WIP: Sam and Frodo in Orc Armour

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" Where there's a whip there's a way! "

These super small pewter models of Frodo and Sam in Orc Armour are nice little replicas of both characters in the Lord of the Rings, Return of the King movies. Models are from Games Workshop and stands just a bit more than half an inch tall! Cool stuff and I wish to find a Bilbo Baggins model sometime soon, so that I could create a small Bag End diorama.

I did create a huge pile of grass of Bag End diorama around 10 years ago. Using the Bag End door that came with the 4 inch Bilbo Baggins action Figure. It was huge at around 24 inches wide, 12 inches tall and 12 inches thick. It was made up of tons of plastic gardening stuffs, popsicle sticks and all kinds of materials even silicone.

Anyways as it is obvious, I love the Lord of the Rings universe! I do hope to find interesting Games Workshop Lord of Rings models that I could put into small vignettes / dioramas everytime. No plans of playing the game though... but hoping to get prominent characters from time to time.

This post should be the only WIP post for this Sam and Frodo in Orc Armour diorama as I am to spray primer to these models after this post. Painting should be fairly easy as there is not much colors in Mordor anyways. Hope you like this post...

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WIP: GW LOTR Mordor Orcs - clothes painting

I have painted all the red and green clothes / areas of all the 24 Games Workshop LOTR Mordor Orcs a couple of days ago. I have also painted the dark browns on the the parts. All of the green skin, green clothes and red clothes have highlights, edge lining and washes already.

The figures are being painted with Vallejo Model Color as usual but the washes are Windsor & Newton oil paints. Loving the oil paints very much but I have yet to invest on more tubes / colors.

I like taking photos of my progress as I see my imperfections in the close up pics. Some of the highlight colors are a bit thick and the washes are a little bit too dark. These are my first miniatures and painting all 24 of them should be a great learning experience as I paint more complex and more detailed miniatures very soon.

These are plastic figures and I am looking forward to leveling up to their metal counterparts very soon! Anyways here are a few progress shots of my Mordor Orcs...

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WIP: GW LOTR Mordor Orcs - Green Orc Skin

These are my Games Workshop Lord of the Rings Mordor Orcs figures and I continued working on them last night.

I managed to paint 14 Mordor Orcs with green skin for a couple of hours before going to sleep yesterday. I plan to paint the other 4, orange skinned and the other 6, red skinned. As usual I painted these with Vallejo paints using Olive Green, Yellow Green and Yellow Ochre. I thinned the paints to skim milk consistency and applied around 3 coats for the base olive green coat.

I have yet to paint the eyes and have yet to apply some washes. Some washes would hopefully bring out more details on the skin parts soon.

I was pretty surprise that I somehow still have a steady hand and a sharp eye ( not getting any younger after all ). I painted these without any magnifying lenses and somehow it looks kinda okay for my first miniature attempt. 1/35 figures are suddenly so big and easy! lol

This is sooooo fun! Pretty nostalgic too as I used to paint and draw a lot back in college ( I took up Fine Arts ). Also really glad that my hands are still steady enough for this and eyes are working just fine. Hope to show you better updates soon, just too excited I had to post my green orc skin first attempt. :)

 

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WIP: GW LOTR Mordor Orcs - Basing Done

I managed to work on my first ever miniatures last night and earlier today and I am excited to show you my first " basing " attempt.

These are 24 miniatures of Lord of the Rings Mordor Orcs from Games Workshop. They are half the size of your usual Warhammer and WarMachine / Hordes miniatures but they pack enough details and are very cheap. The price and the smaller size of these minis makes for great practice pieces as I will find other minis huge once I work on other kits ( lol ).

First I added bits and pieces of styrene on all the bases and then I glued ( wood glue ) some aquarium sand on them. My eldest daughter was the one who sprinkled the sand on the glue. I then primed all of the figures flat black and let cure overnight.

