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

Anduril Blade of Kings · **Posted:** Fri Nov 06, 2009 2:54 pm

Really nice, Josh! The drybrushing on the rocks is really well done, I like the chasm! :-D

Corsair · **Posted:** Fri Nov 06, 2009 5:46 pm

looks good

you could always have another single lane bridge over the chasm...that would look cool.

James

jebbo · **Posted:** Fri Nov 06, 2009 6:17 pm

That board looks really good...

And i agree with Corsair a single bridge would look very cool

Longbottom Leaf · **Posted:** Fri Nov 06, 2009 7:38 pm

Thanks for the comments guys.

A ricketty wooden bridge for the mines sounds nice, if I have any left over balsa I'll give it a try.

DarkWind · **Posted:** Fri Nov 06, 2009 10:27 pm

I'll second the bridge idea. Very tidy board mate, good job.

SkymaN · **Posted:** Fri Nov 06, 2009 10:34 pm

Yeah, a ricketty wodden bridge sounds great!
Very good job with this board. Keep going, I can't wait for another photos

Longbottom Leaf · **Posted:** Sat Nov 07, 2009 4:39 am

Thanks for the comments everyone.

I'll be sure to build that bridge for you, and I'll try to take a few more pics of the board as well.

Sadly, my Arnor projects have all come to a halt. The economy is still quite bad here, and money is very tight making a nearly all metal army like Arnor nearly impossible to collect. Instead I'll be turning my attentions to the Woodland Realms, collecting forces for Mirkwood, Dol Guldor and Lorien. I've got quite a few plans for terrain pieces for these armies that I look forward to constructing, but right now they're all in the planning stage.

I'll be sure to post all of my work here from now on, and will be changing this WIP into my general one instead of a more limited project. So, hopefully I'll begin work on the bridge soon and have some pics of my Wood Elves as well.

Edit:

Title and first post have been edited, and Collecting and Building Khazad-Dum, is now officialy Collecting and Building Middle-earth.

Hopefully I can finally finish my armies this time around. :lol:

King Elessar the Uniter · **Posted:** Sat Nov 07, 2009 11:14 am

The board looks REALLY GOOD Josh, well done!
Looking forward to seeing the bridge. :yay:

WHAT?

No more Arnor!? :sad:

Longbottom Leaf · **Posted:** Sat Nov 07, 2009 2:53 pm

King Elessar the Uniter wrote:

WHAT?

No more Arnor!? :sad:

Sorry, Michael. I'm too poor. :wink:

I hope to get back to collecting them eventually, as I still love the minis. Hopefully I'll have more money for the hobby next summer, as I can get a job then. But for now I'll try to stick to the woodland realms, Lorien, Mirkwood and Dol Guldor are all on my list. I have a lot of terrain projects planned - coughmallorntreescough -, and I've got some interesting ideas for the armies color schemes as well. I'm planning on painting my Galadhrim in a color scheme which reflects the Mallorn Tree, and my Wood Elves in a more forest like scheme then GW's.

BTW, I checked to see if I had any balsa wood left, but it seems I used the last of it up on my mine working. I'll be sure to head down to the hobby store and get some more some time this coming week.

Anduril Blade of Kings · **Posted:** Sat Nov 07, 2009 3:50 pm

Sounds good, Josh.

I'm looking forward to seeing some painted elves. :wink:

Longbottom Leaf · **Posted:** Sat Nov 07, 2009 9:55 pm

Anduril Blade of Kings wrote:

I'm looking forward to seeing some painted elves. :wink:

Look no further.

C&C welcome.

Anduril Blade of Kings · **Posted:** Sat Nov 07, 2009 10:01 pm

It looks great so far, Josh! I really like the dark green cloak, mind sharing what colors you used?

Looking forward to updates :-D

EDIT: Just one little thing, it looks like you missed some of the boot on your basecoat

Longbottom Leaf · **Posted:** Sat Nov 07, 2009 10:09 pm

Thanks, Joshua.

I used Dark Angels Green as a basecoat. I then highlighted it by mixing in Snot Green untill it was an even mix of the two colors. For the last highlight I used a 75: 25 mix of Snot Green and Dark Angels Green. For shading, I watered down a mix of Chaos Black and Dark Angels Green and applied this into the folds of the cloak.

Corsair · **Posted:** Sat Nov 07, 2009 10:20 pm

Very nice cloak. nicer than the shading on that rohan banner bearer i did a few months back

James

Gorgoroth · **Posted:** Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:42 am

Nice wood elf Josh! the cloak looks great, you have done a great job on the blending! :wink:

I also think that small board that you finished looks great! it looks 10 times better painted

Longbottom Leaf · **Posted:** Sun Nov 08, 2009 3:38 pm

Thanks, Billy.

It's actually one of the Wood Elves you sent me.

King Elessar the Uniter · **Posted:** Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:04 pm

The Wood Elf looks good Josh, can't wait to see more! :wink:

Longbottom Leaf · **Posted:** Sun Nov 08, 2009 6:48 pm

Thanks for the comments, guys.

I did some more work on my Wood Elf, I painted his brown cloth. Truthfully, I'm not pleased with the result. I mixed in Vermin Brown into Schorched Brown for highlights, and it came out far to orange looking. I'll be using Bestial Brown in the future. I knew I should have listened to Rob. :wink:

C&C welcome.

Anduril Blade of Kings · **Posted:** Sun Nov 08, 2009 6:54 pm

Longbottom Leaf wrote:

Quote:

Truthfully, I'm not pleased with the result.

I think it looks fine, maybe the pics are just too dark on my lame computer. :-X

But I like it!

aqan · **Posted:** Sun Nov 08, 2009 7:38 pm

I see your point but still it looks great.

with a few more highlights it will just look like leather.

Any progres on the anorian king :pray:

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