HaT Andalusians

The standard Piquet 4 base unit is nice and easy to complete for skirmishing infantry, just the 8 figures to paint. I kept to off-whites for the HaT figures but I might go back and give them a wash of colour to distinguish them a bit more from the Arab opposition they are likely to face.

As mentioned last time, these figures have their issues: toy soldier poses, flimsy spears, some wonky detail... They are however incredibly cheap and the right size and proportions to match the LOTR Rohan.

They do not have the elegant sculpting style of the Rohan miniatures, so you do get what you pay for in some respects. No faffing about with greenstuff was required for these so quick to prepare.

This army does not need a lot of light infantry. Sensible archers will be skulking behind lines of spearmen. So these will do the job.

I also took a look at some more veteran figures that might work with the Riders of Rohan sizewise:

GW Rohan (2 & 4) Hinchliffe (1 & 3) Minifigs 5

The older Hinchliffe figure (middle) and the Minifigs (right hand end) are true 25mm scale so a little shorter than the Rohan figures. The newer Hinchliffe figure (left hand end) is 28mm to top of head and quite a good match, slightly chunkier. The detail is pretty good and they might work fine stylewise too.