Welcome to the first painting “contest” of the Mithril painters League
All miniatures that enter this contest should be related to this theme: [large]“Manly men, or how to wear a long beard and it’s multiple uses”[/large]
1. Please keep this thread to post pictures, comments and questions about the miniatures being painted and the work that participants do around them.
2. If you have questions about how this contest works, you can ask/look for them in: http://mmp.faerylands.eu/viewtopic.php?id=772 (under development)
3. This thread will be opened until the 15th of November to allow participants to post all their work. (maybe extended/shortened depending on participants)
4. A new voting poll thread will be opened with all the “final picture” from all participants once the end date approaches. We will put a link to it here for easy access.
Welcome to the first painting “contest” of the Mithril painters League
All miniatures that enter this contest should be related to this theme: [large]“Manly men, or how to wear a long beard and it’s multiple uses”[/large]
1. Please keep this thread to post pictures, comments and questions about the miniatures being painted and the work that participants do around them.
2. If you have questions about how this contest works, you can ask/look for them in: http://mmp.faerylands.eu/viewtopic.php?id=772 (under development)
3. This thread will be opened until the 15th of November to allow participants to post all their work. (maybe extended/shortened depending on participants)
4. A new voting poll thread will be opened with all the “final picture” from all participants once the end date approaches. We will put a link to it here for easy access.
I have one question… for competitors in the first round… if it is impossible to find mithril minature with long beard… can the competitors make conversion figure….. !?!?
Of course! conversions are welcomed, and it is not necessary a long beard…. almost all dwarves have beards too so they are also welcomed the main intention here is, facial hair and pose xD it does not matter if it is a man, an elf (this would be strange, but why not?), orc or whatever races of middle earth. The title of the contest is just a general theme to have a similar starting point.
Perfectly viable Arthadan! this is more of a share thing than a true contest, so your and your mini are most than welcomed ^^
Oh and we can all start! so keep them coming!
This is my chosed mini ^^ :
It is [mith]m89[/mith] and I bought this one almost a year ago at ebay, it was very dirty so I wash and rince a couple of times then striped it by dipping+rubbing with alcohol and acetone mix. Then airbrushed it in white (Im a completely noob with the airbrush) see following pic, and my intention is to airbrushit again with a darkest tone from below.
On these last months I just found that mithril coating is superthick and it sometimes covers a little bit too much of Chris T. work so I am starting to remove it from the miniatures I am willing to paint.
Wow. There’s far more “life” and motion in this one than his usual stuff. (Sorry, I’ve never been a fan of Angus’ work, even though he illustrated some of my own books. I always felt his characters were too stumpy and stocky. But “each to his own”, as we say here in Bree.)
Arthadan wrote:What’s that? Celeborn without heavy plate mail? But it’s MERP… how’s possible the Mithril version has a Tolkien-inaccurate plate armour then?
