Galadhrim WIP

jay170788 · **Joined:** Tue Feb 07, 2012 7:58 am **Posts:** 87

So i can't say these are my first mini's ever as i painted maybe 20 or so when i was 15 but they were very much block colour and dreadful with inch thick paint jobs.

So now i revisit the hobby 9 years later and i am starting a Galadhrim army with maybe some allies eventually (depending on my liking of the eagles and/or how well my Thorin conversion goes).

But these are my first pics of the first model, only done the cloak, hair and sword for now, am waiting for my base colours so i couldn't do the armour / skin unfortunately.....

People use their phone's as excuses so i will too even though the camera isn't too bad on it.

John Wayne · **Posted:** Thu Jan 10, 2013 9:47 pm

So far very beautiful work.

SidTheSloth · **Posted:** Thu Jan 10, 2013 10:46 pm

Oooh! I'm looking forward to seeing more of this WiP!
Excellent clean painting ! :yay:

Really, really nice smoothness on the highlights. This is promising to be a good start to a very good WiP...

:yay:

Valamir · **Posted:** Thu Jan 10, 2013 11:55 pm

Very nice! I like it- it reminds me of a scheme that I used on part of my Galadhrim, so I look forward to seeing more!

turwaitheon · **Posted:** Fri Jan 11, 2013 7:16 am

Looks very good! I look forward to see more.
Nice scheme, and I'm wondereing what the armour will be..

Finrod · **Posted:** Fri Jan 11, 2013 7:30 am

I really like the hair, how did you do them?

SMORG · **Posted:** Fri Jan 11, 2013 7:54 am

looking good, can't wait to see the armour

jay170788 · **Joined:** Tue Feb 07, 2012 7:58 am **Posts:** 87

Finrod wrote:

I really like the hair, how did you do them?

I paint mine with averland sunset base and then wash with Reikland fleshshade, then i highlight averland sunset over raised hair.

Comes out more like fair hair than bright blonde but i like it on my galadhrim, not so californian that way....

The armour on mine wont be that good, i am not too happy with my chainmail, the blue shade didn't pick out the detail as well as i had hoped, i may have to revert to using nuln oil. But it will be similar to the old tin blitz, just dont think i will be very good at highlighting it unfortunately....

Also when shading galadhrim armour is it advisable to hold the model upside-down? that way it will run up to the bottom edge of the armour plate above shading then underneath it where the sun wouldn't get, hope that makes sense??

LordElrond · **Posted:** Sun Jan 13, 2013 10:22 am

Thanks for the link. I'll definitely be getting this Reikland Fleshshade.

jay170788 · **Joined:** Tue Feb 07, 2012 7:58 am **Posts:** 87

sorry about one of the pics! Any ideas on highlighting the armour as it looks awful right now!

Crucium Giger · **Posted:** Wed Jan 16, 2013 8:37 am

Looking good so far with good highlights on the cloth. For the armour have a try with mixing 50/50 tin bitz (if thats what you use) and chainmail, it creates a subtle highlight that works quite well.

jay170788 · **Joined:** Tue Feb 07, 2012 7:58 am **Posts:** 87

My current armour base is Balthasar Gold, I was thinking of putting Fleshshade over it to create some depth, then re-highlight with Balthasar and then final highlight with Auric gold which is lighter, just don't want to put too many layers on and mess it up, then need more layers to sort it out which will make it too thick

Crucium Giger · **Posted:** Wed Jan 16, 2013 8:44 am

That will work fine as well, many people actually say (and do) highlight gold with silver but I was never keen on this which is why I went with 50/50 chainmail. A wash will always bring out detail and you could potentially just highlight with the base colour after this to good effect.

SidTheSloth · **Posted:** Wed Jan 16, 2013 9:50 am

From what I can see the armour looks really nice. I like the colour alot

A tripod or something to lean your camera on would be a good idea. What kind of camera are you using?

jay170788 · **Joined:** Tue Feb 07, 2012 7:58 am **Posts:** 87

Camera is just the one on my phone (Samsung Galaxy S3)

SidTheSloth · **Posted:** Wed Jan 16, 2013 9:59 am

I'd recomend that you take pictures in good daylight (that should help the grainyness), also it might be best not to take the pic so close to the model... you can always pan back and crop the picture later (that should help the focus)

also the basing is very cool too :yay:

Telchar · **Posted:** Thu Jan 17, 2013 3:08 pm

The cloak is wonderful, and the armour is quite good too.

jay170788 · **Joined:** Tue Feb 07, 2012 7:58 am **Posts:** 87

Telchar wrote:

The cloak is wonderful, and the armour is quite good too.

Thanks a lot mate...

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