~ Shieldmaiden's WIP ~ (Updated 29/10)

PowerofWill · **Posted:** Sun Oct 07, 2012 3:43 am

Woah! Those are cool! I never really liked black Numenoreans, but they've been growing on me recently, especially after seeing these. The armor suites them perfectly, and the robes are good too.
I also like the warband you painted, the colors looked so good on them.

-PoW

SaxonPathfinder · **Joined:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 6:20 pm **Posts:** 12

Great Painting ShieldMaiden! i love your Arwen's, It's such a spectacular model

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hannanibal · **Joined:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 2:55 pm **Posts:** 221

Those Black numenoreans look miles better than the GW paintjobs.

Shieldmaiden · **Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2012 10:24 am

hannanibal wrote:

Those Black numenoreans look miles better than the GW paintjobs.

Thanks hannanibal! High praise indeed. I love the avatar, btw.

Here's where I am with my evil army now. I feel really guilty about not painting much of it yet, but I've been a bit ill and busy lately so not really felt up to much. Gothmog, a Ringwraith and some Black Numenoreans are the only ones painted! I'm waiting on some more Black Numenoreans and an orc shaman on warg in a trade, and then I should be cracking on with it.

SaxonPathfinder wrote:

Great Painting ShieldMaiden! i love your Arwen's, It's such a spectacular model

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So i've just read that you've taken a break from the Haldir's Elves as your stuck? i wonder if i may be of some help for you? As i have over 1000pts of them, currently 69 Haldirs elves then throw in some hero's and it's a huge all metal army.

Your army is most impressive Saxon. Yeah, with the Haldir's Elves, I wanted to try and get their armour as close to the GW paint job as possible. I kinda got a bit muddled and decided to leave them until inspiration/a painting guide struck. You could PM me some photos and advice on colours if you'd like.

I think I'm gonna make a start on Amdur, Lord of Blades today.

EDIT:

In case anybody didn't see them in the the voting thread for Warbands, here's me completed warband. Sorry for not posting them earlier :oops:

Monotone_Matt · **Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2012 12:19 pm

That really is a nice-looking warband, I especially like the colours of the rangers' tunics and cloaks. I tried to emulate some of your colours on my Rangers of the North in fact! Great work, Shieldmaiden, looking forward to seeing more.

SaxonPathfinder · **Joined:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 6:20 pm **Posts:** 12

How Nice Warband, I think those colours are great. And are you sure your not good at faces? as the twins are Fantastic.

jbaxter1015 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:23 pm

Your rangers are fantastic! I love the colors, great work!

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2012 7:04 pm

The palette of colours ties the warband together as does the neat basing. You have managed to make the Monkey Twins look pretty decent as well (I hate the fact that such formidable fighters were ruined by sunstandard sculpts).
I haven't really thought much about painting the GW Rangers of the North for myself as I always imagined them to be more rugged, tall, sombre men dressed plainly in dark, earthy colours. The plastic rangers are too alike one another in their outfits. I may trawl the interwebs for some surrogate Dunedain, unless GW have a few new ones up their sleeves for The Hobbit.

Telchar · **Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2012 7:08 pm

Dorthonion wrote:

The palette of colours ties the warband together as does the neat basing. You have managed to make the Monkey Twins look pretty decent as well (I hate the fact that such formidable fighters were ruined by sunstandard sculpts).
I haven't really thought much about painting the GW Rangers of the North for myself as I always imagined them to be more rugged, tall, sombre men dressed plainly in dark, earthy colours. The plastic rangers are too alike one another in their outfits. I may trawl the interwebs for some surrogate Dunedain, unless GW have a few new ones up their sleeves for The Hobbit.

Since DMS banned +1, what shall I say?

On the RotN, conversions, my friend, conversions :twisted:

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John Wayne · **Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2012 11:41 pm

Nice army. Hope you feel better soon so you can return to painting cool stuff. I think you should do some Easterlings next

UNKNOWN · **Posted:** Thu Jan 24, 2013 5:27 am

now that's what I call professional painting!

did you use a light wash for their cloaks or dry-brushing?

Shieldmaiden · **Posted:** Mon Jan 28, 2013 5:25 pm

UNKNOWN wrote:

now that's what I call professional painting!

did you use a light wash for their cloaks or dry-brushing?

Thanks!

I should really get back to it.

The cloaks of whom?

Telchar · **Posted:** Mon Jan 28, 2013 7:19 pm

Yep, you should.

Monotone_Matt · **Posted:** Mon Jan 28, 2013 7:59 pm

Yeah it'll have been three months tomorrow! Hurry back, Shieldmaiden

John Wayne · **Posted:** Mon Jan 28, 2013 8:17 pm

I dont miss you as everybody else does :twisted:

ste271276 · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2013 8:07 pm

Impressive.... Any tips on faces?

kidterminal · **Posted:** Tue Feb 05, 2013 10:17 pm

I love the rangers war band. The colors work well together. Thanks for making me re-think what rangers should look like.

GothmogtheWerewolf · **Posted:** Wed Feb 06, 2013 2:45 pm

I'm liking the look of that evil army, can't wait til you paint it

You're right, red does look good on your Grey Company, or should I say your Red Company

UNKNOWN · **Posted:** Fri Feb 08, 2013 7:34 pm

Shieldmaiden wrote:

UNKNOWN wrote:

did you use a light wash for their cloaks or dry-brushing?

Thanks!

I should really get back to it.

The cloaks of whom?

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