Dol Amroth have charged in
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Well a box of goodies arrived today in the form of the Mounted Knights and at first glance mighty fine they look, but tap them together and you can tell that they are cast in a different metal (as Michael mentioned).
As I said, I’ve not had a chance to have a proper look yet, my only main critisism is that horse and rider are all one piece castings which has slightly thrown my intentions out of the window, but to be honest is not a major problem I hope as I think that most of the lower bodies are fairly similar in pose.
I suppose I shall now have a couple of hours of fun replacing the reins and see how many times I can cut the tips of my fingers
Hopefully I will add the foot soldiers soon.
Well a box of goodies arrived today in the form of the Mounted Knights and at first glance mighty fine they look, but tap them together and you can tell that they are cast in a different metal (as Michael mentioned).
As I said, I’ve not had a chance to have a proper look yet, my only main critisism is that horse and rider are all one piece castings which has slightly thrown my intentions out of the window, but to be honest is not a major problem I hope as I think that most of the lower bodies are fairly similar in pose.
I suppose I shall now have a couple of hours of fun replacing the reins and see how many times I can cut the tips of my fingers
Hopefully I will add the foot soldiers soon.
Oooh, excellent.
They are all in one casts? Pity. I had plans for those boys.
Oh well, back to Plan A.
I dunno if that is more economical. And to be honest it doesn’t matter much to me. I’m just glad to have them in my hands after such a long time of waiting. I think it really is a very good set of regular M-figures.
As for those butchers of Mithrils (sorry, I mean those of you who think of converting figures) I think it’s best to chop up those riders at their waists
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But that could imply a lot of skilled work, meseems.Theobald wrote:I dunno if that is more economical. And to be honest it doesn’t matter much to me. I’m just glad to have them in my hands after such a long time of waiting. I think it really is a very good set of regular M-figures.
As for those butchers of Mithrils (sorry, I mean those of you who think of converting figures) I think it’s best to chop up those riders at their waists .
But that could imply a lot of skilled work, meseems.‘Tis indeed but a technicality Master Theobald because there isn’t much difference to the detail below the waist in all honesty.
I think, (and hope) that by changing the arms about that variations will be easily be achieved, and with the odd beheading and swappping of heads, many variants will be possible.
The important thing is, as stated is that they [The Knights of Dol Amroth] are here at last, and this is one release that I have wished for above all others – the image that springs to mind is that from the film of Waterloo where the ill-fated charge of the Scot’s Greys is captured in slow motion (more like the non-existant scene from the film of Faramirs’ charge), albeit with a different outcome. The one piece casting while inconvenient is not by any means a major draw back.
I do not think that painting will be a problem as they are wearing their surcoat thingy (or whatever it is called) and there doesn’t appear to be too many hard to reach areas that would cause major problems.
Even with arms attached you should still be ok – I’ll let you know as I’ve glued them on.
The biggest pain for me was removing all of the cast on reins which I have never liked, but at least my dremmell tool has only scraped the skin off one thumb 😡
Still that’s all done, now I’ve just got to sand the horses necks down and then I can crack on with the painting
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