BrushStrokes Work In Progress - Harad, Mahud, Dol Amroth etc

BrushStroke · **Posted:** Wed Nov 26, 2014 10:27 am

Hi everyone,

I'm new to the forum and pretty new to this painting / gaming lark.
I thought I'd show you guys the harad army I'm working on at the moment and keep a little log of things as they progress.
So far I've just got my mumak done and I'm now working on some raiders

Here we go then...

My mumak

Close up of some of the crew

Now I'm on with some raiders...

Hopefully you can all see the images (they certainly appear in preview)

More to follow :-D

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Wed Nov 26, 2014 10:52 am

Great to see you here on the One Ring buddy. Welcome!

Fantastic work so far. I've been following your progress on facebook for some time.
Keep it up!

BrushStroke · **Posted:** Wed Nov 26, 2014 10:57 am

Thanks DMS.... someone mentioned on facebook that I would really like the stuff on here and the guys and gals here might like to see my stuff too...

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Wed Nov 26, 2014 11:00 am

Absolutely my friend. If you enjoy painting and love the lord of the rings then this is the place to be. welcome to the community again.

Harfoot · **Posted:** Wed Nov 26, 2014 11:06 am

Great work on the Mumak, the rigging looks excellent, i am going to have to do that to mine.

Also the shading on the horse is first class

Welcome to the Forum, look forward to seeing more of your work

BrushStroke · **Posted:** Wed Nov 26, 2014 11:47 am

Thanks Harfoot
I'm really happy with how the rigging turned out and now when I see a mumak without any they look a bit bare.
Other mods I did are the tusk spikes

I added some custom arrows about the place:
In mumak and howdah

one in the Rohan chap on the base

and then the archers have strings on the their bows too

Elf of the North · **Joined:** Mon Feb 08, 2010 6:36 pm **Posts:** 51

Great stuff!

Argish · **Posted:** Wed Nov 26, 2014 2:20 pm

That horse is looking really good. The strings on the bows are always a good detail to have in your army!

Pretty sure it's going to look awesome on the field.

Crucium Giger · **Posted:** Wed Nov 26, 2014 2:28 pm

Pretty new you might be but that is some excellent painting on display there and I lok forward to seeing your future work

ja33 · **Posted:** Wed Nov 26, 2014 4:21 pm

I really love the paint job and the overall coloring on your horse - would you share the colors that you used to paint him ? I've yet to paint any horses myself, but I have close to 30 Rohan Riders and mounted Heroes next up on my table and I'm looking for ideas for color schemes and techniques...

Isilduhrr · **Posted:** Wed Nov 26, 2014 4:24 pm

These look incredible. The colouring on the horse is really breathtaking

YOrcShire · **Posted:** Wed Nov 26, 2014 7:14 pm

Welcome. Very nice work so far, great attention to detail.

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Wed Nov 26, 2014 8:38 pm

That looks one mean and wonderful Mumak, a great achievement.
I remember doing mine and these are no quick fix figures, surprisingly lots of detail in the Howdah but you have done it justice.

Oropher · **Posted:** Wed Nov 26, 2014 9:27 pm

Top work all round! Very motivating to see such nice paintwork.
Loving the Mumak but that horse is looking awesome!
Reminds me I still have all my Harad force to complete yet....
Look forward to more of your work!

BrushStroke · **Posted:** Thu Nov 27, 2014 12:28 am

Thank you all for the amazing compliments, it's really appreciated.

With regards the horse, I'm still very much finding my way myself and it's really a trial and error thing.
Ja33 you asked for the colours... well it was
* white primer
* Steel legion drab
* Tallarn sand
* Karak stone
* Seraphim sepia wash

Here's a pic of that horse finished

and some progress on a few of the others in this batch. Gone for different colours to the first to mix it up a bit

BrushStroke · **Posted:** Thu Nov 27, 2014 12:42 am

weirdly, despite using a different recipe for the last two horses from the one I used before... all three seem to have come out about the same... ah well, nevermnd... you guys seem to think the first one was good so I wont complain too much

ja33 · **Posted:** Thu Nov 27, 2014 3:38 am

thanks much for the paint info, BrushStroke !

I will definitely give that combination a try when I start on my herd of horses...

Would love to see some more, so please keep the great pics coming !

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Thu Nov 27, 2014 8:10 am

Lovely horses, turned out great.
The last picture, the right hand one. Give it a thin chestnut glaze all over, that will alter the appearance.

redeaston · **Posted:** Thu Nov 27, 2014 9:28 am

Nice painting. I am currently working on Harad myself.

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Thu Nov 27, 2014 10:04 am

You could add a litle bleached bone to the horse colour and take the colour a stage lighter changing the overall finish quite a bit. Will make it look like a Palamino. Looking great so far.

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