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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: robh on 14 April 2021, 05:26:22 PM
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What options have SBG or WotR players found for alternate figures for Black Numenoreans?
The GW ones are bloody ugly and damn expensive.
I have found some nice looking repaints of the plastic Dunharrow figures but on the search for other options that will work with the Peter Jackson/GW figures.
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I think you might find them here :-)
http://unreleasedminiatures.eu/
HunLion
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I use slightly differently painted and slightly converted warriors of the dead, they have ancient looking armour and raggedy robes. I just went for some more industrial looking shields and helms in some cases.
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I think you might find them here :-)
http://unreleasedminiatures.eu/
HunLion
I bought these to use as Black Numenoreans - good figures in terms of sculpt and casting but they are small. No bigger than one of the shorter GW Mordor orcs.
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I think it depends a lot on what image you want.
Do you want the Peter Jackson/Weta/GW undead in Gothic plate look or something else?
Right now I am using conversions of the plastic Army of the Dead figures but have my eyes open for something else. I was thinking maybe Fireforge Templars. With their tabards and hooded cloaks I thought they might look distinctive enough. Then switch my converted minis over to be Dead Marsh Spectres.
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The unreleased miniatures ones do look good, but other comments I found about them also note how small they are which is a shame. Also though nicer than the GW ones they are amazingly more expensive.
I think the best conversions I have seen are these:
(https://www.michaelhanns.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Black-Numenoreans-Front-1.jpg)
From the Michael Hanns blog, They use bits from the Morgul Knights (which I do like) on the Dunharrow bodies.
I want to keep the Jackson/GW style rather than a more accurate look because I already have so many of the rest of the range. My thought at the moment is to do something with the plastic Easterlings.
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Those do look great. It is too bad that it is difficult to get Morgul Knight heads. Interesting idea on using Easterlings.
I tried a few ideas out in the past and decided against them, including GW Dark Elves.
https://thegrumpygnome.home.blog/2019/08/09/beware-the-black-numenoreans/
But I had not considered Easterlings. Are you thinking a different head style?
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But I had not considered Easterlings. Are you thinking a different head style?
Sort of, keep the facemask but replace the helmet horns with something more crown-like from plastic card (or possibly the top of the 2nd age Numenorean winged helmet) and make up some long cloaks from craft paper, then it is just a dark paint scheme. I would only want a couple of companies for WotR so not too big a project.
Although I am lazy enough to prefer a workable "use these instead" option.
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Yeah, that sounds like it has potential. I was thinking of using historical Persians for Easterlings and the GW Easterlings as Black Dragons but yeah I can see using them as Black Numenoreans with some tweaks. Thanks for the food for thought.