Starting With the Infantry
Because I have more of them. So destroying some as I work out what I'm doing will be less of a problem for me. I have collected several dozen of the foot version of GW's Riders of Rohan. All second hand and in various states of disrepair. If you buy them new they are on sprues of 12 figures, 4 with bows and 8 with spears and swords.
These are one-piece figures with just a shield that needs adding. For my first unit of foot I chose mainly spear wielding poses or ones that could be converted. The spears are frequent casualties in the used miniatures I have collected, so I was replacing most of them anyway. I have not decided on integral archers with my foot regiments as yet but a rank of archers is an easy add later.
Dull coloured cloaks and miscellaneous equipment suits my vision of part-time Theme regiments so these were finished in a variety of colours and with most of the body armour painted as padded body armour.
I found some suitable decals for the crosses on the shields and a sheet of LBMS banners which I scanned to create the cross part of the typical "tailed" standard. The (slightly wonky) cross on the top of the standard was made from beads superglued together. Most of the weapons were trimmed off and replaced with steel spears.
Apart from weapon and shield swaps, the only piece of conversion I did on these figures was to trim back the luxuriant Rohirrm hairstyles and modelled instead the neck guard commonly shown on the byzantine soldiers of this period. Some of these were painted as fabric and others as mail.
Reasonably happy with these. The plastic is easy to cut and shave when making changes to the figures. The infantry are the junior part of the army however so the acid test will be how this works with the cavalry figures.
