My Rohan Army (Update: Son of Eorl WIP)

Thao · **Joined:** Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:10 pm **Posts:** 179

Hi,

some pictures of my Theoden's Guard I finished today (took quite a while). I started painting middle of last year, so I know that I have lots of stuff to learn, but of course any critic is welcome.

My plan is a huge Rohan WOTR army. I will show more of this army here; I start now with Warriors of the Westfold, that will take a lot of time as well.

By thaomir at 2012-05-13

fritskuhntm · **Posted:** Sun Apr 15, 2012 5:43 pm

wow, that's a lot of royal guards you got there. and nicely painted too! :yay:

warhammergamingnl · **Joined:** Sat Nov 05, 2011 9:06 pm **Posts:** 215

Wow those models look really nice, I like the way you make your pictures.. idk why, but they are different ;D

garmenhord · **Posted:** Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:02 pm

looks great! :-)

Chris · **Posted:** Sun Apr 15, 2012 11:11 pm

wow what a beautiful army

CaptainOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2012 1:36 pm

Nice collection of Royal Guard. The freehand horse on Gamling's banner is outstanding too, very difficult to do that well

Erurainon the Trombonist · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2012 1:54 pm

Excellent! They look great in large numbers like that. I like the gold trim on the cloth under the saddles!

Thao · **Joined:** Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:10 pm **Posts:** 179

Thx for the comments. Yes, the freehand was not easy. I did the freehand on the frontside first, it's ok but I'm not completly happy with it (tried some corrections, but would need to do it completly new to be fully happy, too lazy for this challenge at the moment). The other one went quite fine in my opinion (both are copies of the GW banner). I will do some closeup pictures, but not before end of next week. I expect that they will show more flaws, as always when I do real closeups. But I'm quite happy with the look on the table and moreover with the completion of my first real painting project. I think I do the rohan commander (foot) now.

simmuskhan · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2012 6:01 pm

So cool ! I really like the big block of them, seems appropriately epic. I wouldn't stress about close up shots, 99% of the time you'll see them from a distance and they look great!

Thao · **Joined:** Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:10 pm **Posts:** 179

I started my rohan commander now, as the forum is called WIP, some WIP pictures, just done the face (but that's the hardest part for me).

By thaomir at 2012-04-16

Update (still far from finished):

By thaomir at 2012-04-18

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Sun Apr 22, 2012 1:11 pm

Awesome!!

Mandos ofValinor · **Joined:** Fri Apr 20, 2012 3:55 am **Posts:** 6

When it is complete, I’m sure it will be astounding :yay:

John Wayne · **Posted:** Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:22 pm

Cool mate. I want more. :yay:

warhammergamingnl · **Joined:** Sat Nov 05, 2011 9:06 pm **Posts:** 215

I can't wait for more

imrail · **Joined:** Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:24 pm **Posts:** 666

Looks amazing.
One point of critique, to bad all the horses have the same colours.

Thao · **Joined:** Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:10 pm **Posts:** 179

Well, that was fully intentional. I wanted a quite uniform look for Theoden's guard and I wanted grey horses as the only hint about rohan horses in the book points to grey.

But sure, that's a matter of taste. I will mix more with the riders of rohan, right now I have only 6 of them painted with different coulours.

imrail · **Joined:** Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:24 pm **Posts:** 666

I agree, it does look more uniform.
They look really good, but to monotone for me.
As you said it's a matter of taste.

Love you commander by the way, and the face does look good.

garmenhord · **Posted:** Wed Apr 25, 2012 2:28 pm

how about making small differences by black , white or grey spots on some horses? Don't have to be alot , few might do.

Thao · **Joined:** Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:10 pm **Posts:** 179

garmenhord wrote:

how about making small differences by black , white or grey spots on some horses? Don't have to be alot , few might do.

Good idea, but hard to do right. I may try this on a clean horse.

Update on the commander, only the base is missing:

By thaomir at 2012-05-02

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Fri May 04, 2012 7:53 am

A really great looking Rohan force. Well done!

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