Earlier today I overbrushed ( drybrushed ) some light grey over the black figures and I eventually started on painting the bases. All washes and paints are Vallejos. The base is almost done as I just need to paint the sides of the bases with black ( not brown ). Maybe I could also add some static grass once I get my hands on them.

For the mean time here are some photos of my progress so far... ( time to walk my dog, hehe )

Nest stop, painting the Orcs themselves!

GLUING AQUARIUM SAND 

 BLACK PRIMER

 

 OVER-BRUSHING

 

 

 BASE COLOR PAINTING

 

 

 

FINISHING

 

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GW LOTR Mordor Orcs set - unboxing

Finally I had time to post this little critters. This Games Workshop ( GW ) Lord of the Rings ( LOTR ) Mordor Orcs set will be my first ever venture to the world of miniatures. Apparently after a bit of research, I learned that these figures are almost half the size of your usual Warhammer and WarMachine / Hordes figures. I hope to get a figure of a Horde soon and will shoot some comparison photos.

The figures are very well detailed and are beautifully sculpted as expected. More than enough details and textures packed in such small figs. There are 24 Mordor Orcs figures in the box. However there are only 12 unique sculpts multiplied by 2. So you'll get two of each unique sculpt. I tried to modified how each " twin " figure posed on their bases and also tried vainly to alter the angles of a few arms.

Most of the figures came in one piece sculpts, save maybe around 6 in which you have to glue the arms with the weapons ( spears ). I have washed all the pieces in water and dish washing soap and have glued them on their small bases already. Will start on the basing before I paint and work on the figures themselves.

You basically have to remove mold lines all over the figs and reculpt a few details like creases on the clothes and armor parts. I have prepped only 4 figures so far and should continue to clean up the rest of the figs. Much like Gunpla, will build up my skill first on cheaper sets and figures before I attempt to paint the more expensive ones ( hopefully soon ).

Hope to be painting very soon and hope to get my first Privateer Press Hordes figure very soon too.

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THE HOBBIT movie = new HOBBY???

It has been a looooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggg wait and finally it is coming!

I am a huge Lord of the Rings fan, I read all the books, I have numerous LOTR books, almost have all the action figures from " toybiz ", some trading cards and even a Legolas ash tray.

Not too sure but I think I have around 150 pieces of LOTR action figures in my display cabinet. I have like 10 Frodo Baggins and around 8 Legolas action figures. All figures are covered in dust but the new up coming " The Hobbit " movie makes me want to clean them up and take photos of them for the net to see. OR better yet, I could start buying and painting some Lord of the Rings Games Workshop figures soon.

Same as when I saw the small beautiful face of my first new born child, I could not explain how happy I am when I saw the trailer of the up coming The Hobbit movie.

The Lord of the Rings trading cards are hard to come by, The toyline 6 inch action figures from toybiz is long dead and collecting the LOTR GW miniature figures is the nearest thing to what I have been doing for the past 3 years. If I get to buy my first LOTR miniature, my Vallejo paints will be of some use again.

The movie got me excited... and I might be moving on to a different hobby this 2012.

 

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LOTR Rohan miniatures painted by Decay

I am a really huge LOTR fan! I have truckloads of the 6 inch action figures, some trading cards, some hard bound books, some paper back books and some other stuffs such as ash trays, pens and even pencils and erasers.

However it was really unfortunate to discover as my wife was rounding out the stuffs in the house because of the ongoing renovation, she discovered that most of my LOTR paper back books were eaten by mice! I was not able to take photos of my poor books as she threw it away right after seeing them.

Oh well, I guess its an excuse to buy another set of those books and maybe reread them eventually. On a semi side note... I have here a link to a good friend's blog featuring his latest post of his old painted Lord of the Rings Rohan miniatures. Great stuff as always from Decay and very inspiring paint job on those tiny figures! Here is the link guys...
DECAY - Miniature Model Arts feat ROHAN

Thanks for dropping by! Til' next post! :)

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