September Painting Challenge: Monsters

GothmogtheWerewolf · **Posted:** Sat Sep 03, 2011 8:43 pm

Thankyou.

LotrCrown · **Posted:** Sat Sep 03, 2011 9:40 pm

ill see what i can find and attempt this one lol, though i dident do to well on the aragorn one, im still painting mine. . . :S

Sacrilege83 · **Posted:** Sat Sep 03, 2011 11:21 pm

^Well that's not a good sign considering Aragorn is a man-sized model and this month demands you paint something large! Better get started early!

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

Proof pic.

Hope that I finish this by Thursday...

Elland · **Joined:** Tue Aug 16, 2011 4:55 am **Posts:** 181

here's a little teaser of my SQ in progress:

Legolas7 · **Joined:** Fri Sep 02, 2011 7:02 pm **Posts:** 122

Nice monster :yay:

HeavySoul · **Posted:** Sun Sep 04, 2011 5:45 am

Ok, I've decided to throw my hat in the ring again and will be painting Shelob (providing I can work out where each of the legs goes). Here is my proof picture:

Dagorlad · **Posted:** Sun Sep 04, 2011 6:34 am

I've made a start on my Gwaihir, assembling, filling and undercoating the eagle and building a scenic base for it. Not sure how I will mount the eagle on the top of this, but I'll worry about that at the end of the process.

Click to biggerize each.

TheBucklandBrewer · **Posted:** Sun Sep 04, 2011 7:50 am

This will be the greatest September-month ever!
Hoping that all thes emonsters will get finished by the end of the month!

@ Elland, the pose of the spiderqueen on that base looks fantastic already! Fits the figure so good!

@ Alan, I would recommend you to keep that splendid base in your freezer until the end of the month... the snow might melt meanwhile!
Never seen such a realistic snow-base before!! The tiny snow-dots in different concentrations all around make it look extremely natural!

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Sun Sep 04, 2011 7:54 am

@ Alan - that base is absolutely fantastic!!!

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Sun Sep 04, 2011 11:44 am

Dead Marsh Spectre wrote:

@ Alan - that base is absolutely fantastic!!!

I concur!! Wow! :shock:

I have a resin Ebob rocky base that I planned on doing the same thing with, but I am going to have a hell of a time producing a base like the masterpiece you've just created!! Awesome!

Dagorlad · **Posted:** Sun Sep 04, 2011 12:10 pm

Thanks everyone. It's amazing what you can do with bark chips and polyfilla. After I made it yesterday, I was really pleased with it and thought maybe I should make a few more in different sizes and cast them in resin.

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Sun Sep 04, 2011 12:28 pm

Dagorlad wrote:

Thanks everyone. It's amazing what you can do with bark chips and polyfilla. After I made it yesterday, I was really pleased with it and thought maybe I should make a few more in different sizes and cast them in resin.

You'd make a killing if you did that! Count me in for a couple if you do.

valpas · **Posted:** Sun Sep 04, 2011 4:05 pm

Great start, Alan, looking very Misty Mountainish!

Here is my proof picture:

I'm kind of worried whether I can make any sense of that big pile of legs.

-- Pasi

Sacrilege83 · **Posted:** Sun Sep 04, 2011 4:13 pm

Well looks like having a Balrog in dormant stage won't be good enough. Here's my progress so far.

The flash on my new camera made the colours much brighter than expected, a bit conscerning, he's more brooding in natural light. I see I'm going to fall way behind in the base category. Dagorlad & Elland both have some amazing and creative bases.

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Sun Sep 04, 2011 4:17 pm

Awesome wings S83!!!! The slits look like they do actually have fire burning behind them.

Legolas7 · **Joined:** Fri Sep 02, 2011 7:02 pm **Posts:** 122

The barlog is excellent :yay:

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Sun Sep 04, 2011 6:29 pm

Wow, he is looking fantastic!

GothmogtheWerewolf · **Posted:** Sun Sep 04, 2011 9:39 pm

I will be entering, I jus need to take a proof pick of my convertyed Mordor troll (its already been painted, but I'm repainting it because it doesn't match my other trolls)

Sacrilege83 · **Posted:** Mon Sep 05, 2011 1:29 am

Thanks for the comments guys but now I'm hitting a bit of a snag. I realised once I've completed the whole fire bit I'm going to have to decide on what to do about the skin. And it's either going to be just black with shades of gray for highlights, which is kind of dull to me, or I try to emulate some realism again with light from his own fire reflecting off his skin. Problem is that the latter would be new territory for me because I never have done fire light reflections on a model before. So I'm afraid I'll mess up and the combonation of yellow, orange, red will leave the skin looking ugly, imbalanced highlighting or an overall fire creature look. Btw the film isn't really helping this time around with the surrounding smoke and all.

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