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Author: | halauas [ Sat May 24, 2014 7:10 am ] |
Post subject: | Halauas WIP : There and back to Rhun (pic heavy) |
BUILD ME AN ARMY WORTHIER OF MORDOR So i decided to review one of my favorite armies that happens to be the most abandoned in its range, the Eastern kingdoms. The project is to make the easternings a complete army, involving house rules / conversions / smelting / sculpting / and painting of course This is going to be only the introduction to whats coming and i will be uploading pics every time i have one of my projects ready(it is also my first wip) It is pretty a shame that one of the most powerful armies in middle earth has such a small range of units. I love the the mysterious nature and theme of the easterlings and according to the books they were not only best equipped in Saurons army but also the best trained. Rhun is also a very mysterious land that even accommodated sauron himself for a long time. Long story sort this is going to be the army list i am forming ( pics incoming soon) Heroes Khamul the easterling (coming soon)-as known Amdur (coming soon)-as known Dragon knight (Ready, awaiting pics)-as known War priest (coming soon)-as known Easterling captains (Ready, awaiting pics)-as known Black Dragon captain (coming soon)-Upcoming House rules Dark lord's Champion (coming soon)-Upcoming House rules *Rhuns piercer (coming soon)-Upcoming House rules Easterling Tribesmaster(coming soon)-Upcoming House rules Units (core) Easterling warriors (Ready) page 1 Easterling Katapraht (Ready, awaiting pics)-as known Khandish warriors (Ready, awaiting pics)-as known (currently i dont have any more khandish models to include in my army) Easterling drummer (coming soon)-as known (Special units) Black Dragons (Ready) page 1 Black Dragon Kataprahts(Ready, awaiting pics)-as known Blade Dancers (Ready) page 1+link to house rules Temple Guard (coming soon)-Upcoming House rules Khandish Hunters (coming soon)-Upcoming House rules Easterling Tribesmen (coming soon)-Upcoming House rules (Monsters) Dragon (coming soon)-as known Easterling Charioteer (coming soon)-Upcoming House rules Khandish Chariot (coming soon)-as known (Siege weapons) Easterling Balista (coming soon)-Upcoming House rules Easterling Trebuchet (coming soon)-Upcoming House rules NOTE: once a model that includes house rules is ready (converted/painted) i will be posting it in house rules first for approval/improvement and comments. I will include link to guide throgh the posts from here And this evening i will be posting my first pics! |
Author: | pokyha [ Sat May 24, 2014 11:12 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Halauas WIP : Forming Rhuns ranks |
Awesome also my favourite army. Does this mean you are going to convert and paint black dragons different from the regular easterling warriors? |
Author: | halauas [ Sat May 24, 2014 11:41 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Halauas WIP : Forming Rhuns ranks |
i wont be converting them as i have many other conversions to do, however i am using the metal old easterling models as black dragons because they are a little bigger but indeed i am painting them differently and i have some of them ready, just need some decent photoshooting this weekend |
Author: | the marshal [ Sun May 25, 2014 12:27 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Halauas WIP : Forming Rhuns ranks |
I dunno if I'd give the easterlings a trebuchet, feels to European Looking forward to pics! |
Author: | halauas [ Fri Jun 20, 2014 7:51 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Halauas WIP : Forming Rhuns ranks |
Sadly i have been busy a lot when i made this thread, i had a warband of easterling warriors ready a couple of weeks ago but i had no chance to photo shoot. Easterling Captain And some warriors. I did want to keep the original theme to them, with the only alternation the head cloth, it looked too much of the same thing when it was red so i decided to break the monotony with good old black |
Author: | halauas [ Fri Jun 20, 2014 8:02 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Halauas WIP : Forming Rhuns ranks |
Next i have ready are the black dragons. I did not want to convert anything to make them a different unit as i have priority on converting new models/units. So i simply used the old metal easterlings that are even a little bit taller than the plastic ones, painted black with a darker tone on their armor and with some freehand details (not the best ones ) The ones displayed are a converted swordsman and a captain into 2 black dragons with pikes/shields NEXT Project is atlast a new unit, the blade dancer!!! i will upload this one tomorrow with some wip photos aswell this time |
