Bill Ferny's WIP-Iron Hills with Spear Command

BillFerny333 · **Posted:** Sat Jul 20, 2013 11:45 pm

Completed my banner bearer...finally. I would take pictures...see something I didn't like...fix it...take pictures....rinse...repeat...etc..etc..

madfrog2000 · **Joined:** Wed Jan 23, 2013 5:07 am **Posts:** 179

Looks really good man!

king elessar 2615 · **Posted:** Sun Jul 21, 2013 1:36 am

Wow, beautiful banner bearer there, that base is absolutely splendid, keep up the good work

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Sun Jul 21, 2013 4:41 am

Another fantastic piece Bill. Your display cabinet must be bustling with wonderful creativity.

garmenhord · **Posted:** Sun Jul 21, 2013 8:25 am

looks great

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Sun Jul 21, 2013 10:29 am

Fantastic Randy!!!

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Sun Jul 21, 2013 12:06 pm

Ooh - fabulous mini and great looking base. I love the banner!

BillFerny333 · **Posted:** Sun Jul 21, 2013 2:21 pm

Wow, thanks so much guys! Its looking at all of your work that keeps making me raise the bar for myself.

Haha, indeed my display cabinet is getting rather full. I have to be over 500 minis in there by now, and I am sure I have well over 1000 still to paint!

BillFerny333 · **Posted:** Wed Jul 24, 2013 10:02 pm

A couple of updates. First is the Kings Huntsman from the Rohan Commanders set. Maybe not so much now, but when first painted him I thought he looked very similar to the Dos Equis "Most interesting man alive". I don't always kill Uruks, but when I do, I drink Dos Equis.

BillFerny333 · **Posted:** Wed Jul 24, 2013 10:07 pm

And my first Ebob spider. Lots of fun painting this guy. I was making some toast and saw a spider in the kitchen doorway that had a very similar color scheme, so I snapped some photos and went to work on this dude. I like how he came out. No base yet. They come with a 40 mm base, but I am going to order a bigger base and do a bit more with it, so more to come on that.

garmenhord · **Posted:** Thu Jul 25, 2013 6:34 am

cool spider, and nice rohan guy
looking forward to the development of the spider base

Oldman Willow · **Posted:** Thu Jul 25, 2013 9:29 am

I don't often play a king's huntsman but when I do I survive a spider attack

looking forward to see what happens with the base

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Thu Jul 25, 2013 7:43 pm

No photo of the toast? I'm disappointed :lol:

While the spiders of Middle-earth are evil, I am contemplating making the colour scheme a bit more realistic for some of mine. There are so many variations, some of them stunningly beautiful and very effective camouflage. Google and Bing image searches will give you a good idea of what I mean.

Harfoot · **Posted:** Thu Jul 25, 2013 9:42 pm

Great work, just taken delivery today of a fine pair of Argonaths, yours look great, can you tell did you prime them first? what type of paint did you use?

BillFerny333 · **Posted:** Thu Jul 25, 2013 10:02 pm

Harfoot wrote:

Great work, just taken delivery today of a fine pair of Argonaths, yours look great, can you tell did you prime them first? what type of paint did you use?

Hey Thanks a lot. I did indeed prime them. I would have either way, but the younger of the two arrived in pieces and I had to glue it back together and fill all the cracks with plaster. I used Chaos Black spray for the basecoat. For the painting I used Ceramcoat paints (just regular acrylic paints for painting ceramics). I used a mix of black and dolphin grey with progressively more grey for highlights and eventually added vanilla to the mix. Then at the suggestion of DMS, I took green (my equivalent of Dark Angels Green) and watered it way down. I then hit spots where water would accumulate and drip with that. It doesn't show overly well in the photos.

Hope that helps.

Harfoot · **Posted:** Fri Jul 26, 2013 10:04 pm

thanks for that, looking forward to starting them, hope they come out as well as yours

BillFerny333 · **Posted:** Sat Jul 27, 2013 2:09 pm

Harfoot, I have seen your work, I have no doubt yours will come out looking incredible!

Attached is my latest mini. I really wanted to try a new technique for painting lava (or magma) that I read about on the base, so I painted the orc captain to put on it. I figured that would fit in a Mordor environment.

I am going to put him up on CMON, so feel free to give it a vote if you have the chance.

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Sat Jul 27, 2013 2:42 pm

My first thought on this was, he's showing off now ! More excellent work in next to no time it seems.
However I have to admit to being a little undecided on the base to be honest. There is no doubt it's a great idea and its always worth experimenting. Maybe the photo isn't the best, I'm just not 100% sure for some reason.
The pose on the figure is great, it's like he's getting ready to sink into the lava and the painting seems up to standard for what I can see.
Overall though Bill it's a wonderful idea and a very worthwhile experiment. Perhaps a lava style like this needed a much bigger base ?

garmenhord · **Posted:** Sat Jul 27, 2013 4:29 pm

nice base! great lava effect

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Sat Jul 27, 2013 8:28 pm

I have a question? Is the orc hotfooting it toward the battle?

The lava is intriguing. The only possible problem is that it distracts from the orc as it is so bright and he is relatively dark. Maybe a bit of source lighting from below, from the glowing lava?

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