Turwaitheon's Mirkwood Wonders

Constantine · **Posted:** Sun Mar 23, 2014 8:34 pm

I love the autumnal colors of the rangers; a very interesting choice! I can imagine them blending perfectly amidst the golden trees of Lothlorien.

turwaitheon · **Posted:** Sun Mar 23, 2014 8:39 pm

Ha! Yes they could indeed, I will take some pictures when it's daytime though, it will look much better.

turwaitheon · **Posted:** Tue Mar 25, 2014 2:51 pm

Well, well, well.

It has been a long time.... two days since I last posted something here.
This will be just a post containing only a few pictures.

My goal is to finish this army:

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before the 5th of April (less then two weeks, that is).

That means: -Finishing Tauriel, Finishing Bases, Finishing the Objective marker, Finishing 9 other Elves and Finishing Bilbo Baggins.

Bilbo (three pictures, never mind the right eye (his right), it has been fixed):

Tauriel (again, natural lighting):

Rangers (again, natural lighting):

Objective marker (just the start):

That's it for today.

Comments and Questions are welcome!
Turwaitheon.

Constantine · **Posted:** Tue Mar 25, 2014 4:14 pm

Was Biblo's right eye messy because of the sculpt? If yes, then I am very curious as to how you corrected it.

A clever idea for an elven objective marker, your fellow players are lucky; how did you make the tree?

I will reiterate: your rangers' palette is superb! My criticism pertains to Tauriel's skin tone; it seems too dark for a female elf.

turwaitheon · **Posted:** Tue Mar 25, 2014 4:27 pm

Bilbo.. I think both sculpt and a bit messed up painting..
And thank you!!

turwaitheon · **Posted:** Mon Apr 14, 2014 4:18 pm

Well well well, hasn't it been a long time since I posted something!

And to you, I present Beorn: the Skin-changer!

Oh, and.. I am aware of the minor errors of the model, some of which I only discovered when I started the painting progress.
Somewone on a dutch forum pointed it out as a result of torment from the Nortern Orcs.

Beorn:

And a small Thranduil preview (the second version, blue):

So, that''s it today.

I'm eager for questions or comments!

turwaitheon · **Posted:** Wed Apr 30, 2014 8:37 pm

Time for Tauriel, again. But she is now finished, completely.

The base has been painted and based. The tree trunk has been painted!

Here she is:

Comments and Questions are welcome.

Greetings!

cooper101183 · **Posted:** Thu May 01, 2014 12:05 pm

I love the way you have painted Thranduil's crown. You're eagle is awesome

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Thu May 01, 2014 12:37 pm

You have done some nice work here and a good basis to move forward. Your paints in general look slightly thick, make sure you water them down more and look to applying several coats. This is going to help the definition and your blending.
Tauriels right thigh is dark at the highest point and needs to be a lot lighter.
Thranduil's cloak is ready to be shaded a lot more. You can put some really dark colours in to get the contrast.
Above all though, remember the thinned paints an building those layers up.

turwaitheon · **Posted:** Thu May 01, 2014 2:49 pm

Thank you.
And thank you for the advice. And I am working more and more with thinned paints, it really helps giving more depth.

Sticky Fingersss · **Joined:** Sat Oct 09, 2010 11:20 am **Posts:** 1776

Was the back wound in Beorn part of the model or did you put that in?

turwaitheon · **Posted:** Fri May 02, 2014 5:36 am

The back wound is actually a part of the model.

orc-archer · **Posted:** Fri May 02, 2014 9:12 am

Tauriels base looks amazing, well done!

turwaitheon · **Posted:** Fri May 02, 2014 9:18 am

Thank you!

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Fri May 02, 2014 3:43 pm

I like the Ranger 'camouflage'.

Adanedhel88 · **Joined:** Tue Jul 12, 2011 5:11 pm **Posts:** 216

Wow these elves are looking awesum. i really like the different ranger colors
really well done

turwaitheon · **Posted:** Sat May 03, 2014 1:25 pm

Thank you!

And I am right now working on them. But, about the rangers, it is hard to find a good way to paint them. I've got some new ideas though, will be used when I've got myself another box of them, probably two. (that means about 10 or 20 extra rangers)

And I've got a story about my choice of colours for the rangers:

The reason I've picked the brown and green colours is that these nine rangers, and eventually a Mirkwood Ranger Captain, are part of the Mirkwood Ranger Border Guard.

And so, the other 21 Mirkwood Rangers will be part of Tauriel's and Legolas' Warbands who patrol the inner forest!

Also: Finished Beorn. (I mean that I've based him and I have painted his base edge)

Greetings!

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Sat May 03, 2014 4:37 pm

I like Beorns dark dirty look, very fitting.

turwaitheon · **Posted:** Sun May 04, 2014 8:36 am

Thanks! And the thing is: I was painting Beorn with very thinned down paint!

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Sun May 04, 2014 9:15 am

turwaitheon wrote:

Thanks! And the thing is: I was painting Beorn with very thinned down paint!

And that's the way forward. If you had wanted stronger highlights it would be a case of applying more layers.

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