One Ring Member's Progression

MacGothmog · **Posted:** Fri Oct 19, 2012 4:55 pm

I dont have the first mini I ever painted because it belongs to an old friend of mine, but I was looking for my hobbit minis and I found this in the pack. It was one of the first miniatures (if not the first one) that I uploaded here to OR back in 2005 or so, and it was definetely one of the very first I ever painted.

Telchar · **Posted:** Mon Dec 17, 2012 7:14 pm

That's actually very good, MacGothmog! Any chance of seeing your recent work?

River Zora · **Joined:** Mon Dec 10, 2012 7:57 pm **Posts:** 224

Can't really do this with LotR minis, as none of my oldies survived... here's how my 'nids have progressed though!

Fin · **Posted:** Mon Mar 04, 2013 12:10 am

Unluckily my early LotR Miniatures have alle been repainted some day. Back then I was just not confident with my "one layer, no highlight, no wash"-style anymore... :oops:

This Bretonnian archer might be my first painted miniature ever... I'm not quite sure but it might be from 1998. His style is pretty close to the one I used on my early LotR minis. I actually thought it looked pretty good... Never change a running system...^^

Today my archers look more like that:

Telchar · **Posted:** Thu Jun 20, 2013 5:14 pm

That archer is not at all bad for a first mini - all the colours neatly in the right places, even details down the buttons on his shirt. And those horse archers are awesome.

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

I loved looking at all the pictures of your mini's great work!

wiirgy · **Posted:** Mon Aug 05, 2013 6:47 pm

My first gobbos and a cave troll back in Late May/Early June.
Oh boy I thought they looked good back then.

These are painted today! More pictures of Bert the Troll in my W.I.P thread.

Telchar · **Posted:** Tue Aug 06, 2013 7:45 pm

Wow you are improving fast!

wiirgy · **Posted:** Wed Aug 07, 2013 11:59 am

Telchar wrote:

Wow you are improving fast!

Thank you buddy! Hopefully I can post here again in a few more months and see more progress!

hannanibal · **Joined:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 2:55 pm **Posts:** 221

I don't have my first ever model but i have my first model after a decade hiatus.

Bit rusty with the old paint skills....

In 2011:

2012:

and 2013:

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

Holy smoke Those are so good!

thefryer · **Joined:** Mon Dec 02, 2013 2:03 pm **Posts:** 21

There is some fantastic painting on this site I going to upload some photos of my own an hopefully being on here will help me get my painting to higher standard

Bandobras Took · **Posted:** Thu Jan 23, 2014 2:42 pm

Wow Hannanibal! Stunning painting! It's also amazing to see the progression everyone has made since they first started.

So I thought I'd join in and throw in a few pics from when I started back in Christmas 2008 :shock:

- seems like I've been in this hobby for ages but it's only been 5 years!

Anyway the first mini I ever painted - a Space Marine from the old 40K starter box - Christmas 2008. Pretty terrible I know :-D

Then my first LotR mini - a Ranger of Middle Earth. Again pretty bad. January 2009

Then started to get better in 2012 after over a year out of the hobby between 2010-2011. Haldir.

Started to hit a better standard at Christmas 2012 with the EFGT box.

Then I really wanted to start aiming for a better standard in April-May 2013 and this is Gamling done with a more measured approach.

And finally where I'm at now. As you can see quite a difference to 2008...

So now I'm aiming to begin looking at more technical aspects of painting and continue my progress with the help of some of the fantastic painters on here

Aulë, the Valar · **Posted:** Sat May 03, 2014 1:22 am

OMG, it seems like I'll never ever reach you guys :\
All of you are geniuses 0.0

CooperHaydenn · **Joined:** Tue Aug 05, 2014 1:23 am **Posts:** 18

not sure of the time frame on this one, pretty sure i got the grim hammers right when they came out. anywho, this is my first grim hammer (not particularily bad i dont think, just boring as all get out) :

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and this is my most recent grim hammer, finished him a couple months ago (also not so impressive, but i can see improvements) :

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BrushStroke · **Posted:** Wed Nov 26, 2014 12:43 pm

Wow!!! There are some amazing painters on this board.... very inspiring

I only started painting in April this year so this isn't as dramatic as others but what the hell...
First minis back from April

Harad warriors from October

I'm now TOTALLY addicted to painting

CooperHaydenn · **Joined:** Tue Aug 05, 2014 1:23 am **Posts:** 18

BrushStroke you pretty well started off as amazing. but i can see some improvements in detail from april.

BrushStroke · **Posted:** Wed Nov 26, 2014 5:10 pm

Thank you CooperHaydenn, I feel I've gotten better with my brush control and certainly my face painting has improved... I'm still very hit and miss doing eyes though... but I'm sticking with it

CooperHaydenn · **Joined:** Tue Aug 05, 2014 1:23 am **Posts:** 18

good call! i dont even bother with eyes, too scary for me.

Vagabond · **Joined:** Mon Jan 19, 2015 8:29 pm **Posts:** 59

My first miniature painted, back at 2010:

Some of my recent work:

It's not much of a progress...

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