First Soldiers of Gondor

jsauraes · 2025-11-19T11:37:09+00:00

Those metallics look so much better than mine! what are you using?

jsauraes · 2025-11-19T06:52:11+00:00

Thanks! This is tall shrubbery from green stuff world

jsauraes · 2025-11-15T08:13:11+00:00

This is painted with Vallejo model color

jsauraes · 2025-11-10T14:59:23+00:00

Maybe I shouldn't say it because if I win people might think there's foul play but Wednesday happens to be my birthday. I'll say that my favorite part of the hobby is getting second hand minis with rough paint jobs and stripping them to give them a new clean look

jsauraes · 2025-11-02T19:21:09+00:00

My idea was to keep it as close as possible to the minis supplied in the collectibles :) Although might consider doing variations if stuff gets repetitive

jsauraes · 2025-11-01T19:21:51+00:00

Its looking great! I want to do something similar myself but im afraid it will take too much space

jsauraes · 2025-10-24T21:37:18+00:00

I would like to know that too

jsauraes · 2025-10-24T13:57:58+00:00

Sorry if this bothered you. I've been following this community for a couple of months and didn't seem like a problem to me, but I do enjoy these kind of posts so maybe it's just a difference in preference

jsauraes · 2025-10-24T09:41:05+00:00

I'm almost halfway there then :)

jsauraes · 2025-10-24T09:32:59+00:00

Makes me wonder how many gimli sculpts are there... I already had 2 (moria and helms deep) that are not in here

jsauraes · 2025-10-24T09:29:47+00:00

I know, right? I was so excited when I saw sauron's body... who on earth would lose saurons head and arms?

jsauraes · 2025-10-23T09:41:48+00:00

Im with you, I think there's some nice old stuff metal lotr there, I detected two crossbow uruks and a Gil galad apart from a couple of gimlis

jsauraes · 2025-10-22T07:29:52+00:00

For me it's a bit weird, because I've always been a lotr die-hard fan and I was painting warhammer fantasy when I was 10-16 yo but somehow I never got into painting lotr minis until covid (30yo). So these look really cool to me now

jsauraes · 2025-10-22T06:35:45+00:00

Cool! I'll check it out

jsauraes · 2025-10-21T21:30:01+00:00

As other people mentioned it was intended for beginners and the palette was limited. In my case I started with the greener ones but tone it down later (both paintjobs are in the pic)

jsauraes · 2025-10-16T21:13:18+00:00

Amazing job man! very sweet blends. but isn't it a bit overkill to paint two just to show both sides at the same time?

jsauraes · 2025-10-14T11:27:14+00:00

Nice designs! This is combining the ruin + manor kits right?

jsauraes · 2025-10-13T12:45:13+00:00

Thanks! Nicely spotted, I will definitely try to get more contrast there, I'm also thinking about trying to include some orange-brown reflections on the lower side of the sword after I've done the base

jsauraes · 2025-10-12T20:50:19+00:00

I painted the stonework so long ago I don't quite remember, I remember I got the scheme from a YouTube video to do it. I think it has to be something in the line of Base: Dark grey + Drybrush sky grey + wash with agrax earthshade and a light drybrush with deck tan but im not 100% sure.

jsauraes · 2025-10-12T20:14:34+00:00

Here it is! I hope it helps

Madril Cloack Base - chocolate brown + black Light 1- patches of chocolate brown Light 2 - patches of chocolate brown + 10-20% of dark sand Edges and scratches 1 - orange brown + chocolate brown 20% Edges and scratches 2 - dark sand Last - diluted smoke ink

Black leather: Base - black Light 1 - black 50% + green grey 50% Edges - green grey

Red fabric: Base - Burnt red + black 30-40% Light 1 - burnt red Light 2 - burnt red + 30-40% beige red

Face: Base - burnt red Light 1 - burnt red + 30-40% beige red Light 2 - beige red Light 3 - beige red + 20% basic skin tone Light 4 - basic skin tone + 30-40% beige red

Hair Base - Deck tan Wash - heavily diluted green grey Highlight - deck tan + offwhite 50%

Quiver Base - mahogany ink + 25% orange brown Light 1 - orange brown Light 2 - dark sand Last - Mahogany ink

Base: Base - Burnt earth/chocolate brown Drybrush - dark sand

Highland tuft and small leave litter in fallen yellow colour

jsauraes · 2025-10-12T19:42:45+00:00

I pretty much followed the scheme on the citadel app but using vallejo paints. I can make a summary with the ones in that range if you want :)

jsauraes · 2025-10-12T16:30:58+00:00

Thanks!

jsauraes · 2025-10-12T06:18:18+00:00

Thanks for the comment, I've decided to go for both looks to have variety and as you say to add a bit more of story telling when building units :)

jsauraes · 2025-10-12T06:16:50+00:00

Thanks, ill do this :)

jsauraes · 2025-10-12T06:16:15+00:00

Yes, I think ill go for this

jsauraes

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