Painters League

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September 27, 2015 at 3:53 pm #33107
Milo
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Thingol wrote:

I’m not sure if I’ll be “in”, in this first few rounds…. why !?!?! Actually I do not have any unpainted mithril miniatures at home. All 900 are already painted… and new one [mith]MS614[/mith] I didn’t buy yet…. and I do not have plans to buy figures only for painting competition

I will wait for some time… or I can be a judge in beggining…

Master Thingol, if you need mithril miniatures ? just ask, you know I have plenty in my attics.
September 27, 2015 at 4:57 pm #33108
orc
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Well done Master Maenas! I’m going to paint my bearded Radagast, not very happy with mithril miniature, so…I must prepare a conversion!!

what do you thing if we talk about the the Painters league in Mithril forum?
September 28, 2015 at 8:59 am #33109
ddaines
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Thingol wrote:

I’m not sure if I’ll be “in”, in this first few rounds…. why !?!?! Actually I do not have any unpainted mithril miniatures at home. All 900 are already painted… and new one [mith]MS614[/mith] I didn’t buy yet…. and I do not have plans to buy figures only for painting competition

I will wait for some time… or I can be a judge in beggining…

You have painted ALL of your miniatures Nino!! You may as well strip the paint off and start over again to give you something to do 😆
September 28, 2015 at 10:18 am #33110
Maenas
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orc wrote:

Well done Master Maenas! I’m going to paint my bearded Radagast, not very happy with mithril miniature, so…I must prepare a conversion!!

what do you thing if we talk about the the Painters league in Mithril forum?

I would say, let this first one start, and once started we can share (link) it there. Do not know what other people think about this anyway so it would be nice to know what their thoughts are.

Remember this Friday is the first day, so from then on, we all can start. I think that opening a specific thread for it to not mess up this one, and leave this one for general talk about the “league”, future contests, and all related issues would be a nice idea. Will name that new thread “Mithril’s painters league 01” so there can be an order to follow up and link.
September 28, 2015 at 6:47 pm #33114
Thingol
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Milo wrote:

Thingol wrote:

I’m not sure if I’ll be “in”, in this first few rounds…. why !?!?! Actually I do not have any unpainted mithril miniatures at home. All 900 are already painted… and new one [mith]MS614[/mith] I didn’t buy yet…. and I do not have plans to buy figures only for painting competition

I will wait for some time… or I can be a judge in beggining…

Master Thingol, if you need mithril miniatures ? just ask, you know I have plenty in my attics.

Fine proposal dear hobbit friend… but I will wait for a while….
September 28, 2015 at 6:57 pm #33115
Thingol
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ddaines wrote:

Thingol wrote:

I’m not sure if I’ll be “in”, in this first few rounds…. why !?!?! Actually I do not have any unpainted mithril miniatures at home. All 900 are already painted… and new one [mith]MS614[/mith] I didn’t buy yet…. and I do not have plans to buy figures only for painting competition

I will wait for some time… or I can be a judge in beggining…

You have painted ALL of your miniatures Nino!! You may as well strip the paint off and start over again to give you something to do 😆

It is better to put them in nitro thinner a few days …. requires significantly less physical exertion…. :rolleyes::cool:
November 16, 2015 at 4:28 pm #33433
Maenas
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Soooo to keep things moving and lively!! let’s start to discuss the next contest !! ^^

Do you want me to throw a dice against this listing, like I did last time? or do you prefer another method?
Also before the theme is selected, it would be a great moment to make additions to the list, so suggestions are most than welcomed, let’s leave a one or two weeks spacing between the first league and the following one, so we can discuss and comment without haste and maybe in this period of time the following list can grow little bit.

I also think that the 2nd contest should allow for people to have Christmas and all those family and friends compromises without messing up things too much, so I would say let’s start the second league on December 1st. and end it with the endings of January on 2016 so we’ll have plenty of time to scheme and plan ahead.

