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Offline Conrad Hawkwood

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War of the Rings project in plastic
« on: September 14, 2012, 01:20:12 PM »
A different take?  For me altogether more  in what I think to be the Dark Ages spirit of the story..conversions, Conquest Normans, Gripping Beast and Wargames Factory, all on the one piece..Banners by David of NBA..these two printed out  a bit murky but I do like the effect. These are based for Impetus and represent two units of Gondorian cavalry





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Re: War of the Rings project in plastic
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2012, 01:52:04 PM »
They look really good  :-*, I thought they would be good for Gondor myself and you have shown that to be true.  Are you going to do some foot soldiers?

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Re: War of the Rings project in plastic
« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2012, 01:56:24 PM »
Very nice  :-*

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Offline Conrad Hawkwood

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Re: War of the Rings project in plastic
« Reply #3 on: September 14, 2012, 01:57:35 PM »
already done, but not painted, and about 200 orcs, hopefully post ASAP
these are Conquest Norman horses and lower torso, Gripping Beast uppertorso and head..Wargames Factory  shield, and the odd scimitar

Offline Doomhippie

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Re: War of the Rings project in plastic
« Reply #4 on: September 14, 2012, 01:57:56 PM »
These models look more like I pictured Rohirim. Still like them.  It is, in fact, a nice idea to find alternatives to the rather costly GW models. Let's not forget that Peter Jackson's design decisions are not the final word about Middle-Earth, as nice as his design is. There are enough instances, where I have rather different ideas than he had (wargs, Easterlings, Elvish weapons, Gondorian armor).

So, Quendil, nice choice and please post lots more pictures. I as a ME nerd love to look at them.
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Offline Conrad Hawkwood

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Re: War of the Rings project in plastic
« Reply #5 on: September 14, 2012, 02:08:27 PM »
Rohirrm will have round shields..and some horse archers and  a more diverse colour scheme, and very different banners..there is actually little evidence in the books of there actually being any Gondorian cavalry,a part from Dol Amroth..which is in the planning stage
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Offline Conrad Hawkwood

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Re: War of the Rings project in plastic
« Reply #6 on: September 14, 2012, 02:09:55 PM »
i posted them, not quendl and I have a lot of Wipstuff, including a harad elephant made from the schleich elephanr..

Offline dijit

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Re: War of the Rings project in plastic
« Reply #7 on: September 14, 2012, 02:27:38 PM »
Very nice, pretty much as I imagined them when I read the books.
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Offline Doomhippie

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Re: War of the Rings project in plastic
« Reply #8 on: September 15, 2012, 10:37:59 AM »
i posted them, not quendl and I have a lot of Wipstuff, including a harad elephant made from the schleich elephanr..

Ooops, sorry mate, no disrespect intended. I must have been in a hurry when I wrote a reply to this thread. Anyway - things do look interesting so please continue painting and posting!  ;)

Offline CyberAlien312

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Re: War of the Rings project in plastic
« Reply #9 on: September 15, 2012, 11:42:06 AM »
Fantastic.  :)
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Re: War of the Rings project in plastic
« Reply #10 on: September 15, 2012, 11:52:21 AM »
Very nice! This is how I vision the LotR universe too, European dark ages. Very inspiring.

Are you building your orcs too, in a similar way, or would you use the GW ones?
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Offline P_Clapham

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Re: War of the Rings project in plastic
« Reply #11 on: September 15, 2012, 08:20:04 PM »
Very cool!  I'm using some non-GW figures for my War of the Ring armies as well.   :)
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Offline Conrad Hawkwood

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Re: War of the Rings project in plastic
« Reply #12 on: September 16, 2012, 08:16:30 AM »
I chop up all sorts of stuff for orcs, no GW, staying right away from GW..don't much  like them at all..

Offline max

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Re: War of the Rings project in plastic
« Reply #13 on: September 16, 2012, 08:52:03 AM »
Nice builds, i was considering using the conquest normans myself. Would like to see what the orcs look like.

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Re: War of the Rings project in plastic
« Reply #14 on: September 16, 2012, 08:57:34 AM »
Very cool!  I'm using some non-GW figures for my War of the Ring armies as well.   :)
I am using all non GW myself..

 

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