Red Corsairs' WIP - 'Welcome to Bag End' (updated 23/4/12)

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Wed Aug 24, 2011 10:41 pm

Elland wrote:

Dang! He's looking good! Well, for an Uruk-hai that is...I mean, can they be good looking?

Hehe thanks Elland

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Wed Aug 24, 2011 10:49 pm

Jake, his eyes look really cool!!

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Wed Aug 24, 2011 11:37 pm

Thanks Dave, glad you like them. I think this was the first time I've ever been happy with the way the eyes turned out on the first attempt.

Should finish this one tomorrow

draked · **Joined:** Sat Aug 13, 2011 3:17 am **Posts:** 266

Can't wait see him finished!!

TheBucklandBrewer · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2011 7:32 am

Lurtz looks great! His face is really impressive! The hands and eyes turned out great! Well done!

I also like your Faramir a lot! Every time I see that Ragner-version of him I think it's time I paint mine aswell, but I never come to it...
The Minas Tirith warrior turned out excellent! The red fits them much better than I ever imagined! Well done, good risk, but nice result!

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2011 8:34 am

Thank you very much

Finished Lurtz now. I tried to keep him quite dark, but the cloth/leather looks darker in the last picture than it actually is. Either way I'm pleased with how he turned out, and after several months, I have finally completed a painting challenge entry

TheBucklandBrewer · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2011 9:34 am

Red Corsairs wrote:

after several months, I have finally completed a painting challenge entry

And that for the one who picked it up again and caused all this refreshed energy in LOTR-painters' world... SHAME ON YOU JAKE!!

He's looking great! The armour looks very nice, Urukish! Excellent base aswell! Great job mate!
Now, prepare for a monster! :-X

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2011 9:57 am

TheBucklandBrewer wrote:

And that for the one who picked it up again and caused all this refreshed energy in LOTR-painters' world... SHAME ON YOU JAKE!!

Hehe

My Buhrdur is all prepped and ready for next months challenge. First though I'm going to try and get an Orc Shaman on Warg painted before the monster challenge begins. I like the model and I've had it sitting on the desk since release waiting for some paint, so he is also now prepped and I shall start him soon.

(I've already given up on getting the whole Gondor army painted up. The trouble is when painting more than one of any particular style of mini, I get bored after one or two. So I've decided to just go through my collection randomly painting models I like the look of

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aqan · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2011 11:56 am

Lurtz looks good!
Dark and dirty just like he should be.
My only critisism is the white hand, it looks a bit to clean for me.
(maybe a bit of bleached bone/kommando kaki?)

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The trouble is when painting more than one of any particular style of mini, I get bored after one or two. So I've decided to just go through my collection randomly painting models I like the look of )

Why does that sound a bit familiar..... :oops:

looking forward to buhrdur.

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2011 1:54 pm

aqan wrote:

My only critisism is the white hand, it looks a bit to clean for me.

I see what you mean... I've already given him a spray with a Matt Varnish, but I will make the white hand on the next Lurtz I paint dirtier (I have Lurtz with bow coming through the post that I intend on using with Uruk-Scout Archers).

UPDATE TIME.

I've been in a real painting mood since starting Lurtz, and have already made some good progress with the Orc Shaman on Warg. The Warg fur is finished and the base is finished (people ask me all the time why I don't do bases at the end, well basically I find that fixing an area where I've accidentally gotten paint on a finished base is much easier to do than fixing an area where I've gotten paint on a finished shoe or leg as you can easily glue a bit of grass over the top of it. Besides, if I'm careful enough, I usually don't get any paint on the base anyway).

I'm starting on the grey bits of the Wargs' legs and the Wargs' face now

A very enjoyable mini to paint so far!

Erunion · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2011 2:07 pm

Excellent start on the Shaman. That mini has been on my wish list for a long time, but I've just never gotten around to purchasing him.

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2011 4:11 pm

wicked!!!!

Hilbert · **Joined:** Mon Jun 06, 2011 7:07 am **Posts:** 2088

Awesome...

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2011 6:32 pm

Really like the fur on this one...well done!

TheBucklandBrewer · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2011 6:33 pm

Nice fur! Looking awesome so far!

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2011 7:31 pm

Thanks guys, appreciated

Once the wargs face, paws and reins are finished I will post an update, although it depends on how good a picture I can take with no daylight as to whether it will be tonight or tomorrow morning that I take the pictures.

Drumstick · **Joined:** Sat Sep 19, 2009 8:57 am **Posts:** 1223

Look's very good, I've never seen that model mounted before actually. Look forward to more progress

Drum

Meneldil · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2011 8:27 pm

It looks great so far, nice painting on the warg!
I also really like your bases, they look really good.

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Fri Aug 26, 2011 8:05 am

Thanks all, I would get pictures now but I'm off out any minute now so when I get back later, pictures should be up

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I've never seen that model mounted before actually.

It is a great mini, fun to paint so far too.

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2011 1:55 pm

Not a big update. I haven't done much more painting on the Shaman in the last couple of days, but I've finished the eyes and the tongue of the warg and have gone over everything in Chaos Black that got paint on whilst painting the fur. Next up are teeth and skin highlights for the warg!

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