Newbies painting of the Balrog model

Arwin · **Posted:** Tue Jun 21, 2011 4:15 am

I am new to painting of the Lord of th rings miniatures and am addicted to it, I currently painted the Balrog miniature and am now painting Gandalf to go with it, once they are both complete I will try to make the terrain to show them on and will post more pics as I go.
Ok here are some pics of my first attempt to paint the Balrog.

Hilbert · **Joined:** Mon Jun 06, 2011 7:07 am **Posts:** 2088

Very good for a newbie... Althought you should add codex grey to balrog's skin....

gaarew · **Posted:** Tue Jun 21, 2011 6:35 am

Hilbert wrote:

Althought you should add codex grey to balrog's skin....

Why? It's a creature of Shadow. You don't get grey shadows.

Very good work there Arwin, inspired choice to tackle such an imposing miniature for starters.

mrliz · **Joined:** Tue Jun 14, 2011 10:38 am **Posts:** 46

thats awesome

Bastion.HUN · **Posted:** Tue Jun 21, 2011 9:12 am

I suggest to use more gradient between two colors. In this case between the yellow and the orange. At the ends you should paint a little bit darker orange. There is a lot of great work on coolminiornot.com. Check this out.

Anyway, its well done.

VonKrieg · **Posted:** Tue Jun 21, 2011 1:21 pm

Very nice paint job. I personally like the dark black and the hints of red throughout. Very nice!

Cyndra the Grey · **Posted:** Tue Jun 21, 2011 3:38 pm

Great work

But seriously you can't be a total beginner, have you done any painting at all before?

Cyndra the Grey

Arwin · **Posted:** Wed Jun 22, 2011 12:40 am

Cyndra the Grey wrote:

Great work

But seriously you can't be a total beginner, have you done any painting at all before?

Cyndra the Grey

Thanks for all the feedback it's great, I have looked at other web pages and the next one I will paint differently, this one I just followed the instructions from the best of White Dwarf magazine as best I could.
As for painting before no not really, a little bit of ceramics when I was a teenager but that was long ago. :galadriel:

Ukfreddybear · **Posted:** Wed Jun 22, 2011 10:20 pm

Not bad at all although you've fallen into the classic trap of painting the flame colours backwards (should be white at the source then yellow then orange as it cools) but it is a common mistake made by many including GW so we can hardly blame you for that.

Hilbert · **Joined:** Mon Jun 06, 2011 7:07 am **Posts:** 2088

Yes cause fire from in to out is white then yellow then orange then red and also if you look carefully you will find sometimes a small line of blue...

Sir Richard · **Posted:** Thu Jun 23, 2011 6:19 am

Well, the imporant thing is to make it look nice, not necessarily realistic. I think that both look great!

garmenhord · **Posted:** Thu Jun 23, 2011 4:22 pm

Nice painting on the balrog. I didn't notice the flame thing at first.. Good hint! i should pay attention to that when i paint my berserkers torches

Morgoths_crown · **Joined:** Thu May 27, 2010 10:53 pm **Posts:** 161

ukfreddybear wrote:

Not bad at all although you've fallen into the classic trap of painting the flame colours backwards (should be white at the source then yellow then orange as it cools) but it is a common mistake made by many including GW so we can hardly blame you for that.

The Firefighter has spoken! I remember this advice from many years ago on the last alliance and whilst I have never done a balrog, I have it in mind whenever I paint fire effects. That said, great paintjob and I for one still havent had the courage to paint the balrog yet, or buy it for that matter!

Sir Richard · **Posted:** Fri Jun 24, 2011 6:23 am

Personally, I think that not as much of the white should be showing. Less makes it look more evil. Just my opinion...

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