Oaken's Twelve: GW's Dwarf Rangers as Thorin's Company. Coda I: Dain Ironfoot

[Funghy-Fipps]

Lovely jubbly! Some great work on the 'official' Thorin & co has been displayed on LAF recently, but these guys look much closer to what I envisioned from the book. After seeing this I'm tempted to get a box of rangers myself!

[Jet Simian]

Thanks again for the encouragement and replies, goys.

The GW Dwarven Rangers are a pretty good set of sculpts - I'd say there are two models I'm a bit cool over (and I'm getting to them very soon!) in terms of poses personally, but I'm hoping a good paint job will be able to make them a bit less static. The detail's great overall, though.

[Doomhippie]

They are sweet. Nice way of putting together the company. Well done.

[janner]

Great progress 

[M.P.]

I simply love your take on the Thorin's company

[guitarheroandy]

Very good!! I like the way you have made this your own and using those models is an inspired choice!

[Jet Simian]

You guys are the best!

Here are Dori and Nori, the purple nasties and last of the double acts in the Company. Lots of angst over colours and green stuff this time 'round:





(More angles here as usual:http://jetsimian.blogspot.co.nz/2013/01/oakens-twelve-nori-and-dori.html)

Until next time, cheers!

[Jet Simian]

I'm back to individual subjects for the tail end of the Company! Here's Dwalin:



More detail, description, and complaining about GW's figure posing here:
http://jetsimian.blogspot.co.nz/2013/01/oakens-twelve-dwalin-fundinson.html

[Doomhippie]

Still going strong I see. 

Respect for all the wonderful conversions you're showing here. Still like the style of the miniatures.

I was wondering what a blue beard might look like. Maybe Tolkien meant something like a black that almost has a bluish tinge to it? Or a balack beard having turned white and the mixture looking almost blue?

I'm not sure. Of course your take on this matter might be just as good as any I would come up with.

[Jet Simian]

Thanks, Doomhippie - and I love your Ithilien project!

Ah yes, the 'blue beard', one of those aspects of The Hobbit that will presumably forever remain a little perplexing and require further explanation (like disappearing instruments and Dain's Dwarves' "mattocks")

I must confess I probably thought about it more when I had my first pass at these minis around five years ago, and I believe the conclusion I came to was the same as here: blue, but not outrageously so, and in keeping with the pallette of the set. I used Shadow Grey elsewhere with the Dwarves, so I had that covered. The only other consideration was making sure the whole thing looked naturalistic. It's not quite a blue rinse, but it's close!

[Doomhippie]

It's not bad looking. Shadow Grey has enough grey in it to not make it look like the dwarves fell into a pot of blue paint. It's subtle enough to do the trick. I would have thought that looked really bad but it doesn't. Actually it fits quite well to the way you painted up the models.

[Jet Simian]

Finally! Bombur and I both pause for breath as I've finished converting his figure and painting him:





Now seemingly more Green Stuff than plastic, he's the most ambitious and fraught conversion I've done, but it's time to step away and move on. Four weeks' work, almost!

Much much more breast-and-brow-beating along these lines here: http://jetsimian.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/oakens-twelve-bombur_24.html

[CyberAlien312]

I really like that one!
Great work on the conversion. 

[DeafNala]

There's a LOT to that mini. Bombur is probably the COOLEST of the Crew; a GREAT mini with a FINE paint job...love the colors you chose. VERY WELL DONE!

[Argonor]

Great idea to use those; when I saw the first trailers, my immediate reation was.... 'er, but where are their HOODS?'