Matt's WIP (25/03 - "Lords of Gondor" Aragorn and Boromir)

Monotone_Matt · **Posted:** Sun Oct 14, 2012 9:44 pm

Thanks a lot guys, I'm really glad you like my stuff and your kind words make me very happy! Glad I could do you all justice!

SidTheSloth wrote:

Hats off to thee
:yay:

And now you say that, Sid, but your furby avatar is still very much wearing a hat

Monotone_Matt · **Posted:** Sun Oct 28, 2012 10:28 pm

Hello everyone!

Wow, it's been two weeks since my last post :/

Anyway, small update. Finished two Rangers of the North, a man and a woman (the lighting's a bit bad, whoops):

I particularly like the way his cloak looks and the details on the female Ranger conversion (she has a scar across one eye, for example).

Andddd I finally got round to trying out the 'new' texture paints. I think they're pretty cool:

Thank you and good night!

Telchar · **Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2012 7:09 pm

Very good painting, but do the rangers of the North paint their hair bright red? :shock:

Nice conversion on the woman too.

Monotone_Matt · **Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2012 7:51 pm

I wanted to give the woman red hair to mak her stand out a bit more

thanks for the comments though, Telchar!

John Wayne · **Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2012 11:33 pm

Nice work man. Like the girl ranger, bit unusual but cool. Need more babes in LOTR lol.

Monotone_Matt · **Posted:** Tue Oct 30, 2012 7:17 am

I agree! Haha thanks!

Whatevier · **Posted:** Tue Oct 30, 2012 6:53 pm

Nice work on the rangers Matt!

The ranger girl reminds me a bit of Ygritte from Game of Thrones!

Monotone_Matt · **Posted:** Tue Oct 30, 2012 7:36 pm

Haha really, Whatevier? I've never seen Game of Thrones (a vast gap in my education, it would seem

) but thanks for the heads up!

John Wayne · **Posted:** Tue Oct 30, 2012 7:44 pm

I fancy that Ygritte girl from GOT like mad. Mind you there are loads of other babes in there as well.

Crucium Giger · **Posted:** Wed Oct 31, 2012 12:27 pm

Whatevier wrote:

Nice work on the rangers Matt!

The ranger girl reminds me a bit of Ygritte from Game of Thrones!

Actually now that you mention it the resemblance is quite startling, excellent conversion by the way :yay:

Telchar · **Posted:** Wed Oct 31, 2012 8:28 pm

Monotone_Matt wrote:

I wanted to give the woman red hair to mak her stand out a bit more

thanks for the comments though, Telchar!

Use a more orange red - if you look closely at natural redheads, you'll see they have more orange then red in their hair.

And yes, she does look a lot like Ygritte, now you say it.

Whatevier · **Posted:** Wed Oct 31, 2012 9:27 pm

Monotone_Matt wrote:

Haha really, Whatevier? I've never seen Game of Thrones (a vast gap in my education, it would seem

) but thanks for the heads up!

Well, you are missing out the agony of waiting for the next season

The more you'll last before getting into it the better I think, so no need to worry

John Wayne wrote:

I fancy that Ygritte girl from GOT like mad. Mind you there are loads of other babes in there as well.

She's got the looks and she definitely got the character and the courage, you picked pretty wise!
And ehm, redheads are my weakness aswell :oops:

Monotone_Matt · **Posted:** Mon Dec 03, 2012 1:04 pm

G'day everyone, long time no see!

Been more than a month since my last update, just been too busy with work and uni stuff. Anyway, I've got a bit more time now, so I thought I'd get my backside into gear and start some more projects... not to mention finish my painting backlog! Also, my clay shapers arrived recently and I've been trying to improve my sculpting...

I recently bought a bigger lot of minis on an auction site (which I somehow managed to resell for quite a profit, even after taking out and keeping the figures I wanted!) and I decided to start a smaller Gondor army for fun.

Here's my modded standard bearer; basically just gave him a Last Alliance Gondor shield for decoration and added a GS ork head to the tip of his standard for good measure:

Sticking with the theme of Gondor, I had a spare armoured Boromir lying around that I had been meaning to do sth with. I finally decided upon making him a 'what if...' piece: What if Boromir had survived Amon Hen and returned to captain Gondor's armies in the battle of Pelennor?

Basically, I extended his original cape with GS (was much more difficult than I thought it would be) and added a hood and broach - now he look like he's wearing his elven cloak over his battle armour. Really excited to see how he looks when he's painted! I do love me a good Boromir conversion...

But wait, there's more! a Weathertop Aragorn conversion! I removed his torch arm and crafted him a new one, so it looks like he's about to take a two-handed slash at some unlucky ork:

And finally a Christmas present for my elf-loving little sister: A mounted MoM Legolas conversion:

Phew! Comments and criticism are very much welcome, it's good to be back doing what I enjoy!

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Mon Dec 03, 2012 1:10 pm

Interesting conversions - Looking forward to seeing Boromir & Aragorn painted up.

SouthernDunedain · **Posted:** Mon Dec 03, 2012 1:11 pm

that aragorn conversion looks amazing. great work matt. Boromir looks sweet aswell. look forward to seeing them all painted.

KnightyKnight · **Posted:** Mon Dec 03, 2012 1:14 pm

I love the Aragorn/Weathertop conversion. Will definitely have to try that one if I ever come across a spare. Good job Matt!

Telchar · **Posted:** Mon Dec 03, 2012 8:29 pm

Looking good! Especially Boromir and Legolas (far better then my own attempt). Just not sure wether I can see men of Gondor affixing enemy heads on their banners. Seems out of character, if you see where I'm coming from.

Bartelomeus · **Posted:** Mon Dec 03, 2012 8:38 pm

That Aragorn is a great idea! You got the sculpting bug

SidTheSloth · **Posted:** Mon Dec 03, 2012 8:41 pm

neat work

the aragorn conversion is an exellent idea! :yay:

really good :yay:

Corsair · **Posted:** Mon Dec 03, 2012 10:52 pm

All of your conversions are innovative and bold, the rangers look fantastic too!

well done.

Corsair.

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