Rivendell Knights

Had painted these Rivendell Knights over the weekend. Having painted couples of these sets before, I was aiming for a simple and quick paintjob here and I am really satisfied with the results!

Gundabad orcs

My recent commission - Gundabad orcs. A fairly simple paint work gave quite satisfying results. A light purple wash over the armour gives some enchanted evil feel to them.

Old stuff - Armoured Glorfindel Conversion

While there is not much painting going on at the moment, I am digging into pictures of some older stuff I have got. So here is a conversion of armoured Glorfindel on horse, made from Elladan.

For this conversion I have made a headswap from the foot Glorfindel model as well as some minor sculpting with green stuff on the horse. I have also made a larger base (as he was going to be used as War of the Ring Epic hero).

 

Ended up with having a great character!

Legolas Prince of Mirkwood and Yazneg

September has turned to be a pretty busy month for me so I had very little time for painting. One of the few things I have managed to do this month was Legolas Prince of Mirkwood and Yazneg.

I honestly say that the Prince of Mirkwood version of Legolas is one of my least favourite versions. The sculpt is pretty tiny, especially the face, also pose of the foot model is absolutely boring. The mounted version looks more dynamic at least, but still feels lacking something. Maybe that seemed to be a reason for delaying painting it for so long. Yet apart from some bits that might need some further work I am quite satisfied with the end result.

 

Unlike Legolas, I really loved Yazneg and he has turned out to be my favourite figure to paint so far in the entire Hobbit evil range. His bone carcass armour is a great fun to paint and it makes a perfect focal point for the figure. After painting him now I look forward to do some more Evil guys (which for some reason happens quite rare for me).

The Three Hunters and the Wise

One of my recent commissions was to paint the Three Hunters set in metal. At the same time I had the same set in resin laying about, so went to paint both at the same time; it was actually a great opportunity for me personally to paint and compare which material would seem better.

Both sets have ended up looking pretty identically. On the picture above I can no longer distinquish which one is which!

From the painting prospective the finecast set was easier to paint as the metal one needed some extra layers of paint to cover the surface and the paint would not always stick to it very well. But at the same time despite the identical looks in the end I must say that I do prefer the weight and the "feeling" of the metal miniatures slightly more. 

Also I have looked to find some pictures of another Three Hunters set I have painted a year ago. That one was made for the War of the Rings game, so I have made a custom base with a dead Hunter Orc on it; decided to post it here as well so this will be a triple Three hunters post!

 

The other figures to paint were the Rivendell versions of Gandalf and Elrond. I really liked this version of Gandalf the Grey as the pose gives an impression of great wisdom and power the old Wizard has.

While Elrond's face sculpt is not great, the other parts of the miniature were all fun to paint, especially ornaments on his clothes.

So here is the picture of all five going together!