Thermo's WIP (rohan/grey company)

Beowulf03809 · **Posted:** Mon Feb 11, 2013 7:01 pm

Looking great.

Not to side track but are the trees you use a kit or do you do them yourself?

Thermo · **Posted:** Mon Feb 11, 2013 8:19 pm

GothmogtheWerewolf wrote:

The Rnagers groop shots look great, and yes the two colours works very effectively. :yay:

Nice to see the horse-lords are finally recieving your love

Thanks buddy!

Yeah, look forward to finishing them... although the horses will be the last thing that get painted in my collection!

Got Eomer and Erkenbrand to look forward to painting too and the Mounted RRG and Sons of Eorl when they arrive. Painting these individual models will feel like a treat after painting all these warriors!

John Wayne wrote:

Love seeing that grey co. Especially through the trees and scenery. The riders are coming along nicely so far mate.

Thanks Pilgrim! Appreciate the feedback

Beowulf03809 wrote:

Looking great.

Not to side track but are the trees you use a kit or do you do them yourself?

Thanks buddy! I raided ebay as I was holding a "games night" on Thursday and as a beginner, had no terrain!

Thermo · **Posted:** Wed Feb 13, 2013 11:31 pm

So tonight I thought I'd finish off three of my rangers of the north with highlights etc! Just the bases to do for now and I'm reasonably happy with them for now

LordElrond · **Posted:** Wed Feb 13, 2013 11:33 pm

Wow.
Very well done

Monotone_Matt · **Posted:** Wed Feb 13, 2013 11:45 pm

Looking good, Thermo! I'm gonna finally get started on my Grey Company soon...
24 rangers,
3 Rangers of the North
3 Grey Company
8 Dunedain
Halbarad
Aragorn (3 hunters and mounted)

Maybe some mounted RotN too...?

I'm gonna be getting through a load of grey paint haha!

king elessar 2615 · **Posted:** Thu Feb 14, 2013 12:42 am

Beautiful looking rangers you have there, i especially like the cloaks

theavenger001 · **Posted:** Thu Feb 14, 2013 12:53 am

Nice painting. My one critique would be that the shadows around his eyes are too dark. The third guy especially; he looks Goth/Ozzy-ish.

Try using something like dark flesh around the eye rather than black.

Thermo · **Posted:** Thu Feb 14, 2013 2:52 pm

LordElrond wrote:

Wow.
Very well done

Thanks LordElrond!

Monotone_Matt wrote:

Looking good, Thermo! I'm gonna finally get started on my Grey Company soon...
24 rangers,
3 Rangers of the North
3 Grey Company
8 Dunedain
Halbarad
Aragorn (3 hunters and mounted)

Maybe some mounted RotN too...?

I'm gonna be getting through a load of grey paint haha!

Maybe some Mounted RotN ey...? Haha can't wait to see it all Matt, keep up the inspirational work and thanks for your support on here as always. If you ever have any tips based on what you see, let me know! PS would love a three hunters aragorn if you ever come across another one! Let me know :-D

king elessar 2615 wrote:

Beautiful looking rangers you have there, i especially like the cloaks

Thanks King Elessar!

theavenger001 wrote:

Nice painting. My one critique would be that the shadows around his eyes are too dark. The third guy especially; he looks Goth/Ozzy-ish.

Try using something like dark flesh around the eye rather than black.

Thanks for the feedback buddy, I appreciate it! I've been so worried about even going near the eyes in these early days of painting that I've left them completely untouched! I'll certainly take your advice when I have the confidence to tackle eyes in the future. All tips much appreciated!

Thanks everyone.

Attempted to base with sand yesterday and it went horribly wrong. I'm guessing even lightening caliban green with white is the wrong way to go?! Have had to cover with big bushes to hide the shockers!

Monotone_Matt · **Posted:** Thu Feb 14, 2013 4:39 pm

Thermo wrote:

Maybe some Mounted RotN ey...? Haha can't wait to see it all Matt, keep up the inspirational work and thanks for your support on here as always. If you ever have any tips based on what you see, let me know! PS would love a three hunters aragorn if you ever come across another one! Let me know :-D

I certainly will! The three hunters Aragorn is probably my second favourite sculpt, just behind Captain of the White Tower Boromir... and now I own both! Such a happy chappy! If I ever pick up a spare 3H-Aragorn it'll have your name on it ;D

Keep up the good work, friend!

Harfoot · **Posted:** Thu Feb 14, 2013 5:21 pm

they all look excellent, are you going to base them?

Thermo · **Posted:** Thu Feb 14, 2013 5:27 pm

Harfoot wrote:

they all look excellent, are you going to base them?

