je_touche
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Hello girls and guys,
after having been around on pF for a while I would like to show you one of my models. It's a small diorama I finished lately. Usually, I am into historical figurines, but I liked the GW Lord of the Rings figures so much that I decided to use them for a diorama. This was my first plunge into 28 mm scale. More generally, I work in 54 mm, 40 mm, and 1/72nd scales.
Though the GW figurines are nice as they are I reworked them quite a bit, replacing the cast-on horse tails with electric wire, carving away the reins and replacing them by ones cut from thin metal foil, carving horseshoes into the hooves, adding stirrups and some horse tag, lengthening spears, sanding down shields to scale thickness and painting on designs of my own, hollowing out sleeves, changing horses' poses for variety, adding bowstrings, and so forth. Some of the changes can be seen on the WIP-shot. Painting was done with mixtures of enamels and oils over acrylics. White metals were painted in Rose metallic colour, yellow metals in different shades of yellow ochre and varnished.
I know this forum is mainly about the bigger scales, but I find the GW LotR figures grossly underestimated and well worth the effort. Let me know what you think about the result, critical comments welcome.
after having been around on pF for a while I would like to show you one of my models. It's a small diorama I finished lately. Usually, I am into historical figurines, but I liked the GW Lord of the Rings figures so much that I decided to use them for a diorama. This was my first plunge into 28 mm scale. More generally, I work in 54 mm, 40 mm, and 1/72nd scales.
Though the GW figurines are nice as they are I reworked them quite a bit, replacing the cast-on horse tails with electric wire, carving away the reins and replacing them by ones cut from thin metal foil, carving horseshoes into the hooves, adding stirrups and some horse tag, lengthening spears, sanding down shields to scale thickness and painting on designs of my own, hollowing out sleeves, changing horses' poses for variety, adding bowstrings, and so forth. Some of the changes can be seen on the WIP-shot. Painting was done with mixtures of enamels and oils over acrylics. White metals were painted in Rose metallic colour, yellow metals in different shades of yellow ochre and varnished.
I know this forum is mainly about the bigger scales, but I find the GW LotR figures grossly underestimated and well worth the effort. Let me know what you think about the result, critical comments welcome.