Author Topic: Ogrob's fantasy projects - More Riders of Rohan kitbashes 10/10 (Read 117025 times)

Advario · « **Reply #780 on:** June 19, 2023, 06:20:22 AM »

The militia looks amazing! I especially like the color gradient in the shield

The holy man looks like a really good Rhadagast the Brown proxy mini! Well done on the paintjob, as well!!

Ogrob · « **Reply #781 on:** June 19, 2023, 11:31:44 AM »

Quote from: Advario on June 19, 2023, 06:20:22 AM

The militia looks amazing! I especially like the color gradient in the shield

The holy man looks like a really good Rhadagast the Brown proxy mini! Well done on the paintjob, as well!!

Thank you! I engaged in a little bit of two brush blending with the light green highlights, and it seems to work a treat.

Knight-Captain Tyr · « **Reply #782 on:** June 19, 2023, 11:38:29 AM »

Quote from: Ogrob on June 17, 2023, 09:50:40 PM

Swapped some figures around, this is what the Beornings ended up looking like.

I love the eyepatch you gave the guy on the left at the back.

Always a pleasure seeing your dudes - really like how far you've expanded the scope of the LOTR project. Are you planning on doing any big 'named' characters soon?

Ogrob · « **Reply #783 on:** June 19, 2023, 11:51:07 AM »

Quote from: Knight-Captain Tyr on June 19, 2023, 11:38:29 AM

I love the eyepatch you gave the guy on the left at the back.

Always a pleasure seeing your dudes - really like how far you've expanded the scope of the LOTR project. Are you planning on doing any big 'named' characters soon?

It's a new head from the armoured late romans, similar to earlier sculpts but with the eyepatch.

I tend to shy away from named characters, so I've envisioned the Rohan force as an unamed Lord, rather than the King himself. So no plans on the character front.

Next plan for Lord of the Rings, which I probably won't start for a little bit, is a misty mountains themed Orc, Goblin and Warg force to be played as Huns. Planning on using oathmark minis, convert orcs on wargs as hearthguard, then goblin warg riders for warriors and finally riderless wargs and goblin slaves as levy.

Ogrob · « **Reply #784 on:** July 04, 2023, 08:12:31 PM »

Put together a few more Rohan figures, a warlord and six hearthguard on foot. Could be useful to play them as say Visigoths in SAGA, but mostly just because I have plenty of Victrix armoured late romans and they are very nice figures. Five bodies are from the main armoured roman sprue, the warlord is from the armoured roman command sprue, and the other lad with a plastic cloak is from the unarmoured roman command sprue. Couple of viking heads and some scabbards from the norman kit. Greenstuff for cloaks.

What do you think?

Grumpy Gnome · « **Reply #785 on:** July 04, 2023, 08:34:07 PM »

Looking good mate!

Tonhel · « **Reply #786 on:** July 05, 2023, 07:00:48 AM »

Lovely conversions!

Ogrob · « **Reply #787 on:** July 05, 2023, 06:50:41 PM »

Decided that before I paint any more Rohan figures I needed to sort out the basing for the army. In between building the main part of the force and the display board, I discovered Geek Gaming scenics base ready mixes and they have since become a staple of my basing. The rohirrim had my old style of base, painted sand with plenty of tufts on, and I was starting to be unhappy with it. So, today, I set about the game of dabbing glue on bases without hitting tufts, and then dunking them in flock.

Here's a bit of a picture of how it ended up looking. 61 cavalry figures and 44 infantry re-flocked.

Advario · « **Reply #788 on:** July 07, 2023, 06:37:59 AM »

Amazing army display! I love the kitbashed Rohan army and I drew huge inspiration from your thread and bought a lot of Victrix minis as well to try it out myself

What bases are you using for the cavalry? I usually used round ones, but they can't be combined to display a charge, since the minis are too far away from each other. Thanks!

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Quote from: Ogrob on July 04, 2023, 08:12:31 PM

These look wonderful as well! I regret that I didn't bought the unarmoured roman infantry pack ....

Ogrob · « **Reply #789 on:** July 07, 2023, 07:52:57 AM »

Quote from: Advario on July 07, 2023, 06:37:59 AM

Amazing army display! I love the kitbashed Rohan army and I drew huge inspiration from your thread and bought a lot of Victrix minis as well to try it out myself

What bases are you using for the cavalry? I usually used round ones, but they can't be combined to display a charge, since the minis are too far away from each other. Thanks!

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These look wonderful as well! I regret that I didn't bought the unarmoured roman infantry pack ....

Thank you! Victrix sure does put out a lot of quality plastics, hard not to get everything....

For cavalry I use 25x50mm pill shaped bases. These seem to be the preferred base among SAGA players. Best source I have found is Warbases in the UK.

beefcake · « **Reply #790 on:** July 07, 2023, 08:17:06 AM »

Love the chariot. I must do something similar for my copplestone barbarian army.

Ogrob · « **Reply #791 on:** October 01, 2023, 07:20:52 AM »

Happened to do a little fantasy build yesterday evening. When playing the Rohan as ostrogoths in SAGA, they have access to a wide variety of mercenaries and it occured to me that I might want to try some melee cav mercenaries. After a bit of thinking about themes and bits, I found I had plenty of Oathmark sprues available and kitbashed these Dunedain horsemen from Oathmark human cavalry and Oathmark light elf heads and arms. They will get teardrop shields to match my foot Dunedain from earlier.