Janner and Dr The Viking's Lord of the Rings Thread - 28 Apr 13 update!

[Dr. The Viking]

Yep, agreed! That troll looks really good. I like what you did with its armor and the skin tone you used. Nice one, Dr.V

Thank you sir Doom of All Hippies. I am really tempted into trying out a setting change like the one you have used in your campaign. I'm thinking something about a bastion of Isengard forces that have somehow missed the destruction of Isengard and regrouped after the War of The Ring.

Maybe they have fled to the south to ally with a king of men down there or something.

[Faust23]

Trolls look great!  I love your use of Metallic Metals. I've never been a NMM fan. Glad to see I'm not alone. 

[Dr. The Viking]

Trolls look great!  I love your use of Metallic Metals. I've never been a NMM fan. Glad to see I'm not alone. 

Thanks mate. Yeah there was a time where Jakob Nielsen (a Danish Golden demon winner) ruled the world of painting here in Denmark. He used metallicas. He still does much and I must say the tones of metallics just work so much better for me than the 'one angle only' NMM. 

But in essence it's a question of taste. De gustibus non disputantum est. 

[Doomhippie]

Thank you sir Doom of All Hippies. I am really tempted into trying out a setting change like the one you have used in your campaign. I'm thinking something about a bastion of Isengard forces that have somehow missed the destruction of Isengard and regrouped after the War of The Ring.

Maybe they have fled to the south to ally with a king of men down there or something.

Why not? That's the beauty of the setting in Middle-Earth. You can introduce some very own elements as long as you keep within a reasonable logic. I still very strongly draw inspiration from our (still ongoing) rpg campaign in Middle-Earth. Actually a friend of mine managed to integrate the AD&D Ravenlof setting into Midlle-Earth and actually managed to make me think "wow, this really fits in a strange way". Of course it doesn't really but it wasn't totally wrong either. So go for it!

[einarolafson]

Those troll are impressive!! Flesh and metal beasts!!

[Malamute]

Corr, top stuff, loving the Trolls, great painting

[Bugsda]

  Yep! Dem Trolls is superb, how'd yuh do dah metals?

[Dr. The Viking]

Yep! Dem Trolls is superb, how'd yuh do dah metals?

It's a simple wash of black oil colour over you regular metallics as a base to work on. I wipe off some of the colour using a piece of cloth (an old t-shirt of unknown make).

I do a bit more wash/work/wash/work and then highlight in the end.

[Mason]

It's a simple wash of black oil colour over you regular metallics as a base to work on. I wipe off some of the colour using a piece of cloth (an old t-shirt of unknown make).

Aha!
Sounds very similar to the 'horsey oils' technique!
(But with a secret ingredient of 'unknown t-shirt').

Whereas:

I do a bit more wash/work/wash/work and then highlight in the end.

Sounds more like my own method of painting, but it is not a technique.
It is just because I keep buggering it up and having to redo it!
 


You, my good Doctor, quite obviously do not!
 

[Dr. The Viking]

Also vikotnik and I both listen to the likes of



to motivate our painting

[Doomhippie]

Well, with King U things are bound to turn out great. "They were kungin', they were fuin', they were fighting with King U." Love that band!
Now, turn up the volume a little more and get back to paintin' and then some playin' (+battlereport).

[Mason]

Bloody hell!

That sounds like the karaoke after BLAM!
 

[Jevenkah]

It's a simple wash of black oil colour over you regular metallics as a base to work on. I wipe off some of the colour using a piece of cloth (an old t-shirt of unknown make).

Aha!
Sounds very similar to the 'horsey oils' technique!
(But with a secret ingredient of 'unknown t-shirt').

I am unfamiliar with these "oils" of which you speak. Are they simply oil-based paint? Or a specialty item for our craft? And I love the metals too.

Jev

[Mason]

I am unfamiliar with these "oils" of which you speak. Are they simply oil-based paint? Or a specialty item for our craft? And I love the metals too.

Jev

It can look great if done well.
Not a technique that all are happy with though.

Jev: Check out this thread:

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=13306.0

Admiral Benbow gives a tutorial a few posts down.
 

[Dr. The Viking]

It can look great if done well.
Not a technique that all are happy with though.

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=13306.0

Nothing like a theory that splits people... haha!

In all serious I didn't know there was a tutorial... I just bought some artists oil colour at a discount and tried mixing and modding.

Apparently you're supposed to use Windsor & Neutron as they have the best paint. Or pigmentation. Or both. Or neither!

Anyway I toyed around with my oilies a bit more and tried painting some more trolls with them:



Several things went wrong. Some went completely bonkers.

For instance I failed to appreciate that you cannot touch the miniatures for days after painting... so now they've got black marks all over where I've worn off the paint with my fondling.

Secondly (not related to oils) I wash a part of the left trolls leg that I thought was cloth... so when trying to make it look like the skin colour again it was impossible. Also down to my colourblindness. I was unable to find out what colour I had used to paint the leg with. (I used an acrylic base).
So now one of the legs is green. But what the heck. Trolls and hygiene.




Even more obvious tear off's. A large fingerprint is really all that's missing.

But yeah, well, it took like no time to do this as I could just continue working with the colours on the model. It was a bit difficult to control though...



A fight broke out with some dwarves that are also on my painting desk.