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Cyndra's Minis and Scenery Log, Burn the Westfold!
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Author:  Cyndra the Grey [ Wed Apr 07, 2010 5:55 pm ]
Post subject:  Cyndra's Minis and Scenery Log, Burn the Westfold!
Hey guys im new here and this log is to motivate me to start painting and playing LOTR again. I have been doing 40k and Fantasy for a long time and i have decided to take up my Gondor army which after counting up my old army comes to 36 WoMT, 24 Rangers, the Aragorn/Strider model with flaming brand and the helms deep aragorn. So here are some test pieces:

Ranger (front)
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Ranger (back)
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WIP rangers
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WIP WoMT
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Sorry for the blurry pics. I have just had my first go at highlighting on the rangers cloak, i hope i can be seen. C&C welcome and appriciated.
Thanks for looking.

Cyndra the Grey

EDIT: just found a captain, banner bearer and 3 citadel guard. I am stripping them of paint at the moment.
Author:  Cyndra the Grey [ Wed Apr 07, 2010 8:19 pm ]
Post subject:  Update
Right i have properly finished the ranger. all bases in the army will be like this:

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Cheers

Cyndra the Grey
Author:  Dwarf Lord of Ered Luin [ Thu Apr 08, 2010 10:19 am ]
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A good start, though you may want to fix up the green patch on the hilt of the sword and touch up a few other palces. I would also suggest you be more careful about how much basing material gets on the mini and also to use less grass on the bases as a few smaller patches would look neater and more realistic. You may also want to have a look at this article.
Good luck with your project.
Author:  Cyndra the Grey [ Fri Apr 09, 2010 2:19 pm ]
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Thanks for the reply. Ill try to be neater with the basing stuff but i was doing it at 11 o'clock at night. I never saw the green patch on the hilt before. Thanks for pointing it out.

I have almost finished the other two rangers and the WoMT. I started on 5 more WoMT as well.

Any other comments would be great.
Cheers
Author:  Cyndra the Grey [ Wed Apr 14, 2010 7:05 pm ]
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So i have finished the spearman and rangers:
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But i still have a lot to do: :sad:
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The next five WoMT are almost finished, just the bases to go:
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And i decided to start the captain:
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After i finish him then i will have the starter battle company, so i can play against my friends just started rohan force (i gave him a load of old stuff i had, the basis was 16 riders and 24 on foot, from what i can remember, but it also has theodred and some royal guard).

Any comments and tips are very welcome.

Cyndra the Grey
Author:  Cyndra the Grey [ Thu Apr 22, 2010 4:46 pm ]
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Hey guys, update time.
I have finished the WoMT and almost the captain. So i have a full Gondor battle company ready, but i still have to do one more warrior because i received a reinforcement. The writing on the bases is just names so i can tell them apart. Anyway onto the pics:

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Thanks for looking and please reply!

Cyndra the Grey
Author:  king elessar 2615 [ Thu Apr 22, 2010 5:02 pm ]
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only criticsm if people agree with me is that the armour is a bit too light. Like me you may want to give the armour a wash whenever im painting gondor i alway use a mothril silver basecoat and then quite a a strong chaos black wash. Otherwise nice models :)
Author:  Sorastro [ Thu Apr 22, 2010 5:19 pm ]
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Hey Cyndra. Nice work on those bases - they really add a lot to the figures; An extra dry-brush highlight of Bleeched Bone might make them stand out even more :)
Author:  Highlordell [ Thu Apr 22, 2010 5:46 pm ]
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Good idea to write the names of the warriors of your BC on the front of the bases, never thought of that before...

Your Rangers look great, i hope to aquire a box of them soon. One thing i wolud improve is on your Captain's shield, paint it a different brown to the gloves to distinguish it, or if you dont have another one then mix in some black.

Keep it up! :rofl:
Author:  Cyndra the Grey [ Mon May 10, 2010 6:42 pm ]
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Hey guys, i have done a fair bit since last time and have finished the captain, four WoMT, a knight of MT and a citadel guard: (the guard is not included in the first group pic)
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So here is my complete battle company after about 7 games (11 men and one knight):
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And my entire painted gondor force:
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And some WIP on aragorn
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Please comment.
Cheers

Cyndra the Grey
Author:  Highlordell [ Mon May 10, 2010 8:23 pm ]
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Looks great! I like the green you used on the shields and cloaks, it ties them together and personalises them aswell.

One thing i would do is just dull down a couple of the models with a wash, i can see you have already, but the archer on the bottom picture on the right terrain piece on the far left looks a bit bright. It could be the camera though.

Keep it up!
Author:  Cyndra the Grey [ Tue May 11, 2010 6:25 am ]
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Thanks for the reply. It is just the camera. All models have a Badab Black wash on metal and green parts and a Delvan Mud one on flesh, leather and the back of the shields.

I still need to finish that wood though.
Author:  Felaorf [ Tue May 11, 2010 5:10 pm ]
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Cyndra the Grey wrote:
So i have finished the spearman and rangers:

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in this photo there are some rangers painted with blue and grey.. are they inspired by this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRXaMVFzSes ?
Author:  Cyndra the Grey [ Tue May 11, 2010 6:50 pm ]
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No but if i had seen the vid i would have been. I was inspired by the ranger in fiefdoms section of gondor in flames. Did you get your idea from there?
Author:  Felaorf [ Wed May 12, 2010 4:30 pm ]
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yes i saw them on this image, and I decided to create a 'new' color scheme.. I saw it before the GW staff changed the site, on the French old version.
http://www.one-ring.co.uk/phpBB2/album_pic.php?pic_id=10115
Author:  Cyndra the Grey [ Wed May 12, 2010 6:18 pm ]
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I like the scheme very much but for a gondor army or ithilien army it doesn't look quite right. but for dol amroth it is perfect. But i dont really have the skill to pull it off properly.
Author:  Felaorf [ Wed May 12, 2010 6:48 pm ]
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I totally agree, it would be strange to see rangers with blue clothes in the forest trying to disappear from orcs eyes..
Author:  Cyndra the Grey [ Sat May 15, 2010 2:32 pm ]
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I haven't done much on aragorn, because i cant really use him in battle companies. But i have converted a captain and started painting a banner bearer and the other 2 citadel guard.

Captain
I gave sculpted a cloak and a beard and used aragorn's head for the conversion: But im pretty terrible with green stuff.
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And the PIP's:
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Please comment. Cheers

Cyndra the Grey
Author:  Cyndra the Grey [ Sat May 15, 2010 7:36 pm ]
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I have come up with a hero to lead my army from this generator: http://membres.multimania.fr/votr/lotrcostcalc.html
This was suggested in this thread:
http://www.one-ring.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=18452

Anyway here it is:

Berethor the Grey
F S D A W C M/W/F
5/4 4 7 3 3 5 2/2/2
Man Hero, heavy armor, shield, sword, lance, horse.
Abilities: Mighty Hero; Horn of Gondor
Cost: 180

He will be represented by my converted captain in the post above. What do you guys think. Too overpowered?

Cyndra the Grey
Author:  Cyndra the Grey [ Wed May 26, 2010 5:38 pm ]
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No painting update at the moment, but i played my first LotR SBG game today (apart from battle companies) for about three years. It was a draw but my captain did very well killing 4 warg riders, 2 beserkers and an uruk-hai. It was a 400pt game. Im looking forward to playing some more games.

Cyndra the Grey
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