I am intrigued by the idea of fielding some Dunlending warriors beside my Urak hai, but I am NOT happy with the price of the pewter miniatures. I do not play in tournament so I do not care if they are "legal"
Sadly the Wild men int he films looked to me like a cross between the "What's in your wallet" guys, some weekend Live Action Role Players, and refugees from a biker bar. They also dressed all in black, as did all races of orcs, and the Gondorians. The stat lines for the warriors had them as armored and they can use shields, two handed weapons and bows (But no spears)
A month or so ago I got a single sprue of Wargames Factory 28 mm Vikings. I promptly began to steal the weapons to convert Rohanians since they are perfect sized. I built a couple of the Vikings and painted them just for fun. They are a good match for the LOTR figures, a little bulkier (And I know the wild men were supposed to be smaller according to some sets but these guys to me look the part)
They are described in the books as wearing capes. After building the first few I tried a fur cape out of Pro create (Which I much prefer for making fur and hair to green or brown stuff/Kneadatite)
I will take a picture of one with an LOTR figure for scale once I get the first test model painted.
I used weapons from GWs plastic sprues and a few have heads taken from the Flagellant sprue as well as the "hair head" sprue. I have sculpted longer hair on the Wargames Factory vikings as they are very well groomed for "wild men"!
the last shot is three basic warriors. I already primed 5 of them so I cannot show those until the paint jobs are done
