December Paint-Off

BaruKhazad · **Joined:** Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:56 pm **Posts:** 249

a small update, hope you like it^^

Erunion · **Posted:** Fri Dec 18, 2009 3:22 am

Finally got a chance to put brush to mini. Since I started this whole ruckus, I figured I should post a couple WIP shots:

I haven't been too careful with these...I'm just being lazy. They will definitely not be competition-worthy, but they'll look fine on the tabletop.

King Elessar the Uniter · **Posted:** Fri Dec 18, 2009 10:29 am

They look very nice Erunion! :yay:

I like the inner robes on the foot miniature.

BrentS · **Posted:** Fri Dec 18, 2009 2:12 pm

Looking good John. I didn't realize you were going to tackle both the foot and mounted version. I like it!

Erunion · **Posted:** Fri Dec 18, 2009 3:27 pm

Well, I decided to just go ahead and paint both. The mounted one can't count for the competition at the end, because I had already started painting the horse before we started the Paint-Off. So, I'll just paint both, and only enter the foot version in the competition.

eBob · **Posted:** Sun Dec 20, 2009 11:26 pm

Ok - I'm away for the holidays, and I'm not sure if this is the right place to post my final entry images - but here is my entry.

I started off with the Fellowship Gandalf but then came up with the mountain top idea, and so decided the Fellowship model wasn't wind-swept enough, so ended up with a compromise.

Please CLICK images to enlarge.

eBob.

Anduril Blade of Kings · **Posted:** Sun Dec 20, 2009 11:35 pm

Wow! That's some impressive work, Ebob.

LotrCrown · **Posted:** Mon Dec 21, 2009 12:01 am

thats wicked Bob !! love the base !!

oh how long you away for ? i still keep meaning to order all that rebellion stuff

even cheekyer any discounts for bulk buys ?

Erunion · **Posted:** Mon Dec 21, 2009 12:10 am

Stupendous work, Ebob! This is the place to put the final pictures. When it comes time to vote, I'll split-off the topic and create a poll. Anyway, I love the conversion, and the base is perfect. It fits the mini so well!

samoht · **Posted:** Mon Dec 21, 2009 7:01 am

Heres my start on Saruman. I was gonna paint colours on his cloak so he is closer to the book version of the character but I don't think i'll do that.

Believe me when I say he looks a lot better in real life than he does in these quick snapshots.

King Elessar the Uniter · **Posted:** Mon Dec 21, 2009 10:37 am

Saruman looks FANTASTIC samoht, lovely blending and colour scheme.

Would you mind sharing what colours you used?

And Gandalf is just STUNNING eBob! Beautiful painting and superb base - EXCELLENT work! :yay:

BrentS · **Posted:** Mon Dec 21, 2009 2:03 pm

@ ebob - that Gandalf looks great. I love the way you could capture his face under the big floppy hat. I'm hopeful that I can do something half as good as that! Of course, the base is totally sweet as well!

@ samoht - wow, I think those robes look great - even on the "quick snapshots". Well done!

Anduril Blade of Kings · **Posted:** Mon Dec 21, 2009 2:26 pm

Samoht, if those pics don't do Saruman justice, I demand that you ship him to me, right now....... :wink:

Very nice shading and color selection! :yay:

samoht · **Posted:** Mon Dec 21, 2009 11:32 pm

Thanks for the encouragment guys

@ King Elessar the Uniter, the colours I used were Fortress grey, Chaos black and skull white.

First I would darken down the fortress grey with chaos black to quite a dark grey. Then I kept adding fortess grey to the mix as the highlights progressed. Once I reached pure fortress grey I then added skull white to the fortress grey until the final highlight (which cover quite a lot of the cloths surface) was in pure skull white.

King Elessar the Uniter · **Posted:** Tue Dec 22, 2009 12:55 pm

Super, thanks very much!

valpas · **Posted:** Tue Dec 22, 2009 3:48 pm

Great entries and wips so far! Good work everyone!

Here is my starting point for painting:

The sword was broken (GW thought he was Isildur's heir or something?) and it was a real pain to fix. Unfortunately I had ordered it from the GW web shop so it would have taken ages to get a replacement.

-- Pasi

Kafer · **Posted:** Tue Dec 22, 2009 6:48 pm

Here's my proof of life. Painting starts today!

. . . although I don't have any realistic hope of finishing this month. I don't have any varnish or grass / foliage.

This will be my second ever attempt at painting minis (and obviously, photographing them).

SonOfArathorn · **Posted:** Wed Dec 23, 2009 7:16 am

Finally got my MoM set, so I shall try to get Gandi painted before end of month!

Farmer Maggot · **Posted:** Thu Dec 24, 2009 10:31 pm

I've finally started painting Gandalf. So far I've painted the flesh with Tallarn Flesh then washed it with Ogryn Flesh and reset the colour. I've painted the robes in codex grey/chaos black and then painted the sword with Boltgun metal followed by a wash of Badab Black.

I'm generally following the painting guide from the Fellowship Journey book. But I think I'll follow Erunion's example and use cream for the inner sleeves just to give a little more colour.

Blue Dragon · **Posted:** Fri Dec 25, 2009 7:36 am

I'm going with elves and the long flowing robes. Here's my Elrond Master of Rivendell miniature. I painted the entire thing today. As for proof that I haven't painted it before December, well, I can only say that I hope my topic asking for paint schemes for his a few days ago is enough proof, as I didn't take any photos prior to painting him. Anyway, without further ado, here is Elrond:

I must say, my camera doesn't do the miniature any justice, and it's a shame I didn't get a new one for Christmas.

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