Eowyn Favorite LotR Character

[Womble67]

Looking forward to seeing this project progress.

Take care

Andy

[Terry37]

No pictures as they would probably look just the same, but a lot has been done. Eowyn now has leather tassets made and added, and leather wrist braces carved into her arms, so I think she is basically finished save for painting. Theoden's horse armor is finished, but still have to decide if I want to try and etch something or just paint it in. I'm afraid if I try to etch it, the putty will just chip at the corners??? Either way, I will only be able to get a semblance of what his horse armor looked like - a geometric patterned  leather bard over a scale lower bard. The leather horse head armor will be mostly painted in. Had the dickens of a time working out Theoden to look as if he is pinned under the horse, but think I got it OK. I also added upper and lower arm armor on him too (carved in). Tomorrow I hope to finish them , so I can sand everything and then glue them to painting sticks, prime and start on them.

More to follow,

Terry

[paulr]

Sounds like major progress

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

This is sounding epic

[Techno]

Sounds good, Terry.

Re 'the etching'.
What type of putty have you used...it makes quite a lot of difference.

If it's green stuff....I personally wouldn't try.....You'll probably end up with slightly ragged edges.
If it's more like a hard Milliput putty, you might have some joy.

Cheers - Phil

[Terry37]

Techno, It is liquid green stuff and I think your advice is he result I would end up with. I can usually file in pattern, but probably not this time, so I will be going the painted route. Thanks for the advice!

Terry

[Techno]

Ah...

Liquid G/S ?.....Can't give you any hints/advice with that, Terry...As I've never used/tried it.

If it's like the two part epoxy.......I'll take a WILD guess and say 'scratching' it will give the ragged edges I mentioned before.

Might be worthy mixing the tiniest bit on a piece of card/plasticard.....Letting it set....And then 'have a scratch' to see what happens.

Just a thought, Matey.

Cheers - Phil

[Terry37]

Phil,

It's put out by Citadel, and come sin a bottle like their paint. It thins with water,. and so I find it easy to use and can control the consistency by the amount of water I add. No mixing of two parts involved. It comes in a thick pastey form and you can usually brush it on, but I take a little on a pallet and then get a brush or two of water depending on the task at hand. It is fairly soft after drying and previous experience tells me it might crack if I try to etch it.

https://www.miniaturemarket.com/gw-66-12.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&adpos=1o2&scid=scplpGW-66-12&sc_intid=GW-66-12&gclid=Cj0KCQiAxNnfBRDwARIsAJlH29AKRcM3CstnUoQJFAwypuTPHJTlg5vZWNi_n_NskscqQUMTioHUbB0aAgXQEALw_wcB

Thanks Again!!!!

Terry

[Techno]

No probs, Terry !

Having read the review from the link you provided, I think your idea of painting, rather than etching, is probably the best course of action.

Looking forward to seeing the results !!

Cheers - Phil

[Terry37]

Well Phil, Even after deciding to just paint in the pattern on the bard yesterday I bit the bullet and filed in he pattern! Surprisingly it came out OK, I will probably also have to add some painting to make it look right, but it is etched! The real bear yesterday was adding the rib across the top of her helmet - would have been so much easier had I done it before I removed it from the original figure because it is really tiny!. You can see her helmet here.

https://www.cosplayisland.co.uk/costume/view/16390

I just need to do a few bits today and they are ready to prime. I'll share a new photo afterwards.

Terry

[Techno]

That's good that it came out nicely, Terry. 

Sounds like it's a slightly 'harder' putty, than the two part epoxy green stuff.

Cheers - Phil

[toxicpixie]

Cracking project Terry - you put so much work into your HotT stuff, it's amazingly well done

[Leman]

I seem to recall she was very much an Antipodean lady of Rohan. Presumably that part of Middle Earth is just south of Hobart.

[Terry37]

Hmmm, just had a monkey wrench thrown in on this one. To be sure I was going to be playing her properly in the HOTT rules and her part in the story, I asked some of my HOTT gaming friends if I was going in the right direction. Good friend Paul came back advising she is neither a Hero nor a Paladin. She is actually a troop type referred to in HOTT as a Sneaker. Think of Frodo and Sam, or of an assassin, or one who has special abilities to kill a leader.  And the more I think about it, he's right!

Now the down side to that is, that being the case, her base is now reduced from a 40 x 30 to a 40 x 20 , so there's no room to put Theoden on the base with her!!!! I could still do it as HOTT does allow for deeper base, but I really prefer to not do that, and only have done so a very, very few times to fit a tank model I really need in the army. So, it seems all the work on poor Theoden is for naught. I'll still paint him up and base him on a separate base maybe, don't know yet as I just saw Paul's note a few minutes ago.

Bottom line, Paul is absolutely right!

More to follow,

Terry

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Keep Theoden as a marker for when someone offs your general!
In that case, what do Merry and Pippin count as, behemoths?