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A) Riders of Rohan

pros: will definitely get proportioned legs

cons: will need to greenstuff more and clip accurately...and I work with wirecutters :\

B) Glade Riders

pros: I like the horses, and they're only a few cents more each than buying Riders.

cons: those legs...the leggings and booties don't bug me so much as their length. Would they look disproportionately large?

C) ???

Gimme a hand here, please. I'm trying to stick to only one set of bits if possible.

Riders of Rohan would work better because lotr is on a difrent scale then warhamer. buy a small modling saw works better then going at it with wire cutters and files

not sure where you are going with this (trying to make Haradrim Cavalry?), but you definately would want to use the Riders of Rohan over the woodies.

Not only are they cheaper, but they are the correct scale.  The WHFB wood Elves are huge compared to your other LotR miniatures, and the wood elf horses are way out of scale, and look, quite frankly, horrid. (leather masks on a horse?  On half of its face?)

any reason you are not going to just buy the cavalry?  Trying to save money?  It would be cheaper to buy the Riders of Rohan plastics and replace the riders with the metal raider figures than to buy the haradrim raiders.  That would cost about $10 us per figure, and you would have a small pile of plastic riders to use for other conversions.

lasgunpacker hit the nail on the head - fourteen bucks for a guy on a horse is a little steep. And yes, the idea is to make affordable Haradrim Cav - I'm plotting an army of Araby and Warriors of Harad look perfect - and reasonably priced - for my infantry and elephant crews. Riders of Rohan are about five bucks each and Harad infantry are a little over a dollar, so I would probably lean away from actually just purchasing the $7 riders as it'd only really save me about two bucks per figure, as opposed to nine converting from Warrior of Harad archer torsoes and Rohan legs. Still, it would be less work than converting.

I got roughly the same suggestion - Rohan horses and legs - when I've asked at other forums. Right now, I'm considering recasting the Haradrim Raider just as he is in either resin or antimony/pewter, possibly bending his a bit so I'd have a mould or two each of him in a one to three poses. This might work out slightly better than doing two dozen conversions in terms of overall work - if I cast once daily for a week over Christmas vacation I should end up with enough for a respectable mounted contingent.

Any thoughts on casting? Resin or plastic? Practicable for whole cavalry models? (rider and horse)

Sorry, we can not help you with ideas for casting copies of GW's copyrighted figures.  Doing so is not only against forum rules, but ultimately works against our own interests as gamers.

However, if you sculpt your own figures, or parts of figures, I would recomend using resin.  Much cheaper and easier to work with in the low level of production you are going to have.