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 Post subject: Re: GD's WIP, beginning of a collection
PostPosted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 4:23 am 
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Great work. Love the orc - nice and gritty looking. How are u painting the metal? Maybe you are putting too much shade on? The warrior of MT seems a bit too black on the metal parts.

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 Post subject: Re: GD's WIP, beginning of a collection
PostPosted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 4:26 am 
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Black undercoat then drybrushed with boltgun metal, chainmail then washed with badab black and finally drybrushed again with mirthril. It doesn't quite look right any tips?

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 6:06 am 
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I'm no expert, but I would paint over the black undercoat with your metal paint rather than drybrush (ie give it a metal basecoat). I think by drybrushing over the black then putting a black wash on top of that is giving it too much black. I would do say a boltgun metal undercoat then maybe a black wash for shade then mithril for highlights. The highlights could be drybrushed on.

I used to do a black undercoat for everything. Now I do white for almost everything. I like the results using white much better. I think the colours over the white are much truer. If you want things to be dark just give them extra washes.

Hope that helps.

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I agree with edge67 re painting metals. Try giving the armour a coat of boltgun metal then drybrushing with chainmail before you do your ink, the Boltgun basecoat will give a better contrast to the overall appearence of your model.

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 7:44 am 
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Thanks for the metal tips I've been using that method and got much better results :) I've also nearly finished my first figure with a white undercoat. Really excited to put some pics up once I'm done cos it's a bit of a cool idea for a character and I'm happy with the paint job

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 10:10 am 
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Here it is all done, I like the Agandaur character from the lord of the rings war of the north video game. I didn't want to tackle a big conversion so I just chose a black numenorean that looked as close to him as possible and painted it to look like him. :)

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Nice work! Might have to try something similar for my own, the armour looks to have improved significantly from earlier works! :)

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That looks great!!! :)

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Nice idea. You should paint some more highlight on the red.
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Thanks guys appreciate it :) Bastion I don't think the photos do the robes any justice especially the one from the back, in real life all of the robes look like the bottom of the first pic so I'm reluctant to change it at this stage but maybe down the track when I get more confidence I'll add a bit of bleached bone to my blood red for just the edges :)

I've scrapped doing the rohan figs for now and have started fellowship Boromir just 30 minutes ago, I'm satisfied with the face I've used a different method instead of tallarn flesh>ogryn wash> elf flesh for highlights I've gone with a dark flesh basecoat and gradually built it up with thin mixes of tallarn flesh + elf flesh, elf flesh itself and elf flesh + skull white,hopefully the rest will be done this week.

After that is a mordor troll which I've had to do a fair bit of modelling on. I started painting it in 2004 when I had no idea about green stuff and pinning. Nearly finished all that and will be ready to take on after Boromir.... scary!!

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Hey guys, I've got into the bad habit of starting models while working on others :shock: heres some wip pics of Boromir and my mordor troll

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Still along way to go! But once I've finished I'll be tackling 8 of Haldirs elves and Haldir himself

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 Post subject: Re: GD's WIP Boromir/Mordor troll 16/02
PostPosted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 9:46 am 
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Nice work - I love the troll 8)

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:36 am 
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Nice paints, but that Boromir's eyes look like a psychopath. You should paint a little bit bigger iris. Go, check some photos about the actor.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:49 am 
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Bastion.HUN wrote:
Nice paints, but that Boromir's eyes look like a psychopath. You should paint a little bit bigger iris. Go, check some photos about the actor.


He does too haha! Just noticed it :) Hmmm so a bigger eye and do it brown instead?

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:27 am 
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Green_Dragon wrote:
Bastion.HUN wrote:
Nice paints, but that Boromir's eyes look like a psychopath. You should paint a little bit bigger iris. Go, check some photos about the actor.


He does too haha! Just noticed it :) Hmmm so a bigger eye and do it brown instead?


Lol! He does look like a psychopath.
Good job on the troll! I like the skin.
But the toes.. are they ready?
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imrail wrote:
Green_Dragon wrote:
Bastion.HUN wrote:
Nice paints, but that Boromir's eyes look like a psychopath. You should paint a little bit bigger iris. Go, check some photos about the actor.


He does too haha! Just noticed it :) Hmmm so a bigger eye and do it brown instead?


Lol! He does look like a psychopath.
Good job on the troll! I like the skin.
But the toes.. are they ready?


Thankyou :) the toes aren't done yet. I'm just working on the leather parts and strappings at the moment... I'm so slow :( I've not yet pained toes before something like scorched brown then bestial then bleached bone is what I'm thinking but I'm not sure

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I realy like the troll :)

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Love the troll mate, the face is really done well and has a lot of character! :) Especially love the purple mouth, looks great. KIU

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 Post subject: Re: GD's WIP Boromir/Mordor troll 16/02
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the meatallics on the troll is really nice, good job :)

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the meatallics on the troll are really nice, good job :)

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