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you know what would make me happy master caster if you remember our emails from years ago ....

well, it was "great", to receive mithril newsletter today entitled : "Easterling shaman defeated Gildor Inglorion." 

This could not be more true

yes this one with all its content maybe we could discuss this in mp or mail?

Well about other things... I'd like to offer drinks all around for my patrons here... I made my suggestion for june month always the same, submitted already three times before "King Elessar leading the last charge at the black gate"... I don't want to bribe any of you but I really think it could be a great addition as such figurines are not common in the whole mithril range (be it Aragorn or any other leaders)
I invite you the read the description on the official board if you like it, please vote for it... Mounted months are so rare...

Having an Elessar in regal gear , like the M260 Theoden charging on horse would be unique... well M260 so far is unique too, as far as I remember

well strangely, my m260 (without the sprue) never flinched in 20 years... I am always astonished at how stable this figurine was !

when I said unique I meant about the pose...

King Elesar will get my vote for June.....

Huuom, rhômhuom .... isn't it pointless to discuss about matters which are not facts yet?  ... rhuoommm ... hasty people you are, meseems .... hommm !!! ... have you ever considered that I might suggest a non-canonical mounted tree ??? ... huom?
alas, I'm sure you know what I mean ... rhuom ... bowl's empty, Master Barliman, would you please ...

Very robust, I'd imagine. Perhaps a horse-chestnut?

Quite the opposite. I never take you seriouslly at all!

The tree has spoken!

... I hope Master innkeeper will create on delicious meal for two of us Master hobbit... cheers... !

huoommmmm .... in the ent I did not suggest that mounted tree, just not to scare you imagining that... rhûom ... that one, of course would have been slightly a bit non-canonical, as we all know ... huom ... so I didn't dare ... rhuóm ...
err, what about them dusty-trodden-unclean and flat furs just behind the threshold of the front door ... huom? ... I'll take them with me now as they're bit smelly and worn though some parts of them still sting ... hooommmgromrhuôm ...

Do you really think, that the pose of a mounted Wainrider is more simple as the post of a hero sitting on a
horse (as we have 37 of them!) named Aragorn in this case ??????????
Are you that kind of desperate for winning your entry, Master Gildor??????

What is the problem with that Wainrider-suggestion?

well I'll try to illustrate what I mean (not easy to find pics on the net)

wainriders (as the name indicates) are chariot riders, not horsemen, they don't ride on back of horse they "drive" horses from a chariot behind horse, like the Scythians or Hamaxobioi in Greece

this means it is not a horsmen that would depict a wainrider but a chariot driver (like in Ben Hur)

Some Variags also used chariots, inspired by their eastern neighbours 'wainriders', here is an illustration :




a wainrider that would be a simple horseman would be called........... An Easterling     Wainriders belong to the "easterling ethnic group", their particularity is in their culture , they "ride chariot", that's why they are called this way, not because of their geographical origin... "The Wainriders were a people, or confederacy, of Men from the East. They journeyed in great wagons, and their chieftains rode chariots in battle. They camped in fortified camps of wagons" (LOTR Appendix A)


Sculpting something like this would be GREAT, but it would require a vignette or a boxed set... it is not in the scale of a simple horseman. I deeply encourage our dear master Ent, if this suggestion win, to convince and be 'firm' in email exchanges with Chris that it HAS to be a chariot rider and not a horseman, no matter the increase in cost (I am willing to pay €60 for such a figure but I'd really be annoyed to have 'yet another simple anonymous oriental horseman' )

oh well, with those new 3D printing technology i don't think it would cost that much actually (it could a single horse chariot with a single rider
Still it would be in the range of a vignette, 60-70€... but why not ? it's been seen in the past that "dual months" transformed into wonderful vignettes, see Beregond & Pippin against Olog-Hai, it's a good example...

and as i see that Aragorn is now taking the direction to loose.... I took the freedom to copy my earlier post on the official board as I really think people should be aware or vote knowingly, and also for Michael and Chris to consider the outcome of a winning wainrider...

It would not be the first time alas that we are disapointed about the final aspect of a great winning suggestion