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BUILDING THE BLACK GATE
Supplement: The Land of Shadow
© Lotrscenerybuilder 2009
All seemed ruinous and dead, a desert burned and choked
Day came, and the fallow sun blinked over the lifeless ridges of Ered Lithui…
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The land seemed empty. North amid their noisome pits lay the first of the great heaps and hills of slag and broken rock and blasted earth, the vomit of the maggot-folk of Mordor; but south and now near loomed the great rampart of Cirith Gorgor, and the Black Gate amidmost, and the two Towers of the Teeth tall and dark upon either side.
(ROTK, page 195)
The Green Dragon, the Argonath, Minas Morgul ... it needs more than a building or a few statues to recreate the marvellous world of Middle-earth. In order to make your constructions 'feel at home' you will have to devote some time and energy to a matching environment. Now, if you are not (yet) familiar with this scenery building business, you might easily overlook the trouble it takes to construct, say, the hilly farmland near Bywater Pool or the cliffs along the Anduin River. In many respects these terrain boards are 'buildings' in their own right. The Morgul Vale board for example, with its intricate system of lighting channels and its ruined city quarter extra muros, took weeks to build.
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Not the imprisoned moonlight welling through Minas Ithil long ago,
but the yellow glare of a 300 Watt construction lamp beneath the table!
Now, to complete your miniature of the Black Gate you might want to construct the stony plain in front of the gate, as well as the hills on either side. Unlike the preceding Black Gate-articles this supplement will inform you in rather general lines about our way of approach. But that shouldn't be much of a problem for someone who went through the burly gates already.
The Morannon board template can be found at the next link:
http://www.lotrscenerybuilder.org/downloads.php
| Materials used: |
MDF (6mm thickness) |
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Small broken stones |
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Modelling gravel (Games Workshop) |
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Wood glue |
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Structure paint (for us: "Decofit-P") |
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Filler |
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Polyurethane foam (spray can) |
| Paints used: |
ColorWorks High Temp Anthracite (Grey) |
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CW High Temp Black |
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CW Primer White |
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CW Chocolate Brown |
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CW Reseda Green |
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CW Orange Red |
| Tools used: |
Fretsaw (for us: "Skandia", saw blade no. 6) |
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Handsaw |
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Hobby knife |
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Sand paper (fine grain) |
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Set square |
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Ruler |
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Brush |
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Filling-knife |
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