March Painting Challenge: Theoden

theavenger001 · **Posted:** Sun Mar 20, 2011 7:16 pm

Good work bucky, I like the nmm sword. The extra attention to basing is also nice. :yay:

Pinky Beecroft · **Posted:** Sun Mar 20, 2011 7:50 pm

That looks awesome Bart, good job. Actually they all look good so far, I think I need to get stuck in to mine or I'll never finish him on time!

Minimal Monkey Saddle · **Joined:** Wed Dec 09, 2009 8:55 pm **Posts:** 463

That is proper boss.

TheBucklandBrewer · **Posted:** Mon Mar 21, 2011 7:40 am

Thanks for the nice comments!

I'm really pleased with how the sword turned out! But I must say I used a pic of Alexi_Z's Theoden (CMON) as a reference cause I always struggle to get the highlights of a swordblade right.

@ Minimal Monkey Saddle: your NMM looks great! Especially the gold looks very realistic! Mind sharing your recipe?

Minimal Monkey Saddle · **Joined:** Wed Dec 09, 2009 8:55 pm **Posts:** 463

Sure (even though it was a bit of a bodge in all honesty).

Basecoat: tausept ochre
Shading: dark flesh/scorched brown
Highlight: tausept ochre/bleached bone/white

After the basecoat I put the figure flat on the desk and looked down from a slight angle to the vertical to eyeball the areas that needed highlights. All other areas then were shaded. I did a final pass with the highlights on any areas that I wanted to add a little definition.

It proved to be a very quick and easy method.

BizzareWarstar · **Posted:** Fri Mar 25, 2011 9:24 pm

A solid looking Theoden TheBucklandBrewer. great attention all over, nice one.

cal585 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2011 10:47 am

Well I'm a bit late, and I'm nowhere near the quality of other painters here but I thought I'd give this a shot. After all I managed to buy him for a couple of dollars second hand so may as well paint him up.

Picture Proof:

Edit: Hmm, first post on these forums.

Ukfreddybear · **Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2011 2:02 pm

Crikey you had better get busy then as there are only two days left of this month!

cal585 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2011 11:28 pm

Haha, yep. Made a start on him last night and will post a WIP picture when I get home. I remain hopeful given I have a bit of time free today (if I can keep myself off Shogun 2: Total War). Thankfully my hash jobs shouldn't take too long to paint.

Edit: Update

Doesn't really show too much other than that I'm making progress. Had trouble working out the armour colour, but in the end I've gone for a black-brown, though it's hard to pick up in the photo (really need to work out a proper camera set up). The main armour colour is really the only thing done so far. Everything else still needs a few highlights and what not.

Pinky Beecroft · **Posted:** Thu Mar 31, 2011 5:45 am

Good job Cal.
In my own enthusiasm to get him finished on time I managed to knock him off the table and chip the c**p out of him so he's having an acid bath at the moment but I doubt I can finish in time!

Elros of Numenor · **Posted:** Thu Mar 31, 2011 11:17 am

Minimal Monkey Saddle wrote:

Here's my finished entry:

It's a little rough around the edges as I've rushed to finish it. But I'm pleased with how the nmm turned out.

Very nice

He has an expression like, "Oi! you uruks ate all my cookies! *unsheaths sword in a flash* Now for wrath, now for ruin, and my appetite's ending!"

Lol, Pinky, that's the second setback you've had for a painting challenge in a row :-D

..Oh, and welcome to the site, cal585.

cal585 · **Posted:** Thu Mar 31, 2011 12:54 pm

Well I ran out of time to do the base, and there's a few more details I could potentially do (fix up areas, add extra highlights and correct the stupid, impossible eyes!) but I think he's pretty well done. Sorry about the poor lighting, there's no sun left and so I'm restricted to using a desk lamp.

First time painting blonde hair! And thanks for the comments Elros/Pinky. I'd show a comparison with my Eomer as to how my painting has improved but that'll have to wait. All in all I felt Theoden was quite a nice model, though some of the small detail was frustrating to paint. The end effect was worth it however.

garmenhord · **Posted:** Thu Mar 31, 2011 2:12 pm

well painted

Pinky Beecroft · **Posted:** Fri Apr 01, 2011 5:03 am

@ Elros: Bahaha tell me about it! Lucky I'm sitting the next one out as I don't have the models. Lets go May!

@ Cal: That armor is excruciating to paint! You've done a great job though. Where in Oz are you?

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Fri Apr 01, 2011 1:07 pm

Thanks to all who have participated this month!

The voting thread is now up here - viewtopic.php?f=8&p=233070#p233070

You can now participate in Aprils' Painting Challenge (Gothmog) here - viewtopic.php?f=50&t=20526

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