Harad ? you sure he aint Australian ? Whys he carrying a 'didgeridoo' ?

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Nicely done.

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Nicely done so far Brent. The skintones look good and they turned out pretty well! Great work

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Nice model Brent, the skin tone reminds me of what desert tribes people 'should' look like, unlike the ''GW fake tan'' far harad models
The wicker armour looks great and im looking foward to seeing the war-paint

Well painted but I just cannot take these sculpts or the concept they represent seriously at all. Blowpipes tend to be used in confined spaces, hence rainforests etcetera.

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I added a bit more subtle highlighting on the robes. Not sure if its enough but I love the way he looks.

Here's his brother with him:


and a solo sho of the new warrior:


And to give you an idea of the types of minor conversions I've got going on for my Mahud Army...

Here's 5 Mahud Warriors with blowpipes - all slightly different:


And a few other Mahud Warriors with Hand Weapons and Spears:




EDIT: Just for grins, here's my two Mahud Warriors hanging out in the Howdah.

They look great with the more highlighting! They really do look good. And they look even better hanging out in the Mumaks Howdah. Have a grin .

Good work!

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Great job so far. You've caugth the right angle with them. Skintones are really natural.

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Really nice work BrentS. I've been out of touch with the WIP thread for a while and it's great to see some inspiring work here.

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<a href="http://thereandblogagain.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/mahudtribesmaster02.jpg"></a><a href="http://thereandblogagain.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/mahudtribesmaster03.jpg"></a>Here's my second attempt at a Mahûd Tribesmaster conversion. The first attempt failed miserably and didn't look any good. I'm very pleased with how this one turned out.

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The base model is a Uruk-Hai Bezerker which is a nice muscular frame befitting of a Mahûd Tribesmaster. I cut off the head of the Bezerker and separated the hands from the two handed sword. I added a Mahûd head from a warrior with a blowpipe and cut the sword down to look more like a bone carved weapon. I added a "kite" from the Plastic Haradrim raider sprue and then added some wicker armor skirts using greenstuff.

This last picture shows what he'll look like when the shield is added. Its just being held in place using blu-tac right now.

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Next up, I've got to get him glued to the base, primed, and painted!

The latter bunch of pics are excellent...great work, but I am really interested in how you are going to base them ?

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They look good. Those look nice on the Mumak and will sure scare the opponent xD

Nice conversion too! Don't know how the normal captian looks like, but really inovative to use a berserker for a muhad guy

Love the skin tone Brent...I was planning on doing the same thing when I get a few blisters of these models, I really like how yours came out!

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I like the mahud warriors. They look good.
Also Like the tribemaster conversion.

Very nice series of pictures! I really like how they stand all together! The tribemaster is an excellent conversion!!

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I've been working away at my Mahûd Warriors. Here's a group shot of the 6 that are finished:



I've also got 3 more warriors and the Tribesmaster nearly finished. Hopefully this week I'll get some more photos to update.

I also decided to take a break from Far Harad for a bit this afternoon. I was inspired by Viruk's Dipping experiment and I decided to try it out on my own Dwarves. Here's the finished WIP results for two of them:





Not too bad for an hour's work. I think this technique has got some merit in getting an army painted up fast. I have a lot details to work out and need to play with the technique a bit more but I think with some batch painting you could finish an army very, very quickly.

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i agree that the skin tones look awesome!! what colours did you use?

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I like the looks of the first dwarf, but cannot say I am crazy about the way the second one came out. I do like how the stain has darkened the skin of the dwarves...I think they look more rough and tumble and earthy when their skin isn't so light.

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The painting and conversion of the mahuds is excellent (even though I disagree with the concept). The dipped dwarves - not so sold on that. Dipping seems to be a risky business - there was a lot of discussion on TLA about it for months. I like the idea of using inks to help add definition to a mini, but would rather apply them in a much more controlled, targetted fashion.

Knowing my luck, drowned dwarves would be the result of any dipping experiment.

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Ah, I just noticed my thread got bumped with some new comments. Thanks guys!

@ Sapphire - I'll assume you are referring the skin tone of the Mahûd Warriors. I've been using Reaper Master series paints for my skin tones. If you aren't familar with the Master series they have paints in a "triad" that is a base color and then a highlight color and a shadow color. There are actually three different variations used in my models but the base color is "Dark Highlight" (which is part of the Dark Skin Triad) and "Tanned Shadow" (part of the Tanned Skin Triad). I've just varied the mixtures of these colors to achieve the effects I wanted. I really like the Master series paints for skin tones as they have a whole range of triads from Fair Skin, Tanned Skin, and Dark Skin. I also like the Master series for their browns as they have a lot of natural looking browns - a larger range between Scorched Brown and Kommando Khaki. I use those browns all the time on my earthy models.

@Bilbo and Dorth - I've been doing some more dipping (mostly of Harad figures) and it does a nice job introducing shadows. Also the Miniatures are great for good looking tabletop quality. However, for painting that you want to really excel on, it really is less controlled. I think the models would nice at a close arm's length.

@ Dorth - in terms of control, I've been also experimenting with brushing on the dip as opposed to just straight dipping. The effects have been very promising. Similar to what the new washes seem capable of.

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