal King of the Dead, which I think I might have already shown a painted version of – this one will probably end up on ebay. I wanted to see how they had painted this because I struggled to find a painting guide for them. Their guide was very complex, but I think my way of doing it more batch orientated was much easier, and produced pretty similar results. The only thing I learned was that the king has a robe that fades from red to the glowing green, so I might repaint mine – but probably not. You get a full set of card army of the dead – but I have these already – to continue with the Minas Tirith scenario from the last issue. Scratch builds are simple details of Pelennor, some docks, a ridge and some urban boards.

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