A second Rohan Royal Guard

The second Rohan Royal Guard has joined the first.

His horse is now Theodred's, so he rides the grey.

I tried to give a little variety by making him older but unless I went in for serious amputations, there was little else I could do.

The helmet plume is different but thank goodness for the main variable - the horse.

Putting these models up on the blog has it's uses, even if only for me.

I now notice he lacks the red edging to the horse blanket and that the original one needs another coat of green on the base.

Theodred

Theodred's horse (Brego?) has turned up.

It had been borrowed by a member of the Royal Guard.

Now I have a grey for the Royal Guard, ready painted, but the guard himself needs painting.

The Theodred model is a neat one.

I did set out to give him redish hair as I thought I'd read that somewhere but followed the images I could find making his hair similar to the rest of the Riders of Rohan but with a reddish tinge.

The horse was only attached by one rear hoof and, though I liked that pose, I put the rock in as extra support (it's glued to the front hoof) as I thought he'd be too fragile in games.

The three 'reds' used are horse leatherwork - Dark Flesh, armour edging - Khorne Red, saddle blanket edging, Mechrite and Blood Red in equal measure. The horse is Rhinox Hide with additions of Mournfang Brown as a highlight and Mournfang is used for armour leatherwork and the scabbard. Theodred's armour is Dark Angels Green and Shining gold.