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pretty impressive your painted figures WOW!

Master Milo, here are the colours used in the skin (starting from right to left):



I used for the base in the  skin a orange-flesh colour, of the old Citadel range, but I lost long ago the label and don´t know the name (I post a picture of all the colours used).

After, I mixed a little of Bubonic brown (a brown with lot of yellow) with the flesh and highlighted. After, I increase the light adding several layers with a mix of flesh-little Bubonic brown-Bleached bone. But I applied them in small zones (shoulders, knees, hands, face, chest…), and leaving most of the skin in the base colour.

Finally, I shaded some zones, with a mix of Dark flesh and a little of purple

As always, I apply lot of thin layers in every step (this is, 3-4 layers of the same mix or colour), to get an smooth result.

Hope it helps you (I played woses in MERP too... years ago )


Master Turambar, I agree with you, painting big and smooth zones of naked skin (no big muscles or bodybuilders ones) is one of the most difficults things in the miniature painting (at least for me)

Master Thingol, you have more than 600 mithril painted miniatures... now I´m jealousy. I will need maybe 4-5 years to have something similar. I´m just starting the journey

Javier, happy to see you active here. Paint some of your stuff and show us!

Last edited by elroi (Sun, Jan9 2011 1:17pm)

Hi, master Milo!

Maybe when I´ll have some different tips and tutorials, I could re-unite them in a unique post.

By now, there are only two of them

Master Elroi, right now your tutorial example I use for painting one miniature, so we'll see how it will look.

It is a Haldir figurine, or figurine that I hate most .... pure coincidence....

I like Haldir to but he is last on my list of all figures....... I will send you picture and you will argue....

but for this pictures which kind of lenses you choose, and the background... is it made in Photoshop or it is just hard paper.... poster or etc... Something else...

And those pictures..... Awesome again!

Hi all again! Remember me?

I´m back here, after some months of "zero activity" with my mithril miniatures (work, family, more work, and other minis, you know...)

But this summer I have worked a bit (thanks, holidays), and I managed to finished a decent number of them. And I`ll try this time to be more consistent in my participation here (promise!)

And now, some pics, hope you like them:


The seated Goblin king. I repainted this one.



A Mordor Uruk. One of my favorite orc. I tried to paint the armour in a different way, far away from my typical metallics. I think looks nice.



A ghoul (hard to paint… really)



Merry and Pippin in the Chamber of Mazarbul





Stone Giant. Another of my favorite mithril miniature. Was a little difficult to paint this guy, because of its bigger scale



Lugburz. Big and mean, as every orc should be.


   

And tomorrow I will post my first proyect of a mithril diorama and I will ask you for some help with it.

Regards to all!

Last edited by elroi (Mon, Sep5 2011 12:27pm)

Nice paint jobs! Wow!

Thanks for the words and the welcome!

Now I´m starting to do more than simple paintings on my mithril minis… that means scenes and dioramas!

This is my first one, the Gates of Moria: not a big scene, but I tried to make it as detailed as I could.

And my big problem now is: what miniatures should I use? I started with the terrain an tree and water, and almost forget the characters….

I´d like to represent Gandalf talking with Frodo, but I´m not sure about what miniatures should use.

Could you, wise members of this site, help me?

Here are some pics of the scene. Is almost finished, just have to make a better drawing of the Ithildin gate (and add the miniatures, of course)











Thanks!!

First, let me write it looks Great so far ! And I have been thinking about Moria's gate for 20 years !

To my point of view, best gandalf candidate is MS553 as if he was trying to open the gate.
I agree M57 is a very good candidate for a travelling hobbit.
Then there are Frodo miniatures: LR23, M123, M287...only M327 is excluded

Last edited by Milo (Thu, Sep8 2011 1:17pm)

I have a spare M52 if needed.

Our 'Tree' should like this one . Another mini-masterpiece.

David

Sounds and looks familiar....

"Anyway", I like them!!!!!!!!!!! Great as usual ! Very nice. Beautiful.... what else....