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Hello!
I would like to show you in this topic my LOTR miniatures. I'll begin with my best three miniatures so far. I'll post more as I finish them. Any comments, critiques or advices will be very helpful for me.

Frodo
I finished this one about half a year ago.


Frodo CMON link


Theoden
I just finished this one. The base is sculpted in milliput. It was my first experience with milliput and with sculpting. I enjoyed it and I think I'll do it again.


Theoden CMON link


Ringwraith
This one is also recently finished. The base is made with PVA glue and natural materials - bark, soil (from garden), roots, dry leafs. It is the most complex base I made so far.


Ringwraith CMON link


I hope you like them!
Enjoy!

Welcome around here. Nice minis, I like the last one, good colors and nice staging on the base

Hey, really cool paintjob here!
Gathering of wraiths painted this way would look sweet

Thank you guys! I'm glad you like it. I'll be back with more finished miniatures as soon as I'll have them ready.
Cheers,
B

I like the Wraith, very nice mini and base!

About those leafs - how did you make them?

hehe the Wraith is also my favourite good job
Don't you want to play with them?

Thank you guys! The wraith is also my favorite.

@Grish: The leafs on soil are simply dry leafs chopped in very small pieces. The leafs on tree are dry leafs from mint plant. I glued them with PVA glue.

@sea.man: These pieces are only for display. Unfortunately I don't have anyone to play with in the area I live. But I like very much these miniatures and I'm a LOTR fan. So I intend to paint some of these miniatures and maybe I'll make some dioramas also.

The wraith is great, had some for years and not done anything with them............may have to get them out!

Thanks Markey78! You should give the wraith a try.

Grish asked me to explain step by step how I created the base for the wraith.
So here are the steps I made (sorry for my English ):
- I chose two pieces of bark that I thought were most appropriate in size and shape. I overlapped them and I glued them together with cyanoacrylate glue. I spread glue everywhere to stiffen the bark because it was a little bit brittle.
- I chose a piece of root that resembles a tree. I adjusted it a bit (shortened it slightly). I searched for the best position on the bark base (chance made to find an area where the edge of the root-tree and the edge of the bark-base fit together perfectly). And I glued it with cyanoacrylate glue.
- I fixed with milliput the base on a wood piece.
- I filled some larger side gaps of the base with small pieces of bark. And I made some additions under the tree because it was created a large gap there.
- Then I took a piece of earth from garden and I shattered it. Then I passed it through a sieve.
- With the resulting finer earth, PVA glue and water I made a paste that I spread it on the surface to simulate the flat earth surface. Because the outcome was too smooth, I sprinkled here and there some sand for more texture.
- I used the remaining rough earth (resulting from step two) to cover the sides of the base. I put PVA glue with a brush on the areas I wanted to cover with earth. Then I sprinkled earth. I shook the excess and repeated until I was happy with the result.
(It's about the same process as the application of static grass)
- Then I chose some small pieces of roots for simulating tree roots, plus an extra root for more effect in front of the base. I fixed them with cyanoacrylate glue.
- I applied a coat of PVA glue diluted with water over the entire surface for better fixation.
- After everything was well dry, I started painting. I begun with a base coat of a dark shade of brown. Then I dry-brushed several lighter shades of the base color. Then I applied washes with 2-3 tones of the basic color on different areas. And finally one last dry-brush to restore lights that were faded by washes. (I left the underground area in a darker shade than the above ground.)
- Then I painted the tree. Same steps as the ground, but with other colors.
- After the paint dried I glued the leaves. On the ground I applied PVA glue on the areas where I wanted to have leaves and I sprinkled crumbled dry leaves. I shook the excess and I repeated until I was happy with the result. I left the path without leaves for the moment. I glued with cyanoacrylate glue the leaves on tree and the small plants. (The small plant are painted small dry leaves. The leaves of the tree are dried mint plant leaves.)
- Then I attached the figure.
- After I fixed figure, I added some dead leaves on the path.
I hope you understand my explanations.
This is not a recipe. It's just the way I did it. And I was also inspired by the way others did.
I hope you'll find my SBS helpful. And if you have any more questions don't hesitate to ask.
Cheers!
B