Sean's toy soldiers

Dwarve Orc wars terrain
I went to the local Flea Market today. Just browsing round the stalls found a model castle in some disrepair after taking my bag of figures out ( I carry a zip lock bag of a 6mm sci fi,10mm WWII, 10mm fantasy and a 20mm WWII figure to check scale) finding it was almost perfect for my 10mm LOTR, I asked the lady how much? She told me it was free as she just wanted rid of it she then gave me another couple of 20mm HO scale buildings for free.(more of these on a later post.)
I think this will be ideal for a old Ruined castle protecting an old Ford across a river or the end of a valley through the mountains.

The Castle Ruins

A close up of the moulded base

With some Copplestone castings Dwarves and Orcs for scale

With having built a large Dwarven army I started looking into the LOTR Dwarve Orc War as alluded to in the Hobbit. After reading up I realised that most of the battles were fought underground. So I sat down and thought what do you normally see in Dark damp places?
Mushrooms and stalactites (they hang down) and stalagmites(they reach up). Being as I'm in Germany I knew the Germans make all sorts of things for Autumn so I went looking in the shops. Found some little plastic red and white mushrooms but they didn't look right. Then I found some foam mushrooms on sales for between 1.00 euro and .50 cent so I bought 6.00 euros worth.

Here you can see both types the larger one with two sprouts was 1.00 euro and the smaller was .50 cent. So now what to do about Stalagmites. Looking round Tedi (a local cheap shop) I saw some Christams lights looking closer they had icicle looking tips. So I bought a set to see how they worked.