Anduril Blade of Kings' Non-LOTR thread

King Elessar the Uniter · **Posted:** Wed Dec 02, 2009 7:13 pm

Very nice work!

The skin is excellent and I love the warpaint! Great idea! :yay:

Anduril Blade of Kings · **Posted:** Wed Dec 02, 2009 7:22 pm

King Elessar the Uniter wrote:

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The skin is excellent and I love the warpaint! Great idea!

I actually stole the idea. :oops:

Here http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?catId=cat180004&categoryId=400034&section=&aId=10400002

King Elessar the Uniter · **Posted:** Wed Dec 02, 2009 8:10 pm

Anduril Blade of Kings wrote:

King Elessar the Uniter wrote:

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The skin is excellent and I love the warpaint! Great idea!

I actually stole the idea. :oops:

Here http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?catId=cat180004&categoryId=400034&section=&aId=10400002

No harm in that, especially when it looks that good! :wink:

Anduril Blade of Kings · **Posted:** Mon Dec 07, 2009 9:22 pm

Update: (I've been slacking)

Decided to go for urban camo on his pants

C&C welcome

1egolas · **Posted:** Mon Dec 07, 2009 11:14 pm

all the stuff on this thread is fantastic i dont know why but i cant believe how much you have improved even just over the course of this thread!

Anduril Blade of Kings · **Posted:** Mon Dec 07, 2009 11:32 pm

1egolas wrote:

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all the stuff on this thread is fantastic i dont know why but i cant believe how much you have improved even just over the course of this thread!

Thanks

I think the main reason I've improved is because I've stuck myself to a schedule. After school, the first thing I do is paint. For approx. 1-2 hrs every day. So I spend a lot of time painting

Longbottom Leaf · **Posted:** Tue Dec 08, 2009 3:02 am

Great work, Josh! I love the chips on the metal, it looks stunning. You're really becoming a very good painter.

King Elessar the Uniter · **Posted:** Tue Dec 08, 2009 8:36 pm

Longbottom Leaf wrote:

You're really becoming a very good painter.

I have to agree; you've improved enormously! :yay:

Anduril Blade of Kings · **Posted:** Wed Dec 09, 2009 1:55 pm

Thanks, Josh and Elessar

I'll try and get the Nob finished today.

Anduril Blade of Kings · **Posted:** Fri Dec 11, 2009 5:12 pm

No updates on Mr. Ugly Green Nob. I have been stricken with painter's block--if I pick up a brush for more than 10 minutes at a time, I can't stand it. I just couldn't bring myself to do the finicky details on the Nob. However, here's an Ork Boy I've managed to get some paint on over the past 2-3 days.

I'm hoping this is only temporary, because I'm expecting a whole lot more miniatures to sell in the mail today.

King Elessar the Uniter · **Posted:** Sat Dec 12, 2009 11:31 am

Looks good so far, but some of the recesses on the skin look too dark in comparison to the overall shade of the skin.

Corsair · **Posted:** Sat Dec 12, 2009 2:47 pm

great stuff, gonna pick up the AOBR myself soon. Marines are gonna be crimsons =)

will look here for inspiration =)

James

Anduril Blade of Kings · **Posted:** Sat Dec 12, 2009 2:51 pm

Thanks guys.

Corsair, if you're specifically only interested in the Marines from AOBR, I'm looking to trade them off in my trade thread.

King Elessar the Uniter wrote:

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Looks good so far, but some of the recesses on the skin look too dark in comparison to the overall shade of the skin.

If you mean his arms, on the arm with the slugga it's because I can't reach it and on the sword arm it's shadow.

King Elessar the Uniter · **Posted:** Sat Dec 12, 2009 5:13 pm

What about the top of his right thumb?

You can reach that!

Anduril Blade of Kings · **Posted:** Sat Dec 12, 2009 6:11 pm

Oh.

Yeah.

I guess.

I'll try and get that.

Corsair · **Posted:** Sat Dec 12, 2009 8:57 pm

heh. Thanks for the offer, but i want the full set so i have a few armies to experiment with, along with the rules themselves just to try out the system properly

James

King Elessar the Uniter · **Posted:** Thu Dec 17, 2009 11:11 am

Hey Josh, when are we going to see more of the Imperial Guard Commissar?
He was looking really good last time you posted pics of him and I wondered if you'd got any further with him.

Anduril Blade of Kings · **Posted:** Thu Dec 17, 2009 4:00 pm

A major accident occured.

This happened the day before yesterday, btw.

I was in there working on my Cities of Death board--spraying some battle damage with black paint on my Shrine of the Aquila--when disaster struck.

My cat, who we shall call "Ray", came in through the door, which I had left open for ventilation purposes. Ray immediately jumped up and knocked over the glass jar I had full of Non-Acetone Nail Polish remover. This spilled all over the neglected side of my table, which had some old Rohirrim, a couple of primed Ork Boyz.....and my Commissar.

I immediately ran for some paper towels, and when I came back, I managed to mop the mess up. This took about 10 minutes or so--all the time it took to take the paint off of the bottom right half of the Commissar's trench coat, most of the fingers of his gun hand, and his nose. (Really)

So yes, I've learned 2 things: Keep cats away from hobby area and DON'T LEAVE NAIL POLISH REMOVER WHERE IT CAN BE KNOCKED OVER!

Ray just sat there the whole time staring at me.

:kitten:

So, I will probably completely strip the Commissar and start over in a couple of weeks. Right now I'm busy painting Gandalf the White & some Warg Riders to sell. But after that, I'll tackle my (very small) backlog.

I never knew before now how effective that Nail polish remover is. :roll:

Longbottom Leaf · **Posted:** Thu Dec 17, 2009 4:19 pm

What a shame!

I know how bad cats can be, I was taking pictures of some of Iron Guard for here on OR, and my cat Leo jumped up and began to chew on ones head! Yes, cat's are best kept away from the hobby... :shock:

Be sure to update with your progress on him.

The_Dragon_of_Moria · **Posted:** Thu Dec 17, 2009 4:42 pm

Cat+Hobby=Disaster.

A real shame to, the Commisar looked well painted.

My cat "Monaco" has been responsible for several 'accidents' over the last few years. The worst was when I saw she had something in her mouth, I then discovered it was a model tree which I had spent the last 3 hours carefully basing, painting and flocking. It was in such a mess I had to bin it. :sad:

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