I've gotten back into a routine of painting a little each night after a long absence and thought posting my progress might help keep me motivated.
I bought a bunch of Rohirrim and Uruk-Hai and will be posting pictures as I make my way through painting them. First up is Erkenbrand, retired soldier of Rohan brought back to service in the War of the Ring and later made Marshal of the Westmark by King Eomer after the war. He also hates Peter Jackson for leaving him out of the movies and loves the new rules which make him indispensable to Rohan forces.




His horse is next up if only I can get a white horse to look right...

I absolutely love Erkenbrands cloak!

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Thanks, it's very easy. The base is Caliban Green (the new version of Dark Angel's Green) and the two highlights are 2:1 Caliban Green and Ushapti Bone (the new version of Bleached Bone) and 1:2 Caliban Green and Ushapti Bone. I mixed them by literally pouring two pots of one and one pot of the other into a larger glass pot, since I plan on painting up a bunch of Rohirrim and using these shades for the heroes and Royal Guard greens.

Nice work, especially the red, white and green, (Is he Santa by the way?)

Pity you had use the new paints.

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"I am the Flying Spagetti Monster. Thou shall have no other monsters before me"
-FSM.

The Rohirrim do in fact seem a little jolly don't they? Lots of red and green will have a hard time avoiding a Christmas theme. I could base them on snow I suppose...

Next up are a company of the fighting Uruk-Hai. There is an eighth out of frame to the right, but I screwed up the photo.



Forces Painted and Ready:
Rohan: 65pts
Isengard: 80pts

Very nice Uruk-hai, even if they have lost one. The armour is some of the best Uruk armour I've seen

May I also say, how nice it is to find humour included in your posts

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"I am the Flying Spagetti Monster. Thou shall have no other monsters before me"
-FSM.

R.I.P Uruk-hai. Very nice painting

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Nice job on Erkenbrand. The greens look especially good.

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Wow!
I think those uruk's are some of the best i'v ever seen!
How did you do the armour?

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Veni Vidi Vici

indeed. they are very nice uruks
i reallly like Erken-claus too
nice work

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'Though my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior'
-John Newton

That armour is incredible, great work, it looks even better than GW's. Here's what I do for white horses (you can see pics in my WIP further down the page if you want to know what it looks likes): I started with a Deheb Stone basecoat. Then a 2:1 mix of Deheb Stone:Skull White, followed by a 1:1 mix of Deheb Stone:Skull White, and finally a 1:2 mix of Deheb Stone:Skull White.

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+1, thats a very nice way to paint white
sometimes if i want more white i add a layer of pure skull white on top off all that

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'Though my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior'
-John Newton

Very nice painting you have. Looking forward to more.

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Current Project: Ringwraiths - Haradrim - Mumakil

Thank you for the kind words. The armor is pretty straight forward. The Uruk-Hai armor is alternating areas of flat metal (like the shields or the chest plates) and ridges (from the overlapping plates). The first pass is a drybrush of Boltgun metal which picks out the ridges and colors the flat areas. If you look at the shield on the center Uruk-Hai, the shield is just a plain drybrush. The trick is to remove as much paint from the brush as humanly possible and apply a dust of silver over a black undercoat. You want an uneven coat with a lot of the black showing through.

After that it's just Chainmail straight along the ridges and spots of Mithril silver along a subset of the ridges. The line down the middle of the shield is (I think) Chainmail but might be Boltgun.

If the drybrush goes on too heavy they'll look bright and silver, but a wash of black ink will tone them down and you can try again once it drys.

Next up are some Riders of Rohan and their dismounted versions. They get paler and dustier cloaks than the nobles. The center infantryman turned out a bit panicked looking, but he's destined to fight Uruk-Hai so maybe that's a sensible reaction...




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Forces Painted and Ready:
Rohan: 129pts
Isengard: 80pts

Wow!
nice work
i love the reocuring colour scheme on them, mine are all different

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'Though my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior'
-John Newton

Vey nicely done, on every colour, nicely uniformed too

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"I am the Flying Spagetti Monster. Thou shall have no other monsters before me"
-FSM.

They look really good! I like the basing. I think, as you said, the middle guy's expression is quite worried but I think it adds a lot of character! It looks like a 'natural' surprise rather than the comical, accidental surprised look that sometimes happens when trying to paint eyes! Really good work!

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Better, though difficult, the right way to go, than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe. John Bunyan - Pilgrim's Progress

The uruks and rohan are awesome.

How did you do the white hand on the shields - it looks too neat to be painted freehand? I'm trying to think of a quick way to put white hands on some of my shields. A white hand stamp would be good!

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"...that there's some good in this world Mr Frodo - and it's worth fighting for."

Nope, just freehand.