BrushStrokes Work In Progress - Harad, Mahud, Dol Amroth etc

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Sat Jun 20, 2015 12:29 pm

Fantastic!!!!

Crucium Giger · **Posted:** Tue Jun 23, 2015 2:01 pm

Really love this piece from the base up, beautiful work :yay:

BrushStroke · **Posted:** Tue Jun 23, 2015 2:25 pm

Thank you everyone

I must confess I've become side tracked again... I'm hoping it will be another cool looking piece though.
Here's a sneak preview of progress so far

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Tue Jun 23, 2015 3:54 pm

Lovely work on the tree, very realistic

BrushStroke · **Posted:** Mon Jul 06, 2015 2:00 pm

Quick update on things...

Unfortunately my tree based diorama piece has hit a snag, in the form of the "finecast" mini being really poorly cast and I'm having to wait for a replacement

On the plus side I was making good progress with the base....
Here's a sneak peek (and a massive give away to identity of the mini)

While I'm waiting I've started to make some progress on my Dol Amroth though, so not all bad I guess

Baardeend · **Posted:** Tue Jul 07, 2015 8:19 am

That base looks amazing! Do you have a picture of the whole base?

And your knights are coming along nicely. Don't be hasty, Master BrushStroke

BrushStroke · **Posted:** Tue Jul 07, 2015 8:49 am

Baardeend wrote:

That base looks amazing! Do you have a picture of the whole base?

Thanks Baardeend

I don't have a pic of the full base, as I've only started flocking that one end so far...
I do have a couple of pics of some detail bits I'm working on at the moment though

Crucium Giger · **Posted:** Tue Jul 07, 2015 9:07 am

As usual everything is shaping up rather nicely

BrushStroke · **Posted:** Tue Jul 07, 2015 4:37 pm

Crucium Giger wrote:

As usual everything is shaping up rather nicely

Thanks CG

Made some decent progress on Radagast's pimp wagon last night

theavenger001 · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2015 1:55 am

Ooh, that looks really nice so far. That figure lends itself well to a large scenic base.

BrushStroke · **Posted:** Sun Aug 02, 2015 9:06 pm

Got some leaves on my tree now too

BrushStroke · **Posted:** Fri Aug 21, 2015 9:53 am

It's done!

Crucium Giger · **Posted:** Fri Aug 21, 2015 11:21 am

Bootiful

Baardeend · **Posted:** Fri Aug 21, 2015 3:58 pm

Incredible, absolutely incredible! This must be the first game legal diorama piece I've ever seen

Feanorthenoldor · **Joined:** Wed Sep 02, 2009 6:44 pm **Posts:** 879

amazing diorama.

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Fri Aug 21, 2015 6:08 pm

That's a stunner and no mistake! The foliage looks real!

Natarn · **Posted:** Sun Aug 23, 2015 8:21 am

Bonsai!
You will need to clip the roots and prune the branches each year so the tree doesn't grow too big for the pot.

What a lovely model! Most impressive in every way.

BrushStroke · **Posted:** Sun Aug 23, 2015 10:42 pm

Thank you all for the brilliant comments, really appreciate it.
Great motivation for the next project

GreatKhanArtist · **Posted:** Mon Aug 24, 2015 10:51 pm

Love the diorama.

Also appreciating the comments on the eagle. Would you recommend buying them, or are they just too much trouble? I've been saving for their 3 eagles for quite some time now and would like to know if I should just buy GW's plastic ones.

BrushStroke · **Posted:** Tue Aug 25, 2015 9:05 am

GreatKhanArtist wrote:

Love the diorama.

Also appreciating the comments on the eagle. Would you recommend buying them, or are they just too much trouble? I've been saving for their 3 eagles for quite some time now and would like to know if I should just buy GW's plastic ones.

Thanks GreatKhanArtist

Regarding Gamezone eagles, I actually bought all 3 and was really looking forward to painting them up (so many ideas for them

)
When they arrived though, I was really disappointed to find problems with them all. Each one had problems, ranging from mis-cast details, to holes, to pieces not even being from the right model :shock:

So, after weeks of back and forth with their customer services I finally got them to accept they were not up to scratch and send me replacement models. This was delayed further by them saying they needed to recast the model as the moulds were damaged.

A couple of weeks after that, they arrived from Spain and I found they had only sent replacement pieces for the faults they felt warranted replacing, instead of the whole models, which I was under the impression had been agreed. :roll:

I figured it was the best I was going to get so I made up the one I posted on here. It still took a fair amount of green stuffing and corrective work to get it looking right....

I absolutely love the sculpts and the look of their eagles but right now I just can't bring myself to start the other two....

Of course this is just my experience and there is nothing to say you'll have anywhere near the same problems.
All I would say is, if you're not comfortable doing some work to get your models to fit etc, then perhaps these are to be avoided...

On the plus side, they do look great :-D

BrushStrokes Work In Progress - Harad, Mahud, Dol Amroth etc

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