Here we have the first Eored of four that make up the great muster of the Riders of Rohan. Each Eored has a heavy and a light cavalry component. Unfortunately it is at this point that we deviate a little from the guideline army list in the rules. This is because the Copplestone range of Riders was not available when the article was written so it posits access only to generic Dark Age/Medieval stand ins rather than specialised figures.
With the colour scheme I was trying to capture a feel of the Saxon horse lords, inspired by some of the garnet (red) and gold jewelry pieces found at the Sutton Hoo burial. As I believe that JRRT may have had such people in mind when he crafted the Rohirrim. Green is prevalent as Theoden's banner was a white horse upon a field of green.
The banner itself is one of my own and was made by taking a scan of a drawing of Theoden's banner from the old "Lidless Eye" army lists for WRG 6th Edition (remember them anyone? Because they are available as a free pdf online now). This was then printed out, coloured in by hand and re-scanned back into the computer. After which it was manipulated in Photosuite, put in a word document, resized to fit the banner bearer figure and then printed out again. This was no way near as complicated as that sounds.
In order to give a slightly different tonal look to these figures they have been washed with Agrax Earthshade from Gee Dub rather than the Army Painter shade I used on Gondor.
Theoden
Royal Guard Heavy Cavalry
Royal Guard Archers
Group Shot
I will amend this post as when I get the rest of the Riders painted.
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