These fine fellows are about half of the tiny contingent of Swallows warriors I will be

owning when I am done collecting (that’ll take a while). Tolkien divided his army into houses, each led by a different noble. The noble of the Swallows is Duilin, and he’s not in this picture. He’s in another picture. In fact, this is actually half of half of the Swallows. THE THING ON THE BANNER IS AN ARROWHEAD. This half of the Swallows have black and purple, just like he says in the book, though I took liberties with them as I’m not really convinced by either the Warhammer or the GW LotR miniatures, and Tolkien just gave the colours and never mind about the details; it’s detailed enough, isn’t it? For reading, yes, it is. He was not thinking about people trying to make little realistic, historically accurate models of them, so we can’t make realistic, historically accurate models of them, so my guys are good enough. For their job. Which is shooting up everything that gets close to my lines. Which they are quite good at.

There are still some closeups from all these minis that I haven’t put up; perhaps I will put up an extra page called “Close-ups” after I finish putting up the actual pictures of the models.