Wednesday, 19 March 2025

From TeemuL: Elven Heroes (25 points)

My last entry for AHPC XV are these metal High Elf heroes from Games Workshop's LotR range.


There's Elladan and Elrohil (or vice versa), Erestor and then two different sculpts of Glorfindel. All painted with blue cloaks, golden armour with bluish mithril chainmail and green pieces of clothes to mark their nobility - my high elf infantry are coloured in similar way, but they don't have any greens.


They are bit rushed here and there, but on the other hand I'm very happy with some of the details or colours, the cloaks look quite like what I intended for example. The golden armour too, especially the helmets. They are all heroes, but they all from the same force, so limited palette was chosen. It might be easier to game with these if Elladan and Elrohir would have different colours for example, but not me!

Erestor and armoured Glorfindel are very similar, clearly sculpted at the same time, I assume. The newer Glorfindel is a different thing, very heroic and massive cloak compared to the other two. The cloaks of the brothers are similar to this one, probably from the same era. Although there are newer sculpts of the brothers, so I might be mistaken.

I believe 25 points is correct for 5 minis. Now I go to sleep and wake up tomorrow morning about an hour before the Challenge ends. I hope Curt and other minions can handle the barrage of remaining hours! 

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Lovely work Teemu. I really like saturated blues and greens you've used for these figures - it gives them a very regal air. As time passing from the release of the first LotR movies I am constantly astonished at the number and variety of models GW has created describing Tolkien's character, with some having many different models depicting them at different times in their lives. It's amazing. 

Teemu, thank you for your participation, your faithful and kind comments to others and your minioning of the Thursday crew. It's all very much appreciated by myself and others. I look forward to seeing you with us for the next edition of the Challenge.

- Curt

8 comments:

  1. Thank you, Curt! GW has made quite a lot for LotR range, some characters several times for different points in timeline, but basic troops are a bit neglected at points.
    It has been good to be around, waiting for the December. ;)

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  2. A worthy finish to your Challenge, Teemu! I always love to see Middle-earth figures, and these look great. Love the blue and green.

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    1. Thanks Martijn! Especially the older minis are great, nice sculpts but still rather simple. Blue and green combination looks nice, I've been using it for a long time.

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  3. Some great figures for your last entry, Teemu.

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    1. Thanks! Bit rushed, but so simple to paint that it didn't matter much.

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  4. Nice work! I'm tempted to get into First Age Middle-earth elves.

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