Hot on the heels of a rare human victory.... just what the forces of Sauron needed..... Some reinforcements. :-(
These GW Easterlings were a Christmas gift which finally made their way to the top of the painting queue. Not the best photo's but coming to a battlefield soon........
The box set gives me two units for the table top, in a change to my usual style I undercoated in gold to try in speed up the process.
Frustratingly unlike other plastic sets from the likes of Perry and Warlord that come with multiple weapon options these contained a fixed set of 4 pike, 8 sword and 8 bow - An excuse to buy another box just to make a unit of 8 pike --- hhhmmmm.
An 8 man archer unit, within our Infamy variant these would better quality than some of their Orc counterparts these are drilled warriors with medium armour. A new challenge for the men of Gondor and Rohan.
Hmmm, I could never quite buy into the Easterlings, being a bit of a Rohan fan to be honest. Fine paint work there though Stu:).
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean, a little bit out of character for the rest of the factions, but I fear that comment might open up a whole can of worms :-)
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Stu
Those look cool. Nice job. I hate when manufacturers short you on weapons like you describe! It's just such a cheap out.
ReplyDeleteWhen you have that time of wallet power you can do want you want and people will still buy, I think they are the only purchases I have only purchased.
DeleteCheers Stu
GW is just a money making machine, that I do not ‘buy’ into.
ReplyDeleteGood job they were a gift....
DeleteAnonymous above stole my thunder re GW, but that said, you have done a nice job on the figures, Stu!
ReplyDeleteVery true.... what a strange market place we are involved in ;-)
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