hofzinser wrote:
Well done, sir.
I'd like to hear about the grass on the base. Are the tufts or static grass?
Anything you can share (where you got it, how you applied it, etc) is appreciated. I love how the grass came out.
Thanks, hof! The one tuft of yellowish/brown grass is GW's own Mordheim Turf, the other two darker tufts are from Army Painter's Swamp Tuft box. I tried making my own longer grass/reeds with paint bristles once but it looked terrible, so I resorted to buying them
Gandlaf the Grey wrote:
I would lean toward Gunslinger and say it is a little dark. I have noted your comments about a natural look but I would say look again at the photo you used. His hair is a clean white at the lightest point and the cloak is black in the darkest.
Transferring that to the figure would make a ' stand out ' figure IMO.
Why not try something - you have a few Gandalfs so try one with very extreme highlights and shading and see what you think ?
When these are compared together it could give the answer.
Very constructive criticism, Gandlaf! I shall indeed give it a shot
thanks!
As mentioned above I've added another Gandalf to my collection, the new finecast one:
The pose is beautiful in my view and I'm looking forward to painting it. However, the staff is too short (easily corrected though, Harfoot did this first and I copied his method) and the face... Well I'm glad he came with an optional hat to cover most of it:
I feel it bears only a minimal resemblance to Sir Ian, which is a huge shame, especially considering how detailed the White Council sculpt is... Why couldn't they have just copy-pasted the face from that mould?!
I also got to work on the Bilbo from the same blister pack. I severly dislike(d) all the things strapped to Bilbo (and that ghasty tree-stump) and hacked most of the stuff away with a knife. I do like the dynamics of the pose though, so I wanted to do sth special with it:
"I'm going on an adventure!"
As you can probably see, I'm trying to copy this scene from the film:
Still a few things to add though!
Thanks for looking in