Erestar wrote:
Wulox wrote:
I started painting some in the gold and blue scheme but didnt really like it, so now I'm going to have to strip them haha.
Will set up a WIP log in the next few days!
Even with the gold and blue, it's very hard to get 'just right'. Many people, myself included, would follow guides and end up with something far too bright. I eventually settled on a darkened gold with blues greys and browns.
I've changed recently to silver instead of gold, but again not 'too' bright. Just the edges of the plates/layers. Using the markings on the Knights helmets to apply similar highlight patterns to the foot soldiers.
Looking forward to seeing your WIP.
This is true. LOTR miniatures range is not exactly the ideal range to paint bright colors, that's more for fantasy range I would say.
I'm also starting to paint a Rivendell army I have been collecting for a very long time.
I had the same issue and I decided to go standard and use the classic blue / gold scheme.
There are some reasons I decied this, specially some consistency when including 2nd age elfs like Gil Galad, which is a beast in the battelfield. That being said, I will paint my Rivendell knights in the movie colour scheme, just to represent the more 'elite of elites' style. This is something I also noticed in 'Third age total war' which is a mod for a very well known PC strategy game.
Check some of my painting tests:
As you can see second one is looking better because it's a little bit darker ( well this is a personal opinion but I think it's true )
Blue is pretty simple to paint, caledor sky mixed with black then do the highlights mixing grey.
I would suggest to mix some green ( warboss green for example ) to the golds and some silver on the same mix.
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