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Title: What Hammers was up to in the late 80s...
Post by: Hammers on 16 April 2010, 03:12:17 PM
Post moved from a thread Admiral Benbow started:

Just how what a young Hammers was up to about the same time:

(http://www.tsome.com/ScenesFromME/RiddlesInTheDark/ritdfull200.jpg)

(http://www.tsome.com/ScenesFromME/TheParting/partingfull200.jpg)

(http://www.tsome.com/ScenesFromME/Raftelves/remidday200.jpg)

Title: Re: What Hammers was up to in the late 80s...
Post by: cianty on 16 April 2010, 04:16:11 PM
WOW!  :o I am stunned. Especially the last photo with the water is so beautiful.
Title: Re: What Hammers was up to in the late 80s...
Post by: Thantsants on 16 April 2010, 04:20:33 PM
Stunning stuff indeed!

So you were a bit into Tolkien then...  :D

Any tips on what you did with the water?

Title: Re: What Hammers was up to in the late 80s...
Post by: WillieB on 16 April 2010, 04:23:05 PM
Mithril figures! Still some the best ever made.
That water scene is indeed stunning :-*
Title: Re: What Hammers was up to in the late 80s...
Post by: Admiral Benbow on 16 April 2010, 04:36:31 PM
Hey, very atmospheric, Hammers! I like all the little details you added to your vignettes. Great stuff!
Title: Re: What Hammers was up to in the late 80s...
Post by: abhorsen950 on 16 April 2010, 06:12:40 PM
 :o :o :o :o :o :o

AWESOME!!!
Title: Re: What Hammers was up to in the late 80s...
Post by: white knight on 16 April 2010, 06:16:13 PM
That's two posts in a row of most impressive OLD work...  :o

Not sure I should bother to continue posting my current stuff given these standards.  o_o
Title: Re: What Hammers was up to in the late 80s...
Post by: General Roos on 16 April 2010, 06:38:09 PM
Ah, old Mithril figures. Now I´m getting nostalgic!

Nice Hammers, really nice!!!  :)
Title: Re: What Hammers was up to in the late 80s...
Post by: Hammers on 16 April 2010, 08:16:17 PM
If you are interested I can open this old cabinet into my past to when I was a myopic Tolkien nerd. A lot of him withered and died after the recent movies, I am not sure why:

www.tsome.com (http://www.tsome.com)

(http://www.tsome.com/ScenesFromME/Moria/full200.jpg)
Title: Re: What Hammers was up to in the late 80s...
Post by: Thantsants on 16 April 2010, 08:24:47 PM
Didn't have anything to do with elves surfing on their shields did it...  >:( ;D
Title: Re: What Hammers was up to in the late 80s...
Post by: carlos marighela on 16 April 2010, 08:35:28 PM
From the title alone I would have guessed.... Attempting to bring cossack trousers to a wider audience. vis:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c4L4CPfQY8&feature=related
Title: Re: What Hammers was up to in the late 80s...
Post by: Axebreaker on 16 April 2010, 09:07:10 PM
Very nice work and the water is fantastic! :-* :-*

Cheers
Christopher
Title: Re: What Hammers was up to in the late 80s...
Post by: phreedh on 17 April 2010, 08:38:50 AM
Nice, old-schooly goodness! I remember buying a few Mithril minis way back when. There was a great toy store in Ystad where I used to spend a few weeks every summer. They stocked Mithril minis, the complete Prince August moulds range, a bunch of the Fighting Fantasy 60 mm plastic stuff (my first painted Citadel "minis") and a whole lot of other fun stuff. Me and my cousin used to hike down there more or less every day to oogle at stuff and if we had been at our grandma's before, we might even have a little pocket money to spend. Thanks for that blast from the past!
Title: Re: What Hammers was up to in the late 80s...
Post by: Hammers on 17 April 2010, 09:18:33 AM
Nice, old-schooly goodness! I remember buying a few Mithril minis way back when. There was a great toy store in Ystad where I used to spend a few weeks every summer. They stocked Mithril minis, the complete Prince August moulds range, a bunch of the Fighting Fantasy 60 mm plastic stuff (my first painted Citadel "minis") and a whole lot of other fun stuff. Me and my cousin used to hike down there more or less every day to oogle at stuff and if we had been at our grandma's before, we might even have a little pocket money to spend. Thanks for that blast from the past!

Like looking in the mirror. I have quite a sizeable collection of Mithrils as I bought an almost complete collection in the US for pittance from a collector short for Christmas money.

If you did not know it already, I have the morals of a tomcat.
Title: Re: What Hammers was up to in the late 80s...
Post by: rob_the_robgoblin on 17 April 2010, 09:38:48 AM
Great stuff.

I love these sorts of things, the ones that don't try to be like the movie, but try to be like the great 70's or 80's illustrators. Much more majestic and I am sure much more like Tolkien would have liked.
The movie is excellent, but I love the freedom to imagine it all for yourself.  :)
Title: Re: What Hammers was up to in the late 80s...
Post by: Blackwolf on 17 April 2010, 09:44:54 AM
The movies were @#*&! Hammers your stuff is GREAT! :-*
Title: Re: What Hammers was up to in the late 80s...
Post by: JollyBob on 17 April 2010, 11:14:41 AM
These are lovely, Hammers. Such a great sense of character to them.

I dread to think what anything I did at that time would look like now.
Title: Re: What Hammers was up to in the late 80s...
Post by: Grimm on 17 April 2010, 11:23:42 AM
that stuff is realy nice .
I like it a lot.

Grimm
Title: Re: What Hammers was up to in the late 80s...
Post by: Quendil on 23 November 2012, 06:52:21 PM
If you are interested I can open this old cabinet into my past to when I was a myopic Tolkien nerd. A lot of him withered and died after the recent movies, I am not sure why:

www.tsome.com (http://www.tsome.com)

Great Site, I shall be going through that for inspiration
Title: Re: What Hammers was up to in the late 80s...
Post by: Modhail on 24 November 2012, 11:01:20 AM
Now this is what Tolkien should look like!

Thank you for posting those beauties, Hammers.
Title: Re: What Hammers was up to in the late 80s...
Post by: DeafNala on 24 November 2012, 01:28:19 PM
WONDERFULLY CREATIVE WORKS! Your pieces look like they came right out of the Brothers Hildebrant illustrations.
Title: Re: What Hammers was up to in the late 80s...
Post by: Hammers on 24 November 2012, 01:56:42 PM
So this old tat of mine emerges again?!  Well, I am  flattered... I will not lie  to you, I still now and again think of returning to painting these. I have quite a few painted up which I have not shown and even more I have not painted..