Gondor Cavalry WIP

   Although we are in Christmas period and the first photo may look like a Christmas tree, it is not! I had two boxes of Minas Tirith knights plus some other mounted miniatures of Gondor in my "treasure chest". Now, during the winter vacations it is an opportunity to get them ready for action! The plan is to have at the end eleven knights of Minas Tirith, a banner bearer, a captain, a horn blower and Aragorn of the black gate.

Gondor cavalry

The first five knights

and the rest six on a ruler

and not on a banana boat!

 

   Unfortunately, one right hand had a problem. It was shorter than normal, it didn't have the upper part of the plate mail. Must be a problem of the cast.

   I used the upper part of the right hand of a Warrior of MT. I have some spare parts, the remaining of the Cirion's boys! 

and here is the result!

   First trial to make the captain was not successful. I tried to put the torso of a warrior of MT to the lower part of a Rohirrim. The result was not good, he was completely unproportional. The body and the head didn't match at all. The sword was too big as well!

Discarded

Discarded

   Next trial was to change the head and the right hand. He is more or less OK now! I had to give him a new role though. From now on, he is the horn blower of the force!

New, bigger head and right hand

   I used a Rohirrim as a base for the Captain miniature. I attached the head of the previous, discarded, Warrior of MT to the new Captain's body. I removed the arrows from his quiver and added a sword. Since his sword is in his back scabbard I gave him a war axe. And of course a Minas Tirith shield.  

The new Captain

   Finally, I gave to the twelfth knight of MT the Boromir's flag. I prefer both mounted Boromir and Boromir on foot miniatures with swords!   

The banner bearer

   Close to Sevilla there is the town of Alcalá de Guadaíra. It has a very nice Castillo! 

Castillo de Alcalá de Guadaíra

   That's it for today! Stay tuned for more!  

The Knight of Umbar

   The Knight of Umbar was one of the great Numenorean kings who ruled the Southlands. The miniature of Knight of Umbar is very nice and has very powerful special rules in SBG!

   Recently, I visited the National Museum of Azulejos (tiles) in Lisbon. It is a very interesting museum with a huge collection of tiles since the 16th century.

Archangel-Lieutenant with the Arms of Portugal

Male welcoming figure (1770)

   That's it for today! Stay tuned for more!

Keep

   The Keep is ready. Enjoy!

   First, I painted all the walls, interior and exterior, of the Keep Black grey.

   Then I highlighted them with Neutral grey.

   And finally with Light grey.

   After that, I painted the "wooden" parts Cork brown and the metallic parts Gunmetal metal. 

The Keep

The Keep with its defenders

The Keep from above

The front side from the left

and from the right.

The back side

"Hold!"

   That's it for today! Stay tuned for more!

Keep WIP

   "Since I have the towers, why not try to build something bigger?" I thought. So, here it is, the Keep as a work in progress. The basic material is a box of my youngest daughter's shoes. This, together with a couple of statues from "Ruins of Osgiliath" set, a spare door from a previous tower and a pair of strange earrings!

The Keep WIP

The shoe box with foam to support its "walls"

"Open" the door

The spare parts

The superstructure is ready

I covered all the walls with plaster

I used balsa wood for the roof

and the earrings for lanterns 

The lantern

The Keep from above

The door and the Osgiliath statues

   As I see it now, I think the door is wrong. I have to place the hinges of the door from the other side of the wall to hide them from the enemies!

   In the meantime, I visited the nice city Porto of Portugal. Below you can see its cathedral and the churchyard sight-seeings. Enjoy!

  

 Equestrian statue of Vímara Peres

Sé do Porto - Porto Cathedral

Sé do Porto 

The Pelourinho on the churchyard

Torre Medieval do Porto

   That's it for today! Stay tuned for more!

Poppies

   A Poppy Lanyard, a "Poppy 1915 - 2015" and a Royal British Legion Poppy.

   The remembrance poppy has been used since 1921 to commemorate military personnel who died in war, inspired by the WWI poem "In Flanders Fields".