Felarof's WiP - MT [updated 08.10.2010] battle + fortress

Felaorf · **Posted:** Sun Jun 06, 2010 10:16 am

hello guys!
I decide to fix myself an objective: repaint all my Minas Tirith minis before September. (It will be hard.. but I will try)

Here's my minis (painted during 2008 summer) now they look horrible to me, so I wanted to repaint them because I want to have a good looking army XD

I also want to make new bases.. I'll have to buy new ones on the GW site..
I want to create a brick effect using greenstuff. I found an idea on Iron Halo.. here it is:

King Elessar the Uniter · **Posted:** Mon Jun 07, 2010 2:10 pm

Looking forward to seeing your progress. Nice Mordor army by the way.

Felaorf · **Posted:** Mon Jun 07, 2010 6:02 pm

thanks King Elessar the Uniter

here's my progress

green stuff bases

Some of the minis on the green stuff bases

I drilled the minis and I glued a small metal stick in the hole and fixed it in an other hole in the base, to make the mini more stable and less fragile.

ncea · **Posted:** Tue Jun 08, 2010 1:58 am

Nice bases. I might try that but I need to finnish off my elves first

. Hehe time to copy your idea muwhahahah lol.

Cyndra the Grey · **Posted:** Tue Jun 08, 2010 7:52 pm

I like the bases a lot. How many will you have to do for the whole army?

I hope your gonna strip the models before you paint them. Good luck.

Cyndra the Grey

Felaorf · **Posted:** Wed Jun 09, 2010 12:07 pm

Thank you very much! :rofl:

I have 21 metal minis and 24 plastic womt
21+24=45 bases
for now 11 done.
It will be long, but I really love sculpting bases, and I love Minas Tirith so I will work a lot, I hope that the result will be good

ncea wrote:

Nice bases. I might try that but I need to finnish off my elves first

. Hehe time to copy your idea muwhahahah lol.

you can if you want.. I like to give people ideas so you can copy! XD

King Elessar the Uniter · **Posted:** Thu Jun 10, 2010 4:42 pm

Nice bases - they should look good painted.

Felaorf · **Posted:** Thu Jun 10, 2010 6:14 pm

I'm going to do a simple drybrush to make them more realistic.
I've tough to use this color scheme:
chaos black undercoat
codex grey heavy drybrush
fortress grey draybrush
and finally a very soft drybrush of bleached bone..
Minas Tirith is also known as 'The White City', so I want to make a pale colour scheme.

PS: I'm making a video for 'How to make green stuff bases' but it is too long and I can't submit it on you tube.. need to cut some unnecessary parts.

Felaorf · **Posted:** Sat Jun 12, 2010 12:17 pm

Hello everyone!
I've made a new video on my channel on YouTube.
It's a tutorial to make the bases like I've done for my WoMT.
Here's the link of my channel Felarof's LotR blog

Felaorf · **Posted:** Sun Jun 13, 2010 10:16 am

Here's my new update:

Minas Tirith Captain

Front

Back

Minas Tirith Engineer

Front

Back

For my good school results (Scientific High School in Italy.. don't know the correspondent in the UK..), my parents will offer me a Gondor Avenger Bolt Thrower and a Gondor Battlecry Trebuchet..

Darac · **Posted:** Sun Jun 13, 2010 11:05 am

They look way better than the old ones, just keep up painting mate!

~Darac~

Felaorf · **Posted:** Sun Jun 13, 2010 11:13 am

thanks mate! :rofl:

Felaorf · **Posted:** Mon Jun 14, 2010 5:33 am

Here's a new small update: yesterday I painted the banner bearer, but my camera was discharged, so I took the photos this morning.

Front

Detail of the banner

Back

Yesterday I ordered my Gondor Warmachines!

I also ordered some 25mm round bases, because I don't have enough bases for the entire Minas Tirith Army.

Erurainon the Trombonist · **Posted:** Mon Jun 14, 2010 10:00 am

The bases look great, and your painting has improved greatly too! I like the blue and white colour scheme, almost looks like Dol Amroth. Good work.

Felaorf · **Posted:** Mon Jun 14, 2010 10:32 am

Thank you Erurainon!

I used this color scheme because if in the future I add some dol amroth warriors, the army will be homogeneous. Also because I wanted to change and make something different than the standard GW scheme.

Darac · **Posted:** Mon Jun 14, 2010 12:40 pm

Erurainon the Trombonist wrote:

The bases look great, and your painting has improved greatly too! I like the blue and white colour scheme, almost looks like Dol Amroth. Good work.

Couldn't agree more!

Natarn · **Posted:** Mon Jun 14, 2010 7:42 pm

They are very effective simple bases.

Sweet work.

King Elessar the Uniter · **Posted:** Tue Jun 15, 2010 7:23 am

Very nice painting - the bases look great! :yay:

Felaorf · **Posted:** Tue Jun 15, 2010 7:26 am

thanks King Elessar!
Today I will submit another update: the Citadel Guard, need to finish de base and the last details... :twisted:

Felaorf · **Posted:** Tue Jun 15, 2010 4:25 pm

Hello, and here I am for a new update!
Today I painted a Citadel Guard and a Fountain Guard, just to test the colour schemes, and they came out well, I reckon..

Citadel Guard

Front

Back

Fountain Guard

Front

Back

This two last photos are not very bright because the weather changed during the day.. if tomorrow the weather is good I'll take new better photos

Comments are welcome!

Felarof's WiP - MT [updated 08.10.2010] battle + fortress

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