The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.

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Over the past month I have leaned in on the home part of Home of the Horse Lords. My paint progress is almost non-existent. But the building progress? Now we are talking!

Assembly Line

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I’ve now built seven of the Games Workshop Rohan Houses and it remains a spectacular kit. But there is one downside, the kit is almost too good, with the details so sharp, the molds so crisp, that it makes these Renedra Outbuildings that I am using to supplement start to stand out (in a bad way) by comparison. I suppose that’s a true First World Problem – these Rohan Houses are so good, they make other terrain look bland by comparison. Using the seven Rohan house kits I have, I built a variety of buildings:

• Standard House
• Burnt out House with additional roof timbers (White Dwarf Inspiration)
• Two-story Blacksmith (Chaos Bunker Inspiration)
• Stable using two combined houses (White Dwarf Inspiration)
• Standard House with extended side door

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I cut some foam bases for three of the houses to provide more variety and height. I kept the stone pattern simple, just basic rectangles, but I did add some additional detailing by using a ball of tinfoil to breakup the flat foam look and try to get a more natural stone. Additionally, I’ve placed an order at GCmini for some custom MDF bases for the buildings. I already had a some to use with the Renedra kits but I need bigger ones for the Rohan Houses. GCmini is my go-to for anything laser-cut (along with heaps of other hobby supplies and minis). Allen and the team do fantastic work and I trust him to make sense of these umm, ‘blueprints’ that I sent his way for my custom order.

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I am thrilled with the progress on these houses. Building a table like this has been on my hobby To-Dos for a long, long time. After slowly but surely gathering components over the years, I finally have everything I need to make this table a reality. Really the one item I still need is – the table itself. After moving to Detroit, I’ve got a great home office / hobby zone and I have enough space to setup a table for games. I’m looking at something like the Alpha Table by Firmer Terra or another folding solution for a game table. If anyone has any ideas, let me know!

Paint Splatter

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The Rohan painting progress is once again nonexistent. My hobby time has been spent building terrain and working on an unrelated project – The Warhammer Underworlds Warband Challenge (more on that in a future post). If you consider priming as painting, then I did accomplish a bit. Immediately following my terrain build, I managed to prime all five of the Rohan houses and both the Renedra buildings. However, I’m the first to admit it’s a bit of a stretch to considering rattle can priming ‘painting progress’. The next step with all of these is to get a grey basecoat on them and then the painting can truly begin.

The Goal

With all the buildings built and primed, I’m feeling good. The terrain is taking longer than I anticipated but it’s just so much fun to work on. I may be more excited for this table than the army itself…

I do need to figure out something for tree and rock formations. I saw some great Battlefield in a Box options for rock formations, or I might build my own. But that’s for another day.

No adjustments to the goal this month. Plan remains:

• Fully painted Defense of Helm’s Deep Legendary Legion.
  • Add additional Rohan Models as I go.
• Fully painted Rohan themed table.
  • Rohan Houses are built and primed.
• Stretch Goal – Expand this MESBG force into an army for use with Oathmark.

Progress Report

The Lord of the Rings Progress

Book	Chapter	Overall
The Two Towers	Book III – Ch. VI – Treebeard	40%

Until next time, Forth Eorlingas!