Amy's WIP: EFGT Dwarves finished! (24/03/2015)

Amy · **Posted:** Wed Sep 24, 2014 10:51 pm

I finished Dwalin today! Any comments or improvements would be appreciated.

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Thu Sep 25, 2014 9:11 am

Looks like your getting to grips with eyes. Can you see the advantage ?
What first stood out was the slightly tanned skin tone, I like it. The contrast on the axe blade has been executed really well and is something you should look to do across the whole figure.

YOrcShire · **Posted:** Thu Sep 25, 2014 11:29 am

I've just been catching up on your full thread and its great work. I especially like the faces on Dwalin, Balin and Bombur. I look forward to the next instalment.

JamesR · **Posted:** Thu Sep 25, 2014 1:35 pm

Dwalin looks great. You're already knocking out faces so well, that's very impressive

rumtap · **Posted:** Fri Sep 26, 2014 4:13 am

I think you have a fantastic painting technique. If I had one criticism it would be that he looks too clean. Freshly bathed Dwalin, not rugged killing his way through dank and dirty goblin town Dwalin. But that's a personal taste thing.

Amy · **Posted:** Tue Dec 16, 2014 11:11 pm

It's been months since I last painted anything, I've been so busy due to be starting a new job and moving house, so now I can finally paint anytime I want instead of at the odd weekends, so it was good to finally paint something again! I recently got some of the new dwarves models and painted Balin this evening, what do you think?

edge67 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 17, 2014 12:14 am

Great work Amy! you have done a great job on the face here. I thought the skin tone for Dwalin was a little 'orangey' but Balin is spot on. You could possibly try for a little more contrast in the red skirt, but that's just being nit picky. How are you finding the resin casts of these dwarves? I've only just bought my first finecast mini so don't have much experience with these.

Gene Parmesan · **Posted:** Wed Dec 17, 2014 12:36 am

Good job on the eyes.

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Wed Dec 17, 2014 7:21 am

Welcome back, great to see you and Tim back.
Nice contrast across the face.

Harfoot · **Posted:** Wed Dec 17, 2014 8:18 am

Great work, like the face, as Edge mentioned some work on the red cloth contrast would improve things on which is already a great paint job

Amy · **Posted:** Wed Dec 17, 2014 10:24 am

Thank you everyone for the nice comments and the tips to improve!

Amy · **Posted:** Wed Dec 17, 2014 10:25 am

edge67 wrote:

Great work Amy! you have done a great job on the face here. I thought the skin tone for Dwalin was a little 'orangey' but Balin is spot on. You could possibly try for a little more contrast in the red skirt, but that's just being nit picky. How are you finding the resin casts of these dwarves? I've only just bought my first finecast mini so don't have much experience with these.

I think the resin on these dwarves is really good, really detailed and nice to work with. I didn't have any problems!

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Wed Dec 17, 2014 6:30 pm

Very nicely painted and it does look like Ken Stott

Amy · **Posted:** Wed Dec 17, 2014 9:36 pm

Painted Dwalin and Oin on my day off today. I think they're not bad, but I after a break I am remembering just how hard it can be to make them look good when they're so small. I think the Finecast makes them incredibly detailed but sometimes I've found this can make it hard to look good as it can make things so small and super detailed, like chain mail for example. Maybe it is me being picky!

Anyway what do you think?

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Wed Dec 17, 2014 9:43 pm

I think you've made a good job with these.
You seem to forget how little time you have been painting these figures and the standard you are producing is good by many standards. To do two figures in a day is some going, once you look at pushing your style you may find it takes longer to complete one, but that is for something down the line.
Keep up the great work.

Amy · **Posted:** Wed Dec 17, 2014 10:25 pm

Gandlaf the Grey wrote:

I think you've made a good job with these.
You seem to forget how little time you have been painting these figures and the standard you are producing is good by many standards. To do two figures in a day is some going, once you look at pushing your style you may find it takes longer to complete one, but that is for something down the line.
Keep up the great work.

Thank you for the encouragement. I think I do underestimate my work somewhat, I've posted this photo on Facebook and I've had lots of likes and positive comments, it always seems to be the ones you think aren't your best that others love for some reason!

Alatar of Rhun · **Posted:** Wed Dec 17, 2014 11:38 pm

Very nice really impressive the level of detail you were able to get and still paint them up so fast

rumtap · **Posted:** Thu Dec 18, 2014 1:09 am

I'd be happy producing that quality at half that speed!

Sacrilege83 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 18, 2014 1:23 am

Yes they look sick! Dwalin is beast!

Paboook · **Joined:** Sun Feb 05, 2012 8:41 pm **Posts:** 172

Nice job! I would only suggest some highlight on the gems.

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