The Knights of Dol Amroth!

[aelfwine]

Well, the new Knights of Dol Amroth have been previewed in this month's newsletter.

www.mithril.ie/NewsletterImages/May08_newsletter.html

Interesting.

The knight on horseback charging looks fascinating. I am less enthused by the two men at arms - the battle caps are pretty interesting, but definitely something from a later era than the typical Lord of the Rings illustrations. Still, nothing a small head-swap can't fix. Though it does beggar the question - headswap with what?

Hmm, we shall see!

Oh and the newsletter features my Imrahil:
www.mithril.ie/FanPaintings/gavin_bennett/index.html

Gavin

[ddaines]

Gavin, for myself I had no preconceived ideas about how the foot soldiers of DA would be equipped so they have not come as a dissapointment - on the contrary I like the poses and the helmets are different.

I guess there are only so many designs out there, at least this helmet won't be mistaken for some other already released Gondorian soldiery.

Can't wait to see the rest of the range though.

[estel]

May 20, 2008 17:44:33 GMT aelfwine said:

Well, the new Knights of Dol Amroth have been previewed in this month's newsletter.

I am less enthused by the two men at arms - the battle caps are pretty interesting, but definitely something from a later era than the typical Lord of the Rings illustrations. Still, nothing a small head-swap can't fix. Though it does beggar the question - headswap with what?

Mae govannen mellon Gavin,

I was also a little bit surprised by the "hat"-helmets of the infantry as these are not the way Chris has described them in a Tengwar magazine, BUT after having had some look at the pics I think this is a nice variation.
(a) for infantry this helmets are a good defence against horsemen (sword-blows from top to down)
(b) interesting variation of the Karma- hlemet of Numenor as the fiefdom of D.A. is very powerful and a such should have a proud uniform of their own soldiery. The helemt itself shows a melting of the "fish-helmet" and the swan wings- so nice idea again!
(c) well I personally like the medieval look ;-)

Maybe Chris can tell us something more about this helmets.

NAMARIE
estel

[barliman]

I think the infantry figures look splendid, and have no problem with the helmets at all since, like Dave, I had no preconceived ideas of how they should look. Indeed, I think the uniqueness of their equipment adds considerably to their appeal. All of Chris's Gondorian figures have kettle-helmets of some sort, and these are just a further and entirely acceptable variation on that theme.

[ddaines]

The mounted knights have arrived today and from first glance live up to expectations, hopefully the foot soldiers will join their knights soon.

Only slight winge is that they are one piece castings as I had hoped to do some swapping of riders and horses, but that is more than made up for by the quality and is a minor point given the apparent problems with casting etc. as most of the lower body poses look fairly similar anyway.

So once again thanks Team Mithril, I'm cutting and filing already

[ddaines]

I've now had the pleasure of a closer look and these knights DO live up to expectations, even the faces peeping out from the helmets are well rendered (as we would expect).

So the long wait (for me) is now over, The Knights of Dol Amroth, a range I have always wanted to see have hit the town, these will take some beating I'm sure!

What's next I wonder?

[Theobald]

Marvellous figures indeed ... five riders in the range. They even outnumber the old 'Riders of Rohan' series. And once again: excellent sculpting !

[Michael O'Brien]

Sept 21, 2008 8:45:30 GMT Theobald said:

Marvellous figures indeed ... five riders in the range. They even outnumber the old 'Riders of Rohan' series. And once again: excellent sculpting !

There are six riders (include Prince Imrahil) and 4 men-at-arms.

[Theobald]

Sorry for that .... definitely six riders, of course

[aelfwine]

Still not ready to buy any knights yet (or much else, sorry, I suck. Normal service will resume soonish), but I can't help thinking:

Might it not be a good idea to include dismounted knights as a release? Even if its just two blisters of two knights in similarish poses.

I could convert them, but it might be nice if I didn't actually have to!

[Axe99]

The knights arrived today, and they're brilliant - I wouldn't want to be an orc waiting for that to descend upon them!

[Gildor]

the knights are really cool indeed but , not that I want to be negative... the "all-in-one" mould seem a bit "raw"... usually we had a separate part with all little accessories, not everything fixed to the same one piece to cut with long links of metal.
And also the gray primer... maybe it is only the ones I received but almost all figurines have unprimed little parts (some small parts miss primer as if there was air bubbles in the spraying, thanksfully the primer is very thin and that won't be visible once painted but well... that's the first time I see such a poor quality of primer for brand new blistered figurines since I began collecting mithril more 15 years ago Usually this kind of primer problem only happen to second-hand figurines not very well taken care of

[Theobald]

I do agree about the quality of the primer. It even doesn't stick well to the figures at some parts. The fact that not all parts are primed isn't anything new. There have been releases with all details being primed, but it's not what one can rely upon.

[Michael O'Brien]

Sept 29, 2008 9:57:42 GMT Theobald said:

I do agree about the quality of the primer. It even doesn't stick well to the figures at some parts. The fact that not all parts are primed isn't anything new. There have been releases with all details being primed, but it's not what one can rely upon.

I have brought your issues with the primer to the attention of our boss, Lars Edman.

[Gildor]

I agree Theobald, it is not the first time, but this time it is "strange", it is not an absence of primer or a too thin coverage of primer.. some parts frankly miss primers without reasons. (usually there is less primer in some difficult angles or such things, here there is missing "scraps of primer" on the base, on the faces, on armors. I can't see where the problem comes from unless it is the quality of the spray itself ?

Please, I don't want to be too critical, those knights remain really superb and Chris did a masterful job! and well I can do without a gray primer.. I was just curious.

Thank you in advance Michael if you get an answer about that

[Michael O'Brien]

Sept 30, 2008 16:17:52 GMT Gildor said:

I agree Theobald, it is not the first time, but this time it is "strange", it is not an absence of primer or a too thin coverage of primer.. some parts frankly miss primers without reasons. (usually there is less primer in some difficult angles or such things, here there is missing "scraps of primer" on the base, on the faces, on armors. I can't see where the problem comes from unless it is the quality of the spray itself ?

Please, I don't want to be too critical, those knights remain really superb and Chris did a masterful job! and well I can do without a gray primer.. I was just curious.

Thank you in advance Michael if you get an answer about that

We changed our primer recently and some problems did crop up. Our primer is added in two parts. I will see if we can sort it for next time we release minis.