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Sharazad wrote:

Brother-Captain Scotti wrote:

I'm always excited when the next day is like schedule: BED! Wow you did well, I struggle to get beyond 12 unless I'm out and drinking a good film?
A rainbow base would be a amazing complete with fluffy bunny!

Get cracking then

Oh and I forgot.............. MOUNTAIN DEW!!! Good choice

I have no troubles sleeping all day ^^
Yeah film was awesome it's called Role Models (imo it's good )
I really like it always cracks me up. When I went to bed I started to feel a bit
gak, so decided I was awake enough to laugh and therefore watched a film ^^
Tonight I will probably replace painting and film for pub though

I have another game here that needs painting it's called Dungeon Explorers
That one would be suitable for a rainbow theme I suppose ^^
I got the box for Xmas but there are quite a lot of mini's so was still
trimming them when I decided I wanted to spend my time on LOTR
But I can feel an end in my painting process so might get the box out soon.

Yeah Mountain dew.... what can I say... just love it! ^^

Update: I pretty much finished the horses and riders on some minor details and tweaks.
Getting along with the foot soldiers.
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It's a reet movie! It's absolutely hilarious! I am thinking of the right one when I say it has RP in and the little kid who likes the ladies right?
Aye, well you have slaved away all day, why not have a beverage! I fancy a beer myself, may have rummage downstairs.

Ah is that the one with the little anime peoples? I looked at that in my local boyes but I wouldn't ever have the time to do anything with it Would be interested to see that eventually on here.

*High five*

*Pics or didn't happen*

EDIT: An congrats on your 2nd page!! Your blog is doing well!

You're picturing the correct movie sir!

Yeah the anime mini's I will certainly blog about it when I start
But that's not going to be soon though.

Pics are going to have to wait, I think I need assistance of a certain someone to make it look decent and put it in fancy programs and make it look better ^^


S.

Oh man do I need to watch that again, loved every second of it!

That's fair enough, the rohirrim will keep you occupied for a long while and that's if some other faction doesn't catch your eye

Well, I suppose if your going to do it, you may as well do it properly!

I don't know why your worried about the pics? They are pretty good and show off the models well!

A great start on the foot troops

The last guy is like 'GET OFF MY LAWN YOU PESKY KIDS!!'

hmmm I'm tempted to do more extreme highlighting... but not sure

S.

If you can do it effectively (and I'm sure you can) then it will look awesome! The hard part i find is keeping it relevant to the colour palette I'm using, I always end up with the wrong kind of green or blue

I might give it a try with one and then post it to see if you like it or not.
It will hurt me though since I am super afraid to screw it up.

I did get a massive compliment in a gamesworkshop store of a person who does commission painting, she said I paint like an intermediate and not a beginner I was very happy.

S.

Aye that's the best way, a test model. Don't be afraid to mess up though, I do all the time and most problems are very much reversable/fixable, just use thin layers

That's a very good compliment! Well done She's right though, you paint far better than a beginner!

Updates will follow soon!


S.

Nice start and exelent brush control for a beginner. A bit flat yet, but extremes might correct this and, as my friend always tells, nothing keeps you from coming back to a model when you fell your skills matured
Lastly I wish you to try converting something as this a whole new world inside hobby and it changed my perception of tabletop gaming alot.

Cheers!
Storag

Thanks to Brother-Captain Scotti I got these bad boys, some imperial guards and more troops
Super happy with them. thank you thank you thank you


Thanks to Fingers I got these beautiful metal heroes! (And Heroin )
Legolas

Aragorn on foot

Gandalf

The beautiful Eowyn

Aragorn on horse


So extra thanks to you guys, it's tremendous of you! Thank you thank you thank you!!!


So here the update on the riders (well it's only one)
This is the finished horse look with finished base.
The rider had more extreme highlighting on his cloak and hair, soon added will be
Highlights on the arrow bag and maybe some extra stuff on the leather or metal bits,
but I'm still debating that.




I noticed it's hard to see the highlights, so I promise better pictures when all the riders are done.
Update about the soldiers, is that they only need highlighting too (and basing).

Hope you guys enjoyed!
Nice start and exelent brush control for a beginner. A bit flat yet, but extremes might correct this and, as my friend always tells, nothing keeps you from coming back to a model when you fell your skills matured
Lastly I wish you to try converting something as this a whole new world inside hobby and it changed my perception of tabletop gaming alot.

Cheers!
Storag

Thank you, I will take the tips in regard. I am not going to do conversion on these models since it's my firs patch. I might do it
when I decide to expend or change army.
However I have a horse that needs a bit of fixing so I will post about that later on (it's legs need repairing).


So thanks everyone for the support, hope you enjoyed the update!
Comments are welcome!


S.

Hey hey!

You are more than welcome, shame the dudes arm came off during transit but I guess it will make him easier to paint
Ooooooo cool heroes too! Really want that Aragorn model myself someday but waiting for a warg attack box to come about
Looking forward to your take on Eowyn too!

That being your first mini done is fantastic, many including myself could only wish our first mini was that good, well done And with the foot troops not far behind this Blog has got me very excited!

If you mend that leg you deserve a medal too

The one criticism I have is the texture paint for the base, for me it hasn't quite worked but that's just me.
Keep it up!

