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Hello Théobald,
Well done !
You are absolutely right! And for everything!
As I wrote previously, I have not collected Mithril figurines for over 20 years. There would be too many references to recover and among them, some are today impossible to find and artistically not very exciting.
On the other hand, we have a reservoir of old references which are for the great majority (the M references) really very successful. Elrohir is a perfect example.

Very nice...

A Bree gate-warden (M116a?) and the lute-player (M120a).

You chose beautiful colors and details are very well done, like the keys on the belt of the warden and the strings of the lute.
The warden makes me think of Sean Connery

Very nice - the figures complement each other very well.

Excellent Fabrice! Very well done. Do you know Richard Poisson? He has painted many Mithrils.

Bonjour les Mithril Nautes !
Je devrais avoir un peu de temps ce week-end pour terminer la peinture d'Isildur M 272. Il me reste à peindre les gants, je pensais les laisser en blanc nacré mais le résultat ne me plait guère. Que diriez-vous d'un vert ocre jaune ?
A votre bon cœur messieurs !





Hello Mithril Nautes !
I should have some time this weekend to finish painting Isildur M 272. I still have to paint the gloves, I am thinking of leaving them pearly white, but I don't like the result. How about a yellow ocher green?
To your good heart, gentlemen !

I think you should stay with the color pattern of grey, blue and blue gray.
Or the tan color you used for the belt, could also work for the gloves.
That's what I should do.
If it was my work.

Merci pour vos conseils Messieurs  Maenas et Gerold.

Il m'est déjà arrivé par le passé de mettre une figurine de côté, ne sachant pas comment la terminer. Pour celle-ci, mon schéma de couleur était simple, copier celui que Jacques avait appliqué sur son Isildur et je l'ai un peu modifié en accentuant  le bleu. Mais dans la version MS 226,  Isildur ne portait pas ses gants. Je n'avais pas suffisamment analyser ce détail  lorsque je me suis lancé dans sa peinture. Une petite erreur, mais rien de grave. Je pense donc  me laisser encore le temps de la réflexion avant de l'achever.

L'autre référence d'Isildur MS 534 est également à l'arrêt. Le schéma de couleur est un mixte de des deux versions sus-citées. C'est la mise en couleur de la cape qui me pose problème. Avec ou sans motifs et lesquels ? Le choix de la couleur de la cape n'est pas encore totalement définie. Wait and see !

Depuis, j'ai donc préféré me consacrer au décapage et à l'ébavurage de figurines. C'est un travail que je n'aime guère mais indispensable pour obtenir le meilleur rendu final de la figurine peinte. Enlever les lignes de jointures du moule en les ponçant, reboucher des trous au Milliput. Un examen minutieux s'impose et gare aux oublis lorsque vous les apprêtez sinon la besogne est à refaire. Elles sont donc une petite dizaine devant moi à attendre d'être sous couchées. Combien de temps avant d'être peintes ? Longtemps, d'autant plus que je m'attaque au meilleur ami de l'être humain, le cheval !

Nous avions consacré une planche couleur de notre fanzine Mithril Maniac à quelques unes de nos peintures équestres.
Je vous  laisse la découvrir dans "One upon a time Mithril Maniac/Myth'Image". Rendons à César ce qui lui appartient  !

Thank you for your advice Messrs Maenas and Gerold.

It has happened in the past to put a figure aside, not knowing how to finish it. For this one, my color scheme was simple, copy the one Jacques had applied to his Isildur and I modified it a little by emphasizing the blue. But in the MS 226 version, Isildur was not wearing his gloves. I did not sufficiently analyze this detail when I launched into his painting. A small mistake, but nothing serious. So I think I will still give myself time to think it over before finishing it.

The other Isildur MS 534 reference is also at a standstill. The color scheme is a mixture of the two above-mentioned versions. It's the coloring of the cape that causes me problem. With or without reasons and which ones? The choice of the color of the cape is not yet fully defined. Wait and see!

Since then, I have preferred to devote myself to stripping and deburring figurines. It is a job that I do not like much but essential to obtain the best final rendering of the painted figurine. Remove the mold seam lines by sanding them, fill the holes with Milliput. Careful examination is required and beware of omissions when you prepare them otherwise the job has to be redone. There are therefore a dozen in front of me waiting to be lying down. How long before being painted? For a long time, especially since I am attacking the best friend of the human being, the horse!

We had dedicated a color plate from our Mithril Maniac fanzine to some of our equestrian paintings.
I let you discover it in "One upon a time Mithril Maniac / Myth'Image". Let us give back to Caesar what belongs to him !

Last edited by Fabrice JACOB (Sat, Jan23 2021 5:01pm)

Hello Mithril Nautes?
I am quite surprised that there is no post on the painting challenge launched by Mithril.ie.
Is it your collector's side that does not vibrate in front of this challenge or anything else different ?
For my part, I will not be able to participate but I would have liked to devote a little time to it.
Be careful all.

Fabrice JACOB wrote:

Hello Mithril Nautes?
I am quite surprised that there is no post on the painting challenge launched by Mithril.ie.
Is it your collector's side that does not vibrate in front of this challenge or anything else different ?
For my part, I will not be able to participate but I would have liked to devote a little time to it.
Be careful all.

I will need to purchase it first, and as Master Milo says, more than the figure is required

Hello Mithril Nautes !
Hope care with you and your family !

"We used to say with Jacques that our respective collections would give us material to paint for the rest of our days, which we hoped would be distant.
Unfortunately the start came much faster than we had imagined for Jacques.

I inherited the Mithril collection from Jacques when he passed away.
Besides its beautiful painted figurines, there are also quite a few figurines still in blister packs, like those from my own collection.
I have not made the exact count of what I have but it must represent at the very least close to 1000 Mithril figurines, with multiple doubles or triples, all dating from before 2003. Besides, I draw in these last to regularly present my achievements.
A decade wouldn't be enough for me to paint half of them. However, it is perhaps this lapse of time that I have left to paint satisfactorily, before my sight betrays me definitively and old age no longer allows me to perform the same fine motor skills as today.

I would define myself today as a painter of Mithril.
I am no longer an avid collector like most of you.
I no longer feel the need to own them all, as I did thirty years ago.
Ah this fever that overwhelms you at the idea of ​​being able to fill a void in your collection ...

I don't want to keep all of his miniatures.
Also if you are missing some references and want to acquire them (provided I have them), you can contact me in MP.
Hurry, I intend to get rid of a good part of them, during the ODO 2022.

It’s recently been officiated. The town hall of Couëron gives us access to the room of the Fraternity in May 2022, but we remain dependent on the French presidential elections to know exactly the right weekend. To be continued !"

Last edited by Fabrice JACOB (Thu, Apr29 2021 3:12pm)

Well my dear Fabrice , you know what I am looking for I could contact you but well... this is special...

Still knowing what is in the colleciton might be interesting too

Fabrice JACOB wrote:

I would like so much that you could be present at the ODO 2022 Master Thingol. I hope this can be done with an accessible flight to Nantes.

We will see, my wife adore that part of France, so I think our vacation isn't mission impossible :-)