August Painting Challenge: Lurtz

draked · **Joined:** Sat Aug 13, 2011 3:17 am **Posts:** 266

Are you sure that isn't a photo from the movie...the realism presented here is so so so incredible!

PowerofWill · **Posted:** Tue Aug 30, 2011 2:15 pm

Nice Lurtz Sacrilege! The leather looks really nice, and the armor is nice too, but what really stands out is the white hand on his face. It just looks perfect :yay:

-Pow

Sacrilege83 · **Posted:** Tue Aug 30, 2011 2:20 pm

Thanks guys for the props.

@Draked you have no idea how long I've been staring at stills & pausing and rewinding the Aragorn/Lurtz fight scene just to make sense of things! Overall I'm satisfied with him. There are a lot of great entries here to contend with so they've pushed me to my limit as far as I can go with this one.

draked · **Joined:** Sat Aug 13, 2011 3:17 am **Posts:** 266

Time well spent

garmenhord · **Posted:** Tue Aug 30, 2011 2:38 pm

@sacrilege: i like him alot. Good weathered effects. Great job!

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Tue Aug 30, 2011 3:35 pm

Great work sacrilege, really nice job

Also, that beats the amount of entries we had last month... just 2 more for a record amount. Great job everyone!

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Tue Aug 30, 2011 3:46 pm

Right on the money that Sacrilege! You can tell a lot of thought and work has gone into it - look forward to seeing more.

edge67 · **Posted:** Wed Aug 31, 2011 12:06 am

Yeah, the grittiness (is that a word?) of your Lurtz is awesome Sacrilege. How did you get that weathered look?

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Wed Aug 31, 2011 12:08 am

Wow, we got alot of great entries this month!
One more day left and look forward to seeing all the entries.

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:37 am

BilboOfTheWhiteTower wrote:

One more day left and look forward to seeing all the entries.

But not looking forward to having to decide which one to vote for

Dagorlad · **Posted:** Wed Aug 31, 2011 12:58 pm

Well, I am glad I managed to finish him in time - it's been a while since I painted any LOTr figures and I have really enjoyed this challenge. Looking forward to the next one too - if I have enough time (just got really busy at work).

Here's my Lurtz:

garmenhord · **Posted:** Wed Aug 31, 2011 1:01 pm

i like the face

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Wed Aug 31, 2011 1:23 pm

flawless!

draked · **Joined:** Sat Aug 13, 2011 3:17 am **Posts:** 266

Yes he is awesome! Great job Alan!

Hilbert · **Joined:** Mon Jun 06, 2011 7:07 am **Posts:** 2088

Very well Dagorlad :yay:

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Wed Aug 31, 2011 3:48 pm

Great Lurtz Alan, love the face

edge67 · **Posted:** Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:22 pm

Very nice indeed Alan.

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Thu Sep 01, 2011 12:11 am

Great job Alan...and you were worried you couldn't pull off the white hand print on his face.

Sacrilege83 · **Posted:** Thu Sep 01, 2011 6:41 pm

Damn good job Dagorlad! It's amazing to see all these nicely painted Lurtz, most looking the same but all having their own perks & style kind of.

@Edge67 weathered look is tons of washing, drybrushing, washing, drybrushing, etc., etc. until I was satisfied. Only for the painting challenge... I feel as though I kind of botched up a bit on Lurtz's quiver bag though, Dagorlad's bag was the result that I was looking for.

Beowulf03809 · **Posted:** Fri Sep 02, 2011 1:17 am

Sacrilege83 wrote:

@Edge67 weathered look is tons of washing, drybrushing, washing, drybrushing, etc., etc. until I was satisfied. Only for the painting challenge... I feel as though I kind of botched up a bit on Lurtz's quiver bag though, Dagorlad's bag was the result that I was looking for.

What did you do for the skin colors? I really like the way you (and a couple others) grabbed the shades as they appear in the film without the serious dark-flesh color of GW's standard pallet. Isengard was my first SBG army many years ago and I haven't revisited them since. I am planning on building it up to WotR size and redoing most of my existing force now that I've progressed a bit and would like to achieve closer to your results.

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