Rohan Conversions

Eored of Elfhelm · **Posted:** Tue Jan 18, 2011 3:08 pm

Having collected Rohan for the last few years, thought it about time I posted some work that I have been doing.

There are certain key characters either missing, or not upto my interpretation from the books, in the current deployment from GW so thought instead of waiting I would try and do some conversions. These are very much work in progress as the painting needs touching up and details such as hair and face reworking but at least it would give you an idea of what I am trying to do. Any suggestions etc are always helpful and often much needed!

Firstly ...

Royal Standard Bearer
Converted using banner from mounted Gamling. Next is to work on a mounted Royal Guard horn blower.

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Elfhelm
If you collect or game Rohan then this guy is pretty much needed. I would be very surprised if he is ever released by GW so decided to convert using Erkenbrands body, Gamling's arms and the Rohan commanders head. Alot of paint work needed on the face and hair on this one still.

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Grimbold
Whilst its good that GW did release him, I was looking forward to something more like a captain rather than someone going out to chop some wood for the fire. I decided to add a sword and shield to him. The difficult bit will now be trying to do a mounted version of this.

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Thats if for now. I will add more images to my gallery of the conversions. Comments always welcome.

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Tue Jan 18, 2011 3:43 pm

Nice conversions. I'm not a fan of Elfhelm but the banner bearer and Grimbold look great. In fact I like that Grimbold more than the GW version, might pinch that idea for my Gondor forces Rohan allies

Cyndra the Grey · **Posted:** Tue Jan 18, 2011 5:58 pm

I love that Grimbold conversion, he looks much better than the woodchuck/lumberjack GW one. The RG banner is very well done as well.
As RC said im not a fan of Elfhelm, but some different angled pics might change my opinion.

Cyndra the Grey

{aD}??? · **Joined:** Thu Dec 30, 2010 3:17 am **Posts:** 202

Nice mini's unlike the rest I like elfhelm. Grimbold looks cool and the banner is nice too.

samoht · **Posted:** Wed Jan 19, 2011 3:17 am

I like your Grimbold.
I also don't like his original woodchoppers axe.

Good job!

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Wed Jan 19, 2011 6:48 am

I can see how you're trying to make Elfhelm look but to me the head looks quite wierd. As Cyndra said, perhaps it's just the picture and a differently angled picture will show it better.

valpas · **Posted:** Wed Jan 19, 2011 7:10 am

I like the standard bearer a lot! I remember spending a lot of time carving Gamling's head away from the banner when I did my Rohan hero conversions. That's quite an effort!

-- Pasi

Eored of Elfhelm · **Posted:** Wed Jan 19, 2011 8:51 am

Thanks for the comments.

Understand the Elfhelm comments and will put some other pics up soon. Perhaps I have used the wrong head in using the Commanders one but I wanted to have a conversion that tried to look like Elfhelm from the Film and not be a conversion with a gamling or hama head stuck on it.

Have posted a couple more pics of Grimbold but still need to finish work on his head and helmet.

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Not a conversion but wanted to post Erkenbrand as this is by far the best Rohan figure GW have done.

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spuds4ever · **Posted:** Wed Jan 19, 2011 1:24 pm

V nice

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Wed Jan 19, 2011 3:23 pm

Erkenbrand looks good, well done. I agree it's definitely the nicest of the Rohan minis (although I really like the newest mounted Eomer aswell).

garmenhord · **Posted:** Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:34 pm

looks good

nice

Eored of Elfhelm · **Posted:** Thu Jan 20, 2011 8:52 am

A couple more pics as promised of Elfhelm. As mentioned his face needs more work to him but the other angles should give you a better perspective.

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Also have added Theodred. Great sculpt from GW but always found it strange that he did not have a helmet. If you read between the lines regarding Isen it is obvious that the Rohirrim with Theodred where at war and so he would be armed with helmet and probably shield but in two minds whether to add shield or not.

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{aD}??? · **Joined:** Thu Dec 30, 2010 3:17 am **Posts:** 202

It's better to see elfhelm clearer. Also theodreds helmet makes him look a bit like eomer but still cool

TheBucklandBrewer · **Posted:** Thu Jan 20, 2011 11:21 am

Very nice!
Elfhelm looks a lot better now from the different angle. Very nice job!

Good point about Theodred. Should be a bit foolish to send out the king's son into a fight without wearing a helmet. And... GW didn't do a great job on Theodred's head anyway! Well done!

Just one more thing... Any chance you could take pics of the conversions / sculpts before they are painted? Sometimes it's a bit hard to see what exactly is done to convert.
If Pasi (Valpas) didn't tell about the banner and Gamling's head, I wouldn't have guessed how much work it must have been.
Great job! Keep 'em coming!

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Thu Jan 20, 2011 3:50 pm

Elfhelm looks a lot better from that angle, and good job on the Theodred conversion.

Cyndra the Grey · **Posted:** Thu Jan 20, 2011 4:40 pm

I'm starting to like Elfhelm now. Theodred looks good as well

, never liked his face anyway.

Cyndra the Grey

{aD}??? · **Joined:** Thu Dec 30, 2010 3:17 am **Posts:** 202

Cyndra- Yes definitely his face looks like Sylvester Stallone in rocky. :-D

Eored of Elfhelm · **Posted:** Fri Jan 21, 2011 8:38 am

Glad people are warming to Elfhelm.

Here's Theoden & Eomer. Shield needs reworking.

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Gamling & Hama

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One Gamling and a Royal Guard converted to RG Captains (white plume denotes captains!!)

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