February Painting Challenge: Buhrdur!

samoht · **Posted:** Thu Feb 10, 2011 3:57 am

Here is my Homemade Buhrdur.

He has no paint on him. He is just made of different types of putty.

garmenhord · **Posted:** Thu Feb 10, 2011 12:26 pm

I got my troll but i guess i won't be entering - I need to strip it and undercoat ,... By the time i have that done , i guess i just wouldn't manage it in time.
Lol i wanted to ask for clearer pictures when i noticed u put it in ur wip :rofl:

Eaothen-the-brave · **Posted:** Thu Feb 10, 2011 7:56 pm

This is intressting.. I'm planning on an Arnor/Numenor army in the future so painting my Buhrdur might be a good start! I don't know if I might be finished on time, I'm very busy with school ATM but I'll search some time to paint (:
I'll upload a picture tomorrow and I'll start painting this weekend I think. Hopefully I'll get finished on time

Eaothen-the-brave · **Posted:** Fri Feb 11, 2011 4:57 pm

here is my entry, still wet of the paint :p

hero of gondor · **Posted:** Fri Feb 11, 2011 9:46 pm

Some lovely converted Burdurs here especially nice lord of edoras and samoth yours are very good converted/sculpted.

Good luck to everyone in this shortest month to complete your work.

Lord of Edoras · **Posted:** Sat Feb 12, 2011 7:53 pm

I just noticed everyone's Buhrdurs have the webpage in the background. Do I need a pic like that as well to prove the mini is mine?

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Sat Feb 12, 2011 8:34 pm

Lord of Edoras wrote:

I just noticed everyone's Buhrdurs have the webpage in the background. Do I need a pic like that as well to prove the mini is mine?

The picture you provided is fine. The proof pictures are more proof that the miniature was unpainted before you started the challenge than proof it's yours. I trust the community enough that noone is cheating on something as silly as this. Though if you want to include it for completeness, that's fine

Eaothen-the-brave · **Posted:** Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:26 pm

here's a quick WIP of my Buhrdur so far, I hope that's legal

hope you like it

Ukfreddybear · **Posted:** Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:35 pm

Interesting you've started on the fur first. I'm beginning with the flesh.

Eaothen-the-brave · **Posted:** Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:37 pm

good point, maybe it wasn't the best idea ever..

oh well, we'll see how this will turn out I guess (:

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Fri Feb 18, 2011 4:59 pm

I'll finally have time to get started on my Buhrdur this weekend. Preperation pics will come tomorrow with any luck.

valpas · **Posted:** Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:37 am

My Buhrdûr assembled and primed:

And after some work on the base, skin and the warg skin on his back (last weekend):

I had a nice colour with quite good layering for the lighter parts of his skin and then decided to give the whole skin a wash and ended up darkening the skin too much. Shouldn't ever touch something that is pleasing to the eye, no matter what I have planned to do.

Well, back to painting, with any luck I'll have some new progress in a few hours.

-- Pasi

Pinky Beecroft · **Posted:** Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:35 pm

Has anybody else had troubles with their Buhrdur cast being absolutely atrocious?! Forget about mold lines, it looks like the molds on my cast were out by a few millimetres! I'm gonna have to send this one back, has anyone had experience with returning minis to GW?

valpas · **Posted:** Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:21 pm

My troll had a huge gap, maybe 2-3 mm on the backside between the lower and upper torso parts. No amount of filing helped, I just had to use loads of green stuff and sculpt the lower back instead of normal gap filling. The pieces fitted a lot worse than the normal cave troll pieces.

I've never returned anything to GW because I order the stuff from UK and that would take ages to sort out.

-- Pasi

Pinky Beecroft · **Posted:** Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:54 pm

I'm talking about where the molds join being out, i.e. instead of the usual tolerable mold lines I've got an imperfection of a few mm which would take considerable filing to make even, if that makes sense. Most parts are dodgy the only decent piece is the head.

Cyndra the Grey · **Posted:** Sat Feb 19, 2011 2:24 pm

Apparently GW has really good customer service. I would recommend ringing them up and telling them about the problem and they should send you a new one. That way you get 2 (well 1 and a sh*t one).
If it doesnt work send it then.

Cyndra the Grey

valpas · **Posted:** Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:10 pm

@Pinky: Nothing that bad, though I think my Buhrdûr is way below GW's normal standard for multi-part metals. The mould lines of individual parts were OK in my troll.

Edit: here's my today's progress on Buhrdûr:

Still some work to do, but the larger parts start to find their colours.

-- Pasi

spuds4ever · **Posted:** Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:09 pm

Looking good so far guys! Keep up the good work! Can't wait to see how these minis turn out.

garmenhord · **Posted:** Sun Feb 20, 2011 9:05 am

Great work so far Valpas. He really looks cool!

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Sun Feb 20, 2011 11:37 am

Taken me a while to kick my ass into gear but here's mine pre-undercoat.

February Painting Challenge: Buhrdur!

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