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Happy New Year!
This post was migrated from my earlier blog: Painting The Lord of the Rings Miniatures. Firstly, I celebrated the new year on Durin’s Day. Second, I would like to say that I am amazed at how many people are reading my blog and it brings me great joy to see all your comments.
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Tolkien’s Birthday 2014
This post was migrated from my earlier blog: Painting The Lord of the Rings Miniatures. 122 years ago to the day, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born. Without him, I would not be here painting miniatures based on Peter Jackson’s adaptations of Tolkien’s books.
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The Blood of the Free Folk…
This post was migrated from my earlier blog: Painting The Lord of the Rings Miniatures. I should have written this post several weeks ago, but I’ve been really busy preparing for The Desolation of Smaug. I painted this Moria orc in much the same way as I normally do, but this time I decided that…
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New Citadel Paints
This post was migrated from my earlier blog: Painting The Lord of the Rings Miniatures. The world is changed… I feel it in the water… I feel it in the earth… I smell it in the air… Citadel recently added six new paints to their already vast collection: Blood for the Blood God, Typhus Corrosion,…
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Agrax Earthshade: Technique in a Bottle
This post was migrated from my earlier blog: Painting The Lord of the Rings Miniatures. For two years now I have not painted a single miniature without employing Agrax Earthshade to some end. It is widely accepted as an essential paint for any collection, and is often referred to as “Liquid Talent” or sometimes “Skill…
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Brown Masonry
This post was migrated from my earlier blog: Painting The Lord of the Rings Miniatures. This statue from the Ruins of Osgiliath set has not been painted specifically to look like a part of that city of Gondor. Instead, I decided to paint it in a more generic manner, meaning it would look great anywhere,…
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Painting Terrain: The Land of Mordor
This post was migrated from my earlier blog: Painting The Lord of the Rings Miniatures. In my last post, I explained how I detailed a grass-covered base. Keep in mind through this post that the techniques used here are just as useful on a large terrain board as they are on a tiny 25mm base.…
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Painting Terrain: Grassy Bases
This post was migrated from my earlier blog: Painting The Lord of the Rings Miniatures. Recently, I painted a few bases in order to test out some different ways of painting terrain. This base has been painted using a brown, earthy colour scheme. It was drybrushed with several colours before having Citadel Static Grass applied…
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Dwarven Stonework
This post was migrated from my earlier blog: Painting The Lord of the Rings Miniatures. I just finished painting the well in Balin’s tomb and I felt the urge to take a picture of it for the blog. Beside the terrain feature can be seen Grôblog, a few Moria Goblin spearmen and a trapdoor I…
