Smoke Ring Miniatures

  Mae govannen. Welcome to another post from this blog, my friends! My  Uruk-hai campaign  is almost at an end, but there are some things yet to blog about. This time I will show how I painted the Uruk-hai drummers - yes, in plural, since I had two: one from the warriors pack (resin) and the other from the scouts pack (metal). If you have stumbled upon this post and wish to check some other Uruk-hai painting tutorials, you can check the following posts:    Isengard Bases  |  White Hand of Saruman Feral Uruk-hai  |  Uruk-hai Crossbowers  |  Uruk-hai Berserkers  |  Mauhúr Uruk-hai Banners  | Uruk-hai Captain Rock Base How to paint Uruk-hai drummer? This miniature will be a fairly simple painting, very similar to the rest of the scout commanders already painted. I mention the colours and brands that I have used for the tutorial in parentheses but, as with every miniature, there aren't 100% correct formulas and so the brands I use aren't really a "must have" for this pa

Mae govannen. Be welcome to another post my friends! The  Uruk-hai campaign  continues, and this little post will aim at showing how I painted the rock base of my Uruk-hai warriors captain.  If you have stumbled upon this post and wish to check some other Uruk-hai painting tutorials, you can check the following posts:    Isengard Bases  |  White Hand of Saruman Feral Uruk-hai  |  Uruk-hai Crossbowers  |  Uruk-hai Berserkers  |  Mauhúr Uruk-hai Banners About painting rock... When painting rock, or natural elements in general, we need to achieve a multitude of earth tones to resemble the "chaotic" mixes, tonalities and features which make that same nature.  Well, nature isn't obviously monotonic and even , so the greens, browns and greys aren't all the same tone. We should aim at using a lot of different shades and tones of the same colour. Having that in mind with my Uruk-hai bases (the warrior captain and banner-bearer), I tried to give both weathering and texturing

 Mae govannen. Welcome to another blog post, my friends! My little  Uruk-hai campaign  continues, and this time I will focus my attention on painting two Uruk-hai banner bearers from both command packs: one warrior and one scout . This post will not be a full tutorial, but rather a tutorial on how to paint and highlight the colour black , taking advantage of the banners, evidently. So, if you have stumbled upon this post and wish to check some complete Uruk-hai painting tutorials, you can check the following posts:    Isengard Bases  | White Hand of Saruman Feral Uruk-hai  |  Uruk-hai Crossbowers  |  Uruk-hai Berserkers  |  Mauhúr And without further ado... How to paint Isengard banners? First of all there's one simple rule I follow when painting black: grey variances make the trick .  For these banners we wish to obtain absolute contrast between black and white so, the dark must be the darker we can get, and the white should be as clear and even as we can . Now, for both miniat

Mae govannen. Welcome to another blog post on this Uruk-hai campaign  that I have been hosting. This post will be focused on free-hand painting the White Hand of Saruman : firstly a symbol of Saruman the White, wizard and guardian of Middle-earth, and which after his corruption became the symbol of the uruks and warriors of Isengard. Either if the painting of the hand will be made on a large banner or on small points of the miniature (helmets, shields, quivers or faces), this guide might be of use. This process will follow two phases: preparation and the basics of the White Hand free-handing the White Hand Up until this moment:   Isengard Bases  |  Feral Uruk-hai  |  Uruk-hai Crossbowers Uruk-hai Berserkers  | Mauhúr Preparation and the basics of the White Hand First of all, one can't do free-hand painting on a miniature without sketching it first. Luckily, the White Hand of Saruman is a fairly simple symbol that anyone can manage easily. The steps I went through to prepare my h

 Mae govannen. Welcome to another post, my friends! This time I'm painting Mauhúr , a Uruk-hai hero and one of the scout's commanders . There are some sentiments at stake when people talk about this miniature (a lot of people hate that ponytail thing), but I actually think it is an amazing mini. One of the best in Isengard! This miniature follows a few posts I have been making from what I called the "Uruk-hai season" :   Isengard Bases | Feral Uruk-hai | Uruk-hai Crossbowers | Uruk-hai Berserkers About Mauhúr, there isn't much that can be said. He is one of the commanders aiding the scouts that return from Amon Hen after kidnapping Merry and Pippin. Bellow, there's a passage from the Lord of the Rings that mentions him: Uglúk, the captain responsible for the attack at Amon Hen, speaks about the Rohirrim to his fellow uruks , on the eaves of Fangorn forest (we all know how it ended).  ' There's only one thing those maggots can do: they can see like

  Mae govannen. Welcome to another blog post! This time I will be writing about bases - more concretely, my Isengard bases . Basing the miniatures is a fundamental part of this hobby (just as important as painting them, I should say), and we all need to decide how we want our army bases to look before we start to properly work on them - evidently, bases from the same army should all look alike , theoretically. When deciding how my army bases should go, I'm usually faced with one master question: Should they resemble the battlefield the minis are on, or should they resemble the native/origin land of the warriors? I tend to choose the native land of the army when deciding its look, but it isn't carved in stone. For example, when I paint Mordor Orcs, I always base them with a lot of dark stone and sand (and minimal or non-existent flora ) to get that volcanic look. On the other hand, for my Isengard army, there were two options upon the table :  Should I base them with a "i