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Words,
Words cannot express how awesome that painting is.

Krellnus wrote:Words,
Words cannot express how awesome that painting is.

So now for the update! I painted my first ever hero !...........*sound of drum*


Legolas

So I got a new books which Fingers gave me, to be specific:

Lord Of The Rings
Fellowship Of The Ring
The Best Of White Dwarf Magazine

I have one picture from what's in the book and the other one is what I used as colour reference.




I started with the skin. so base, layer and wash (later on I did more highlighting and fixing because I kept changing his eyes (Silly Sharazad)).



Next I was trying out some different styles for his jacket.
I tried different colours and different washes to try and get the best result.



This was a stage I was really looking forward to, his shirt and trousers.
The funny thing is that tutorials and the actual film images are quite different.
I went adventurous as I already made all the colours myself (which I didn't do with my army, but I guess this is what you do for a character)
I actually spend quite a lot of time trying to get what I want, in the end the trousers aren't what I wanted but I think they look good enough.
I didn't want to spend to much time and making it worse.



Some hair shots



So now we fast forward in time and here is the end result!
Panic took pictures because I take really rubbish ones so thanks for that!
There are pictures from different angles to show what is what.



And one other to finish it!




I'm not happy with the eyes, at one point they looked fairly decent but I was messing around to much and now they are to big.
I simply didn't want to risk more.
I've been messing around to much in general (that was something I shouldn't do with the next one, so I suppose it was a good lesson)
the paint is now to tick and it all looks a bit childish.

Comments are welcome!

S.

yeah,
Legolas looks great and your blog is on the front page
Panic...

Damn those warriors are amazing. Your skills are very impressive. Quick question though - just how do you get those white horses looking so brilliant?

Hi all,

Soon I'll upload the pictures of the second heroe that I painted yesterday!
Today I'll probably spend my time painting my finecasts.
Hopefully quick enough I will strip the paint of the models I got
from Brother- Captain scotti and blend them into my army,
I also , most likely, will be creating new hoves for the horse instead of buying new ones.

So still lots to do before completion, but hopefully not long until I can provide you guys with battle reports!

Adamski Alders wrote:Damn those warriors are amazing. Your skills are very impressive. Quick question though - just how do you get those white horses looking so brilliant?

You're far to kind and just created a big smile on my face!

S.

I'm having some busy days behind me and still to come so hopefully soon enough I will have enough time to properly update, until then it's unfortunately a little wait.

S.

New Pictures (by phone)

Legolas, Eomer and Eowyn


Eowyn


Eomer


First conversion



army shot


So that was it so far.

S.

Nice Work!

The basing on those riders looks fantastic!

Dr. What wrote:Nice Work!

The basing on those riders looks fantastic!

cheers, it took some footwork thanks to Panic and Fingers I got the technique down.

S.

That's some cracking stuff you got going on! I especially like the hair on your eowyn, it's like the perfect shade, which is weird because now I think about it someone said that about mine possibly even you lol

Hope your well

P.S. I will be painting LOTR again soon but 6th Ed 40k happened, it's great but really 's with LOTR for sure......

As always, me likey

Brother-Captain Scotti wrote:That's some cracking stuff you got going on! I especially like the hair on your eowyn, it's like the perfect shade, which is weird because now I think about it someone said that about mine possibly even you lol

Hope your well

P.S. I will be painting LOTR again soon but 6th Ed 40k happened, it's great but really 's with LOTR for sure......

Yeah 6th edition is getting my attention as well, I'm already saving up for my 40k army and visiting local gw for help and such.

And thanks for the compliment

deathstreak2000 wrote:As always, me likey

Thanks




S.

Sharazad wrote:

Brother-Captain Scotti wrote:That's some cracking stuff you got going on! I especially like the hair on your eowyn, it's like the perfect shade, which is weird because now I think about it someone said that about mine possibly even you lol

Hope your well

P.S. I will be painting LOTR again soon but 6th Ed 40k happened, it's great but really 's with LOTR for sure......

Yeah 6th edition is getting my attention as well, I'm already saving up for my 40k army and visiting local gw for help and such.

And thanks for the compliment

deathstreak2000 wrote:As always, me likey

Thanks




S.

Awesome!! What have ye decided on? Last I heard it was eldar or slanneshi chaos? (Sorry OT I know but I'm loving 6th Ed. lol)

Off topic is alright, gotta have something to talk about innit?
Yeah I debated between them indeed, but I decided to go for Ultramarines XD

Still have deamons in my head because then I can play fantasy as well (everyone in Holland plays fantasy it's insane).

But yeah, Ultramarines it is ^^
I've heard the new starter set is coming out soon, that gives me some time to save up
Also probably going to start Bloodbowl.
And hopefully soon I'll be painting some more LOTR

S.

Aye, spose it is like

That is a little different to your original plans, but that's cool, love the ultra's just can't stick collecting them, tried twice and failed.
However using my own Imperial Fists successor, the Scythes of Antares, I have been using Calgar a lot, and all I can say is GET HIM!!

