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

Pink Marsh Spectre wrote:

Fantastic painting Chris. Have you tried mixing the old GW vomit brown with black for highlighting black? goes a funny green colour but seems to work.

I'll give it a go. I don't have vomit brown but I have plenty of other browns so at least one should work.

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Sat Nov 22, 2014 11:33 pm

If you get stuck Chris shoot me a PM with your address and i'll send you a vomit brown. I bought a load in bulk when it went OOP so have tons of the stuff.

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

Thanks for the offer. I've looked up vomit brown and it turns out to be one of the few colours that has a corresponding p3 match which I already have.

A couple of work in progress shots for this week:

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Fri Nov 28, 2014 11:56 pm

Those wings.........awesome!!!!!

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Sat Nov 29, 2014 5:49 am

Excellent work Chris, nailed that beast.

Harfoot · **Posted:** Sat Nov 29, 2014 8:29 am

As always, gob smacked. I look forward to your posts.

Feanorthenoldor · **Joined:** Wed Sep 02, 2009 6:44 pm **Posts:** 879

incredible blending work, very nice

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

Fellbeast is pretty much done.

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Sat Nov 29, 2014 11:06 pm

Love it Chris. You going to pick Smaug up?

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

Probably not. I had a big repair bill for my car this month and with Christmas coming spending that much on a single model is going to be hard to justify.

Eaothen-the-brave · **Posted:** Sun Nov 30, 2014 2:43 am

Love the Fell beast! Looks really bad (in an evil way)

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Sun Nov 30, 2014 5:40 am

Minimal Monkey Saddle wrote:

Probably not. I had a big repair bill for my car this month and with Christmas coming spending that much on a single model is going to be hard to justify.

But all the more satisfying when you do...

paliouras · **Posted:** Sun Nov 30, 2014 10:06 pm

*silently puts back the jaw that dropped moments ago because of Denethor's face...*

Gene Parmesan · **Posted:** Mon Dec 01, 2014 12:38 am

Incredible

Frogmortonjustice65 · **Joined:** Sat Jun 22, 2013 10:21 pm **Posts:** 129

that's probably the best Tauriel I've seen (no offense to the other excellent Tauriels around these parts). Something about yours seems the most life-like.

ja33 · **Posted:** Mon Dec 01, 2014 3:29 am

That is some of the best model painting that I've ever seen. The faces on Tauriel ,and especially Denethor, are amazing. Tauriel seems to be so challenging for everyone and I haven't even started mine yet . But your version is the best I've seen - showing her as feminine face, just very well done.

If you ever would be willing, a brief tutorial or perhaps an article for the Tomes of Wisdom would be invaluable to all the inexperienced painters here like myself. Although you may not want to give away all your secrets !

I am still almost speechless looking at that Denethor - the level of detail makes it look like a 2 foot tall sculpture, and yet to know that it's only 28mm - just unbelievable work by you

rumtap · **Posted:** Tue Dec 02, 2014 9:21 am

If I practiced every day for a 100 years I might get half as good as you!

I always love your work.

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Tue Dec 02, 2014 9:37 am

Reference your black cloak painting issues.
I have bought Scale 75 black and white paint set. It is an incredible set. The paints truly lend themselves to glazing, I love them. In fact so much I'm starting to collect the other sets.
I have the new unnatural skin set on order.

Crucium Giger · **Posted:** Tue Dec 02, 2014 1:57 pm

Mind blowing.

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

I've been messing around with a couple of cheap spotlights and I'm starting to get some better pictures.

I took a couple closeups of Tauriel to show how I painted her face.

The main colours I used were

Bugman's glow
Thrall flesh
Cad red
Sombre grey

The basic structure is thrall flesh + bugman's for the basecoat, thrall flesh on the forehead, cad red for the cheeks and shade transitions and sombre grey for the jaw. The highlights and shades were applied using very dilute paint especially for the sombre grey as too much would give her a more manly appearence.

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