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I have got a basic core of a Rohirrim Army Organized for painting.

• 3 units of 6 bases of Éotheod/Rohirrim Regular Éoreds (3 models per base).
• 1 unit of 4 bases of "Royal Guard" (3 models per base)
• 2 units of 4 bases of Scouts/Light Horse (2 models per base)
• 2 units of 4 bases of Levy Éotheod (3 models per base).

I still need to buy more bases for the Levy Éotheod (as well as six more models - 2 packs of East Riding Miniature's Mounted Saxons).

And I also have about 3x - 6x this number of actual models I can put together (save for the Royal Guard and Outriders, which I did not mention here, because they are too expensive, points wise, for this army. But I have four bases worth of them) for a Larger Éotheod/Rohirrim army for fighting Easterlings, or Uruk-Hai (which are more expensive armies, points wise, than the Hithaeglir Goblins I am currently working on as an opponent).

Collectively, I have enough for:

• 6 units of 8 bases each of Éotheod/Rohirrim Éoreds (144 models - maybe more - I have a box that has some in it, but I do not know how many are usable; lots of them have broken legs, swords, spears, etc.)
• 3 units of 4 bases of Royal Guards (36 models)
• 1 unit of 4 bases of Outriders (these are Elite Scouts, drawn from the Royal Guard, so if I field a unit of these, I lose a commensurate number of bases of Royal Guard - 8 figures)
• 6 units of 6 bases of Scouts (72 models)
• 2 units of 6 bases of Levy Éotheod (technically, I need one more unit of 6 bases - 36 models)
• 3 units of 12 bases of Éotheod/Rohirrim Heavy Foot (4 figures per base, 144 figures) + 18 bases of Supporting Archers (4 figures per base, 72 figures)
• 3 units of 6 bases Light Foot Éotheod for dismounted Scouts or Skirmishers (2 figures per base, 36 figures)

I need to get some figures for Levy Éotheod on foot.

Most of the foot figures I have are really for dismounted Éoreds, or when they are fighting from a prepared position (such as at Helm's deep).

They look good. Will you focus on the Goblins or the Rohirrim? Or will you go back and forth and work on both?

I am doing both almost at the same time.

There are a lot of colors used on both (mostly the horses), and I have a paranoia about wasting paint.

Like the Goblins (both started at about the same time) the earlier ones are a bit too dark, and the shading either too low contrast, or too high contrast, with poor blending.

But the later ones seem to be doing better, and I plan to go back over some ofthe areas on the older ones I have painted to smooth them out a bit, and make them a bit more fluid and lighter.

Having re-discovered some of the proper brushes for some of the work has helped (Like doing the shading with a filbert brush. You go from a wet to dry palette and the filbert keeps the drybrush just damp enough to blend and feather properly).

I also, much to my embarrassment, have had to resort to a 10/0 and 20/0 liner brush for doing the eyes.

I used to be able to paint an eye on a 25mm miniature with a #2 brush....

I guess that until/unless I get bionic eyes, those days are long gone.

But the upside to it is that this actually makes painting the Goblins' shields easier, as I can cram a LOT more tiny, niggling detail onto a shield with that 20/0 liner brush than I could with the #0 I was using.

And when I go to do the Rohirrim banners, the brush will come in handy doing the runes that are shown on some of the banners in the movies.

But eventually, I am going to replace these with my own sculpts... So I need to come up with my own banner designs while I am at it.

MB

I do like the GW Rohan figs. Like a lot of people I had a load off the front of the DeAgostini magazines, sold them all ages ago now. I'd get more if it weren't for the prices, and definitely make a small Rohan force for Kings of War.

 Riquende wrote:
I do like the GW Rohan figs. Like a lot of people I had a load off the front of the DeAgostini magazines, sold them all ages ago now. I'd get more if it weren't for the prices, and definitely make a small Rohan force for Kings of War.

I still have all of those magazines. They were full of production photos taken during filming on the set from off-camera angles that allowed us to see a lot of detail. That was from a period when I was still enthralled with the movies, simply because someone had made them.

But if you really want some Rohirrim.... I may even still have some on the sprue. Maybe even quite a few on the sprue that I will likely never use (It isn't likely that I will ever be able to put together a full Éoherë of Rohirrim - representing the full 12,000 Riders: that would be 48 bases of Rohirrim, or 144 model with the rules I use.... And, as I said above, I have considerably more than that).

Due to the fact that, just on points, a Full Éoherë of Rohirrim in miniatures would be around 1,600 points, and typical games of either Field of Glory or Hoplon use only between 600 and 1000 points, that would be a bit of a monster game.

And, the only historical battles where a Full Éoherë would have appeared would have been during the Wars with the Wainriders in the 19th Century Third Age (when they were still the Northmen of Rhovanion), and at the battle near the Undeeps around 2500 Third Age when Éorl rode to the aid of Cirion (resulting in the founding or Rohan)... And possibly during the War with the Dunlendings.

So... If you want me to look and see ifI have any spare Rohirrim, I would be willing to part with them pretty cheaply,

MB

I'd be up for some as well, if you're selling and willing to ship to Australia.

When you talk about replacing them with your own sculpts, do you mean the banners, or the entire models? It seems a waste to paint entire models and then replace them, though with banners and banner poles it's more understandable.

Replacing the miniatures.

I am doing some early and later Éotheod that match more closely with the Saxons and Goths that were the basis of the Rohirrim (such as fewer of them carrying bows).

The GW Rohirrim are probably the best line, but I am looking to completely replace that line with miniatures closer to the Dark Ages period Tolkien discussed as being more akin to the appearance of the world he constructed (no full plate armor, Haradrim that are closer to N. African Mahgreb Arabs and moors, elves with straight, double-edged swords, . . . Things like that).

I don't consider it a waste, as it will be some time in getting them all done.

And the Rohirrim will be able to do double-duty as later Ostrogoths.

MB