A CROWN IS BORN../ The Hobbit Dwarves etc.. WIP's & Finished Builds Part 2

Lynkhart wrote:Random fact; the first LOTR film came out when I was 11, and me and my cousins were obsessed with it, going so far as to make our own home movie ‘trailer’ for it in the garden. It was, as you can imagine, utter crap, but to this day I still cackle at our reproduction of the infamous ‘hobbits hiding from the ringwraith’ scene, with my cousin in a halloween vampire cloak (with no hood and massive collar) and massive adult size gardening gloves as gauntlets. We thought it looked really convincing at the time. XD

Stryker2011 wrote:That paint work looks excellent, Alex. And Christine, what an interesting site.

Lynkhart wrote:You mean not everyone has a bandsaw/tablesaw/fully kitted out workshop at their disposal?!
Honestly, the most expensive bit of kit I have is a dremel and I’m always slightly terrified of chopping off fingers each time I use it! It’s weird because I used to use a bandsaw all the time at college and felt completely at ease with it!

Oooh, I love the Twilight Witchking crown there!

Random fact; the first LOTR film came out when I was 11, and me and my cousins were obsessed with it, going so far as to make our own home movie ‘trailer’ for it in the garden. It was, as you can imagine, utter crap, but to this day I still cackle at our reproduction of the infamous ‘hobbits hiding from the ringwraith’ scene, with my cousin in a halloween vampire cloak (with no hood and massive collar) and massive adult size gardening gloves as gauntlets. We thought it looked really convincing at the time. XD

Ephiane wrote:Absolute masterclass armorsmith ! Thanks for showing and all the inspirations. The Orc itself naked, is just fantastic. What a shame to hide him behind that wonderfull armor.

skywalkersaga wrote:Everything is looking excellent, shovelchop!!  

Lynkhart wrote:Random fact; the first LOTR film came out when I was 11, and me and my cousins were obsessed with it, going so far as to make our own home movie ‘trailer’ for it in the garden. It was, as you can imagine, utter crap, but to this day I still cackle at our reproduction of the infamous ‘hobbits hiding from the ringwraith’ scene, with my cousin in a halloween vampire cloak (with no hood and massive collar) and massive adult size gardening gloves as gauntlets. We thought it looked really convincing at the time. XD

LOL, this is brilliant, love it! The good ol' days of making home videos.....

GubernatorFan wrote:Love the weathered paint and impressed by the leather work. I'm glad the armor, cool as it is, would not hinder articulation -- a very common problem, both in figure sets and I suppose to some degree in real life. I also think gloss was the right call.

shazzdan wrote:Cool video. His name is Leo Todeschini. "Tod" is his nickname. "Tod Cutler" is the name of his retail business. Matt and Tod both have their own series of videos on Youtube and both are worth watching.

Ovy wrote:Oh man beautiful what you did with all that leather, love that strapping.
The armor looks beautifully used, with all the recesses toned. That white hand is great.

So many parallels to the stuff I am doing atm. Although you are much faster.

Great video, and haha, Matt Easton! Just last week before I made my  pole axe I did some research too. I watched an Australian, American and British video.

-Australian: A funny guy sparring with his friend showing how to fight with pole axes, taking breaks for jokes and explanations.

- British: That guy named Matt Easton wearing a brigantine over his sweater plus sallet and enthusiastically talking for 26 minutes straight about Pole Axes.
(Then there was another video were he talks to that American historian living in London, playing with polearms at the Wallace collection)

- US of A: Strong people with American pole axes hacking, smashing, destroying severed pig heads, animal carcasses, plastic bottles, cars and watermelons in slow motion, to metallic rock music.

Another interesting channel for armor is Knyght Errand by a guy named Ian La Spina.

I loved Scrapheap Challenge as well. In memory of the Barley Pickers, I declare Shovelchop's Uruk-Hai to be a "proper job". Smile wrote:

GubernatorFan wrote:If everyone still spoke (or at least wrote/read) Latin, we would be in business... Maybe the Italians were counting on that? Just kidding. I recognize some of the channel/presenter names, too. Great to see you have been putting them to good use in your own builds, Alex.

GubernatorFan wrote:You have such talent for recreating metal out of everything else, and making it look like it. The character is practically done! Already looking great and grimey, although I can't wait to see the finalized look with the completed treatment to the head.

Valiarde wrote:Wow shovelchop that looks great - really like out of the movie, nicely used look and dirty. Great chop - I will have to check more of your thread later. Time is always a thing I need more of.

Theboo-bomb wrote:Wow look at that beautiful orc, fantastic weathering on the armor and on his outfit too, he's starting to look like he's wearing a few pounds of gear.

shazzdan wrote:"Looks like meat's back on the menu boys!"

Lynkhart wrote:That last picture is great, what you’ve got there are the two most famous subtypes of orc; the Uruk Hai…and the Uruk Low. XD

…I’ll get me coat.

Stryker2011 wrote:That turned out amazing. All the work to put this guy together — from the body to the armor — is astounding. Well done, Alex.

Lynkhart wrote:Ahhhh, he looks fantastic!! One question though, you’ve mentioned fibre card a few times and I’m still trying to work out exactly what you mean by that. It seems very useful!

That last picture is great, what you’ve got there are the two most famous subtypes of orc; the Uruk Hai…and the Uruk Low. XD

…I’ll get me coat.

Stryker2011 wrote:

Lynkhart wrote:That last picture is great, what you’ve got there are the two most famous subtypes of orc; the Uruk Hai…and the Uruk Low. XD

…I’ll get me coat.

shazzdan wrote:I was talking to some archery historians about fire/loose and they reckon that both are modern. One stems from the advent of firearms and other is a Hollywood affectation. According to them the command at the time was simply "shoot".

LOL, in their defense, at least at first "fire" was subtitle translation into modern English. I wonder what Tolkien wrote, if that detail goes back to him. At any rate, interesting. Dan's report makes sense. Beautiful work, Alex, I love the new helmet too. And great to see it is going to be more functional. That is the thing about your builds -- accurate, sensible, and functional all rolled into one. Glad we got to see more of your glorious completed Uruk-Hai head, too. And apparently you improve 1:1 objects too, with organic approaches that might not be to everyone's taste. Wink wrote:

Stryker2011 wrote:That little gif of the “old guy” is actually from a Foo Fighters video, Alex.

skywalkersaga wrote:Shovelchop works quickly, and it's all coming together so well!!!

I keep thinking about the mystery material, and the only thing I can think of that seems similar is perhaps some kind of stiff felt ?