That is something I thought of too, it's a good plan, 2 for 1 ^^

You might be better off getting the AoBR, there may be a lot of DA stuff to file off the new one? Kinda depends whether you want bikes or a dread though I guess

Yes more LOTR!!! (Not that I can talk )

How did the rest of the stripping go anyhow?

Well Panic stripped some other models with the same stripper and we decided that the models given where not to be saved...
But to make a bad thing a good one I've decided (original idea by Panic) that they're going to be statues.
I still want to make some background stuff Maybe I'll start drawing soon.

The metal ones are fine, so they're going to be glued and sprayed and painted and used for battle they are! Hail Rohirin!

S.

This is now added to the collection thanks to _Grey_ for painting his human Blood Bowl which are to be found here
BloodBowl[pic heavy]

I'm going to have a lot of fun with this



S.

That base looks frickin' amazing! Is it Balins tomb?

Ah! The old fellowship base thingy! I always liked that but was never gonna fork out for it!

How fare the rohirrim? The metal brethren are well?

HAIL ROHIRRIM! (If that's how you spell it )

 kitch102 wrote:
That base looks frickin' amazing! Is it Balins tomb?

Yes

 Brother-Captain Scotti wrote:
Ah! The old fellowship base thingy! I always liked that but was never gonna fork out for it!

How fare the rohirrim? The metal brethren are well?

HAIL ROHIRRIM! (If that's how you spell it )

I've started painting Aragorn, but it was not a happy painting day, I kept dropping my brushes and that kind of silly stuff.
I'm going to finish the BloodBowls first since I'm not going to be in the Netherlands much longer and they have to stay here.
(btw also got Eldar from him ^^).

I'm going to continue LOTR when I'm back in England again which is in about a month or so.

S.

Really nice painting, looking forward to seeing you carry on with these.

 smiler wrote:
Really nice painting, looking forward to seeing you carry on with these.

Cheers smiler, that made my day

So, I'm back in England so there will be some painting sessions going on this week. I really feel like getting something done I want results and I want it now
There has been enough procrastination!
I'm not sure whether I am going to continue with my finecast or finish up Aragorn first. Seeing I put some effort into the conversion with the finecast (which most people don't seem to notice XD *sadface* )

Also have to do a session of counting up points, I've recently been given some mini's again so I'm a bit lost in what I actually own at the moment and how many points it's worth.
I have a hunch I'm already over my 500 points
But it's a good thing I suppose because it means I can start thinking about actually playing the game for once.

So there will be more pictures SOOOON.....!!!!

~S

Well this was a awesom time spent looking at your latest work, well done

 Sharazad wrote:
So, I'm back in England so there will be some painting sessions going on this week. I really feel like getting something done I want results and I want it now
There has been enough procrastination!
I'm not sure whether I am going to continue with my finecast or finish up Aragorn first. Seeing I put some effort into the conversion with the finecast (which most people don't seem to notice XD *sadface* )

This is great news, looking forward to seeing more. And the conversion is really well done Nice and brutal!

Here is a weird update for you

I was recently asked to display some artsy stuff in a gallery show that is currently ongoing
but the reason I was asked for this was because of this blog and my horses







Yes you can buy the paintings (Darth vader and space invaders) and yes you can buy the wizard and no you cannot buy Eowyn ^^

And please check out my mates blog if you haven't already done this: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/432369.page
Brother-Captain Scotti

 Trondheim wrote:
Well this was a awesom time spent looking at your latest work, well done

I love how nice you are ^^
Thank you

 smiler wrote:

 Sharazad wrote:
So, I'm back in England so there will be some painting sessions going on this week. I really feel like getting something done I want results and I want it now
There has been enough procrastination!
I'm not sure whether I am going to continue with my finecast or finish up Aragorn first. Seeing I put some effort into the conversion with the finecast (which most people don't seem to notice XD *sadface* )

This is great news, looking forward to seeing more. And the conversion is really well done Nice and brutal!

Now that is some motivation thanks very much


So yeah hope to pick up some more painting over the next coming weeks ( I know I keep saying this)
I'm going to blame Blood Bowl and 40K for it ^^ they suddenly walked into my to do list and prioritized themselves



S.

HURRAH! Your back

Eowyn is looking tasty as always! I vote more rohans! Seeing your conversion painted would be reaaally cool

Awww thanks for the plug xD

 Brother-Captain Scotti wrote:
HURRAH! Your back

Eowyn is looking tasty as always! I vote more rohans! Seeing your conversion painted would be reaaally cool

Awww thanks for the plug xD

Thanks and welcome back yourself! Dwarfs are looking good sir!

Your paint job's are really good, and I really like the bases.
Looking forward to more

 celeborn wrote:
Your paint job's are really good, and I really like the bases.
Looking forward to more

Ha! Cheers!

There won't be any new LOTR posts until I finish my Super Dungeon Explorer.
I'm working on them really hard (sort of) so hopefully next month is a LOTR month

Thanks again for the motivation.

S.