Brother-Captain Scotti wrote:
The one criticism I have is the texture paint for the base, for me it hasn't quite worked but that's just me.
Keep it up!

Panic I think has the same opinion, though me and Fingers Are sort of pleased with the end result
of the base.
This was the look I was going for. I am going to hunt or create new texture paints for better results in the future, these
ones are to tame for my liking. Though I had a lot of trouble with the basing (massive failure rate there) so I spend a bit to much worrying
also therefore decided that this is good nuff for me

Thanks for the comment ^^ it does help.


S.

Everything looks so good and neat!! Very well done!

Looking forward to seeing the warriors completed too so what will follow these dudes?

WIP
Finished
Needs some more
Far from finished


Riders 90 % done (they still need different coloured hair and some need eyes)
Horses 100% done (could do more, but got to call it quits somewhere along the line)
Soldiers 40 % done (still need to do different coloured hair, and some of them need stripping and re-painting)
Shields 1 % done (only done one, still need to do the rest of them)
Bases 40 % done (most of them need the texture paint and the grass)
Heroes 0 % done (these fellas (and one girl) are going to be done last, so my skill is at it's highest point for the first time painting batch)
Other --- (this is everything I forgot and probably needs to be done ^^)

S.

Dude, these look great! I really love your horses; the white looks so crisp and thats damn hard to get right!

kitch102 wrote:Dude, these look great! I really love your horses; the white looks so crisp and thats damn hard to get right!

awww bless you thanks

S.

You are such a good painter!
the horses look amazing and the green does look just like in the films.
keep up the good work and i'm sure the whole force will stand out
can't wait to see more well odne

origarmi chicken wrote:You are such a good painter!
the horses look amazing and the green does look just like in the films.
keep up the good work and i'm sure the whole force will stand out
can't wait to see more well odne

Thanks, it's my first paint job so i can't compare it to anything else.
I slowly feel more secure with painting not yet though with the outcome :p
But that's maybe because I'm a bloody perfectionist (lazy one though).

Thanks for the compliments, it will still take a wee while before
Everything will be finished.
The first thing that's going to be completed are the warriors, I'm sure that
I do a sprint they would be done in a jiff. Now I only have to sit down and do it

S.

yeah,

Sharazad wrote:...Now I only have to sit down and do it

S.

I've just secured 3 nice cushy computer chairs at work today, I'll get them home soon and you'll have no excuses not to paint!

Panic....

Whoop! Another lotr blog - good to see I'm not the only one. Ah your into Rohan, they have to be one of my favourite armies (after Gondor admittedly). Great work so far on the painting, they look brilliant. How long have you been playing/painting with lotr? You've got a fair mounted army going there. Painting all those horses must be a pain! - I know, as I've still got dozens to do and they never seem to get done. You may be interested in the Helm's Deep I built in fact since your a Rohan fan, I'll post the link at the bottom for you. Keep the work up, hope to see more from you!

Drum

There's that link - http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/316056.page

EDIT: Quick question, how do I subscribe to this thread? I know you can do it, but I lack the knowledge of how to.. . lol. Cheers

Drumstick wrote:

EDIT: Quick question, how do I subscribe to this thread? I know you can do it, but I lack the knowledge of how to.. . lol. Cheers

If you post a reply or when you press exalt anywhere

And btw thanks for your compliments.
The horses where fine I quite liked doing them, but maybe that's because there's just a few if them.
This is my first army and my first paint job, and to this they never done a game. That will come when
I finish painting everything.

S.

Panic wrote:yeah,

Sharazad wrote:...Now I only have to sit down and do it

S.

I've just secured 3 nice cushy computer chairs at work today, I'll get them home soon and you'll have no excuses not to paint!

Panic....

Okay sounds like we should do a paint session

S.

So.... I found an interesting links with cool miniatures

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/wnt/blog.jsp?pid=2700102&_requestid=2381311


S.

Excellent Rohan models!

I look forward to seeing those heroes get some paint!

Dr. What wrote:Excellent Rohan models!

I look forward to seeing those heroes get some paint!

If I don't wander off into watching star wars all night I might attempt to do some tonight

Loving your models, can't wait to see your work on the Heroes.

finally got something done. Thanks for everyone posting a reply and following my blog!

So I started spraying for the first time (yes that is actually me, but this time with brown hair instead of blond)
I sprayed me heroes now, so if I get the courage I will start painting them. I'm going to do some research
about how the look in the movies and get some references and actually make an attempt to copy it as
far as me being a n00b allows me to do that.
I'm going to need you guys to help me with this, but I will ask the question soon



And so here is the true update. I practically finished my warriors (meaning I could do more but want to move on first at this point).
I have done the details and more washing, and the shields and more washing and then more highlights and more washing
and I did weathering (and more washing). I was pretty scared doing the weathering, I didn't take a clear picture from it but
will upload some soon.





And another picture of my horses because now they are assembled with shields

Pictures by: Panic

Shall I do weathering on the horse riders too?

Adamski Alders wrote:Loving your models, can't wait to see your work on the Heroes.

Soon! ^^

Hope you lot enjoyed the update!


S.