Thought I'd share - Fire Wraiths, Aragorn sculpting

Blue Dragon · **Posted:** Sat Jul 19, 2014 3:52 pm

Pretty much a carbon copy of my post on TLA, but a slightly wider audience here... I apologise for the small pics - see my blog for the full sized ones. The changes that imageshack has made since I last posted photos anywhere as put me off them for good. My blog link is in my signature.

Where did time go? I painted a few things around December 2012, but a look back through my posts tells me I never posted them - but they're on my blog if you want to take a peek. Anyway, this is the first time I've touched a brush in more than a year, and the first time I've done anything serious in a year and a half.

With more pictures on my blog (link in the signature), allow me to present Eowyn, Aragorn, and Elrond:

Aragorn is a little blurry and has lighting issues (taking photos with my iPod, and experimenting with a photo setup), so apologies for that.

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Sat Jul 19, 2014 5:58 pm

Any chance of bigger photos please ?

Sithious · **Posted:** Sat Jul 19, 2014 6:41 pm

This eowyn of yours is fantastic. Great job on Elrond too. Hope you get some more painting in before your next break.

LordElrond · **Posted:** Sat Jul 19, 2014 8:06 pm

Wow. That's really good.

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Sat Jul 19, 2014 8:21 pm

Looks great.

Mapper · **Posted:** Sat Jul 19, 2014 10:20 pm

Very nice painting and background. Question about Elrond - that figure is from the White Council set that I keep debating if I should buy. Can he be posed so he isn't looking down or does that throw off the whole way he is standing?

Crucium Giger · **Posted:** Sat Jul 19, 2014 10:25 pm

Great work.

Blue Dragon · **Posted:** Sun Jul 20, 2014 1:22 am

Gandlaf the Grey wrote:

Any chance of bigger photos please ?

Yeah, sorry about those small pics - imageshack changed since I last used it, and full sized pics are no longer free. I'll look into using another hosting site for the future. Cheers Sith for providing a bigger pic

Mapper - He's a single component, so either you'd have to place him on an angled surface like a rock, or do a bit of conversion work to change the angle of his head, and given the cost of the model, I'd shy away from even trying.

Eowyn's not actually totally finished. I still need to highlight the sword blade, but I don't have any lighter metallics than the old boltgun metal. Heaps more paints should be arriving in about a week to bolster my dwindling supplies, so I plan to paint more then.

Thanks everyone for the great responses!

Mapper · **Posted:** Sun Jul 20, 2014 3:12 am

Thanks for the answer, think I will pass on buying the new white council. It seems like there are too many issues with that set for me; Saruman looking up, Elrond looking down, and it seems to me that there is something wrong with the scale between figures. Of course, if I could paint as well as you I might buy it anyway as I would like an unarmed Elrond.

Blue Dragon · **Posted:** Sun Jul 20, 2014 3:26 am

I think he still looks good set up beside dwarf/hobbit sized models, but I definitely get what you're saying.

I have bigger pictures now - I didn't initially realise I could use the image urls straight off my blog.

Morbag_the_Orc · **Posted:** Mon Jul 21, 2014 10:55 am

Amazing job!

Natarn · **Posted:** Mon Jul 21, 2014 12:42 pm

Nice blog.

The skin looks great on Eowyn, lovely face too.

Amy · **Posted:** Mon Jul 21, 2014 1:10 pm

Eowyn is fantastic! Love her cloak!

Dezartfox · **Posted:** Mon Jul 21, 2014 4:33 pm

Looking sweeeet,

My only crit is the tufts. I think if you use some PVA on them it dissolves the lump of glue holding them together and they then look more natural.

LordoftheBrownRing · **Posted:** Mon Jul 21, 2014 5:18 pm

The faces are phenomenal man! Everything is, but that struck me the most!

Blue Dragon · **Posted:** Mon Jul 21, 2014 5:50 pm

Thanks everyone for the feedback!

@Dezartfox, I actually did use PVA to stick the tufts onto the bases. I'm not sure why or how PVA would dissolve the glue on the base of the tufts, but I don't doubt you either. I didn't use a lot to stick them down, so maybe If I use slightly more it will help next time, but I shall have to experiment because the whiteness showing through bugs me quite a bit.

@LordoftheBrownRing, I'm glad you think that, as traditionally I struggle to do faces that I'm happy with. The brightness of the lighting hides the roughness on the surfaces in the picture where layers of paint were drying as I applied them. Hopefully I can do even better in future (because better work means more ego-boosting comments like yours :-D

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I'm planning to do Gandalf the White next up once my new paints arrive, and probably follow him up with either Bilbo or Bard, most likely Bilbo because I want to kind of go through painting models with each colour in them (having just done a bit of blue and brown, by then also white, so his red jacket makes him the choice).

Blue Dragon · **Posted:** Fri Jul 25, 2014 10:14 am

Been working on fixing up some second hand and new models over the last few days. Boromir and Shelob are two particularly intricate examples, having had to resculpt Boromir's upper arm and turn a right leg into a left leg on Shelob.

Thought I'd share - Fire Wraiths, Aragorn sculpting

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