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

Anduril Blade of Kings · **Posted:** Wed Sep 30, 2009 3:05 pm

Longbottom Leaf wrote:

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I'm looking forward to working with Hirst Arts Blocks when I make Fornost... Woops, you guys weren't supposed to know about that project yet. Wink

FORNOST?

. That's gonna be cool! If you own BFME2, I find it's a great inspiration for terrain projects.

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I will certainly try to post a picture with a mini on it, Adrian's guess as to the scale was correct, which should give you some idea of the scale.

So it's about 7" tall? Or did I miscalculate?

Keep up the good work.

gaarew · **Posted:** Wed Sep 30, 2009 3:10 pm

Longbottom Leaf wrote:

It seems that I'm out of balsa wood, so I won't begin work on any more mine workings for a little while.

Take a little trip to MacDonalds, and whilst you are there, avail yourself to a generous handful of coffee stirrers.

I have a box full of them that I plan on (someday) turning into Isengard mine workings.

King Elessar the Uniter · **Posted:** Wed Sep 30, 2009 7:17 pm

gaarew wrote:

Take a little trip to MacDonalds, and whilst you are there, avail yourself to a generous handful of coffee stirrers.

Great minds think alike! :wink:

Gondor's Finest · **Posted:** Thu Oct 01, 2009 6:40 am

maybe its just me being hyper critical, but how exactly were the dwarves supposed to real in the chain?

I guess it was used as goblin fire wood :-D

Might want to add some weathering seeing as this structure has been inside a hole in the ground for literally ages

still, all in all a terrific piece. you should be proud

Longbottom Leaf · **Posted:** Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:11 pm

Sorry for it taking so long guys, but I finnaly have a pic with models for scale comparison.

Nurin · **Posted:** Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:13 pm

Master hobbit, for having such hairy feet and being rather short, you make great pieces of dwarven structure!

Nice to finally see the size with some models, it's great! =)

Hallpers · **Posted:** Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:18 pm

Finally! Looking great Josh. Love the chain.

Longbottom Leaf · **Posted:** Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:20 pm

Hallpers wrote:

Finally! Looking great Josh.

Thank you, Olle.

Sorry it took so long, but better late then never right? :wink:

Gorgoroth · **Posted:** Sat Oct 03, 2009 10:08 pm

Really great work Josh! :-D

it's finished at last

Corsair · **Posted:** Sat Oct 03, 2009 11:05 pm

Josh wrote:

Now, let us put this in the past, and move onto discussing the mine working again.

Its always me me me with you isn't it. :lol:

Gaarew wrote:

Take a little trip to MacDonalds, and whilst you are there, avail yourself to a generous handful of coffee stirrers.

Seen em and pinched em - will use them eventually...

great little things, besides i am sure they make enough money not to worry for the missing stirrers...

I will use some on a maintanance tower like you have done josh, really good.

The scale is very large for those weeny dwarves imo - but thats a matter of opinion.

Just one small note of critisism, the metal paint you have drybrushed the rivets with has overlapped onto the wood. (look at the top of the left hand pole)

cheers

James

King Elessar the Uniter · **Posted:** Sun Oct 04, 2009 2:10 pm

Yeah, I agree with James - it does look a bit big, especially those ladders, but if you're going to build some more it won't harm to have some bigger than others.

lorderkenbrand · **Posted:** Sun Oct 04, 2009 11:08 pm

Good to see a scale pic, well done mate! Looking forward to seeing the start of the Fornost project

Longbottom Leaf · **Posted:** Mon Oct 05, 2009 3:33 am

Do you guys really think the scale is too big? It's actually qute a bit smaller then GW's, I was worried it was too small! :wink:

lorderkenbrand wrote:

Looking forward to seeing the start of the Fornost project

It will still be a long while, perhaps not until early next year, so don't get too excited. :wink:

Thanks again for the comments guys.

Gorgoroth · **Posted:** Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:07 am

Longbottom Leaf wrote:

Do you guys really think the scale is too big? It's actually qute a bit smaller then GW's, I was worried it was too small!

No, I think that it's just the right size, you don't want the mine working to be too small, because the Dwarves would need it to be big :roll:

Ranger of Gondor · **Posted:** Mon Oct 05, 2009 12:48 pm

Absolutely lovely job on it! In my opinion, it seems a tad too big, but great nevertheless, so don't change anything

Any updates on the board?

Corsair · **Posted:** Mon Oct 05, 2009 3:58 pm

tbh Josh, with something as crude and structurally unplanned (don't take that the wrong way - i mean the nature of the tower, platforms and ladders) as the maintanance tower, i don't think the scale is of great importance - as long as you are in the right sorta area of scaling - besides, you can make the next ones smaller and bigger that the last to make it more to your liking. Mine Personally will be a tad smaller....

Cheers

James

Longbottom Leaf · **Posted:** Fri Nov 06, 2009 3:37 am

I have an update, just not on the WIP you guys were probably expecting! :wink:

I debated whether I wanted to revive my old WIP, as I am no longer collecting Dwarves and Goblins at the present, but in the end I decided I'd like to get feedback on my newest terrain piece.
Some of you may remember the mines of moria board I started awhile back, well one of the boards is now finished.This should also explain the lack of updates in my other thread, as this board has been the center of my attention of late.

Whenever I get back to collecting Moria, I'll finish up the other three boards but for now this is it.

How's it look guys? I've finished and submited an article on how to construct this, so fingers crossed that it gets accepted.

Phalnax · **Posted:** Fri Nov 06, 2009 7:38 am

Hey, great work. If I had any Gold Coins to Give you I would.

Dwarf Lord of Ered Luin · **Posted:** Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:41 am

Great work. Is the river bed dry or is the water muddy? It looks great either way but I just couldn't decide. I would personally add a few more rocks here and there to give the ground a more irregular look as it would look more natural.

Longbottom Leaf · **Posted:** Fri Nov 06, 2009 2:47 pm

Thanks for the comments guys.

@ Dwarf Lord of Ered Luin

It's meant to represent an abyss, similar to the one spanned by the Bridge of Khazad-Dum. It's simply painted black.

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