Sid's Tally Ho

SidTheSloth · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2013 9:21 pm

@gothmog: I mostly used Simmuskhan's balrog guide on his blog but with a few tweaks

@southy: lol thanks mate!

Should be fun to game with...

@mastermanje: ha ha! Thanks mate :-D

I wonder if he ever toasted marshmalows on himself? :rofl:

@crucium giger: Thank you! That was the plan

Minimal Monkey Saddle · **Joined:** Wed Dec 09, 2009 8:55 pm **Posts:** 463

The flame stuff is excellent but what I like the most is the black. It really looks like charred demonic flesh and adds a lot to the overall effect of the fiery aspect of the balrog.

SidTheSloth · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2013 10:32 pm

'The praise of the praiseworthy is above all praise'

Thanks mr Monkey Saddle!

Beowulf03809 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 05, 2013 6:35 pm

Minimal Monkey Saddle wrote:

The flame stuff is excellent but what I like the most is the black. It really looks like charred demonic flesh and adds a lot to the overall effect of the fiery aspect of the balrog.

I was trying to place the key differences and that nailed one of them. The other is the fire in the wings. It looks "cooler" than the core body flame and I think that's absolutely appropriate and really helps sell the look. One of the best Balrogs I've seen around here, and there have been some real good ones.

John Wayne · **Posted:** Tue Feb 05, 2013 8:28 pm

Nice Balrog love the red colour of the wings :yay:

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

It looks great, must have been a real pain to paint such large model;)

CaptainOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Thu Feb 07, 2013 4:48 pm

Fantastic Balrog. You've got to be brave to try the white hot part of the model and you've pulled it off. I also like the glow effect on the base.

Chris GoM · **Posted:** Thu Feb 07, 2013 10:24 pm

Durin's Bane and Ori both look awesome Sid! :yay:

BizzareWarstar · **Posted:** Thu Feb 07, 2013 11:29 pm

Very nice painting on the Dwarves, especially Oin and Ori, Oin's face is exceptional. Good stuff on the Balrog too, proper heat emanation from white. excellent painting Sid.

werner · **Posted:** Fri Feb 08, 2013 5:25 am

SidTheSloth wrote:

werner wrote:

SidTheSloth wrote:

@werner: Thanks! the base colour was knarloc green and I worked up from there. I'll go into more details in the article :wink:

What article, can you then also explain the technique?

I was a bit vague wasn't I lol... I was refering to the article I'm working on about painting Ori.
The technique is just highlighting (but not drybrushing, I find that tooo messy). Basicly you start off with a base colour and then paint the parts that stick out the most in successively lighter colours.

Here's what I did IIRC:
1. knarloc green
2. knarloc green + black + water 1:1:2 (wash)
3. knarloc green
4. knarloc green + bleached bone 2:1
5. knarloc green+ bleached bone 1:1
6. knarloc green+ bleached bone 1:2

Thanks!

Great paintjob on the balrog!

SidTheSloth · **Posted:** Wed Feb 13, 2013 1:39 pm

Thanks everyone!!!

Been painting my socks off recently...

Really happy with how this model turned out. He was an absoloute joy to paint, Possibly one of my favourite ever minis - He's just jam packed with character

Note on the last pic there is a logo-ish kind of thing that I made... How do you like it?

C&C welcome :-D

garmenhord · **Posted:** Wed Feb 13, 2013 1:43 pm

I like the painting u did on radagast! :-)

turns out great
logo seems nice to. Tough i would prefer a less computerey feeling.. Maybe u could try to make some letters by hand?

Rognarr · **Posted:** Wed Feb 13, 2013 2:03 pm

The painting is superb.. the amount of detail you put into your work is simply wonderful! ^^

John Wayne · **Posted:** Wed Feb 13, 2013 2:40 pm

Realy nice painting sid. Loving your faces lately :yay:

Harfoot · **Posted:** Wed Feb 13, 2013 3:42 pm

Awesome work Sid. Better than mine!

Crucium Giger · **Posted:** Wed Feb 13, 2013 4:23 pm

A lovely miniature with a lovely paint job, just hope I do as well on my own.

NetrixX · **Posted:** Wed Feb 13, 2013 6:40 pm

Nice painting, like the little detail like the cut on his leg, and the spider's eyes

. As for the logo you should add a Sloth

.:Gunslinger:. · **Posted:** Wed Feb 13, 2013 8:44 pm

Wow Sid! Excellent painting, the face, the gloves and the coat are amazingly good, but I like the whole thing very much

It's amazing how fast you improve your skills from one mini to the next! Maybe you good add some very fine wood grain to the staff but it's very godd like this!

BizzareWarstar · **Posted:** Wed Feb 13, 2013 9:16 pm

nice one

samoht · **Posted:** Thu Feb 14, 2013 1:22 am

Your Radagast is absolutely brilliant.

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