We Painted over 1,500 Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game (MESBG) Miniatures for this 8x16 Foot, Lord of the Rings Diorama

This diorama has the largest handcrafted elements of any such Lord of the Rings diorama, in the world.

We’ve hinted for years that we’ve been working on some interesting but secret projects. This one we got permission to go public with. Below, I talk about it, at Lanka Comic Con 2025.

Largest in the World?

When the video above was shot, we mistakenly thought it was THE world’s largest handcrafted Lord of the Rings diorama. We now believe that is actually by the New Zealand Youtube Crafter, ZorpaZorp.

Ours however has the largest handcrafted elements of a Lord of the Rings diorama. They are the walls of Minas Tirith: 8 feet wide. The highest point of the second wall, behind me in the image, is at 5 feet.

This took 2 years to do. It involved not only building and painting minis, but also crafting, 3D printing, and 3D designing. It was nice to have a project where we could bring ALL these to the table (literally).

We’re quite pleased that Buddmin Amaradiwakara from News 1st did a story on it for the national news. Here’s their video on it:

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Below are shots of the diorama at Lanka Comic Con 2025:

The following pictures were taken in the studio. FYI, they were taken before most of the minis were based.
All the painted miniatures in the diorama (the Army of the Dead were not painted) were painted to Exhibition Quality.

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Paintedfigs is a miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.

And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).

Lord of the Rings and the Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game (MESBG): Shelob, Samwise Gamgee, Galadriel, Gandalf The White and more!

This order is from a client who orders a LOT of Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game minis. However, these are more on the unique end, with quite a few characters.

These were painted to Showcase quality. 

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Paintedfigs is a miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.

And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).

Lord of the Rings and the Middle Earth Strategy Board Game (MESBG): Battle of Edoras, Isengard Battlehost, Rohan Battlehost, The Dark Lord Sauron and more painted!

A mix and mash of all things MESBG! This order even includes a few minis from the movie “Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim”.

These were painted to Showcase quality. 

Shameless tags: miniature painting service, warhammer painting service, warhammer 40k painting service, miniature painting services, miniature painting commission, professional miniature painting, miniatures painting service, MESBG, Lord of the Rings, LoTR, War of the Rohirrim, Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game

Paintedfigs is a miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.

And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).

Painting MESBG: The Battle for Osgiliath

3d designed sculpts are a nice facelift for the Lord of the Rings / Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game line. The look good alongside the older sculpts, and the terrain is a nice change from the almost brutalist look of 40k terrain pieces.

These were painted to Showcase and Exhibition quality. 

You might have wondered why such mad art leads to Ultramarines… why doesn’t it, instead, lead to more mad art?

A lot of other people have thought this, too. Not content to sit on their brushes, they used them instead to create the art style known as Blanchitsu.

Desaturation. A jaundiced palette. Warhammer Squalor. Here are some examples:

Shameless tags: miniature painting service, warhammer painting service, warhammer 40k painting service, miniature painting services, miniature painting commission, professional miniature painting, miniatures painting service

Paintedfigs is a miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.

And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).