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Author:  BizzareWarstar [ Mon Dec 24, 2012 5:02 am ]
Post subject:  Durin & Mardin

Hi folks, just wanted to share some miniatures I've recently painted. I have some Rohan Command to get through and began with the Kings Huntsman. I've painted him up as Arathorn though for use with my Arnor force.
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Undercoated black, dry brushed with codex grey and skull white.

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Armour - Badab Black

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Armour - Boltgun metal glaze.

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Armour - thinned Delvan Mud wash, dry brush boltgun metal.

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Graveyard Earth glaze, concentrating pigment in shaded areas. small amount of bleach bone was added for mid tones and a smaller amount of white for highlights.

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Another Graveyard earth glaze.

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Belt - chaos black and scorched brown glaze.
Green clothes - codex grey and loren forest, skull white for highlights, Catachan Green was used to shade.

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a heavy glaze of codex grey was used on his sleeves.

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Skin - Tallarn flesh, tallaran and skull white towards highlights, thinned ogryn flesh.

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Hair - Scorched brown glazes, dark flesh glaze, chaos black and scorched brown mix for shading...


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...metal details on the sword and helmet were given a watered down wash of citadel brown ink and the chain mail was given a dry brush of mithril silver. A watered down mix of chaos black and scorched brown was used to darken and divide certain areas.



Undercoated this guy almost a decade ago and painted him just before I started on the Kings Huntsman. I also used a wet palette for the first time with this piece and it was so handy I have continued using one.

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Author:  Erurainon the Trombonist [ Mon Dec 24, 2012 8:20 am ]
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These are both excellent! Gandalf is especially good - the white is beautifully smooth!

Author:  Fëanor, the mighty elf [ Mon Dec 24, 2012 9:54 am ]
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Awesomely painted! I really like how the scale armour on the huntsman is slightly different in colour from the chain mail.

You should make an article on painting that Huntsman by the way! ;) You're already mostly done too.

Gandalf is also superbly painted. The white has turned out great. I know how hard it is to get white right!

Author:  Constantine [ Mon Dec 24, 2012 3:01 pm ]
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I like how you approached the Huntsman. Very nice natural tones. Your Gandalf though is excellent! Keep us updated with your work.

Author:  SidTheSloth [ Mon Dec 24, 2012 4:22 pm ]
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Fëanor, the mighty elf wrote:
Awesomely painted! I really like how the scale armour on the huntsman is slightly different in colour from the chain mail.

You should make an article on painting that Huntsman by the way! ;) You're already mostly done too.

Gandalf is also superbly painted. The white has turned out great. I know how hard it is to get white right!



Hear, hear! You should do an article 8)

Author:  PowerofWill [ Mon Dec 24, 2012 5:11 pm ]
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Great painting! The huntsman is awesome! 8)

-PoW

Author:  garmenhord [ Mon Dec 24, 2012 5:49 pm ]
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very nicely painted! love that armour.

Author:  John Wayne [ Mon Dec 24, 2012 6:13 pm ]
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Wow amazing work! The huntsman looks great, Gandalf too :)

Author:  Troszkowsky [ Mon Dec 24, 2012 6:17 pm ]
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I am a fan! :D

Love the Huntsman! So glad you did a step-by step for that one. Keep up the great painting, and please keep posting your work!

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Author:  goblin_king [ Mon Dec 24, 2012 8:23 pm ]
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Stunning use of glazes! Very well done. I love the progress you have made on Gandalf.

Author:  Harfoot [ Mon Dec 24, 2012 10:18 pm ]
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Nice work.

Author:  Dreadknight [ Mon Dec 24, 2012 10:29 pm ]
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Brilliant work. I'd like to hear more about the wet palette you used please as I have been thinking of getting one but the ones in the art shop are huge.

Author:  BizzareWarstar [ Mon Dec 24, 2012 11:12 pm ]
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Thanks guys, really appreciate it.

The last time someone asked me to write an article I told them I would, but never did....I cant promise anything but If I manage to write something I'm happy with I'll submit it for proof reading.

Dreadknight wrote:
I'd like to hear more about the wet palette you used please as I have been thinking of getting one but the ones in the art shop are huge.


I put a flat sponge in a plastic dinner tray and poured water in until the sponge was almost submerged, then put a piece of grease proof (baking) paper over the sponge to stop the paint from bleeding into the sponge and water. thats it.
I don't think you need to buy anything costly for it, once you have a shallow container that holds water your half way there.

Author:  BizzareWarstar [ Sun Jan 06, 2013 4:40 pm ]
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Just painted the base on the Huntsman to finish him and got one of these Vivid Toys miniatures to see how painting one would go.

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Undercoat;
Citadel Technical Imperial Primer (2 coats)

Base Coat;
Tallarn Flesh.

Shading colours mixed with base colour;
Fenris Grey, Dark Flesh,

Shading/Wash;
Waterd down Ogryn Flesh, Watered down Delvan Mud

Highlight colours mixed with base colour;
Skull white

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I was told he looks old and that he's scowling too much....cant say that I disagree, for a while I thought he looked a bit like Kevin Spacey. what do you think so far ?

Author:  garmenhord [ Sun Jan 06, 2013 4:44 pm ]
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looks great so far - maybe u should work a bit on the hair to make him look less old
The skin looks great enough i think

Author:  goblin_king [ Sun Jan 06, 2013 7:35 pm ]
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The skin looks great! I would leave it, just keep going and see how it turns out. I agree, perhaps adding some colour to his hair and around the face with his clothes will make him look younger. It might just be that the skin looks washed out because of it's surroundings.

Author:  Corvus [ Sun Jan 06, 2013 9:32 pm ]
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You have a lot of courage to paint something that scale! Although I'm no specialist at this scale I think the skin could use a lot more contrast. You have much more room to blend from dark to light: use this extra space!

Author:  Crucium Giger [ Mon Jan 07, 2013 11:28 am ]
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Excellent work, love the mail on the huntsman

Author:  BizzareWarstar [ Mon Jan 07, 2013 11:36 am ]
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garmenhord, goblin_king, yer right. I should paint the hair and some of the clothes first to see how it all works together, then as Corvus suggested I'll try work on the contrast when I have a better idea of how its all turning out.

thanks guys

Author:  Chris [ Thu Jan 10, 2013 10:57 am ]
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wow o.o the commander is stunning! such details....... :yay:

ur gandalf is...perfect? it is so hard to work with white.. gotta say thats the best gandalf i ever seen congratz

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