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Must be a famous glossy white marble from island Brač... from the same is built the - "Black" -  "White House" in Washington....

I will use black and white marble effect....

Actually I just asked the Man how he sculpted it...

Actually, Arwen is supposed to be alone when Aragorn is dead...not with Eldarion... and the REAL crown of Gondor is passed on from father to son for generations and was not used during the rules of stewards...
In the movie, it is depicted as a carved recumbent effigy... which according to me gives grandeur to the man, more than a simple lying man...

This scene could be from AFTER his death (though it would not justify the presence of two royal guards... and well, Arwen left Minas Tirith just after his passing...) and this could indeed be a recumbent effigy as it is odd to have the crown of Gondor at his feet...

Actually I checked on the net many pictures of Medieval recumbent effigies and all share same aspects, a body sculpted into stone, with a stone cushon below the head, and some item of importance during his lifetime at their feet (in this case, the crown)

I'll wait for Chris' answer but I really think that... although the book describes the scene of the passing of Elessar as his real body, it could give depth to the scene to have it made in stone, gray polished marble stone...

well that gives only two possibilites : being true to the book means that it is Elessar himself... being imaginative in accordance to the sculpture would have Elessar be an stone effigy...

Great to have CT's view. Merci Gildor

..... I'm ready for criticism....






I decided to paint it those "flanked" part of the tomb by Minas Tirith guardsmen.... as a real guardsmen's... who came to give honor to the king, as the queen's entourage.... one in black and one i white uniform... as the queen Arwen is in black dress with white scarf, and Eldarion is in combinations of black and white dresses.... floor The floor is made of gray marble and tomb from white limestone.....

But I'm not satisfied with pictures....

Last edited by Thingol (Thu, Sep6 2012 9:13pm)

Looks good Master Thingol, I am lucky that I only started to paint the pillow as real material (having already painted it with a stone effect).

I am now racing against time to get the scene finished having other model making projects to contend with

I must then put a little putty on her forehead..... and than... this is conversion and this is not - according to the rules !

Arwen may look like a priestess in the David Lynch film - The Dune

Thanks Gildor,

about "stony" looks I did not added any spacial "thing".... only paint... I painted the first coat of black paint, and than quite a few times with diluted white paint.... with that I got tinted primer.... on the end I inflicted on the edges undiluted white and I got a thickening similar to the old tombs.... I painted the tombs of three layers. First with a glossy white. Then with diluted black. Then I took off with sandpaper rough lines. Then I went with diluted brown. In the end I went through a very dilute shiny gray. To get the effect of marble. I purposely made ​​the tomb of limestone. It struck me as more original. Like in old churches. Do not like your great French graves, but as a tomb in the Romanesque style in Europe....

Thank you, Master Thingol. I think your information is very useful and it also shows how much time you spent to achieve this great effect.
Still I wonder how many people will take part in the competition this time. As usual I won't, as I don't have the time but most of all because I'm a poor painter. So I'll enjoy the results of others again.

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Yes indeed, thanks master Thingol for telling us some of your techniques to obtain such realistic tomb.
I will not enter into competition as I only managed to add 1st layer on minis faces, which I doubt is sufficient

You should enter into competiton with this idea dear master hobbit... That all the characters in the vignette be grey marble stone statues... tomb of Elessar, which is flanked by Minas Tirith guardsmen, and statues of Arwen and Eldarion... it can be completely original idea....

Wiiiii !!

So it might turn out to be a very nice competition - and there might also be others who are not present here on our site, as it was last time.

Very good job Master David as usual