Delirivm's WIP (Rohan house WIP 26/04/'14)

John Wayne · **Posted:** Mon Apr 22, 2013 3:26 pm

Liking your gondor mate :yay:

Delirivm · **Posted:** Tue Apr 30, 2013 2:56 pm

Thanks John Wayne!

Haven't done much painting lately. Gave some minis basecoats but haven't had the time to fully concentrate on painting them.
In the past few weeks I began making some terrain pieces (small hill, tent..)
I also converted some models. My Rohan foot army counts 24 painted and 24 unpainted models. Needless to say their poses began to bore me so I started swapping weapons and repositioning some arms ^^
I think I'll add some greenstuff to one of the converted models to make him into a captain.

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Progress on my banner bearer. I think the length of the pole is good. Maybe I'll bend it a little bit just as the wind would bend a wooden pole a bit.

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I have to cut away some plastic on his hand because it still looks a bit too thick now.

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Some conversions (I've done some conversions on riders as well, but I'll limit the pic heaviness of my post

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Small terrain piece. Would this count as hard to thread for infantry? Cavalry can't pass through it because of their width but they can jump over it.

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Small hill I'm working on. Part natural hill, part artificial stonework (a bit like the surroundings of Amon Hen in the movie) Might include the statue from the terrain set.

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Needs to be painted etc.

I think that's all for now

My next game will be around the end of June, I hope to have finished my army list models by then (Some RoR, WoMT, Faramir, Eomer, Eowyn).

Thanks for the kind comments and advice so far! ^^

garmenhord · **Posted:** Tue Apr 30, 2013 6:56 pm

terrain looks nice so far, for me the hill really stands out
little hint for the edge of ur cardboard - get some tesacrep and do it over the sides to hide up the horrible cardboard edge

i think the banner pole is quite huge - just thinking about how much weight it should be in real life..

John Wayne · **Posted:** Tue Apr 30, 2013 7:02 pm

The rohan conversions look sweet. I wish i made some when i did mine

The hill is looking good and very neat cutting. :yay:

Delirivm · **Posted:** Wed May 01, 2013 1:37 pm

@Garmenhord Measured the pole again. It's 7cm, in real life that would be 4.5m.
That might indeed be a bit too long. I'll maybe cut off 1.5 cm.
Thanks! I needed to fix the edges, but didn't really now how.

@JohnWayne Thanks! They're minor changes but they bring more life to my army ^^

Delirivm · **Posted:** Mon May 06, 2013 11:14 am

Another update on some conversions!
I don't think I'll be painting until mid june. I want to finish my warbands as a whole, and I don't have the time to do that (exams/finals).
I like the GW sculpt of the Rohan captain but I'm saving money to buy named heroes. So I convert some plastic minis to captains, banner bearers etc. Not all my conversions will become captains, some of them are just changed a bit to add a bit more life to my army.

Captain foot and mounted. Their basic sculpts looked a bit alike, so I traded the rider's spear for a sword. The warrior's arm was cut off and put back on in a different angle using greenstuff. Need to scrape just a little greenstuff off. Swapped his spear with a sword as well.

This guy was in need of surgery

He had lost his left arm, couldn't find it anywhere. Luckily, I had a warg rider who had his left arm and leg snapped off. I could have glued them on, but I like my Rohirrim more so I gave the Orc arm to this one, glued a shield on the arm and put a spear in his other hand. The Orc will become part of my terrain pieces I guess

Gave this guy's axe to a swordsman (see next picture). That sword was given to my captain conversion and so on. I was one weapon short, so I gave this poor guy a sword from my sprue of warg riders (they've got weapons enough).

Gave them an axe for a sword. In the back you see the same sculpt with a sword but I cut off that rider's arm and glued it back on in a slightly higher angle. I've got 40+ riders so a bit of variation won't hurt.

Don't know when I'll be posting again.
Maybe next week, maybe next month

VictoryGin · **Joined:** Sun Jun 09, 2013 10:05 am **Posts:** 189

Resize your photos! They are absolutely gigantic and take ages to load haha. Good stuff though!

