I agree they look better in olive green but what about the black lines (printed coat) ?

Edited February 19, 20169 yr by OrcSan

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Edited February 19, 20169 yr by MAB

I agree they look better in olive green but what about the black lines (printed coat) ?

Depends if someone would be OK with painting things.

I've recently made two groups of Rohirrirm soldiers, they're at the bottom of this page:

http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=72967&st=25

I made custom helmets, painted arms, legs and heads (and torsos, for some), so unless you're a purist, I think that kind of customization would be best for Rohirrim. It would also be easier to apply lots of diversity to them that way.

Your figs look damn good and it's not the first time i saw them, i am not prepared to paint them thou ... I will get a knight and show a pic of him finished :)

I made this from a second hand chest (kingdoms) , changed with green hands, and equipped the guy so it will look like a rohan soldier.

What do you guys think ?

Edited March 8, 20169 yr by OrcSan

A while back I acquired a bunch of custom LOTR figures. Some of these were just printed torsos (such as the printed Gondorian Ranger torsos), the rest of which I had to build from parts. Others were fully-assembled minifigures (like the Witch-King). Here they are in their full glory...

Haradrim Archer / Haradrim Chieftain / Lorien Elf (Helm's Deep) / Gothmog

Gondorian Spearman / Gondorian Swordsman / Gondorian Ranger / Faramir

Eowyn / Rohan Royal Guard / Gamling

Arwen / Celeborn / Witch-King

Rider of Rohan / Rohirrim Standard Bearer

Obviously there are a ton of custom prints and moulds here, but things like the Rohan Royal Guard, Lorien Elf and Haradrim are easily created without the need for any non-Lego pieces. Piecing them together was great fun and I think they look pretty good for what they're meant to be. The Riders of Rohan too are a fun wee combination of parts. Fully-loaded you can have a single rider equiped with the following - quiver, sword, spear, shield, cape, sheath, helmet. I think they look great, personally!

Good luck with your customisations.

Those are some great customs! Rohan is probably the easiest and maybe most fun to pull off from existing parts and as a less organized group, they don't really need a uniform look - just general colors.

The CMF line has lots of good parts to use, as well as the last Castle line - which can be found for cheap.

Wow , i'm very impressed by your figs , especially Haradrim Archer / Haradrim Chieftain / Lorien Elf (Helm's Deep) / Gothmog and Eowyn

Were do you got that haradrim faces ? Custom figs are great too but its mindblowing when i see figs made out only from existing lego parts.

Edited March 13, 20168 yr by OrcSan

Wow , i'm very impressed by your figs , especially Haradrim Archer / Haradrim Chieftain / Lorien Elf (Helm's Deep) / Gothmog and Eowyn

Were do you got that haradrim faces ? Custom figs are great too but its mindblowing when i see figs made out only from existing lego parts.

The heads are Captain Panaka from Star Wars and the Temple Guard from Indiana Jones. I actually recommend checking out this topic since it has some great purist LOTR/Hobbit customs using only existing Lego parts:

http://www.eurobrick...howtopic=104200

Has anyone tried extracting the textures for the character models in the Lego LOTR/Hobbit games? I'd imagine they would also provide a good source for customs here.

Edited March 21, 20168 yr by wesker

Wow,loved your custom minifigs, especially tilda, Sigrid and the lake town soldiers!

Using a combination of mostly LEGO and a few third party pieces, it's also possible to MOC/modify existing characters.

The hobbits below were MOCed long before the LotR films (with a few small changes since).

Gandalf the White was created using a SW torso (I've since replaced the silver lightsabre element in his staff with a white one).

All have been yellowed including Galadriel's and Elrond's ears, and Galadriel's neckline.

Edited March 21, 20168 yr by AmperZand

Nice, especially the staff and the men of Laketown. But the older daughter should use normal legs, I think. What torso did you use for the girls?

The heads are Captain Panaka from Star Wars and the Temple Guard from Indiana Jones. I actually recommend checking out this topic since it has some great purist LOTR/Hobbit customs using only existing Lego parts:

http://www.eurobrick...howtopic=104200

Has anyone tried extracting the textures for the character models in the Lego LOTR/Hobbit games? I'd imagine they would also provide a good source for customs here.

I believe that is how the Gondorian textures on my custom figures came about.