Miniature Figurines

  It's early days yet, but I have started doing the finishing painting and I'm using oils. Today the first touches were applied to her hair and also the start of her face and neck....the only bare skin on the whole figure. She now has at least a bit of colour in her cheeks!  Much to be done yet. I'll start on the leather next.

  I have finished the preliminary undercoating using Vallejo Model Air acrylics and am now ready to start the final painting using artist's oil paints. The prime reason behind the decision to use oils is that Eowyn wears a lot of leather, and I have found over time that I can get a more accurate likeness in oils. I think it's because of the natural satin sheen of the oil paint. So I'm letting the figurine sit for several days to ensure that the undercoats are perfectly dry and hard and then I'll start applying the oil-paint finishes. As mentioned in the previous post, the chain-mail was done using the acrylic Rust and Aluminium, so that part is completed. More will follow.  

I am currently applying the undercoat washes to miss Eowyn, and this is being done using Vallejo's "Model Air " acrylics. From what I've been able to learn via images from the movies (and the action model shown in the first of this series) the colours are rather subdued and, I would imagine, hark back to a time when nature provided the dyes used for clothing. There certainly weren't any artificial man-made dyes. So that being said, Eowyn's garb will, apart from the chain-mail, be predominantly earthy colours for the fabrics and brown/red for the leather pieces and belts. My intention is to do the final detailing using artist's oils, in a similar fashion to the method I used for Felicia . Oh....you may also note that she is no longer holding her sword, the result of my clumsiness (again). However, it will stay removed until the last thing so that I reduce the likelihood of dislodging it again! More will follow.   UPDATE: Sunday 27th. August 2023 I have deci

Eowyn is a character who features in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings fictional works and in two of Peter Jackson's movies, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and Lord of the Rings: Return of the King . In both cases she is played by Miranda Otto, and the 1/6th action figure shown above (by Asmus Toys) is a likeness of that character.   My figurine (above, and following) is from Garfie's Games, an eBay store, is 3-D printed and is in 1/12th scale. Yesterday I finished the cleaning process and then primed the figure, ready to start painting. As per the previous figures featured in this blog, I am using Vallejo's "Model Air" acrylics and the very first thing I did was to give Eowyn a wash of thin black. This has the effect of lightly shading the tiny recesses, clefts and creases in the chain-mail and the coarse-weave under garment. Once thoroughly dry I will start on the colour washes. More to follow as work progresses.