Who better to look to in my hour of need than the elite of Rohan, defenders of Helm's Deep and heroes of the Pelennor Fields, the Royal Guard of King Theoden.
Now, before we get carried away, I haven't painted all of the models in the picture above in the space of 24 hours.
Long term readers of the blog (both of you) with remember that Theoden, Gamling and a couple of Royal Guard have previously featured in posts and battle reports (I like to use Royal Guard as Captains of Rohan).
I have, however, painted three of them in 24 hours, which I feel is pretty good going.
All three models were bought as a gift a few years ago and have been staring at me accusingly since then.
Despite the somewhat samey pose, these models, like their sword-armed compatriots, have poseable arms, offering a degree of individuality which I think work better with spears than swords.
They found their way onto my desk when I was undercoating the Dwarfs in the previous post. I was going for a silver base to speed things up as the Dwarfs had a lot of armour on show.
This is something that was arguably more true about the Royal Guards, and so I got them done at the same time.
Once dry, I hit the whole model with a wash of Nuln Oil.
I then proceeded to match a paint scheme from several years ago, which is made easier by the fact that I have a blog detailing the process I use, I never change the paints I use and I'm quite lazy in my approach.
Flesh, beards, leather, wood, green cloaks, red shirts and gold details were picked out and then hit with a wash of Agrax Earthshade and the plumes were done with Black Templar contrast paint.
Job done.
Admittedly, three of them doesn't stem the tide of new purchases, but it's a start.
Acquired: -44
Painted: 449
Lead Mountain: 350
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