Thursday, 21 April 2016

Mithril Miniatures moving its Lord of the Rings to a digital design in 2016.

A NEW ERA FOR LORD OF THE RINGS™ MITHRIL MINIATURES.

Finally Mithril Miniatures™ has moved from the traditional clay sculpting style to using a 3D modelling package when developing their miniatures. Chris Tubb has worked very hard to learn how to use Zbrush and even harder to make sure that his style is consistent with his earlier work. The offical press release is below:

Mithril is pleased to announce an important new era in its Middle-earth range. Many months of development, combining our traditional sculpting techniques with the newest 3D technology has enabled us to produce a series of Mithril figures which retain the well-loved Mithril “look” while producing greatly enhanced detail and accuracy in each miniature. These digitally enhanced figures will come into production very shortly and will have the designation Mz; and of course they will still be in white metal and at the same price. We will also be announcing news of a new Mithril diorama series shortly.

Here are seven of the upcoming releases, all approved of by Middle-earth Enterprises for production since the 21st of April 2016. These are currently digital images, and will be released between May and July as 32mm scale metal miniatures.


MZ625 Dwarf Merchant with Toys miniature preview from Mithril Miniatures.
MZ625 Dwarf Merchant with toys,

MZ626 'Ohtar with the shards of Narsil' miniature preview by Mithril Miniatures
MZ626 Ohtar with the shards of Narsil,

MZ627 Easterling Champion miniature preview by Mithril Miniatures.
MZ627 Easterling Champion,

MZ628 Dain Ironfoot miniature preview by Mithril Miniatures
MZ628 Dain Ironfoot,

MZ629 Snow Troll Miniature preview by Mithril Miniatures
MZ629 Snow Troll,

MZ630 Duinhir miniature preview by Mithril Miniatures.
MZ630 Duinhir,

MZ631 'Gollum - The log with eyes' miniature preview by Mithril Miniatures.
MZ631 Gollum™ - the log with eyes.

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