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ElfLover · **Posted:** Fri Feb 22, 2013 4:47 am

That is very near human skin colour. But whatever floats your goat :-D

I really like the helmet and spear :yay:

Corsair · **Posted:** Fri Feb 22, 2013 1:35 pm

nothing stopping that orc stealing green cloth from the wood elves

look great - I have another box of 24 mordor orcs i need to do sometime!

SidTheSloth · **Posted:** Fri Feb 22, 2013 2:05 pm

Excellent painting, I really like the skin tone :yay:

He's a wee tad too clean for my liking though... looks as if he's had a bath at some point in his life... :rofl:

Minimal Monkey Saddle · **Joined:** Wed Dec 09, 2009 8:55 pm **Posts:** 463

Thanks guys. I'm just testing some ideas at the moment so I really appreciate all the feedback.

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Sun Feb 24, 2013 9:40 pm

I think your first Orc is the better of the two, it just looks rougher, like an Orc should. I have to agree with Sid that the second one is too clean. I appreciate you are a limited paint supply until you move but I think some drybrushing will help create the ramshackle look that's needed. A couple of dark washes will also help.
I've had a thought about the skin, how about glazing with a light green, it might just give an Orcish sort of look without going too far. You could add a touch of darker green in the recessed areas.

John Wayne · **Posted:** Sun Feb 24, 2013 11:20 pm

The orc has to humany flesh to me, perhaps it is the camera image. Still good though :yay:

Minimal Monkey Saddle · **Joined:** Wed Dec 09, 2009 8:55 pm **Posts:** 463

Hi guys. Just a short message to say I'm probably not going to be around much for some time. The immigration process is quite demanding and then I have to find a job and a new house once I get over there. On the upside once this is all over with I'm thinking that a sweet painting area with lots of new tools and toys is the least I deserve. So I will return just not sure when. Keep up the good work and I'll see you soon.

Thermo · **Posted:** Fri Mar 01, 2013 10:30 pm

Minimal Monkey Saddle wrote:

Hi guys. Just a short message to say I'm probably not going to be around much for some time. The immigration process is quite demanding and then I have to find a job and a new house once I get over there. On the upside once this is all over with I'm thinking that a sweet painting area with lots of new tools and toys is the least I deserve. So I will return just not sure when. Keep up the good work and I'll see you soon.

Good luck MMS!

Minimal Monkey Saddle · **Joined:** Wed Dec 09, 2009 8:55 pm **Posts:** 463

Hi guys. I had my visa interview yesterday and I passed! To celebrate I bought some new paints and miniatures since it's a few more months before I travel.

First up is Lindir. I'm still not happy with finecast models. I find the faces are too angular and the grainy texture makes it difficult to have smooth skin and I've yet to have a model that doesn't have two pits for eyes.

Anyway it's good to be back painting again.

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Sat Apr 13, 2013 11:40 am

You've done a good job with Lindir MMS. I'm in the same boat as you with regards to the finecast issue - especially the pits for eyes. I like to spend a lot of time on faces and eyes and am yet to paint a finecast face that i am happy with. Guess we just have to keep trying.

Well done passing your visa interview mate - all the very best of luck.

SidTheSloth · **Posted:** Sat Apr 13, 2013 1:39 pm

The extreme highlights on the garment are somewhat splendiferous :yay:

I really really like your style of painting

theavenger001 · **Posted:** Sat Apr 13, 2013 2:42 pm

Wow, he's looking great so far. I really like how you can paint such a muted style, but still have really great bright highlights. This guy reminds me of the way bizzarewarstar painted his dwarves for the warbands challenge.

Minimal Monkey Saddle · **Joined:** Wed Dec 09, 2009 8:55 pm **Posts:** 463

Thanks guys.

theavenger001 wrote:

Wow, he's looking great so far. I really like how you can paint such a muted style, but still have really great bright highlights. This guy reminds me of the way bizzarewarstar painted his dwarves for the warbands challenge.

In my absence I did a lot of reading on colour theory that's really helped with how I approach highlighting and shading. It was quite humbling to realise how little I knew on this subject despite painting all these years.

And yes iirc from reading his tutorials I think bizzarewarstar and I share a similar approach in using preshading and glazing techniques. This is entirely coincidental though I must say he's one of my favourite painters on here.

Minimal Monkey Saddle · **Joined:** Wed Dec 09, 2009 8:55 pm **Posts:** 463

I had some good fortune in finding a bag of rohan guys lodged down the side of my computer

It's annoyed me for some time how my painting style doesn't scale down very well and because of this I have lots of unpainted army projects. And so I used these rohan infantry to test out a more effecient style.

The cloaks are my favourite part - took a few minutes each and yet they look quite respectable.

I still need to finish off the shields and bases but I think already they look a lot better then the ones I painted a few years back whilst taking a lot less time.

Rognarr · **Posted:** Tue Apr 16, 2013 8:04 pm

They look really great!
I'm curious (have to admit: for my own warriors of Rohan) what arethe colours you used for the cloth on the sleeves? Also, the hair looks fantastic. How did you colour the layers?

garmenhord · **Posted:** Wed Apr 17, 2013 6:15 am

nice colours

i hope my remaining rohirim will look as nice.

Crucium Giger · **Posted:** Wed Apr 17, 2013 7:46 am

I'll say it again, I love your muted (not sure if this is the right word) painting style as it gives them a certain look I've not often seen on miniatures

Minimal Monkey Saddle · **Joined:** Wed Dec 09, 2009 8:55 pm **Posts:** 463

Rognarr wrote:

They look really great!
I'm curious (have to admit: for my own warriors of Rohan) what arethe colours you used for the cloth on the sleeves? Also, the hair looks fantastic. How did you colour the layers?

For the sleeves I used graveyard earth -gw then graveyard earth and bleached bone gw with a final highlight of bleached bone. For the hair I used very thin washes working from light to dark and finished with a highlight. Going from memory I did washes of desert yellow and graveyard earth followed by a highlight of desert yellow and white. This was painted neatly with quite thick paint as I prefer for off white paint. I have a brush with short bristles that I use for small details such as this. I think it's a series 333 from rosemary and co.

Minimal Monkey Saddle · **Joined:** Wed Dec 09, 2009 8:55 pm **Posts:** 463

Crucium Giger wrote:

I'll say it again, I love your muted (not sure if this is the right word) painting style as it gives them a certain look I've not often seen on miniatures

I really appreciate these comments. At times I look at other people's work and wish I could paint that way and forget that I have my own style that I should be proud of.

I painted a few more rohan and I'm pleased with how they turned out yet I can't help try to improve. The green on the cloaks is a little too vibrant for my tastes and so I mixed up a more subdued green with some the basecoat, ivory and blue.

The photo is rubbish I know - one of my priorities this year is to have a proper photography setup - but I think you get the idea.

LordElrond · **Posted:** Fri Apr 19, 2013 10:39 pm

Love your warriors and lindir in particular.

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