Theodred, Prince of Rohan charges onto the battlefield alongside last weekend’s Middle-Earth releases! In this post we’ll be taking a look at the new model, and building and painting him up to see what he looks like in the flesh!

Massive thanks to Games Workshop for sending us over Theodred to check out on the site! If you would like to support the site then why not order your Lord of the Rings goodies through our affiliate Element Games and save yourself some money too?

We’ve also filmed a full unboxing of the new kit, which you can see just below or over on YouTube!

So without further ado let’s saddle up and check out the new Theodred model!

Theodred Prince of Rohan Unboxing and Review

It’s fair to say that Rohan has had a lot of love over the last year of Middle-Earth releases. From the War of the Rohirrim box last Christmas, to this weekend’s Rohan themed releases (Which we’ll be checking out as soon as we get our hands on them) a lot of the model range has been covered (except for the much wanted update of the Riders of Rohan plastic kit – hopefully one that we’ll see in the future)

One unexpected addition to the latest pre orders however is Theodred, Prince of Rohan. Keen eyed players will have already spotted this model a while ago in the pages of the Armies books, but he is finally joining the tabletop now in Forge World resin.

If you’ve not built a resin kit before there are a couple of things you need to make sure you do such as clean all the parts in soapy water – this will make sure all the release agent is removed, which can make it difficult to build and paint your model. You also might notice that the weapons curl over time – to fix this just heat them up with hot water or a hairdryer and hold into place – this will set them in their new position, just try and keep them out of direct sunlight as you can find they will start to curl again – but it is easily fixable.

Another thing to keep in mind with this kit is that is doesn’t actually come with any instructions. This isn’t a massive issue as the kit is pretty easy to put together, but it might not be the best choice for someone new to the hobby. There’s not a great deal of pieces, and it’s fairly straight forward – especially if you use the photos on the Games Workshop site for reference.

Like with most Middle-Earth models you actually get a mounted and on foot version in the blister, and both were really fun to paint up – Theodred actually had a lot of content cut from the LOTR movies, but there’s enough reference shots available to try and paint him up to match. His armour, as expected, is very similar to Theoden and there’s two different textures of chainmail that have been painted up to match the two tone design in the costume – which is a nice touch.

Being fully resin, he looks so much better compared to some of the older kits which used a plastic horse and a metal body, here he sits on the horse much more naturally, and the horse is mid galop with only one foot touching the ground.

I had great fun working on him and already have a craving to add to my existing Rohan army…

Theodred is up for pre order now and is released on Saturday 4th October

Games Workshop provided Sprues & Brews a free copy for review purposes.

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