Author: | Hodush [ Fri Jun 20, 2014 11:37 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Halauas WIP : Forming the Rhunish Ranks |
Good to see this project - I will be keeping an eye on it, even if I don't always post as I was interested in doing the same thing. Overall, top paint work so far. The one thing I'm not sold on is the gold on the shields, it seems to be very flat to me, but maybe its just the pictures. Maybe it needs another wash of black. Anyway, I know that is an extremely difficult colour to use, so keep at it. AWESOME work/idea with the red and gold tinge to the black dragons - really makes them stand out. |
Author: | edge67 [ Sat Jun 21, 2014 5:10 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Halauas WIP : Forming the Rhunish Ranks |
Excellent Easterling army. I especially like the black dragons. The black works really well in this colour scheme. |
Author: | halauas [ Sat Jun 21, 2014 8:14 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Halauas WIP : Forming the Rhunish Ranks |
Thank you for your feedback and ill try to make another shade on the shields I wanted to add a more 'tricky' unit to combine some strength aswell (something missing from the easterling army).The easterlings look a little exotic already so i already pushed that and also from quotes that state easterlings as extremely good fighters with blades. So here is my ready project for a new unit to my army :the Blade Dancer his house rules can be found here viewtopic.php?f=5&t=28965 I am not like the sculpting gurus on this site (witch i deeply admire) but converting has been a passion ever since i started this hobby. the original model was an easterling archer, i did cut his hands and added α scarf around his neck and a hood over his helmet (green stuff). Then i attached some self made (metal) scabbards on his back and 2 metal swords also made by me from the katapraht set. (the right hand is also from the katapraht set. i wish a had shoot more wip photos but i always forget it (will keep it in mind for next project) |
Author: | abcdefg [ Sat Jun 21, 2014 9:59 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Halauas WIP : Forming the Rhunish Ranks |
Looks fantastic! I think the sheaths and hood is very well done. |
Author: | Crucium Giger [ Sat Jun 21, 2014 12:58 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Halauas WIP : Forming the Rhunish Ranks |
A great conversion, I might even be tempted to do something similar for my army |
Author: | CaptainBlake [ Sat Jun 21, 2014 8:42 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Halauas WIP : Forming the Rhunish Ranks |
Very nice painting and basing here...and theconversion is really really cool, looks dark and mysterious-absolutely perfect for the East! |
Author: | glaurung98 [ Sat Jun 21, 2014 10:35 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Halauas WIP : Forming the Rhunish Ranks |
Looks amazing! add that to all your troops then they will look more like kamumul love it keep up the good work |
Author: | Hodush [ Sun Jun 22, 2014 7:57 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Halauas WIP : Forming the Rhunish Ranks |
Nice pose! |
Author: | Harfoot [ Sun Jun 22, 2014 10:48 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Halauas WIP : Forming the Rhunish Ranks |
Brilliant to see an Easterling army come together |
Author: | pokyha [ Mon Jun 23, 2014 5:21 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Halauas WIP : Forming the Rhunish Ranks |
I am stealing the paint scheme for your black dragons. That blade dancer is fantastic!! really mysterious fits the army perfectly. I may have to steal all your Ideas. |
Author: | halauas [ Mon Jun 23, 2014 7:22 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Halauas WIP : Forming the Rhunish Ranks |
Thanks everyone for the great feedback, gives me motivation to continue! @pokyha : Thats a great honor instead! and there are many more new conversions/paint schemes to come I have almost finished my black dragon on chariot now, with plenty of wip pictures this time will post some today |
Author: | halauas [ Tue Jun 24, 2014 6:02 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Halauas WIP : Forming the Rhunish Ranks |
Almost finished with the easterling chariot (black dragon). It is nothing special, almost no conversion done, just painted to match the theme of my army |
Author: | JamesR [ Tue Jun 24, 2014 6:31 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Halauas WIP : Forming the Rhunish Ranks |
I really like your progress on beefing up the Rhunish host. Very cool conversions thus far |
Author: | halauas [ Wed Jun 25, 2014 6:38 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Halauas WIP : Forming the Rhunish Ranks |
Photos removed and posted new ones on next page |
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