I have! Made a mess of the first attempt with sand etc and think I've got the wrong green anyway... so for now (for the sake of tonight's game atleast) I've got them springing from the bushes like my other Rangers

I'll take a pic now!

@Matt - Haha again, we both have great taste, 3H Aragorn is one of my favourite sculpts... but I don't have him yet... one day!

ste271276 · **Posted:** Thu Feb 14, 2013 7:28 pm

Hey Thermo, Really liking your models mate your painting is getting better every model I see..... Keep it up!

Any ideas on what evil your bringing to the Stockport comp? Im gonna have a inventory of what models we have so Ill borrow you some if ya want.

Also Are you interested in any dunedain? Think I may have some spares......

Thermo · **Posted:** Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:33 am

Harfoot wrote:

they all look excellent, are you going to base them?

Quick picture of them based!

Plenty of pictures of them in action last night, which I'll put up this afternoon!

Crucifer · **Joined:** Mon Oct 22, 2012 9:31 pm **Posts:** 128

Your rangers look cool Thermo I like your scenic photos. If I might comment something and I don't want to sound harsh, but you could use some smoother tranisations for your highlights. I'm sorry if that sounded harsh : / They looks great otherwise!

Thermo · **Posted:** Fri Feb 15, 2013 4:34 pm

Crucifer wrote:

Your rangers look cool Thermo I like your scenic photos. If I might comment something and I don't want to sound harsh, but you could use some smoother tranisations for your highlights. I'm sorry if that sounded harsh : / They looks great otherwise!

That's not harsh at all! It's great feedback and that surely is how one will improve!

For highlighting so far I've literally been doing the following -

Post wash, after they've dried, I've reapplied the original base coat to the raised areas. Then for the final highlight, it's been a rough 50/50 mix of the base colour with either white or bleached colour. To my inexperienced eye, I've been quite pleased with how they look on the tabletop but how do I take that next step in quality?

Advice and critique is very very much appreciated!

Monotone_Matt · **Posted:** Fri Feb 15, 2013 4:38 pm

Your approach is sound, Thermo, to make the highlight blend in to the background colour, I would add a few drops of water to the paint till it's milky! Then gradually drag the brush across the designated area

takes a few times to get used to but once you've mastered it you'll never highlight differently haha! Just make sure the paint on your brush is very well diluted and if a droplet forms, quickly brush the paint off your brush and use the dry tip to 'suck up' the stray paint drop

Good luck!

Thermo · **Posted:** Fri Feb 15, 2013 4:58 pm

Monotone_Matt wrote:

Your approach is sound, Thermo, to make the highlight blend in to the background colour, I would add a few drops of water to the paint till it's milky! Then gradually drag the brush across the designated area

takes a few times to get used to but once you've mastered it you'll never highlight differently haha! Just make sure the paint on your brush is very well diluted and if a droplet forms, quickly brush the paint off your brush and use the dry tip to 'suck up' the stray paint drop

Good luck!

Brilliant advice Matt!

I shall try that on the remaining 12 Rangers of Arnor - they only need highlights and bases to be done

I'll post pictures of my progress

Monotone_Matt · **Posted:** Fri Feb 15, 2013 5:02 pm

Looking forward to seeing that! Hit me up if the instructions weren't clear enough or if something went wrong, I'm here all week

Thermo · **Posted:** Sun Feb 17, 2013 10:44 am

ste271276 wrote:

Hey Thermo, Really liking your models mate your painting is getting better every model I see..... Keep it up!

Any ideas on what evil your bringing to the Stockport comp? Im gonna have a inventory of what models we have so Ill borrow you some if ya want.

Also Are you interested in any dunedain? Think I may have some spares......

Only just seen this Ste!

Thanks for the encouragement pal, will get there slowly I'm hoping! But good to hear I'm improving

Think I'll take 1000pts grey company/Arnor since its closer to being "done" than the rohan. Don't have a baddie army though

Sounds good re:inventory, won't take me long to our mine together! Do it on Thursday?

Spare Dunedain sounds awesome

chat Thursday!

Monotone_Matt wrote:

Looking forward to seeing that! Hit me up if the instructions weren't clear enough or if something went wrong, I'm here all week

Great instructions as always!

Hashut's Blessing · **Joined:** Fri Jan 15, 2010 8:41 pm **Posts:** 1279

Hey Thermo - finally to round to commenting on here

Don't know if you remember my tip from our first game, but the best way (or simplest) of getting the highlights to blend more smoothly is to apply the wash after the highlight - you can always add a touch of the original highlight in very thin lines or at corners etc if you'd like to make it pop, but the wash after the highlight smooths the transition.

Looking great nd still inspiring me to get painting (maybe I will even actually DO some painting, lol

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