Men of Rohan-Designing HELMS DEEP-foot warriors

Hello I am back with the Mega-Tolkien project,

 I was not so fast as I wanted and still not VERY big advances, but at least I can show you a little unit of foot Rohan warriors (the original Title I wanted for the post was "Riders of rohan" but it was a little absurd, still without horses -Just for a short while :)...) and starting with fortress structures... I am totally new with scenery so lets see.. there is a good bunch of info in the web for developing this new hobby area...

First a little foot Rohan warriors  unit which I want to use for an  Helms Deep scenario ((they will go along with some archers, totally 4 units, and maybe also in bigger battle of Pellenor, together with horse comrades)..  But still many figures to paint, and the total definition of the fortress ...

At least you can find here King Theoden of Rohan in first line of the fight :)

In a few days also a mounted unit will be ready.

Can you recognise the origin of all figures? There is a mix of periods from several manufacturers

For the first structures, first of all I got a very hard density black foam in my Workplace.. It is really useful!! And my last and great discovery: Some medieval Cardboard 3d kits form russian company CLEVER PAPER wich are surprisingly match to 1/72, very beautiful and detailed and are very easy and fast to mount, strong enough to be trnapsrted and stored, and even suitable for children over  5y old  -.-
http://cleverpaper.org/product-category/medieval/

Along you will find my children playing  a little with the first sample I bought; a gate wich can maybe used as Hornbug main gate,,,

10,90 eur at local shop in spain...Not super-cheap but a very good, resistent, time saving and funny  product in my opnion ..

now I am trying to find more items cheaper direct by manufacturer, If only I could russian!..

Hope you enjoy:

EORLINGS, BE READY TO FIGHT!!!!

Here the Paper Gate just after mounted, tested with some dIverse figures...

Here the Sceavus Sons making also a "resistance test" 

 "Serious test" with the hard black foam  starting to be shaped into a real Wall Segment,  and Rohirrim on the defenses,,,

Night arrives ..

King thedoen Watching from the Gate Tower

 Soem defenders.. still too few! When is Aragorn coming????

Seriously starting with Epic LORD OF THE RINGS

After I finished with He-Man, i can focus again in The Lord of The rings ideas  in order to produce enough figures to represent the bigger battles from the books and films (mostly Battle of Helms Deep and Pellenor Fields but probably also elves and dwarves for Battle of The Five srmies..)


i have not a clear plan (I know i want rohirrim, Gondor, main characters, mumakil and Harad troops s well as many orcs and uruk hai) and I will go slow, but i will try not to stop..




Here my first bunch of un-finisdhed Rohan warriors (foot and horse), more to come ....


I used many common figures from several sets which are medieval-dark age-fantasy-bearded-barbarian-or-viking-with long capes-round shields- but also many which are unknown, you know where are they from?
colurs scheme metal-green-brown works quite good and it is simple and allows to miz fine all these figs from different origins


By the way, some of them are also bad moulded copies by myself at home to increase the horse archer numbers :)

Im afraid i will be dispersed again with other projects in the middle (like Game of Thrones which is allways appealing me) see my Lannister knights commanded by one "enlarged" Jaime Lannister (original Caesar figure is nice but looked too small for the character. Now he is more present as strong carachter, look the duel vs Robert Stark..)