[PAINTING] Voting for Painting Challenge: Frodo

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Mon Aug 06, 2012 3:47 pm

Welcome to the voting thread for the Frodo Painting Challenge (July 2012).

Voting in this challenge should be based not just on painting skill, but also for application of different painting techniques, individual artist improvement, creativity and originality etc.

Voting will be open for 7 days and will close at 16:57pm GMT on 13th August.

The Entries are:

ErurainontheTrombonist's Frodo:

BilboOfTheWhiteTower's Sam, Frodo and Gollum:

thewhitehand's Frodo:

Laurapalmer's Bilbo (not eligible for voting due to winning previous challenge):

garmenhord's Frodo:

Martinus' Frodo:

farinal's Frodo:

SidTheSloth's Farmer Maggot:

Farmer Maggot's Frodo:

Ring_of_Gyges' Invisible Frodo:

WhiteWizard's "Enjoying a few, well earned, comforts":

CaptainOfTheWhiteTower's Merry:

Damian's Gollum:

PowerofWill's Frodo:

Bartelomeus' Pippin:

Ares B's Lily Greenthumb:

Legolas31's Merry and Pippin:

Wah Wing's Frodo:

Whatevier's Sam:

Good luck to all entrants!

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Mon Aug 06, 2012 4:24 pm

This is a tough one....... all the usual suspects painting to their usual high standards as well as some newcomers with some fantsatic entries. Hmmm too good I'll have to have a think and come back later I think.

Well done all!

Bastion.HUN · **Posted:** Mon Aug 06, 2012 6:19 pm

This contest not so strong, most of the figures are "bad painted". I voted for White Wizard's diorama, I like that.

Chris GoM · **Posted:** Mon Aug 06, 2012 6:26 pm

A toss up between ErurainontheTrombonist's Frodo, BilboOfTheWhiteTower's Sam, Frodo and Gollum, WhiteWizard's "Enjoying a few, well earned, comforts", and Bartelomeus' Pippin. In the end I went for BotWT's Sam, Frodo and Gollum - I really love the dark colour scheme, but well done to everyone, great entries as usual

Whatevier · **Posted:** Mon Aug 06, 2012 7:24 pm

I went for BOWT.. the idea of turning the fish into a rock and Gollum's sneaky little Hobbitses look is spot on!

WhiteWizard's "Enjoying a few, well earned, comforts" was the best concept by far (and one I'm copying in the future :twisted:

), but was just one click down in terms of painting..

Good luck to all!

Wah Wing · **Posted:** Mon Aug 06, 2012 8:41 pm

Very tough competition once again. In the end I decided on Whatevier's Sam. Really love the base and the painting is superb!

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Mon Aug 06, 2012 11:11 pm

Wow, too many to choose from!! Everyone is showing so much progress from month to month on these challenges that it makes it tough to decide!!
I was really enamored with Bartelomeus' Pippin (my favorite of all the Pippin sculpts) and WhiteWizard's Diorama, but in the end went with Whatevier's Sam for the unique, and well executed color scheme!
Well done everyone!!

Sacrilege83 · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2012 5:04 am

Some good ones on here. Went with Damian for the job he did painting the flesh and the rocky base which is part of the model. Not too big on the eyes though, but it is artistic.

If I was able to vote for Laurapalmer's Bilbo I might have gone with her, the detail on the collar and cuffs are very nice.

White Wizard has a very nice Diorama.

Ares B you have a unique little Hobbit. And I thought Rosie Cotton was alone in the warrior hobbit princess department. Nice paint job on it.

Good job to the rest as well, there were a few others I've considered voting for.

Green_Dragon · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2012 7:26 am

All excellent entries really well done guys! Too many to mention so thought I'd keep it to the 2 that caught my eye the most and stood out for me. BOTWT and Garmenhord, I wish I could vote for both.

BOTWT the idea with gollum and the rock is brilliant and the bright blue eyes really grab my attention, a brilliant entry!

Garmenhord I think this is one of your finest pieces the glow effect is excellent and the base compliments it very nicely.

