Eaothen's Khazad-Dum WIP

Eaothen-the-brave · **Posted:** Wed Jan 19, 2011 7:48 pm

Thanks Garmenhord, anyway, here are even more pictures!!

Merry with a monkey face..

on the picture..

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Wed Jan 19, 2011 8:54 pm

Your paints are nice and thin which is good. Are these just at basecoat stages? Because I would suggest some shading and highlights on the skin (and other areas).

Eaothen-the-brave · **Posted:** Wed Jan 19, 2011 9:23 pm

Red Corsairs wrote:

Your paints are nice and thin which is good. Are these just at basecoat stages? Because I would suggest some shading and highlights on the skin (and other areas).

Thanks, yes they're mostly just basecoats, I won't do the skin 'cause that paint is pretty thick so I don't want to screw things up

But I might try on other areas, I'll upload pictures ASAP.

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Wed Jan 19, 2011 9:30 pm

If you're worried about highlighting and shading due to thick paint, you could always try a wash over the basecoat for the faces. I find either a Flesh Wash wash, a Brown Ink wash or an Ogryn Flesh wash works pretty well (for the first two you'll need to water them down a lot otherwise you'll get a shiny result). These are quick and easy ways to get shading on your faces and they won't make the paint on the faces much thicker either.

Good luck.

Cyndra the Grey · **Posted:** Thu Jan 20, 2011 8:04 am

Looking good at the moment so well done. As Red said a wash will give the faces more depth and plus it's easy as well. I agree about Merry's monkey face, it's not sculpted very well. Keep up the good work.

Cyndra the Grey

garmenhord · **Posted:** Thu Jan 20, 2011 8:19 am

This is going in a good direction

looking forward for the further progress

TheBucklandBrewer · **Posted:** Thu Jan 20, 2011 11:36 am

Looking good so far!
I can only encourage you trying out a wash over the face! It makes them look much better with only a little effort.
Once you start trying this out, you can be amazed on how quick you can make progress and how easy it is to learn new things to raise your skills!

I remember I used watered down flesh wash aswell for my first faces. It looked pretty good actually..; untill it didn't satisfy me anymore, and then I forced myself into getting a step higher... and so on...

Goodluck if you take the risk to try it!

Eaothen-the-brave · **Posted:** Thu Jan 20, 2011 4:14 pm

Thanks for the kind replies everyone!

I'll try out the washes in the future, but I'll have to wait till I find another shop nearby, otherwise I'll have to wait way to long..
If I got them I'll try them on some other mini's, for practice, I'm happy with my fellowship so far so..

Anyway, thanks for the tip, I'll try it out once I got the washes (:

Eaothen-the-brave · **Posted:** Sun Jan 23, 2011 3:28 pm

here's some update on the fellowship, it's not much, but I finished Boromir's shield

Cyndra the Grey · **Posted:** Sun Jan 23, 2011 4:52 pm

Good work on Boromir's sheild

Are you going for movie versions of the characters?

Cyndra the Grey

Eaothen-the-brave · **Posted:** Sun Jan 23, 2011 5:13 pm

Cyndra the Grey wrote:

Good work on Boromir's sheild

Are you going for movie versions of the characters?

Cyndra the Grey

Yes, oh well, that's what I'm trying

I'm glad with the result so far, except on merry's face.. it seems a little odd but oh well.. you won't see it when they're in group I guess.

Eaothen-the-brave · **Posted:** Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:24 pm

It's been a while since I uploaded some pictures here, I was sick for a week and when I recovered school took away all my free time I had.. now things are a little calm so I decided to join the Buhrdur painting challenge and today I painted the fur on his back, here are some pics, they're a little dark here since it was dark outside when I took the pictures too. Anyway, I hope you'll like it:

Cyndra the Grey · **Posted:** Sun Feb 13, 2011 11:15 pm

Glad to have you back and I hope you feel better.

I like the fur a lot, is it just drybrushed? I'm hoping to see some great work so keep it up

Cyndra the Grey

Eaothen-the-brave · **Posted:** Mon Feb 14, 2011 3:55 pm

Cyndra the Grey wrote:

Glad to have you back and I hope you feel better.

I like the fur a lot, is it just drybrushed? I'm hoping to see some great work so keep it up

Cyndra the Grey

Yes it is just drybrushed, I used 3 different browns for the fur, I wish I could tell you wich ones but as you know I'm using non-GW paints so..

thanks for the kind reply though (:

Eaothen-the-brave · **Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:32 pm

Hi all, it's been a while since I posted something on here so here I am, back with a new Numenor army wich I'm converting so I'll have as much spear- as swordmen, I used a lot of Gondor units, and also some more work on the Moria board (but not much) hope you like my conversions!!

the guy at the very right will become an archer.

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

wow, I really like your Numenorean conversions!

THey look really good!

kidterminal · **Posted:** Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:33 am

I like your conversions.

Rob

garmenhord · **Posted:** Wed Mar 30, 2011 6:38 am

I told u they would like them

keep it up jorn

Eaothen-the-brave · **Posted:** Wed Mar 30, 2011 10:28 am

haha thanks guys, I'll be converting some more, but exams are taking a lot of my time away

yet I wonder, should I give them a white or black basecoat? it'll be the first time I'll be using a white one, but I'm planning to paint them like the movie, what do you guys think?

Cyndra the Grey · **Posted:** Wed Mar 30, 2011 3:46 pm

Yay, your back!

I love those Numenor conversions, they are simple yet very effective. Your Moria board looks great as well.
In answer to your question, use black because their armour is mostly black in the film or very dark colours.
Keep up the great work.

Cyndra the Grey

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