[*] Painting The New Plastic Easterlings - by tidoco

The One Ring Community · **Joined:** Thu Jan 01, 1970 12:00 am **Posts:** 154

Category: The Forces of Evil
Article Type: Reference

Article Title: Painting The New Plastic Easterlings
Author: tidoco
Article Description: My take on these fantastic new GW plastic Easterlings

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DurinsBane · **Posted:** Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:31 am

Well Tim, what can I say !

This is most certainly the type of article we are looking for on the One Ring...perfect in every way !

Stunning results !

My painting has gone a bit haywire of late, and this is just what the painting doctor ordered to get me back on track !

Many thanx for taking the time to put this together !

May their be many more !

Fierate · **Joined:** Sun Jan 15, 2006 2:07 am **Posts:** 1

Execellent! I might start using this scheme for my easterlings. Thanks tido

Haldir_Strikes · **Posted:** Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:17 am

Very nice! Your metallic blending is the best i've seen for quite a while. Good article as well, lots of pictures showing us all the stages. I'm not into Easterlings, but this guide has certainly made me think about getting some.

Good work!

MacGothmog · **Posted:** Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:41 am

The usual qualiy of your work... no need to say much more! :wink:

Great work Tim and great addition to OR library. First place to look when starting a Easterling army.

Kalamir · **Posted:** Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:31 am

Stunning article Tim.

And whats even more important is , very easy to follow for all.

TheBucklandBrewer · **Posted:** Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:47 am

What more can I say?!
Excellent guide, great pictures, stunning result!
Perfect guide as you written it, excellent addition to the library!

Thanks mate!

Guest · **Posted:** Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:23 pm

Wow thanks for the feedback everyone, I did have fun doing it and fully intend to be doing one or two more over the next few months.

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:10 pm

Top notch article and painting Tim!! Great job!

Griffo of Gondor · **Posted:** Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:23 pm

Excellent work! Your work's so consistent and inspiring. Great stuff!

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:31 pm

Clear, logical progression, perfect illustrations and encouraging hints - this is perfect. 10/10.

Curunír · **Posted:** Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:04 am

Excellent article, clear and to the point. Thank you.

usagidoug · **Joined:** Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:22 pm **Posts:** 6

very nice work, in fact i might get some plastic easterling now because of this article. i dont have any easterlings and did not plan on getting any, so i dont know if i should thank you or not

you did an excelent job on this article. i too use something to hold the mini when i paint. although one thing i do different is to and the sand to the base before undercoating the mini (well its just sand most of the time nothing fancy). one qusetion...can you give any helpful tips on photographing minis? i know the basics im particularly interested in knowing if you have any spacific tricks you have come up with.

ty, and nice work!

Keyser Soze · **Posted:** Thu Mar 23, 2006 7:52 pm

Excellent article, very easy to follow. I especially love the way you highlighted the tunic. Great effect. Keep up the great work.

Artemis Entreri · **Joined:** Wed Feb 15, 2006 8:47 pm **Posts:** 4

i will say not for the first time and certainly not the last, excellent work! this is my decided method of painting for easterlings!

Guest · **Posted:** Thu Mar 23, 2006 8:43 pm

Thanks once again for the all the positive feedback,knowing that it is well recieved makes the task of writing an article all the more worthwhile.

As for photography hints I don't realy have any other than always use macro (obviously) but pay particular attention to the optimum distance the camera has to be from the mini to achieve the best results. This will be stated in your manual mine is about 20 cm and I do actually measure this to make sure i am about right.
Secondly get your lighting right and also invest in a tripod that is money well spent.
Lastly I always use the time delay on my camera as this gives the camera chance to settle after the button is pressed, I usually go for 2 seconds but I occaisionally go for 10. Some cameras have remote control which is even better.
I hope that is of use.

Viruk · **Posted:** Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:37 pm

Fantastic article, very well written with excellent pictures. Definitely one that I will come back to if I one day decide to buy this minis!

usagidoug · **Joined:** Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:22 pm **Posts:** 6

yes this is a great help!!!

i do use macro, but now that you mention it, i never really paid any attention to the distance while in macro (duh). have several tripods and i do use them, i do use the dela, unfortunatly its 30 sec only

so that can be a pain to wait.

thanx

Son of Rohan · **Posted:** Fri Mar 24, 2006 8:52 pm

Very good guide! I love it! The pictures show everything very clearly. The cloak looks fantastic! Good guide , good work!

The Easterling King · **Posted:** Sat Apr 14, 2007 1:52 pm

GreaT !!!!

Could someone make an advance article, where you paint the induvidual scales on the armour an such things? the would be very nice!!!

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