Longbottom Leaf's WIP: Arvedui and Malbeth 5/22/10

gaarew · **Posted:** Sat Aug 15, 2009 5:59 pm

Natarn wrote:

But then you'd need purple skin too!

Er, maybe brown/ black/ grey hair?

Nah, the Oompa-Loompa's had orange skin. You are thinking of the ones from Futurama, the Elves from the Evil Santa one...

Longbottom Leaf · **Posted:** Sat Aug 15, 2009 9:44 pm

Thanks for the comments, everyone.

gaarew wrote:

I'd suggest green hair and white trousers

You want me to paint my Dwarves in your likeness, John?

Natarn wrote:

Er, maybe brown/ black/ grey hair?

That was the general idea.

Gorgoroth · **Posted:** Sun Aug 16, 2009 4:24 am

I like the Dwarves! I suggest though, that you should wash the Gold Armour with Badab Black, then it will look more realistic

Longbottom Leaf · **Posted:** Sun Aug 16, 2009 9:42 pm

Hey everyone, I have another update for you.

I finished the helmets on the Khazad Guard, so here you are,

As you can see, I chose to paint part of the helmets red, this is to make the color a little more noticeable throughout the force. Comments and critiscm welcome.

Gorgoroth · **Posted:** Mon Aug 17, 2009 2:34 am

Nice job Josh!, I like the look of the Red Cloth, but maybe you should highlight them a bit more.

Haldir_Strikes · **Posted:** Mon Aug 17, 2009 2:35 am

I'd add a highlight to the Gold parts mate. An equal parts mix of Mithril Silver and Shining gold will do the trick methinks.

Ranger of Gondor · **Posted:** Mon Aug 17, 2009 3:27 am

They're looking mightly lovely so far Josh, keep it up!

Longbottom Leaf · **Posted:** Mon Aug 17, 2009 3:47 am

Thanks for the comments, everyone.

Gorgoroth wrote:

Nice job Josh!, I like the look of the Red Cloth, but maybe you should highlight them a bit more.

At the moment it has two highlights, though they're fairly hard to see since the cloth is a fairly small area of the model. If you guys think I should, I could add another highlight easily enough.

Haldir_Strikes wrote:

I'd add a highlight to the Gold parts mate. An equal parts mix of Mithril Silver and Shining gold will do the trick methinks.

At the moment, my scheme for the armor is to start with Dwarf Bronze, highligh with an even mix of Dwarf Bronze and Shining Gold, wash with Gryphonne Sepia, and lastly highlight with pure Shining Gold. As I said before, shouldn't be to hard to add another highlight, if you guys think its best.

Ranger of Gondor wrote:

They're looking mightly lovely so far Josh, keep it up!

Thanks, Julian.

Hallpers · **Posted:** Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:06 am

Looking good. I do agree with John; if you highlight the armour once more it will look even nicer.

Longbottom Leaf · **Posted:** Mon Aug 17, 2009 3:30 pm

Hallpers wrote:

Looking good. I do agree with John; if you highlight the armour once more it will look even nicer.

Thanks, Olle.

I'll be sure to add the extra highlight today.

Longbottom Leaf · **Posted:** Tue Aug 18, 2009 5:51 pm

I have a small update today. I followed your suggestions of further highlights on the golden armor, and the red cloth. I'm fairly pleased with the results. I also began work on the silver armor, though I'm not very pleased with that particular area. So, here you are folks,

Corsair · **Posted:** Tue Aug 18, 2009 5:58 pm

Love the gold, has a nice effect on the mini, contrasts well with the silver, perhaps a badab black wash over the chainmail. Just a thought. Keep it up.

Hallpers · **Posted:** Tue Aug 18, 2009 6:02 pm

Much better now.

However, the axes and silver armour seems too thick; try thinning your paints more.

Longbottom Leaf · **Posted:** Tue Aug 18, 2009 6:09 pm

Thanks everyone.

Hallpers wrote:

Much better now.

However, the axes and silver armour seems too thick; try thinning your paints more.

Good eye Olle, your right. It's not the silver that's the problem though, the black undercoat was far to heavy, and that's what messed up that area.

Longbottom Leaf · **Posted:** Tue Aug 18, 2009 9:01 pm

Hmmm, it seems I’ve hit a wall with my Dwarves, folks. You see, I was in a reflective mood today (Never a good sign with me :wink:

), and I began thinking how much I dislike painting with the color red. Frankly, I find it a difficult color to paint with and am not pleased with the results I’m achieving with it. So, the long and short of it is I’m thinking of changing my color scheme. Do you guys think I should?

I’ve begun to contemplate a blue color scheme. I’ve had good results with it in the past, and it looks great on Dwarves (As shown by Bart’s lovely Dwarves). Of course, changing would have its negatives, I’d have to erase all my work up to this point (3 whole models :oops:

).

So, what are your guy’s opinions on this? I’m certainly leaning towards blue myself.

Josh

Joansean · **Joined:** Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:23 pm **Posts:** 760

Keep red for the Khazad-Guards, to keep them elite. use blue for the rest of the force.

Cool painting, keep it up.

Gorgoroth · **Posted:** Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:28 pm

Great painting! although I agree with Olle the Gold would look much better if it was applied thinner

Hallpers · **Posted:** Wed Aug 19, 2009 7:27 am

I think blue would be better, since it gives some contrast to the golden armour.

Gorgoroth · **Posted:** Wed Aug 19, 2009 7:40 am

Hallpers wrote:

I think blue would be better, since it gives some contrast to the golden armour.

Or light blue :roll:

Dalamyr · **Joined:** Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:30 am **Posts:** 4

those look nice! Looking forward to seeing this done!

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