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well i must admit I painted it by the model... but the flame Daramis is holding in her hand is supposed to be blue-white (like her clothes)

the color theme is blue-white and golden... the figurine is far less dark than the pics show them... as I said, a lack of good natural lighting does not help

this is the model used for the box cover : http://www.figurines-avenue.com/Files/2 … 028-01.jpg

about glazes or juiced, indeed lots of control because dry brush tends to bring paint "powder" outside the places we want to paint, this is very very hard to control when you do artistic work.... it is indeed more suited for armies, or caricatural figurines with lots of relief...

quite suited for SOME mithril figurines, for infantry or orcs... or pelts sometimes... drybrush remains  the best for big areas of animal pelts (provided the pelt is sculpted....)

well I think Joaquin Palacios (freeman) is quite a good fantasy sculptor for 54mm actually   but this is ONLY for 54mm...

Mithril was good too... but they ceased producing 54mm...

Now to give him another "kick up the butt" to make him work harder on the mounted figurine he's painting (Zorabeth, morning mist, still by Andrea, link on page one of this thread).

I really love those andrea miniatures, way better than Mithril ones in my eyes for one main reason: they're 54mm. 32mm really lack details or so I think... and our house is crowded with 32mm!!!! *cries*

If you want bad painting, you should see my Gildor *shudders*. Actually the clothes are pretty good for a first try, but (as I expected), the skin turned out as a new synonym of "awful".

remember months ago... I got a gift for Christmas... 54mm from
Andrea http://www.andrea-miniatures.com/images … 002-01.jpg

it took me more than six months... but I finished it today, at last... and now here is the result (sorry for the light quality, I had some problem with natural light and flash   ) :






and now, I have four days to finish painting the gift I made to my wife for her birthday in june... this is not fantasy but could be : a Norse Lord from Andrea too
http://www.andrea-miniatures.com/_carro … -02-04.jpg

then by thursday next week, I should be back painting Mithril, AT LAST

mon dieu! the "norse lord" is a modified conan pose, looking good.

it took me a lot of time to achieve this one, and in the end i admit I was a bit "fed up"... I am not such great a painter but I am satisfied enough with the result...

I had a lot of problems to do the artificial snow... "flocage" as you call that in french... it is easy to do with grass, but with artifical snow powder that's a nightmare, not to mention I had powder everywhere , I used PVA glue, but the powder was so thin.... if you have any tip on how to "apply" artificial snow, it is welcome, as it can make marvelous environment but very hard to achieve

you mean ... piano I suppose? but no I don't play this instrument heheheh

ha ha, I see you managed to achieve this long term painting. You shall envy noone here regarding painting skills. Great work Gildor !

I will have to achieve & show also my long term one 'carrock' as for you, "in the end I admit I am a bit fed up" (just a little , mosly caus' of dwarves small size...especially when looking at my glass cabinets!)

WOW !
That looks absolute fantastic, Master Gildor. Good colour choice. the metal parts are also well done.
A brilliant figure, by the way!

this is Andrea Miniatures, it is 54mm though not fitting for mithril

and thanks a lot my friends for your comments ... I seem to be more gifted at paintaing 54mm than 32 ... maybe that's why I am desperatly looking for all those mithril 54mm treasures.... though ironically I don't intend to paint them...

Andrea miniatures... I was try to find it but without success... which range is it.... I'm really interested to buy this great figure... and about painting my 54 mm figures ... I also think that I'm better painter with my 54 mm figures...

I'm going to look at. I have several Vikings in my drawer. One more would be welcome