Alhvar and fiancee - Erebor besieged - Orcs 07/26/2020

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

Comparing your Easterlings from the beginning of this thread to now is great. The improvement is definitely there.

GreatKhanArtist · **Posted:** Tue Dec 11, 2018 4:27 am

The blue on the Grim hammers is fantastic. It reminds me of the French, but I still really like it. Standouts for me were the quivers on the Easterlings and their swords. Well done, both of you!

Alhvar · **Posted:** Tue Dec 11, 2018 6:07 am

Thank you! I am glad you like them!

I'd really like to think that our photographer skills have improved as well. We are trying to use natural daylight. That is however quite a pain during this season. We live in the northern hemisphere and our house points to the north. The daylight only really reaches our house at around 1 pm, and at 2 pm the sun has sunk down below trees and neighbouring houses. In addition there has been only like 5 sunny days the last two months, of which 4 have occured on work days. Some of the miniatures shown in our most recent post were painted during the late summer or early autumn, but there just has not been a good photo opportunity since then.

Alhvar · **Posted:** Sun Jan 06, 2019 1:32 pm

A Grimhammer Captain finished. I still find resin miniatures harder to get to look good, as the surfaces are much more uneven than plastic ones, which are always quite smooth.

Danasdfgh · **Joined:** Sun May 15, 2016 9:23 pm **Posts:** 69

Love the highlighting on the captain

Alhvar · **Posted:** Mon Jan 07, 2019 3:16 pm

Thank you!

GothmogtheWerewolf · **Posted:** Mon Jan 07, 2019 10:58 pm

Beautiful painting throughout. I find you Easterlings in particular to be a success.

Alhvar · **Posted:** Tue Jan 08, 2019 1:51 am

Thank you! I am glad you like them. Not sure when it will be time to paint more easterlings, but when it is time however there will be black dragons painted.

Alhvar · **Posted:** Mon Jul 15, 2019 9:45 am

We have not managed to get much painting done the last six month due to looooots of work.

Warmed up with painting another morannon orc.

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

great looking orcs! Nice and clean in an orcish way

Stewhr · **Joined:** Wed Apr 10, 2019 4:17 am **Posts:** 92

Looks good.

Alhvar · **Posted:** Tue Jul 16, 2019 10:44 am

Thank you!

Kuribo · **Posted:** Sun Jul 21, 2019 5:59 pm

I agree with Feanor that the metallics look really strong. Achieving a good level of contrast with metallics is the greatest challenge and the orcs and the Grim Hammers before that both nail that part of the miniature. I look forward to more updates

Alhvar · **Posted:** Tue Jul 23, 2019 2:16 pm

Thank you! I have another orc on the way. Slowly... Slowly..

Alhvar · **Posted:** Fri Aug 30, 2019 5:00 pm

Another Morannon Orc finished;

Mapper · **Posted:** Sat Aug 31, 2019 8:25 pm

You're doing a very nice job on highlighting, especially on the faces.

Rognarr · **Posted:** Sat Aug 31, 2019 11:45 pm

These are some evil looking orcs, nice job! I lke the pale skin tones.

Alhvar · **Posted:** Sun Sep 01, 2019 8:00 pm

Thank you!

Kuribo · **Posted:** Mon Sep 02, 2019 6:04 pm

I agree with Rognarr! The pale skin is perfectly done on this latest orc. The shadows around the eye are nice touch as well.

Alhvar · **Posted:** Sat Jul 25, 2020 10:53 pm

Thank you everyone for the comments. I have not had much time to paint lately (got a baby in August 2019). Also, I spend 15+ hours on each miniature, so the last year I only managed to paint two models, one morannon orc and one morannon orc captain. Sorry for spamming pictures, but this is quite a significant achievment for me.

Please share any comments, advice or critizism.

Morannon Orc with spear and shield

Morannon Orc Captain

The entire Orc family

Alhvar and fiancee - Erebor besieged - Orcs 07/26/2020

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