This submission is a force of Rohan
warriors and commanders consisting of a box of 24 plastic Warriors of
Rohan, three metal Rohan Royal Guard on foot, Merriadoc Esquire of Rohan
from the 'Heroes of the West' boxed set, King Théoden
in full armour, a dismounted Captain and Banner from the Rohan Mounted
Commander set, four resin figures from the Rohan Commanders set, and a
converted Gamling figure, all from the Games Workshop's Lord of the
Rings line of miniatures.
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Defenders of the Riddermark in front of Helm's Deep
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All
these figures were cleaned up, assembled where necessary, mounted on
their bases, and some sand was glued on with PVA. They were then primed
black with an airbrush since it is too cold to go outside to use a
rattle can. As with the Dwarves I did earlier in the competition, I left
the shields off until all the painting was complete. All the figures
were painted with primarily Vallejo acrylics, along with a few craft
paints. I used a variety of browns (Chocolate Brown, Leather Brown,
Beige Brown, Cavalry Brown) and a selection of greens that aren't
usually associated with fantasy figures (Camouflage Olive Green,
Camouflage Luftwaffe Green, German Feldgrau). Once all the basic colours
were applied, the figures got a coat of Army Painter Strong Tone
Quickshade. The easiest to paint were the plastic Warriors of Rohan,
followed by the various commanders. The hardest were the Royal Guard, Théoden,
and Gamling due to the insanely detailed armour that is covered with
horse-related iconography. At least the metal figures are more durable
that the resin figures. The resin banner got snapped off as I was
packing the figures up after taking all the photos. 😝
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Warriors of Rohan Group 1
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Warriors of Rohan Group 2
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Resin set of Rohan Commanders
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Dismounted Rohan Captain and Banner
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Rohan Royal Guard
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Gamlling, Theoden, and Merry
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The figure of Gamling with the
banner is a conversion of the original miniature released by Games
Workshop. The figure has since been re-released with him holding the
Rohan Royal Banner in his left hand and his sword in a lower position. I
had two minis of the early version, one which I painted up a few years
ago. I decided to convert the other one to give him a banner since I
have a mounted version of Gamling where he is carrying one. To make it
easy on myself, I just replaced his left hand with one fashioned out of
fine wire wrapped around a length of florist wire that forms the pole
and some epoxy putty to build it up a bit and form the thumb of his
hand. The pole itself is anchored to a hole drilled into the base with
super glue. The banner is from an image plucked from the internet,
tweaked to make it two-sided and printed off on my laser printer. Once
the figure was all painted, I applied some PVA glue to half of what
would end up on the inside, wrapped it around the florist wire pole and
shaped it while the glue was still wet. Here is a comparison of the two
versions.
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original Gamling, and 'new improved' Gamling
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Thanks for reading. More to follow.
1 comment:
Nice riders!
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