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Sorry for the big pics, Master Gildor!
I saw in others post the images as thumbnails, but i didn´t found that "upload image" functionnality in the options of the message (I´m not a very talented informatic )

Just tell me where is that option, and I will edit the images to a smaller size,

Masters Shadyt and Thingol, thank you very much for your words!

And venerable Theobald, very soon you will see my Fimbrethil vision (and after, I´ll need to seek for more Ents to add at my collection)

Work on the pics done!
Thanks for the clear instructions, Master Turambar

And I have took a look to the gallery... your dioramas are excellent (Moria is awesome!!!) and there is a lot of very good and inspiring stuff.

I like to make dioramas also... in a near future I probably will make some mithril scenes also, not only miniatures.

Wow !!!!
These orcs look fantastic. One hase even a nice tongue...
Looking at your pictures, I wonder if you use metalic paint, it seems not and the result is even better !
Maybe you could provide some tips in the painting section here:
http://mmp.faerylands.eu/viewtopic.php?id=98

Last edited by Milo (Fri, Dec31 2010 10:40am)

well GW dioramas would not fit a "mithril gallery" would they   so I don't think it wise to use them... About single ones though I am indeed interested feel free to send them when you want

A “little” addition for my gallery, Dwarven infantry, one new and one with details added:

Very nice! Love the dragon in the shield, is it NMM?

Yes, I will follow Arthadan and milo. A nice colour choice as well and also nice gradients.

Thingol wrote:

I will repaint some of my early figures... again... and again

I'm usually satisfied with my work... but I will improve some details on some old painted mithril guys... and girls...

That´s a neverending but satisfactory work, improving all the time. I think some of my miniatures have been repainted at least 3-4 times: my early works with Humbrol enamels, my firsts trys with acrilics, and 1-2  post-paintings

Neverending work

Hi, Master Thingol

I prefer to use acrylics better than enamels or oils. With all kind of paints is possible to achieve the same effects and results, but there are big differences between them. But there are not better or worse ones, just different.

I use the acrylics mainly because they dry very faster than the others (and this is important for my painting style, because I apply lots and lots of thin layers of paint, for shading and highlighting) and because they use water to dilute (not toxic thinners).

I have seen your gallery, very nice compositions, mixing naturalistic scenarios and miniatures.

Regarding the painting work itself, I´ll be sincere: I think your miniatures are painting in a very basic style (this is, not much shading or highlighting work, dull colours, not much tones… )

But for judging your work in a right way, I need to know some things:

- How much time do you spend painting a single miniature?
- Do you have time enough to spend on painting?
- Which is your aim when you paint a miniature?

If your answers are close to:

- Not much
- Yes
-  try to improve a little from the previous miniature

I assure you that it´s very easy to get very better results in not much time. I think the best way to do that is to open a “step by step” post, painting a single miniature and posting pictures of every step. I will help you in every step, with advices and tips

6 hours in a miniature are enough to get good results in a miniature (even if you use enamels, with a slow dry). But I do not recommend to paint at night (unless you have a very good light... light bulbs that simulate the real day light), it´s very better to paint with natural daylight (this may be easier in Spain than in center or north Europe )

I´ll try soon to make a step by step post of one of my miniatures, with pictures of all the steps, to show how is my process in painting

Thingol wrote:

Also I'm happy with you on this forum and I hope that you'll stay... here of course

Thanks a lot, I think I´ll be here for a long time

PS: 250 are A LOT painted miniatures, congrats for such  great collection

Hello Roi and all Mithril Fellowship.
Great work here, as usual from you. I always keep my little Mithril collection save as gold in wood boxes, some of them in their original pacage. When you told me about this forum reanimated my interest into paint these little gems. Now I'm preparing a couple of them and I hope to show you it soon.

A pleasure to know about people who have your tastes.

.... dear friend... with little child it and with works which I'm doing last years it was impossible to paint during the day light Last time when I was paint something on day light it was 7 years ago... and as it seems I will wait few years to do this again

This 250 are repainted... and I have whole available collection of mithril figures painted more than 600 figures... and all others except those 250 need some improvements....

Thanks for your support !

And finally this Ghan Buri Ghan is remarkable !

Master Mabden welcome on our forum... please go to "Who is who" topic and there you could introduce your self with your photo....

Perfect skinn! ( a song from Master Lloyd Cole and the Commotions if i remember right . . .)
But in this case a really good colour shading. Coulering skinn is very ambitious, so I respect this work.
And I know what I am speaking about . . .