Sharkey aka Saruman the Fallen

[Tim C]

Hello all, here is my finished mini Sharkey from the Scouring of the Shire box set. Sharkey for those who haven't read the book and don't know who he is, is in fact Saruman after his defeat at Isenguard by the Ents.

Hope you like it.

[razhburz]

thats a very nicely painted Sharkey. I think you have done a very good job on him ( not that i expected anything else ).


my favorite part is the white clothing. Maybe you could tell me how you painted it (the white clothing)? I would be very glad if you could


cheers,

Razhburz

[mutantpotato]

I think I have seen this mini somewhere (probably cmon). I like him, he's well painted. But what I don't like is the base, is seems strange, maybe a bit to tall (but maybe it's the way the photo is taken). His face is great, and I like that his face is covered in shadows.

[bruenor]

Wonderful Tim, as always!!

[menace]

I'd second a tip on whites, i just attempted white on a skirt, what a disaster, it's now green!! Great work Tim, and so quick.... grrr

[jabberwocky]

Of course, I will defer to the master, but in the interim...

Whites can be difficult to do because typically one will highlight up to white or near white. When the majority of the material is white, the task then becomes "how do I shade white?" There are several ways to shade depending on the look you are going for. For a "warmer" white (I usually think of clothing or linen) shading with a light brown is the way to go. For "colder" whites, either gray or a light blue is the color of choice.
The alternative is not to really have the base color a true white, but some sort of off-white and then highlight up to pure white and do the shading as you regularly would.

Tim looks to have applied both techiques for Sharkey. The beard looks to be pure white with gray shading. The robe looks on my monitor to be more of an off white shaded with brown.

As for technique, Tim can obviously give you much better advice than I, but pretty much the standard stuff--thin your paints.

Hoping I didn't babble on too much. I really need to paint more than I read, so I could actually DO the things I spout off about...
;D

[menace]

jabberwocky said:

Hoping I didn't babble on too much. I really need to paint more than I read, so I could actually DO the things I spout off about...
;D

;D ;D ;D I'm sure we all feel like this somedays!! Thanks for the tips JW, i'm going to retry on an Ordo Malleus, so if he comes up here with a red Great coat you know i've botched it up

[dansemacabre]

sure i like it!

[Tim C]

Ok here is a brief little run down of how I did sharkeys inner robe, as this was Saruman in disguise I wanted to keep some of his original robe that he wore as Saruman the White showing, thus connecting him to the character. This is also I feel how GW saw it too asthis is a blatant copy of there paint scheme.
Firstly I basecoated the robe Bleached Bone. This took a few thin coats to get a good coverage but the effort is woth it.
Then I added a touch of Snakebite leather to add a little depth, I didn't want too much as the robe was going to finish up almost white.
Starting back with Bleached Bone I then started on the highlights. Bleached bone was used on its own to reset the original base colour leaving the shade showing in the folds and then by graduall adding Skull White into the Bone colour and worknig up to the highest parts of the folds, the last highlight was pure Skull White.
To finish I added a touch of Scorched Brown into the Bone and painted very thin lines in some of the deeper parts of the folds.
I wasn't sure about this at first but it seems to work ok.
Now the beard.
A different approach this time.
First a basecoat of Fortress Grey was used, again a couple of thin coats to get good coverage. Then I shaded it with watered down Codex Grey, highlights were then started first with Fortress Grey and then continuing by adding Skul White up to pure Skull White to finish.
As with all painting the secret is to keep your paints thin.
Hope that gives a little insight into how I tackled this.

[racssirt]

Excellent work again Tim! What could I expect from the master himself?