Reds' WIP Thread - Latest Projects!

[redcorsairs]

I thought I should put up my WIP thread for my Dunland Army here so that you guys can see what i've been up to with my painting. Here the warriors are so far, I have been away for a week and been painting for a little bit. Two are done so far...





and...





Comments/criticism welcome as always, I hope to do some painting today and some tommorow, more coming soon hopefully

Thanks,

Jake

[razhburz]

looks very nice mate. looking forward to follow this WIP

[Tim C]

Nice looking WIP you have started, not alot to offer critique wise other than the usual add a couple more highlights here and there.

[zapoteke]

they look great, I particulary like the 2nd minis shield colour - it looks ace!

[redcorsairs]

Not been able to do much painting recently and probably won't do as much for the rest of the week either but I have done a little bit on the next warrior. Sorry bout the first pic here but there will be a better pic next time I update the thread with pics.

The cloak



I have also chose to go for a darker skin tone on the rest of my Dunlendings as I prefer it on these minis. Heres an example, only done this arm at the moment



Thanks,

Jake

[razhburz]

looks good from hat I can see, but as you say the pics are a bit blurry.
Maybe you do this already, but you can rest the camera against a pile of books, or even better use a tripod. this makes it much easier to get some sharp photos of your minis

Cheers,

Andre

[redcorsairs]

Thanks and thanks for the tip, trying to rest it carefully with two hands is quite challenging . I'll keep that in mind for next time

[Tim C]

Yep if you can afford one a tripod is the way to go, they are quite cheap actually. As for the mini looking good the more of these Dulendings I see the more I am convinced I should get some myself.

[rlangner]

Never been much of a fan of LotR but these guys are looking quite nice. The bases are great too.

As for the camera issues. I tend to rest my camera on a desk or something similar when I take pics... You can always stack some books up and aim it down toward your mini if you want an angled shot, it'd probably add a bit more stability that way.

[redcorsairs]

I thought I would share with you guys an easy and simple conversion for the bo'sun. (ps. these guys are what's been keeping me from my hellblade and dunlendings )

I like it personally. Give the Corsair captain the crossbow. Cut off the tip of the boarding pike from the Bo'suns optional weapon. Then cut off the axe head for the Captains axe and file each of them so that they can fit onto each other. Glue together and you have these two heroes for your force:



And heres one of them part painted to give you an idea of my colour scheme. They are the Red Corsairs



Comments/criticism welcome

Thanks,

Jake

[razhburz]

cool conversion! and very nice red on the corsair aswell!

[Tim C]

Nice work so far mate, the conversions look good and I also like the pun. I am seriously thinking of adding some of these to my Lotr collection. Looking forward to seeing further updates.

[redcorsairs]

Ok, you might have expected me to do some Red Corsairs but after testing with different ways of doing a Red colour scheme I decided not to do Red Corsairs and stuck to the GW scheme. I have also finished the Captain and Bo'sun (one of them might be in the Harad Painting Competition). I was happy with them myself but i'll see what you guys think;)




Comments/criticism welcome;)

Thanks,

Jake

[Tim C]

Yes they look pretty good, I thing the clothing could stand another highlight on both the blue and the purple areas but apart from that nice work.

[redcorsairs]

Thanks Tim! I was thinking of doing a highlight of Warlock purple on the purple cloth, or would that be a little bright?

[Tim C]

you could try just mixing in a little of the Warlock purple into your base colour but not too much as you want the transition to be a smooth one, alternatively you could add a touch of bleached bone or kommando khaki to your base colour that might work.

[redcorsairs]

Ok, thanks for the tip . I'll try that sometime soon.

[redcorsairs]

Hi guys, after about a month of no painting, I'm back!

I decided to make a diorama using my Gimli on Dead Uruk-Hai which I recently finally decided to open after hearing the news of it being re-released>.

Anyway, after some thought I decided what I would do and how and got down to business. I am still working on adding extras to the base but they aren't done yet and when they are i'll post it up here.

Here is the product so far:





C/C welcome as always!

Thanks,

Jake

[Tim C]

It looks good, the only thing I would say is that the base is quite large and devoid of detail a few dead Uruks laying around would certainly help that. Ebob used to make dead uruks if you can still get them from anywhere now.

[redcorsairs]

Thanks Tim, one of the extra details being added to the base is a dead uruk-hai and theres some weapons. Those dead uruks from ebob sound cool, dunno where I'd find them though, ebob doesn't seem to sell them anymore

Thanks!

[Tim C]

I'll have a dig about and see if I have any.

[redcorsairs]

Noah, I'm ok thanks . You've helped me out enough, and anyway, I found a way to get a dead uruk on the base. Thank you very much for the offer but I'm ok thanks .

Here is the final (i hope) piece.



Thanks,

Jake

[Tim C]

Now that looks alot better.

[razhburz]

looking good mate!

[bruenor]

Yep certainly an improvement on the large bland base.
Def' looks like they are in a battle ground.