Monday 13 September 2021

The Grey and the White

 

White is my least favourite colour to paint. Heck, it doesn't even photograph as well as other colours on miniatures. Still, if you want to paint a Saruman, you pretty much have to use it.

Both of the figures above are sculpted by Bobby Jackson and come from Reaper miniatures. Both are part of my slow, on-again off-again, attempt to 'heroic scale' a lot of my The Lord of the Rings miniatures collection. The Gandalf I painted sometime ago, the Saruman just recently.

I love that both figures come from the same sculptor as it gives them a similarity that befits Gandalf and Saruman. Okay, Saruman is never mentioned to have an owl... but it never says he doesn't have an owl, and besides, he is 'the Wise'. 

So anyway, it wasn't the most fun figure to paint because of the white, which I layered up from a cream, but I still enjoyed it, and I'm pretty happy with the results.

Now if Bobby would just sculpted a third one who looked a bit more... I dunno, Brown?

7 comments:

  1. Nice paintings! I've just bought these wizards to paint as the Istari. But I will paint your Saruman as Ragadagast because of the owl. There is a third wizard from the same sculptor which makes a nice Saruman because he is holding a cristal ball - or a palantír. The mini is called Oman Rull.

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  2. You could try Darius the Wizard for Radagast. He has a rat on his tome. :3

    https://www.reapermini.com/search/darius/latest/30002

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    1. Oh, just to confirm, he was also sculpted by Bobby Jackson too.:3

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    2. Another contender is Aurelio Endrino (also sculpted by Bobby Jackson), but he might be a bit too shabby next to your classic-looking duo.

      https://www.reapermini.com/search/bobby%20jackson+metal+fantasy+male+human+staff/latest/03843

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  3. Or...just go straight for the real thing:
    https://miniset.net/sets/gw-99801464082

    This one is amazing!!
    http://www.coolminiornot.com/233054

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    1. https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Radagast-the-Brown-2019?_requestid=17505065

      If I were a batter painter, I would get this set just for the Rhosgobel rabbits!

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  4. Very nice, I always enjoy seeing non GW stuff used for LOTR.

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