This is essentially a “State of the Army” post, showing off all of the completed elements of my Gondor Army at present, which I’ve been properly working on over the last two or so years, with a bigger focus during the last 6 months and the painting challenge that I keep harping on about. Models that aren’t yet completed are missing from the photos, so things like the Cavalry units that are part-painted will have to wait for an update down the line. While I don’t intend to buy any more Gondor models, with the possible exception of any new heroes that GW might release or the odd figure to “clean up” and finalise a more difficult unit (Men at Arms of Dol Amroth, Warriors of Arnor etc) I’ve got all of the models for this army in my possession. I just need to paint them!
The army is nominally set up as a Kings of War force, but obviously can be used in LotR SBG, or with a few tweaks in War of the Ring (those bloody bases!) We’ve even used a small number of them in SAGA. Most Minas Tirith/Gondor models generally aren’t very exciting at all as individuals, even with a decent amount of work put into them, but they do have a nice effect ranked up en masse.
I’m not up for a lot of typing right now, so I think I’ll go with more of a “show, don’t tell” for the rest of this post.
They look great mate – bravo. You can’t beat the effect of massed ranks of infantry imo – nothing else has that impact in this hobby. I think it’s the time and energy that it represents that does it for me!
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Thanks Alex. Now if I can force myself to finish the dozen cavalry I have half-done here, it’ll be almost as big an achievement. God I hate painting cavalry!
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Oh wow mate. What an impressive sight. Well done.
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Thanks mate. I’ll have the undead to show shortly as well!
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Excellent. Always enjoy your posts
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Wow that army looks gorgeous well done on completing and painting all that force mate
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Thanks mate – now to get it onto the table in a single battle!
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