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Oldman Willow · **Posted:** Fri Nov 05, 2010 3:19 pm

I like your conversions a lot. Good job :!:

How about a long shot of the hill it looks cool.

General Elessar · **Posted:** Fri Nov 05, 2010 3:29 pm

Very impressive. I wish my modelling skills were as good as yours...

HSHP · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 11:19 pm **Posts:** 19

As an infrequent poster here I almost hesitate to post, but I've just completed this army after long months toiling, and I wanted to share

Click on the pic, for the full blog post and lots more pics. Thanks!

Oldman Willow · **Posted:** Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:57 am

Cool!

Elros of Numenor · **Posted:** Wed Mar 23, 2011 7:32 am

Nice.

can we have a close-up photo of the leader on a horse please?
That army really is awesome

TheBucklandBrewer · **Posted:** Wed Mar 23, 2011 7:52 am

HSHP wrote:

As an infrequent poster here I almost hesitate to post...

stop hesitating and keep us up-to-date from now on! :rofl:

Your work is far too beautiful to miss it in here, so please, don't hesitate. All of us loves to see the progress of different projects!

I must have missed the start of your work, and now, when I look back to your first posts, I so regret I missed it! This is so brilliant! I have tons of those Minas Tirith warriors (blame BGiME issue 33 and ebay) and hate to paint them. On the other hand, I would love to paint an Arnor army, but an army of all metal models is a hell to buy for about 99% of us. Your idea and workout is top! We should need an article about converting those Gondor-warriors into Arnor-warriors! Little, simple, yet 200%-effective conversions!
Brilliant work out and "candy-to-the-eye"-diorama-set-up!

Very well done!

garmenhord · **Posted:** Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:08 am

Nice work, i agree with the others don't hesitate. Even if the work would be less good - it's great to see someone improve! And i think it's sometimes good for yourself to see where u came from.

General Elessar · **Posted:** Wed Mar 23, 2011 3:51 pm

Very impressive.

Did you enter this for the "Armies on Parade" competition?

Cyndra the Grey · **Posted:** Wed Mar 23, 2011 4:22 pm

Amazing group shot and I second the requests for an article and the close up shot if you can manage it.

Cyndra the Grey

HSHP · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 11:19 pm **Posts:** 19

Elros of Numenor wrote:

Nice.

can we have a close-up photo of the leader on a horse please?

Soitenly!

I plan to do a more in-depth article on Glorfy in the very near future.

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stop hesitating and keep us up-to-date from now on!

What I meant was, I feel like I just hit and run here, and its a bit of a disservice to the community you guys have. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to contribute what I'm doing. Y'all are so enthusiastic and friendly, and I feel like I'm carpet-bagging when I blow through :oops:

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We should need an article about converting those Gondor-warriors into Arnor-warriors!

will do

General Elessar wrote:

Did you enter this for the "Armies on Parade" competition?

I'm not sure what that is

Thanks everyone for all the positive feedback! I've resolved myself to get more properly involved with all you good folks in the future :-D

Elros of Numenor · **Posted:** Thu Mar 24, 2011 6:39 am

Thanks, he looks awesome.

Some articles would be fantastic! looking forward to it. It could be a good "call to arms" to other members to submit more articles as well.

garmenhord · **Posted:** Thu Mar 24, 2011 7:27 am

I like the painting on that horse!

kidterminal · **Posted:** Thu Mar 24, 2011 4:34 pm

You've got a really impressive set of models. The cloaks are well done, but the model conversions were so clean I didn't think you even needed to add the cloaks. The horn blower is very impressive.

Rob

theOneRider · **Posted:** Thu Mar 24, 2011 6:04 pm

VERY nice! :yay:

Your Fornost vets are loads better than the metals that GW made for Arnor. I love Wild Bill! If I ever get another sprue of Minas Tirith, I might try this myself.

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I'm starting to look at converting rangers. ... If you have any suggestions, holla!

The ranger you've shown second from the left, I swapped his spear for a sword. I think there was another one I made more characterful, but I can't remember what I did for him. :shock:

General Elessar · **Posted:** Thu Mar 24, 2011 7:53 pm

HSHP wrote:

General Elessar wrote:

Did you enter this for the "Armies on Parade" competition?

I'm not sure what that is

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/conte ... =15000005a

Meneldil · **Posted:** Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:52 pm

The nice conversions and painting and the great display base are making this an impressive looking army! Glorfindel's horse in particular looks great!
I agree you really should enter this for Armies on Parade. The whole army fits together very well.

I have done a few small ranger conversions in the past, maybe I'll post some pics later.

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Here's an example, I switched the sword and spear of these guys.

Elros of Numenor · **Posted:** Fri Mar 25, 2011 6:56 am

HSHP wrote:

And finally, I'm starting to look at converting rangers. The problem is they are such good models and so tight on their details that I'm having trouble finding ways to modify or add to them. If you have any suggestions, holla!

There used to be an article on the GW site about weathering rangers with greenstuff, like modelling rips and holes in cloaks. Also they glued very fine sand on the clothing of the model and panted it brown to look like dried mud.
Thats all I could come up with

Or Maybe you could stick some sponge and stuff on the bases of the archers to look like they're shooting from cover...

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