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 Post subject: Middle Earth painting advantures
PostPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 1:17 pm 
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Hello everyone!

During the last 12 months I have been working on some Middle Earth miniatures. I have just discovered this forum, so I wanted to share some of my work with you :)

Rivendell swordsmen
- The model that was painted in last fall, and is still my number one! I have done some experiments on him, but still he is the best mini I've painted so far.

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Arwen
- She was my test model and I was quite surprised that this painjob only took 4 hours.

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Comments and Critiques are welcome :)
Soon, more pictures :gandalf:

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 5:21 pm 
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The cloak detail is superb. Blood detail is always fun :)

Looking forward to more!

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 7:32 pm 
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Great painting going on there. :)

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It's always fun to see models in non-traditional colours. These are both very well done.

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Good painted elves there. Keep that drive to keep on improving!
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Thank you for the lovely comments!

@draked Yes the blood is a cool detail, except it should have been black :)

@GreatKhanArtist In most cases I tend to paint in a bit alternative color scheme. We have all seen models painted in a certain scheme a million times. Add a little variation and it is your own creation :)

@Feanorthenoldor Thanks for the lovely wishes!

@Stewhr I hope so :D

Anyway, here is a group of lovely old metal Galadhrim warriors. They went on a little trip across the ocean, as their new proud owner lives in Canada :)

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More to come!

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Excellent paint job on those Galadhrim elves, very impressive....

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Looking good!

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Very nice reddish tones for the cloaks.
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@ja33 @Stewhr @Feanorthenoldor thank you all!

You probably get it that I love elves and not to make this an elf-only painting topic, here is my first serious try of painting black on a model.

Basicly careful mixing of paints and adding a few extra layers of blends gets the job done. Also, mixing bone color instead of white into black got me a good result.

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The robes look really nice on the wraith! I think it is hard to judge how much you should highlight black but what you've done here looks perfect. The basing is also nice and I like the idea of a wraith in snow :) The one area you might be able to touch up a bit further if you want is the sword. I can't tell if the sword is NMM or TMM but it looks like it could use a bit more contrast/highlights to make it stand out as much as the robes do. Excellent work all around and I'm looking forward to more updates!

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@Kuribo Thanks for the comment! Will make sure to add more depth on the sword.

But, more High Elves...

This is the unit I used to make an experiment with bow strings. I used the fine sawing thread.

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Hope you like it.

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The elves look great and I think the extra effort of bowstrings really paid off as they look more realistic with it. Great job, Resurrection! :)

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Some really nice painting all around. Though I can’t help thinking that the wraith is practicing some balancing karate move like the karate kid. But maybe that’s just an affect of the snow on the base. :)

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What a nice and fresh colour scheme for the elves!

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Really nice colour theme with the cold colours. I like the highlights on the "skirts". It truely looks like shiny silk. Not quite sure what I think about the thread though. The thread does look a little too thick. What kind of thread is it? In any case, it is an admirable effort! Better than stringless bows, for sure.
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@Kuribo Thank you once again, I was going for a more realistic look with the strings
@Stewhe Thanks for the comment :) In the photos he looks like a karate kid I have to admitt it.
@Rognarr Thanks, as I said in one of the previous comments, I like painting things 'the unusual way' >D
@Alhvar Thanks, means a lot to get good critiques. THe thread used on the strings is a regular sawing thread. I will try thinner thread next time.

Anyway, time for the new model

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This is a Barrow wight that I have been using in my games as the King of the Dead. He was one of the quickest character level models I have painted (as part of the test 'How quickly can I paint a model'). The base is courtesy of my wife <3

Until next time, take care :)

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Quickest? You must be very effective at painting. :O

The base is like having a golden cherry on top. I think this is one of the better representations of gas I have ever seen. I think the colours on the model work very well too. The armour looks great. The only room for improvement I could see at all would be that the highlights on the 'dress' could have been a little more smooth. But then again, if you speed painted this the results are truely amazing.
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I'm really enjoying that base which is saying a lot as I don't usually like that kind of thing. That armor looks really great and old, perfectly tarnished. I agree with Alhvar that the cloak could use some smoother highlights, but honestly harsh highlights like that can kinda work. Almost makes it look like it's glowing in a way. It's definitely super impressive for a speed painted model though.

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@Alhvar Thank you for all those kind words. The highlights on the cloak are a bit harsher for the speed of it (I was opting to go under an hour for this model, and ended spending like 75 minutes). With the base, my wife got a little crazy with it and wanted to make it look more cartoonish, but it ended up exceeding my expectations.

@Wayfarer Also big thanks for the comment. Basically what I said above, plus the armor was just a serious of washes and drybrushes so ended up looking like that in less than 15 minutes.

Thanks for the support guys and I will be posting more picks as soon as finish something else :)

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