1st Annual Fellowship of the Miniatures Painting Challenge

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1st Annual Fellowship of the Miniatures Painting Challenge

Not Dark But Beautiful

Been a while since I put brush to miniature, but I found some time this week to paint Galadriel. I was inspired by a miniature I found on CMON. This has to been one of the most beautiful sculpts I have ever painted. There are a couple hard to reach spots but in the end the sculpt lends itself to the paintbrush like few others. This is my first attempt at a major blending of colors from very different parts of the spectrum. I also returned to the world of NMM for the breast plate, and OSL for the base. I thoroughly enjoyed painting this model.

Black Numenorean

Wow, I am on a roll now. Just finished this today, in under 24 hours. That's got to be a record for me. What a great model to paint too! Absolutely fantastic. I have the set in Finecast but I think I will be on the hunt for them in metal (this happened to be a metal one I came by). For those of you that are interested in the details, you will see I totally knocked off the base of similar miniature, a conversion and paint job by Shadow and Flame, although you will need to find your way through The Dead Marshes to find the miniature in question.

 I have added him to my CMON gallery, click HERE to cast a vote. I would greatly appreciate it!

Veterans of Osgiliath

Seems to be a fitting group of miniatures this close to Memorial Day. I had alot of fun painting these guys, especially freehanding in dents in the armor. Love these models. The bases are resin "Ancient Ruins" from the company Basicks. They are great. Very nice for these models.

Warrior of Rohan

Been a while since my last post. Here is my warrior of Rohan. I completed this for the April painting challenge over at the One-Ring. I was fortunate enough to tie for first place along with a very nice Bolg sculpt.

A few slight modifications to this one. I switched out the short recurve bow in favor of a warrior of Minas Tirith long bow. An idea I got from Bizzarwarstar.You can check out his Rohan conversions HERE. Great stuff. I also cut a shield in half, filed down the cloak and greenstuffed in the seam and a belt. A few little freehand designs and it was finished.

Needless to say I love painting Rohan!

Rohan and Isengard again

A quick update. I finally got a few things cleared off the table. A RoR repaint, a new RoR, and another Uruk Banner.

More for the Forces of Isengard

Some more Uruk's. Dave over at Shadow and Flame is doing an Ugluk conversion for me. Figured I had better get the original painted up.