Lord of the Rings- Easterlings, Harad & Mordor

 The Easterlings were the first LotR figures to start the collection it is today, again purchased from various sources, mainly to fight against my pal's Rohan. As is normal with me it started with some badly painted ones from a bring and buy, which I stripped and repainted. The rest is, as they say, history.

The Harad's five Mumaks are impressive on the table

Different schemes for the Haradrim

Two units of Haradrim Raiders. £10 for both unmade boxes from a car boot sale. 

Half Troll, I have 4 of these.

An army worthy of Mordor, not quite yet. There are still more Orcsies on the workbench, which are now finished and further down post!

Grishnakh 

Last three Companies of my Mordor Orcsies, Completed in one day!

These six Morgul Knights were completed over two days.

Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship and Isengard

Lord of the Rings is known by almost everyone and not everyone like Peter Jackson's take on it. "The Hobbit was said to be a disaster by Tolkien fans, Well I have enjoyed reading it, and watching all six film. I have enjoyed The Rings of Power so far too. I enjoyed them because they are "ripping yarns"! Would Tolkien turn in his grave, probably not, He would be loving the fact that his books are being enjoyed still, and the movies just add to the mystique of Middle Earth. 

Here is my adventure into Middle Earth and I will say that not one of the figures on this post were purchased by me, at a GW Store. I have built these armies from Bring and Buys, Jumble Sales, Car Boot sales, Facebook contacts and Ebay. 

I will start appropriately with the Fellowship, all plastic set, donated by a good friend.

Gandalf the White on Shadowfax

 

 Isengard is Rising 

Saruman and Wormtongue

Isengard will be proud! 232 Figures. I started these and finished these in 7 days! A few were part painted, but I repainted them all!

 

Shagrat, Gorbat, Gothmog and a Shaman

Warg Riders

Siege Balista 

Lurtz and Friends

Next armies will be Kingdoms of Gondor & Rohan

Repairing (not pre-paring) Rohan for war

 My Rohan army like all my Lord of the Rings project was a slow grow, not the painting, the building of the force. I had collected from Car boots, Jumble sales, Bring and Buys, I had been given a few! 

The one thing they had in common was, "battle worn", these had seen many tabletop battles and the very large majority were broken, missing parts, bases etc. Why would a "renowned" game producer have a horse that mounts to a base by only one leg, is beyond me. Anyway this was why I managed to get these as cheap as I did I suppose.

Now I had my 80 or so figures, it was time to sort and repair, then paint. Super glue, plastic glue and hot glue gun at the ready, I was on a mission.

I repaired them in batches of ten, which allowed the glue to go off as some /most needed multiple repairsto both riders, broken weapons and the horses. 

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I would recommend gluing all the LotR Cavalry like this to reinforce the horses feet. 

I even managed to get full sprues which helped

Here are some of the repaired, converted and finished Rohan.