MMS's wip thread

YOrcShire · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2015 6:35 pm

Fantastic, the fellowship look great together. I can only echo other comments on the Master. Very inspiring stuff.

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2015 9:44 pm

Lovely work on the Master, I have that one to do also and hope I can get mine somewhere near to yours.

LordoftheBrownRing · **Posted:** Sat Jan 24, 2015 3:46 am

I just checked out your entire blog. You're one of the best painters I've ever seen. Everything is amazing.

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Sat Jan 24, 2015 2:01 pm

The Fellowship appeals to me a bit more probably because of the greater range of sizes and styles among the minis - Thorin & Co look great too but my heart still goes to The Gandalf Walking Club

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

It's been a frustrating week so to treat myself I decided to paint one of my favourite models. The face is mostly done bar a few touchups.

For the hair I want to paint something more realistic than usual. The sideview shows where I've started to work out the highlight placement.

Gene Parmesan · **Posted:** Sat Jan 31, 2015 1:33 am

Looks great. Gone for all black priming?

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

I felt like a change was necessary and switching to a black primer forced me to think a bit more about my painting rather than going through the motions.

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Sat Jan 31, 2015 11:26 am

Those eyes follow you around the room....

Very neatly done!

theavenger001 · **Posted:** Sat Jan 31, 2015 10:36 pm

The hair is looking very realistic so far, well done on that! I do think that the eyes are almost a little into the 'googly eyed' look though. I think that there is a little bit too much white left over.

enosphere · **Joined:** Wed Jan 21, 2015 5:24 pm **Posts:** 48

Master of Laketown is beautiful. Very impressive.

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

theavenger001 wrote:

The hair is looking very realistic so far, well done on that! I do think that the eyes are almost a little into the 'googly eyed' look though. I think that there is a little bit too much white left over.

Yeah, I overdid the reflection on the eyeball a little. Also, the iris isn't being picked up by the camera that well.

Gene Parmesan · **Posted:** Sun Feb 01, 2015 9:01 am

Excellent. I was having trouble with a suitable shade for the green on my own version, what sort of colors did you use!

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

Gene Parmesan wrote:

Excellent. I was having trouble with a suitable shade for the green on my own version, what sort of colors did you use!

The midtone is battledress green, shaded with umbral umber, and highlighted with jack bone all P3 colours.

Here's the finished model. I could have spent a few hours more smoothing the blends and picking out more details but I had a small accident and once I had fixed that I decided to call time.

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Sun Feb 01, 2015 11:55 pm

Looks great as usual. I struggle with Legolas every time I paint him.

Lol I hate small accidents.

garmenhord · **Posted:** Mon Feb 02, 2015 5:48 pm

i like that base,

theavenger001 · **Posted:** Mon Feb 02, 2015 10:05 pm

Well done, he looks quite good. I don't know if you did anything with the eyes, but they look better.

Crucium Giger · **Posted:** Tue Feb 03, 2015 12:54 pm

As always your palette and blending are sublime :yay:

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

The frustration I was having with my painting continued for a bit longer after my last post. At the risk of full on burnout I made a few changes to my painting style with Bard the bowman being the first finished model.

Sithious · **Posted:** Tue Feb 17, 2015 2:42 am

I am not a fan of this model (or maybe I just don't like trench coat bard at all?) But I think you did a good job on him. The highlights are subtle in transition but pull of a nice contrast to pick out the raised details. The fact that he is all muted browns and still all the parts are recognizable should at least make you happy.

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

nice job in making those browns look extremely realistic. Most use extremely sharp highlights that make it look unnatural.

The one thing I hate about this mini's sculpt is the mustache. It looks like a hippie Hitler is defending laketown lol

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