Here they are at last! Pictures of the rest of the Fallen Realms release due out in October/November!

Black Guard Commanders:



Black Guard of Barad-dur:



Easterling Commanders:



Haradrim Commanders:



Kardush the Firecaller:



The Golden King (I was right about this guy!! )



Abrakhan Guard (Direct Only blisters)



Discuss!

I love the black Guard and the Easterlings but i'm not that keen on haradrim. Is that a Dragon knight?

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The Golden King (I was right about this guy!! Very Happy Razz )

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Dragon Knight is the chap with two scimitars, War Priest is the one with the spear/staff.

OK, now for my two cents:

Personally, I confess myself disappointed...

For many of them, I want to take any number of weapons and commit bodily harm to whomever Games Workshop hired as their conceptual artists. It seems as if little to no thought went into the design of these models. Weapons look ghastly, and the shields on those Uruk-hai are ludicrously large and clumsy looking!

The Abrakhan Guard look like the typical American slob I see on a day to day basis, unable to even lift a sword and use it, and the ones holding the Goden King look like they'll tear a hole in their vast bloated mass as they attempt to draw their swords from their belts!

The Golden King looks boring and unadorned...I would've expected him to have more...gold. He looks more like the slave owner and former gladiator Proximo from Gladiator than a King.

The scuptors obviously have no understanding as to how fire works either, because if they did, the flames would be moving towards Kardush's outstretched hand, instead of away from it.

The Haradrim look boring, the Easterlings look like some weird neogothic McDonold's crew people with their garish colour scheme...they might look better with decent ad subtle paintjobs...

Overall I'm disappointed...at least the Space Wolves look cool...these just look lame. Thumbs down from Fenrir

I'd agree with the dissapointment there Fenrir. Nowhere near as good as I was hoping/expecting. The Haradrim Commanders and the Abrakhan Guard I consider the only miniatures here I actually like.

Kardush the Firecaller looks crap, the fire is incredibly cheesy, hopefully he'll look better without it.

The Easterling Commanders are ok I suppose.

The Tower Guard however are a 100% complete dissapointment.

The Golden King is okay but I wouldn't pay much for it.

Boohoo GW, sort your act out.

I really dis like all the Haradrim and as a Evil men player i was really hoping for better modlas.
Kardush looks ok but he would have looked way better without the fire ball.
The Easterlings i quite like so i have no realy compate there only that the SBG have Dragon Knights as warriors and i don't want to buy 6 odd banner can war priests to get them.
I must confest i like the Black Guard. They are very diffrent(Diffrent being the key word) and i love the unusal. I'm happy with them but the rest are a dispointment.

I will be pre-ordering the 2 nazgul (As i want all 9 of the War Wratihs) and maybe the Easterlings but thats about it.

These all look horrible.

Black Guard: What's up with the shields? If they had crossbows, at least they could be justified as Pavaise shields, but as it stands, they're waaay too big to be useful for a close combat warrior. That said, if they were given Numenorean, WoMT, or SKoDA shields they'd work well as Black Numenoreans (apart from the banner bearer and drummer who look deformed).

Don't like the Dragon Knight - the coat just looks out of place. The Priest looks ok to me and the banner bearer will fit in well with the current Easterlings (especially if a different design is used on the banner), but I still dislike them due to disagreeing with the film's interpretation of them.

The Haradrim look wierdly misproportioned, although perhaps they'll look better with a different colour scheme (e.g. does the slave have a yellow shirt on, or is that bare skin on his arms? O.o )

Kardush looks horrible and would be more at home in a D&D setting than Middle-earth. If the fire was removed and a different paintscheme used he could be salvagable as an ordinary orc shaman :/

The King doesn't look that bad, although I agree with Fen that considering his name he could do with a richer looking appearence (that said, he could easily work as a normal king). As for the guys carrying him and the Abrakhan Guard....
WTF?
What was the concept artist on when he designed these? O.o

I'm glad the concept artist behind SotDL has some good ideas and decent skill Games Workshop is just slacking

You could always try to hire Felix Paniagua of Avatars of War or Ergman of Madpuppet Miniatures for the SotDL sculpts depending on if they do commisions and prices. They're both fantastic sculptors and great people.