Another pleasingly small unit for the defenders of Minas Tirith. 300 Rangers of Ithilien. More Hinchliffe Robin Hood figures.
For the colours, I had in my head this picture by Greg and Tim Hildebrandt
I generally detest their take on Middle Earth (although I love the cover they did for Black Sabbath's Mob Rules), but the feel of their paintings is naturally very late 70s early 80s , which is the look I want for this project. Any how, I managed to get in the gloves, green fletched arrows and painted the strangely shaped beard on the figures as the mask the rangers wear, which incidentally should cover the lower part of their face, not the eyes as shown in the painting.
Very nice figures, excellent work.
ReplyDeleteThanks Alan. And thanks for all your comments... It does make me feel that the blog is worth doing.
ReplyDeleteMore lovely miniatures nicely painted. Are we due a few group shots of them soon, so we can see your progress so far?
ReplyDeletePossibly, but laying them out means using valuable painting time.
DeleteThis project is really coming along. The minis are looking great
ReplyDeleteI'm slogging through the Rohirrim still.... Getting a bit bored with them.
DeleteThe problem I have with this artist is that the Hobbits look like 5 year old children , nice Rangers though .
ReplyDeleteYes, the Hildebrandt brothers aren't really my thing, but some of their middle Earth paintings are iconic, but really don't fit my vision of Tolkien's world.
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