The Dogs - Spring Clean Challenge 2026
Basing the enemy - Oldhammer Gondor and Rohan
Any army is in need of a foe and I have been slowly converting my Warhammer fantasy armies over to Midgard. The biggest is a Lord of the Rings inspired Gondor and Rohan army which uses many of the older officially licensed miniatures. In 1985-86 Citadel briefly held the license and after an interlude at Grenadier Miniatures it was held by Harlequin Miniatures from 1995 until GW took it to develop the range to accompany the films in 2000.
Whilst the Citadel range are only available on eBay the former Harlequin range are still available from Scotia Grendel.
I worked through a Midgard list for them and they come out at around 500 points so plenty large enough to take on The Dogs. I had already bought the movement trays so it was only the basing that was needed. Here is what we started with:
As you can see in addition to the LotR miniatures I have the Bretonians from the 5th Edition Warhammer starter box which I did in a LotR style livery, half of the archers as as Gondorians and the others as Dol Amroth or other fiefdom troops. The knights formed two units of heavy cavalry. I didn’t like the helmet crests so those went and I found a knight errant standard bearer to act as a leader.
I wanted my heavy cavalry as shock troops which is why they are based in the wedge/arrow formation.
The only other non-LotR miniatures are a few Citadel D&D rangers in amongst the Rangers of Ithilien, a Citadel Giant Eagle, Mithril Theoden on Shadowfax and a set of 8 Carnage barbarians with sword and shield. Well done if you were able to identify that last unit. They are pretty rare but also date to the same late 1990s period as the Harlequin minis.
For the basing I was pleased with the Krautcover Meadows of Purity with one minor proviso, it is quite stony. Therefore, for this force I decided to add some extra grass flock to help make the Krautcover mix go a bit further. I’m hoping it doesn’t make much difference to the colour or finish compared to the Dogs units that have the neat product on them. I bought Krautcover 4mm spring grass and mixed one whole pot with a whole pot of Meadows of Purity. When flocked the army looked like this:
And close up they look like this:
