Avenger's WIP - Galadriel 30/6

theavenger001 · **Posted:** Sat Mar 17, 2012 6:38 pm

Yep, I saw a cd in the trash, and off I went. I was using some satin varnish as the water effects, but it cracked and clouded and looked terrible. :sad:

So I ripped out the water part and am re-doing it. I think it might have cracked/clouded becuase I put on too thick a layer. I also had some bubbles appear as it was drying, I think that's becuase I had sand underneath and air got cought under the varnish and didn't surface as bubbles for a while. I am trying again, this time with a smooth bottom, and I will take it slowly with thinner layers...

theavenger001 · **Posted:** Sun Mar 18, 2012 10:50 pm

I finished the wood elf. I like how he came out, C&C welcome.
I also did a pike repair on an uruk-pikeman. At the end is a picture of the swamp as it is now. I am trying to get a nice smooth bottom with the glue, and then I will paint over it and try the water-effects again.....

theavenger001 · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 6:27 pm

The swamp is officially a no go. Whatever I tried I wouold get ugly bubbles and such, so it will be something else. But, I did start on a new project. I've been wanting to make some dwarf/goblin mine workings for a while now, but never had the material. And, seeing as I didn't really feel like spending ~$20 on some Balsam, I just sorta let that dream die. That is, until my Grandpa gave me some random balsam strips that he was going to burn.

They were too thin to use as is, but that wasn't going to stop me. I glued two of the strips together to get a nice rectangular piece of lumber. This is what I have so far. C&C welcome.

garmenhord · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 7:45 pm

looks promising :-)

Gondors Finest · **Joined:** Tue Jun 21, 2011 9:50 am **Posts:** 74

You should try roughening them up a bit with a pen and the backside of your knife!!

theavenger001 · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 10:08 pm

You bet! I've done some roughening up on some of the bits you haven't seen, but I will go over the whole thing and make it better textured yet.
*edit*
Finished the texturing and decided to paint up the main part before I glued the top platform on. This is just the first base coat, it will look much better after a couple of dry brushes.

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Mon Mar 26, 2012 7:37 pm

Looking really nice!

theavenger001 · **Posted:** Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:01 pm

Thanks BotWT.
It's amazing what a couple of drybrushes can do.....I will cut the chain as well at some point, I think there should be enough left over to make another platform. I hope I can make one more with a chain, and then probably one more without. Three seems like a good number.

garmenhord · **Posted:** Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:19 pm

looks great

Chris · **Posted:** Mon Mar 26, 2012 10:32 pm

wow realy nice and detailed :yay:

i love that wood paintjob

theavenger001 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 27, 2012 1:04 am

Thanks guys.
I realised I hadn't posted any pics with figure in it for scale. So here's a couple of pictures, they were dark - so I lightened them - so the colours aren't real, but at least you can see the goblins!

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Tue Mar 27, 2012 4:06 am

Oh wow, that is really cool!!!

GothmogtheWerewolf · **Posted:** Tue Mar 27, 2012 11:15 pm

Excellent work, very realistic, those Goblins (and Goblin Prowler I think) look very happy to be on it, and lucky they are.

theavenger001 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 28, 2012 8:09 pm

Yes, those are actually all goblin prowlers. I finished another wood elf archer. C&C welcome.

GothmogtheWerewolf · **Posted:** Wed Mar 28, 2012 11:29 pm

I thought at least 2 were, good conversion. Nice elf, the eyes look less creepy on this one I think.

theavenger001 · **Posted:** Thu Apr 12, 2012 11:04 pm

.....And I'm back. Started work on another piece of cd terrain, as well as working on cleaning up some haradrim. I'm also enlarging my hill troll's club, it was way to puny before. The skewer in the terrain is the trunk of a tree, it will get some sponge once it's painted up. I had to make the rock pile around the skewer because I needed something to drill into that would hold up the trunk..... :-D

Pindergorn · **Posted:** Thu Apr 12, 2012 11:22 pm

That troll is amazing.

BizzareWarstar · **Posted:** Fri Apr 13, 2012 12:54 am

Great idea using the left over sprue's, I must try it out. the troll looks fantastic too, savage stuff.

Chris · **Posted:** Fri Apr 13, 2012 8:28 am

wow nice troll!! :yay:

simmuskhan · **Posted:** Fri Apr 13, 2012 10:30 am

Nice stuff! Love that mining equipment, I'd steal that if I lived nearby. I tried it once and my effort was nowhere near as cool!

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