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Here is my work in progress for the Lossarnach infantryman :

Welcome on board master Axel! It is good to see an alf with full plate.

Master Gerold, you show us very nice work in progress. Keep going.
On my side, I was too sick for handling any paint brush, I am late now

Nice to see your progress guys!!! and wellcome Master Axel!!!!

Here my progress:




My idea was paint this mini like Angus Mc Bride image.... but....Master Maenas put the level very high.....so ...now...I'm thinking to chance totally the colors....and try something different.....

Last edited by orc (Wed, Jan13 2016 11:30am)

For the Lossarnach infantryman : I would like to make his legs more dark. And I think I'm going to leave his face as it is. Maybe a beard...

To master orc: choosing the right colors is a challenge on its own already ; but I don't see a problem with your colour scheme. Some highlights can change the look of the figure a lot.

I have just primed the mini! I hope to start soon or I will be out of time LOL (I think I will have enough time to advance and maybe finish this weekend)

@orc: what's the problem with that colour scheme? I love Angus McBride art!!

To paint metals we have two paths available, one is TMM (True Metallic Metal) and the other is NMM (Non Metallic Metal).
With the first method (TMM) you paint metals with paints that have metallic or shiny pigments/flocked/molt in them, like on Axel's above example.
With the second (NMM) method, you will use normal/flat paint and by the ways of colour selection, light placement, contrast and reflections you will try to reproduce the look of a reflective surface like if it were shining.

To me, mithril's look better when done with the true metallic metal path. But the NMM method if well executed can give spectacular results (but indeed this is above my actual skills ^^').

I was just commenting this because I though it could be interesting to you, don't know if you already knew those paths or not. If you do, just ignore the post, if you don't, well now you have some research to do

Wow....very interesting information!!! Thanks very much Master Maenas and Master Turambar!!!! Nice to be be part of this painters league many chances to learn new things and improve skills.

I'm going to choose go with TMM...I think is more simple hehehe and you know the orcs....we prefere easy ways...so the idea is.... after paint the armour in Golden Color and I give a wash with brown ink.... mix the golden color with white to do it more bright, paint the prominent areas...and give the last lights with white....what do you thing?

for the rest of the cloth...I'm thingkin to use dark colors for the tunic...like for example.... dark blue or grey/blue may be dark green and for the pantas and shirt.....light grey,Im considering too paint the Cardolan emblem hill with seven stars in his back ....

Last edited by orc (Thu, Jan14 2016 1:55pm)

That was a fantastic thread Thingol!! I was in one of my travels far away from this forums and I did not read it before, but it has great info!!

@Turambar: true! that's another way of doing it ^^

@Master orc:
You can try to wash it all as you say and then add in deeper shadows on specific places, you'll get a nicer result! Your idea of that gold looks good, you can also try to mix gold and silver and see what happens... I would keep the plain white for the extreme highlights only, but I think this was already your plan.

And I am aware now, that I did not post a single picture when I thought I did!! LOL
So I will do it now even if it is only for the starting point. ^^'  This miniature came straight to me from Milo's Attic on November 2014 thank you my dear hobbit!!

This is m247 The elf-warrior of Nargothrond, just as it came to me next to it is the next stage were I polished, clean the moldlines and slighty primed him with the AB and brush.


The idea behind the slight primer layer is to not loose a single detail behind a thick layer of primer.

Last edited by Maenas (Sat, Jan16 2016 2:16pm)

Looking nice

Well, it seems, that not only Master Maenas pushed the forward bottom last weekend. Me too- because it was a snowy weekend.
As it is a re-paint project I wanted to hold on to the blue- ish colour of the coat from the past.
But I decided to take another blue tone this time, indigo in this case and mixed it with "raw umber" and a bit of "golden ockre".
I used "burned and raw umber" for the dirt and also some white.
For the black colour of the coat´s back side I took "black iron oxid" instead of "ivory black" as it seems to be "warmer" while shading it with white.
Unfortunatley the "glance" is to much and there are lots of more reflections on it.
While doing the work on "thinner that coat" I grapped the thin layers of black colour so much, that the look of the metal parts become really "used".

Looks like you won the fight with the eyes, master Maenas...
Good idea to use a foam sponge, it gives a nice result. That's something I will try to do myself some day...

I managed to do some painting yesterday.
I am facing non expected problem with my red paints (3 pots) which all turned bright (I don't know why).
here is my work in progress:



I am late, so I fear I shall only focus on mini & forget about little diorama I have in mind.

Last edited by Milo (Tue, Jan26 2016 7:26am)

Indeed, I have done wrong upload here and checked "resize" option. I will correct this tonight. Thanks for the highlight master ent.