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Rider of Rohan - Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers
I cheated by buying TTT game early when my local Barnes & Noble put it out on the shelf early. I figured that I should immediately paint at least on of the models so that I could feel some tangible benefit from getting it early. This mini is painted like most of my troop figures - "low res." I keep the pallate very simple and use strategic brushstrokes for the shading and highlighting - as opposed to blending every little thing. I then go bak and pick out a few details and do them just so the model doesnt look too much like an action figure. I personally rate the figure a 7. I try to use my opinion of my own stuff as a guage when scoring other minis on the site. To make this mini an 8 would require more dramatic and precises blending (there are only 3-4 paint colors from black to highlight here). The metallic colors would be more carefully rendered, and there would be no drybrushing, which is how I did the horses hair. To drop to a 6, I would use mainly downgrade the horse. There is blending there which could be effectively substituted out for some simple ink lining on a brown base coat. I made the base a little better than I normally would, just because I was going to post this guy on the board. The horse took about an hour, the guy about 2.5, for a total of 3.5 hours. Some of that time was spent studying photos and working out what colors went where - so it wasnt all productive time. I could probably shave it down to 2 hours if doing riders production style. Everything could be improved by up grading my photography.
Posted: 27 Oct 2002
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