DMS - Elrond ft and mtd (old one)

Alatar of Rhun · **Posted:** Thu Jan 08, 2015 12:56 pm

wow superb as always :yay:

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Thu Jan 08, 2015 1:25 pm

Crucium Giger wrote:

Excellent work on these, the one thing that always strikes me with your work is how the miniatures look like they've been plucked out of scene from the films (if you get my meaning).

That is quite the compliment Phil. Much appreciated man

Cheers for the great comments guys.

I'm taking a quick breather from the relentless sea of green and gold to paint up an unreleased orc drummer for meeeeee and a Bolg ft and mtd for a clients birthday. Makes a nice change to only have 2 or 3 models in front of me. (there are another 21 looking at me from not too far away tho

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Coenus Scaldingus · **Joined:** Sat Aug 17, 2013 9:14 am **Posts:** 1121

Lovely, as ever. I can see how the choice of colours would give doubts, but they all came together very nicely indeed, it really works.

How's the painting on Thorongil coming along?

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Thu Jan 08, 2015 2:06 pm

Coenus Scaldingus wrote:

How's the painting on Thorongil coming along?

I ran out of time I'm afraid. He's gone back to the dungeon. Next time...

Coenus Scaldingus · **Joined:** Sat Aug 17, 2013 9:14 am **Posts:** 1121

That's quite the pity, although it's a good thing you're taking your time with him. Very much looking forward to seeing him painted up; only know him from unpainted or not entirely in focus painted pics...
Sincerly hope you'll find a way to work on him soon!

By the way, I don't suppose you keep a tally of all the Elves you've ever painted?

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Thu Jan 08, 2015 2:42 pm

Haha I know how many I've done for this client and more importantly I know how many is still to do for him.... 21 and i'm out of Rivendell!!!

LordoftheBrownRing · **Posted:** Thu Jan 08, 2015 3:00 pm

Maybe you had a tight set of criteria but I personally love the scheme and as always youbdidnanstunning job.

Natarn · **Posted:** Thu Jan 08, 2015 6:36 pm

Gandlaf the Grey wrote:

Lovely work Kev, some very nice subtle blending on the cloaks.

I'll second that.

Beautiful work.

PS. Your avatar puts me off my tea. :shock:

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Thu Jan 08, 2015 6:59 pm

Natarn wrote:

PS. Your avatar puts me off my tea. :shock:

any better ? lol

Natarn · **Posted:** Fri Jan 09, 2015 8:25 am

Dead Marsh Spectre wrote:

Natarn wrote:

PS. Your avatar puts me off my tea. :shock:

any better ? lol

Perfect! Thanks, Kev.

If you kiss it, it might turn into Arwen.

Coenus Scaldingus · **Joined:** Sat Aug 17, 2013 9:14 am **Posts:** 1121

Natarn wrote:

If you kiss it, it might turn into Arwen.

The keyword being 'might'...

mirva · **Posted:** Fri Jan 09, 2015 9:44 am

Two questions about your Rivendel knights (fisrt of all say that are incredible and very far from my paint level, but I try :-X

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You had made the cloaks with Glazes?
And the metals the same?
It seems to me that the cloaks are vey light grey-brown with siucesive glazes of brown-orange, and the metals are something like silver (Vhainmail or mithril) with light glazes of orange and brown. Is this right?

Also whcih greys had you used as a base for the horses? (I have a big range of Vallejo MC and all the GW greys, is not a problem to find something similar

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Thanks in advance for your help.

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Fri Jan 09, 2015 10:49 am

Lovely looking minis!

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Fri Jan 09, 2015 11:43 am

@Mirva. the cloaks were crazy to paint, such huge flat areas. I will try and write a quick guide for how i painted them.

Start with a basecoat mix of 80% Vallejo Model Colour (VMC) U.S Dark Green and 20% Vallejo Game colour (VGC) Cold Grey

Ink with watered down brown wash just to give the recess' some definition.

Add a tiny amount of bleached bone to original bascoat mix and around 10 drops of glaize medium. The paints needs to be almost transparent. knock the excess paint of your brush and highlight the cloak. increase amount of bleached bone to the mix for succesive highlights - make sure each time you add paint to the mix that you add at least another 5 drops of medium.

1 drop VGC Beasty brown to 10 drops medium and highlight the bottom quarter or so of the cloak - try not to let the mix pool at all at this stage on the model. Add orange to the mix highlighting further and further towards the bottom of the cloak with each stage.

A finishing wash of extrememly watered down brown ink can be applied

Horses were painted using VGC Cold Grey, VGC Stonewall Grey, Black and white. Lots of glaize medium.

Armour painted with mix of 80% GW shining gold (Ghenna gold will do with additional chainmail mixed in ) and 20% GW Chainmail. washed brown with a tiny amount of green ink added and lots of water. Increasing amounts chainmail added to original mix for successive highlights.

:-)

Nearly finished Bolg ft and mtd
Thanks for the great comments.

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Sat Jan 10, 2015 5:04 pm

Had this sitting around for a while now and thought I'd take the chance to use him as the only model besides my golden Demon entry which I paint for myself in the whole of 2014. Wow!! thats a long time huh?

Anyway here he is, The Unreleased Orc Drummer. Fantastic sculpt. I remain clueless as to why this was never released.

More pictures in The Dead Marshes Ha feels good to still be able to say that!

Thanks for looking

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Sat Jan 10, 2015 5:18 pm

Good job you didn't take a backlog reduction oath.
Nice steady job on this Kev, lovely sculpt that I agree, should have been in mass production.

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Sat Jan 10, 2015 5:26 pm

Gandlaf the Grey wrote:

Good job you didn't take a backlog reduction oath.

Ha! ain't that the truth lol.

Cheers Mally.

Harfoot · **Posted:** Sat Jan 10, 2015 5:51 pm

Excellent Kev, where did the statue head come from?

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Sat Jan 10, 2015 5:58 pm

Harfoot wrote:

Excellent Kev, where did the statue head come from?

Element Games sell packs of them all shapes and sizes.

Harfoot · **Posted:** Sat Jan 10, 2015 9:10 pm

Dead Marsh Spectre wrote:

Harfoot wrote:

Excellent Kev, where did the statue head come from?

Element Games sell packs of them all shapes and sizes.

Thanks

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