Aelfwine's Fiefdoms vs Fallen Realms force (s)

aelfwine · **Joined:** Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:23 am **Posts:** 508

The light's really weird inside. It's too sunny outside to take good pictures, so we're sort of pushing our luck.

(Dol Amroth knights, note the Gondor horses)

Since spring I've been building a fiefdoms army. The basic components are centred on a formation of Dol Amroth knights. They are supported by a formation of Knights of Pelargir, archers from the Morthond Vale, infantry from Belfalas, a small group of Rohan federates and some Rangers of Gondor. At the end, I envisage a pretty large and diverse army, possibly backed up by Axemen of Lossarnach and men of Lamedon. All of the Eastern "fiefdoms" are represented.*

The Dol Amroth captain

It's sort of slow going. There's been a bunch of conversion work required, as well as some ebaying. Luckily most of the figures can be taken from the painting backlog, but the Lossarnach and Lamedon guys will still need buying sometime in the dim and distant future (ie, not now!).

The latest additions are these guys:

Knights of Pelargir.

This involved some odd and difficult choices and work. To get enough horses for the Knights of Dol Amroth, I ebayed. A lot of what I received were damaged. Some of these are actually Rohan horses...with head swaps. Some of them have blurred details. Maybe in a year's time I'll try and get more horses and replace the more problematic ones.

The Captain and Standard Bearer are Aragorn King of Gondor miniatures with head and arm swaps, and repainting.

I'll upload more tomorrow or the next day.

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Tue Aug 16, 2011 12:08 am

Brilliant!!

Oldman Willow · **Posted:** Tue Aug 16, 2011 3:50 am

Nice units!

Erunion · **Posted:** Tue Aug 16, 2011 4:51 am

Very nice conversions, and your units look good assembled on the table!

garmenhord · **Posted:** Tue Aug 16, 2011 12:36 pm

nicely painted and good work on those bases - very good work.

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Tue Aug 16, 2011 1:04 pm

I love what you've done with the Knight of Pelargir, especially the Elessar conversions. The painting is great too, especially the vibrant blues on the SKoDA. Nice job.

Songfist · **Posted:** Tue Aug 16, 2011 1:27 pm

The paint job on the horses looks fantastic! I like that you swapped horses. Would have really liked to see what Weta would have done in designing the Swan Knights and would thier horses have the big "blankets" on them.

aelfwine · **Joined:** Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:23 am **Posts:** 508

Thanks all.

I ran out of Gondor horses towards the end, and I haven't seen any horses on their own on ebay in a long time, so I ended up using two of the plastic "SKODA" horses for the Pelargir guys. They sort of fit with the barding displayed by the two converted Ellesar figures.

Took some pictures during a game the other night, but it was late and the flash made everything look a bit Devlan Mud. I'll put some of those pictures up in a bit, but like I say, everything looks bad.

Later, if the lighting is good, I'll start some shots of the Blackroot archers, Ithilien Rangers and the Men of Belfalas.

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Tue Aug 16, 2011 8:47 pm

aelfwine wrote:

Later, if the lighting is good, I'll start some shots of the Blackroot archers, Ithilien Rangers and the Men of Belfalas.

And if the quality of them is anywhere near the quality of what we've seen so far, I shall look forward to seeing them. Particularly the Blackroot Archers as I've yet to see some of those painted up (besides the GW Website ones).

theavenger001 · **Posted:** Tue Aug 16, 2011 9:19 pm

aelfwine wrote:

Later, if the lighting is good, I'll start some shots of the Blackroot archers, Ithilien Rangers and the Men of Belfalas.

I look forward to these. And good job, the conversions look great.

aelfwine · **Joined:** Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:23 am **Posts:** 508

Here's a shot from the battle: Imrahil and the Swan Knights prepare to charge various enemies

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Wed Aug 17, 2011 12:15 am

I'd love to see some close ups and some WIP photos of these awesome looking pieces.

aelfwine · **Joined:** Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:23 am **Posts:** 508

The Pelargir Knights charge into death and glory, but mostly death:

aelfwine · **Joined:** Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:23 am **Posts:** 508

The Nazgul and Easterlings march to war and eventual victory. Also, some Orcs:

aelfwine · **Joined:** Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:23 am **Posts:** 508

Across the way, the Men of Belfalas finally advance into battle and likely obliteration.

aelfwine · **Joined:** Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:23 am **Posts:** 508

Valhalla! Where the valorous dead watch proceedings!

The missus made the sign

aelfwine · **Joined:** Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:23 am **Posts:** 508

And Sir/Madam Not-Appearing-in-This-Army:

Eowyn of the Golden Hall!

and

Painted her in the last 24 hours, taking a lot of time with her skin and dress, so I'm pretty pleased how she turned out.

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Wed Aug 17, 2011 7:10 am

Really nice job with the Eowyn, also that's a great mini might I add.

Nice to see some battle pictures too!

king elessar 2615 · **Posted:** Wed Aug 17, 2011 5:30 pm

all of your minatures are brilliantly painted good job

aelfwine · **Joined:** Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:23 am **Posts:** 508

Thanks - its why I take so long on the damn things. And even then I stare at them going: grrr, look at that flaw there, and that smudge and that shading which didn't shade!

After the Gondor Fiefdoms vs Fallen Realms project is complete, I am going to splash out and buy new brushes and some of those how to paint DVDs Dark Sword Miniatures sell, Really make the miniatures sing.

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