More on that later.
For now, look! Men of Rohan!
Not an especially exciting start to the new year, but I'm still taking part in Arbitor Ian's Tale of Four Hobbits and these are more of my pseudo Men of the West list that currently includes Aragorn. Legolas and these five.
Mind you, that does make over 400 points out of 500 because Aragorn the King is a beefy boy.
I've gone with Men of Rohan as that's what I had lying around after my second hand purchases several years ago. I still have a few more archers from those lots as there always seemed to be more archers than were necessary...or allowed, with a 33% limit.
I've stuck with the same rather uninspiring colour palette I originally used simply to make these models fit in with the rest.
One of the reasons these models were likely out was due to damage. Both of these two required a bit of fixing up to deal with a bent sword and a broken spear.
Unfortunately, was not able to do anything about the somewhat static poses and large flat areas where the spear meets the cloak.
I have, however, done something about the lack of a banner in my Rohirrim with this very simple conversion: a hand swap, a metal spear and a Wood Elf pennant did the trick.
I have had a go at free-handing a sun motif on the banner. It's not amazing, but it's not awful either. I'm never fond of free-handing, but this is fine.
Anyway, onto the other issue.
I mentioned before Christmas that I wanted to do a recount of my unpainted miniatures as I was sure that over the last couple of years, there have almost certainly been accounting errors and I wanted to see how realistic my running total of 240 actually is.
And so I got everything out. All of it. We'll apart from some Carnevale miniatures I was undercoating and some Dropzone Commander models I forgot about, but almost all of it.
It turns out my numbers were wrong.
Quite a bit wrong.
My current total is, minus the Rohirrim I've painted, 756.
There are several reasons for this disparity:
1) I've included boardgames like Star Saga, which contains 71 minis, that I had intended to sell but have recently changed my mind about.
2) I actually counted things in my bits box which I didn't last time, and I think I've been deducting painted models from bits box from the overall total.
3) When I received the motherload from Will, there are things that were up for sale that aren't now.
4) I've counted things like Flames of War tank crew that aren't getting used unless I buy more tanks...which I won't.
5) I clearly can't count.
Despite the shock this has induced, I have actually been able to tidy things up and get a better handle on what I have. I already have plans for how to use models, and I've tacitly decided to part company with a fair chunk of it.
Let's see how we get on.
Acquired: 0
Painted: 5
Lead Mountain: 756...good grief!
Oh dear Kieron! There is always more than you think but well done facing the problem head on 😁 I was going to do a recount as well but now I think I will put it off for another year.
ReplyDeleteThe new Men of Rohan look the business and the shields certainly add colour.