Delirivm · **Posted:** Sun Jun 09, 2013 11:33 pm

Yes, I will certainly resize them next time!
Thanks and thanks for the info on my other thread, though you've now probably seen I already did those things you suggested ^^

Delirivm · **Posted:** Thu Feb 06, 2014 5:05 pm

So, after a long period of not having been able to do any painting (mainly due to school), I've started painting again last week. Glad to be back

Here's a small update;

I'm giving this guy some small accents to make him stand out a bit. I'll be using him as a generic captain (if I need one).
Plan to add some cream accents to his clothes as well.
Still needs base colours on some parts and highlighting on others.
I'm giving all of my WoMT dark blue clothes. (Kantor Bue mixed with small amounts of black and dawnstone)

Next update will probably be 24 finished WoMT

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Thu Feb 06, 2014 5:35 pm

Nice conversions here. The joins are see less and praise to you for that.

Oldman Willow · **Posted:** Thu Feb 06, 2014 8:50 pm

I like the idea you have for the hill.
Use painters tape for the voids in the cardboard. Paste, glue or filler could cause the card board to warp. I use map pins to hold felt flat while the glue drys. It will work well enough for card board.

Delirivm · **Posted:** Thu Feb 06, 2014 9:10 pm

Thanks!

OmW: I will certainly try that. I think I'll try to fix it before having my next game.
Thanks for the tips!

Constantine · **Posted:** Thu Feb 06, 2014 9:25 pm

Simple yet effective conversions. I think the length of the banner's pole is a bit long though; the painted horse on his leather armor is excellent!!

How did you cut the foam so precisely? I noticed that it's expanded foam; whenever I cut expanded foam its cells are always visible, plus making clean cuts is also an issue.

Delirivm · **Posted:** Thu Feb 06, 2014 10:12 pm

Thanks! I share the same idea, simple yet effective enough to spice up the troops.
I agree, the length of the pole is too long in that pic but I adjusted it in the meantime.
The pole is now 5.9cm long. Which might still be too long but it's better than before (it was something like 7.5cm)

The foam was cut with a cutting knife (with breakable blade). I carefully 'sliced' the foam which resulted in cleaner cuts. I didn't put too much pressure on the knife but gently sliced with swift motions. The foam will stick harder to the knife though (static electricity I guess).
But cleaner cuts+ a smaller mess >>> annoying clingy foam

Delirivm · **Posted:** Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:39 pm

Hi, another small update.

The one in front has received an ushabti bone line on his garments, will post a picture when he's based.

Currently working on basing them. Will base them part stone part dirt/grass.
Don't know if I'm going to base all 24 like this.
Might do 12 like this and 12 as I've based my Rohan warriors.
Not too sure if it will look like a whole then, what are your thoughts on this?

paliouras · **Posted:** Thu Feb 27, 2014 5:12 pm

i like your WoMT's bases.simple but very effective.
I'd do all 24 of them the same in terms of uniformity.
It works every time for me when i re-visit old armies and add new troops or heroes.

Delirivm · **Posted:** Mon Mar 24, 2014 3:10 pm

An update on my Gondor force again;
Based all my spearmen and some bowmen.
Swordsmen are still waiting to be based but I think I'll do some painting first.
It's a bit too much to base them all in one go.

Group shot.

Two close-ups.

The backs.

Might add some tufts of grass to the bases later, not sure about that yet (and not sure about which kind to use from the Army Painter range).

Next up:
A lot

Either painting some plastic models(Rangers/Outriders), heroes, or completing the conversion ideas I had in mind.

C&C welcome!

garmenhord · **Posted:** Mon Mar 24, 2014 3:15 pm

they look great, good work! keep it up

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Mon Mar 24, 2014 6:06 pm

The painting and basing standards are rising - and you are getting quite a bunch of them done too. Good work!

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:55 pm

I think the odd tuft of grass will work very well.

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