Ares' WIP

Ares B · **Posted:** Fri Sep 09, 2011 5:43 pm

This dragon type thing has been lurking in my drawer for over a decade, now I finally got it assembled using the superglue-greenstuff method. Seems to be holding nicely. Now some filing and plenty of painting... Should I try pushing it to the Monsters contest?

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Fri Sep 09, 2011 5:52 pm

Ares B wrote:

Should I try pushing it to the Monsters contest?

Yes, please do paint him for the competition!

Sacrilege83 · **Posted:** Sat Sep 10, 2011 4:29 am

Wouldn't be right that you're painting this while at the sametime there's a monster challenge going on and you wouldn't enter him. So glad to see you're in it again. I want to see what you'll bring from this bad boy.

Ares B · **Posted:** Sun Oct 16, 2011 11:29 am

Think I'll put my Glorfindel challenge progress here, to not spam the official thread. I've got him glued, filed and re-primed, now it's time to think of a color scheme. According to the Tolkien Gateway, he went about in a mantle embroidered in threads of gold, diapered with celandine “as a field in spring”. His vambraces were damascened with "cunning gold". So perhaps green, yellow and gold. Good for scouting. On the other hand, this brown/gold looks cool too... decisions, decisions...

Ares B · **Posted:** Sun Oct 16, 2011 5:03 pm

I decided to go with browns and deep reds, with golden highlights. The flame of the torch is proving to be a challenge.

Ares B · **Posted:** Sun Oct 23, 2011 1:49 pm

Work progressing. This Glorfy's face is rather featureless, it's a challenge to bring out contours with paint.

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Sun Oct 23, 2011 3:04 pm

Ares B wrote:

Work progressing. This Glorfy's face is rather featureless, it's a challenge to bring out contours with paint.

That is the tricky thing with Mithril's miniatures...every face looks very similar and they really don't have alot of detail, but I'm sure you'll do fine!

Ares B · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 8:57 am

A bit of diversion: my budget spiders. Found a bag of the tiny buggers for €1.50. Halloween is such a nice time to acquire miniatures... Soon they'll pester my daughter's dwarves. :twisted:

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 9:11 am

Great idea Ares, why have I never thought of that before? They turned out really well too.

Bastion.HUN · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 10:38 am

Use some matt varnish, now your figures looks like candy.
Make the photos next to the sunshine, and dont use flashlight.
I like this dwarves, you should use more highlights.

garmenhord · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 11:13 am

good idea to find some cheap spiders

Ares B · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 2:14 pm

Bastion.HUN wrote:

Use some matt varnish, now your figures looks like candy.
Make the photos next to the sunshine, and dont use flashlight.
I like this dwarves, you should use more highlights.

Thanks for the comments! I'm practising highlights now with the Glorfindel mini. They're being quite a headache though, I'm having trouble painting a thin straight line with a brush.

The dwarves are meant for gaming table, they're good enough for that. The shine comes from the dipping varnish. But I may give them a matte varnish treatment, soon as I get around to it.

I noticed my spiders are smaller than the official GW ones. Doesn't matter in our domestic games, though.

Oldman Willow · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 7:33 pm

The cheep spiders are cool. I found some cheep bats at party City for$.29 ea. I went ahead and mounted them on 40mm bases so I could use them for WOTR as well.

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I noticed my spiders are smaller than the official GW ones. Doesn't matter in our domestic games, though.

The base size is the same that is all that really matters.The girls don't care they just want lots. :wink:

Ares B · **Posted:** Sat Oct 29, 2011 2:43 pm

The final result of Glorfy, before varnish. Also trying out our new Nikon camera.

Ares B · **Posted:** Mon Nov 21, 2011 6:26 pm

Ares B wrote:

Three hobbits running from Ringwraiths in the woods, finding unexpected help from an elf maiden.

They made it, Arwen slew one of the Nazgûl and the others ran out of Will. They got only Pippin, who panicked and ran in the wrong direction.

We took a re-match of this scenario today, and I failed even more miserably. To add insult to injury, Sam beat a Ringwraith into submission with his trusty frying pan. Either the dice loathe me, or I am doing something seriously wrong. Snarl.

Ares B · **Posted:** Wed Jan 25, 2012 7:37 pm

Progress on my Painting Challenge dwarfy. Some detailing and base still needs to be done. Hopefully I have time on Saturday.

I should have primed him with black, the grey Mithril prime shows still from the holes of the mail. Hopefully a wash or two does the trick.

Ares B · **Posted:** Sat Mar 10, 2012 2:30 pm

My battle mandolinist for Elrond's Command Group received a cloak today. Not bad, considering it's the first greenstuff cloak I've done.

Now gotta resist bothering her until tomorrow...

Ares B · **Posted:** Sat Jul 21, 2012 3:17 pm

The bard above is still WIP, but the hobbit girl for this month's contest has progressed some.

Wah Wing · **Posted:** Sat Jul 21, 2012 5:37 pm

Very interesting.

Any pics of the bard as it is at the moment?

Ares B · **Posted:** Sat Jul 21, 2012 9:38 pm

Wah Wing wrote:

Very interesting.

Any pics of the bard as it is at the moment?

Only black undercoat at the moment. But next time I pick up the brush I'm going to give her some treatment too.

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