CGOM: Prince Imrahil and Knights of Dol Amroth (31/05)

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Fri Aug 17, 2012 12:40 am

Excellent painting Chris - you've managed to paint the lake superbly producing a really excellent illusion of depth and shallows. Superb!!!

Oldman Willow · **Posted:** Fri Aug 17, 2012 7:05 am

I like your lake

the colors look very good. It will take several maybe even 10 coats of varnish to match the commercial water products.You did a good job with the card it is very difficult to learn how to keep the paper from warping.

Chris GoM · **Posted:** Fri Aug 17, 2012 3:05 pm

SidTheSloth wrote:

mmm..
very nice, chris
very nicely done colours

lakes and water features are really underused in the SBG

Thanks Sid, I'll probably use it as an objective to start with, until I get others painted up (as well as (eventually) my river

)

King Ondoher wrote:

Looks more like a pond to me. Nice painting.

Thanks King Ondoher

It is a bit on the small side, but I'm ok with that for now

GothmogtheWerewolf wrote:

Very good work, it looks nice and fairly realistic :yay:

May I enquire as to what Old paints are the equivalents to the new one you used? (I want to paint some water in the well on my Great Beast's base, and I pretty ,uch have almost entirely the old paints).

Thanks GtW :-D

I used Scorched Brown (Rhinox Hide), Dark Angels Green (Caliban Green) and Shadow Grey (The Fang).

Dead Marsh Spectre wrote:

Excellent painting Chris - you've managed to paint the lake superbly producing a really excellent illusion of depth and shallows. Superb!!!

Cheers DMS :-D

Hopefully I can get the others to look the same

Oldman Willow wrote:

I like your lake

the colors look very good. It will take several maybe even 10 coats of varnish to match the commercial water products.You did a good job with the card it is very difficult to learn how to keep the paper from warping.

Thanks Oldman Willow

The card has warped slightly, but it's not really noticeable, I found putting a metal model or two on it kept it from warping.

GothmogtheWerewolf · **Posted:** Fri Aug 17, 2012 6:00 pm

Thanks for the painting info, I have Scortched Brown, Dark Angels Green and Shadow Grey.

I must remember that when I come to it.

Chris GoM · **Posted:** Sat Aug 18, 2012 7:34 pm

My Mordor Orc Banner, I picked up on impulse a few months ago. I finally painted him up, and decided to use the Witch-King of Angmar's Crown as the design for the free hand. I still need to do a bit of work to the banner, but for now it's done.

Blog link (more angles):
http://chrisgomhobbyblog.blogspot.co.uk ... earer.html

Shieldmaiden · **Posted:** Sat Aug 18, 2012 7:48 pm

Nice work there Chris! The freehand is outstanding, you did a great job of it.

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Sat Aug 18, 2012 8:05 pm

Awesome freehand!!! Really awesome!!

Chris GoM · **Posted:** Sun Aug 19, 2012 11:58 am

Shieldmaiden wrote:

Nice work there Chris! The freehand is outstanding, you did a great job of it.

BilboOfTheWhiteTower wrote:

Awesome freehand!!! Really awesome!!

Thank you both

I have my next banner designed planned - but more Goblins/Dwarves first

Pindergorn · **Posted:** Sun Aug 19, 2012 12:43 pm

You're going to use the Lake (Pond) as an objective? So...what, the Goblins and Dwarves are fighting over exclusive fishing rights? : :rofl:

The design on your Orc banner is amazing.

Chris GoM · **Posted:** Sun Aug 19, 2012 10:11 pm

King Ondoher wrote:

You're going to use the Lake (Pond) as an objective? So...what, the Goblins and Dwarves are fighting over exclusive fishing rights? : :rofl:

And access to the unique fishing equipment called a 'Gollum', which can be very temperamental, although if used correctly can be a great source of fish and rings

Although they'd probably be fighting for access to clean water (even though it doesn't look all that clean)

King Ondoher wrote:

The design on your Orc banner is amazing.

Thanks

I also bought a Dragon today whilst I was out, but that will have to wait for now, until I have more Goblins ready for action

Wah Wing · **Posted:** Sun Aug 19, 2012 11:53 pm

Fantastic pieces all around! From the dwarves to the banner! Excellent!

Chris GoM · **Posted:** Mon Aug 20, 2012 1:29 pm

Wah Wing wrote:

Fantastic pieces all around! From the dwarves to the banner! Excellent!

Thanks Wah Wing!

And to answer your question on TLA, I weighed the lake down with a couple of metal models to stop it warping and bent it back in the opposite direction to which it was warping to prevent it from doing so, as well as making it from a spare Rider of Rohan box I had lying around instead of a piece of paper. Hope that answers your question