{"id":779,"date":"2018-10-05T11:25:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T10:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/?p=779"},"modified":"2018-10-07T09:37:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T08:37:54","slug":"defenders-of-the-shire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2018\/10\/05\/defenders-of-the-shire\/","title":{"rendered":"Defenders of the Shire"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tony F updates us on his latest painting efforts<\/em><\/p>\n

I had a bit of a Middle-Earth break after the efforts of the Open Day game<\/a>, but I slowly eased myself back into things in September. On the shelf next to my desk is a small row of based and undercoated figures, and I find that if they stare at me long enough I end up getting having to paint them – at the front of the queue were two trios of rangers.<\/p>\n

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The first threesome are a set of D\u00fanedain, descendants of the men of N\u00famenor. Known as the Rangers of the North, they patrol the borders of the Shire and keep that peaceful land (mostly) free of the perils of the rest of Middle Earth.<\/p>\n

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The other set are members of the Grey Company, a group of D\u00fanedain led by Halbarad who accompanied Aragorn through the Paths of the Dead and went on to capture the ships of the corsairs – their arrival at Pelargir turned the tide of the Battle of Pelennor Fields. They’re distinguished by their grey cloaks fixed by star-shaped brooches.<\/p>\n

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The official Games Workshop model of Halbarad is currently out of production, so my rangers are lacking a leader. Over the years I seem to have accumulated quite a few different Aragorn figures, so I picked a spare one of those and painted him up as his father, Arathorn (there is GW figure of Arathorn but, like Halbarad, he’s been out of production for some time and goes for silly money on eBay). The ‘conversion’ consisted of painting Aragorn’s dark locks grey, but he’ll do for me unless or until GW bring their official Arathorn figure back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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