In the end I couldn't decide myself who to vote for so it came down to a toss of the coin and Garmenhord got the vote. Great work guys, keep it up!!

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Wed Aug 08, 2012 10:15 am

There are some really excellent entries this month as usual making it difficult to vote.

ErurainontheTrombonist - Great entry, nice all round painting and a great base.
BOTWT - Consistently top notch painting with the usual dark foreboding feel to it - I love this entry!!
The WhiteHand - Great OSL and the cloak highlights are fantastic
LauraPalmer - Wow !! What a base and the expression on Bilbo's face is great!
Garmenhord - This is a good little entry this oe mate - the OSL is a little strong but is in all the right places. The base is also very interesting, I like it. Well done mate!
WhiteWizard - Great little diorama - nice work all round
Damian - Excellent painting - love the eyes
POW - The level of OSL is just about right on this model, It also has a dark foreboding feel to it. I really like this entry.
Bartelomeus - this is an all round good entry - the painting makes the model very realistic - awesome!!
Wah Wing - Love the pony

Whatevier - Great entry - love the stone flooring and the painting is also a very tidy job indeed.

So I think this month narrows down for 4 entries for me - POW , Bartelomeus , Whatevier and as usual BOTWT - I still can't decide who to vote for......i'll have to com back again .. sorry lol

Ardboe · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:33 am

Voted for ErurainiontheTrombonist in the end, all models had excellent paint jobs but it was his base for me that won it. Garmenhord, directional lighting takes some serious stones man, good job! Must try it with my Frodo :wink:

valpas · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2012 11:32 am

I voted for Ares's Lily Greenthumb. She looks just like the character should and I think it may be Ares's best challenge entry so far.

I had to skip this myself. My only unpainted hobbit at the moment was frodo wrapped in Shelob's webs and that would have been quite silly thing to paint for a challenge. :-)

-- Pasi

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2012 2:54 pm

I'm going to stick with my initial feeling and go with BilboOfTheWhiteTower - your style of painting is incredibly unique. I love the way every model you paint has that dark feeling to it. So fitting for the Lord of th Rings. Well done to all other entrants and look forward to seeing what you guys come up with for the August challenge.

Sacrilege83 · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2012 3:01 pm

valpas wrote:

I voted for Ares's Lily Greenthumb. She looks just like the character should and I think it may be Ares's best challenge entry so far.

I had to skip this myself. My only unpainted hobbit at the moment was frodo wrapped in Shelob's webs and that would have been quite silly thing to paint for a challenge. :-)

-- Pasi

I guess you must have skipped over the invisible Frodo entry...

Ares B · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2012 5:59 pm

valpas wrote:

I voted for Ares's Lily Greenthumb. She looks just like the character should and I think it may be Ares's best challenge entry so far.

I had to skip this myself. My only unpainted hobbit at the moment was frodo wrapped in Shelob's webs and that would have been quite silly thing to paint for a challenge. :-)

-- Pasi

Thanks and happy birthday!

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2012 8:51 pm

Dead Marsh Spectre wrote:

...your style of painting is incredibly unique. I love the way every model you paint has that dark feeling to it.

Thank you Kev...I'm humbled!

Whatevier · **Posted:** Fri Aug 10, 2012 7:13 am

Dead Marsh Spectre wrote:

Whatevier love the stone flooring

of course you love it, I stole the idea from you

johnny189 · **Joined:** Wed Aug 05, 2009 8:19 pm **Posts:** 88

Is the invisible frodo a serious entry? I was considering doing a scratch build of frodo and sam under the cloak at the black gate (i.e. a blob of miliput painted grey) but I thought that it wouldn't count.

edge67 · **Posted:** Sat Aug 11, 2012 7:21 am

Really hard to pick a winner here. I went with WhiteWizard for an outstanding diorama. I really liked Damian's gollum too - but he's not a hobbit, or is he.......

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Tue Aug 14, 2012 9:41 am

Well done to Whatevier

A fantastic entry and desreved to win.

Well done to all other entrants and hope to see you all in Mordor for the August challenge

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