1. Ladies and lassies of middle earth
2. Maya month, and it is not the bee!
3. Trolls or the thing you don’t want to face in the night.
4. Fighting dudes, like in the batman tv show or even better.
5. Ringbearers, Hey I did wear it, you don’t?
6. Black is the absence of colour, or the Nazgul month
7. ~~Manly men, or how to wear a long beard and it’s multiple uses~~ League 01 October – November 2015
8. Mikea or middle earth furniture, plants and nature friends
9. Plate armour, is it a myth or not?
10. To the spears!! or the month of the rider
11. Are all orcs green?
12. The third breakfast or how to became a good hobbit by “the attic warden”
13. Is it hot down there? or the “southern thing” month
14. To elf or not to elf or the “do they have pointy ears?” month.
15. Postcards from middle earth, or which vignette I choose for this month?
November 16, 2015 at 11:09 pm #33434
ddaines
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Roll a dice
November 17, 2015 at 6:29 am #33435
Milo
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Roll a 14 faces dice :rolleyes:
November 17, 2015 at 9:20 am #33436
Turambar
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Yes sir- roll a dice!
November 17, 2015 at 8:01 pm #33439
Maenas
Participant
Milo wrote:

Roll a 14 faces dice :rolleyes:

That would be a little bit irregular…. xD

Seems that there’s a bit of consensus about rolling a dice will wait a little bit more for it though.
If you have a desire of adding items to the list please go forward!!
November 18, 2015 at 8:35 pm #33450
ddaines
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Milo wrote:

Roll a 14 faces dice :rolleyes:

I did wonder 😆
November 21, 2015 at 1:46 pm #33452
orc
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roll a dice!!
November 24, 2015 at 8:22 pm #33489
Maenas
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Sooooo to not losing interest let’s roll a dice!!!

And the fortunate number is: 9!!! Plate armour, is it a myth or not?

So here we go again ^^ this time the general idea is to choose a miniature with extensive areas of metal, does not matter if its only chainmail and greaves (like any of the rohirrim or this [mith]lr17[/mith]) or full plate armour (like [mith]m271[/mith]), and neither it matters if it’s allignment is for the “light” side or the “dark” side. So we got plenty of references new and old to choose from, in fact there are so many that I will start the “painter’s League 02” thread on the first of December for everyone has time enough to choose a reference. There will be time to paint it until the 2nd of February (extra weekend to finish it).

And since painting a mithril sometimes could be pretty fast, it would be allowed to enter the contest anytime between the 01 of December and the 25th of January, as long as we get provided with the mandatory starting point pic and at least another one in between the start and the finished picture.

This time I would add a simple rule with the unique intention to maintain a little bit of uniformity: No mounted references would be allowed.

So again to sum up:
Mithril painter’s League 02, contestants list:
[large]Plate armour, is it a myth or not?[/large]
1. Maenas
November 24, 2015 at 9:59 pm #33491
orc
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Oooooo Great!!!!

I have a question…can be MS589 King Ostoher miniature inside this rank?:rolleyes:
November 24, 2015 at 11:06 pm #33492
Turambar
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Ahhhhh- well done.Master Maenas. A good way of falling- as far as the dice is concerned- or what is the right wording . . .
King Ostoher . . . fits perfectly I would say. A good choice, Master Orc.

So- in my case I only have a look at my “corks”. There is a figure standing for a really long time.

It is the following miniature: [mith]M239[/mith]

It will be somekind of a re-paint and paint-project. It is one of the first figures I painted using oil colours.
That was somewhere in 2004. I never finished this miniature. So THE chance.
November 25, 2015 at 7:49 am #33493
Milo
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Oooo this is a great rolling dice result !
I am sure many of us can choose and do great paintings here.

I must look at so mnay minis before choosing which one.
November 25, 2015 at 8:35 am #33494
Maenas
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@orc: I think it fits perfectly since the upper part is a full plate if I am not wrong, if it’s not then I would choose another reference that shows a little bit more metal.

@Turambar: I love that reference, it’s one of my favourites!! It has so many possibilities!

@milo: I am happy with the roll too… there is plenty of possibilities, in fact there are so many that maybe we could repeat the theme again in the future if this league lasts long enough
November 25, 2015 at 5:51 pm #33497
ddaines
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Maybe the chance to paint the Galadriel on horseback figure M400. Hate to see her in plate armour so an excuse to paint and be rid 😆
November 25, 2015 at 10:37 pm #33501
Turambar
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Please have a look at this sentence, Master David:

Maenas wrote:

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This time I would add a simple rule with the unique intention to maintain a little bit of uniformity: No mounted references would be allowed.
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