The basis for this image came from Play Along Toys AOME Warriors and Battle Beasts series from 2003. The inspiration for the image came from Peter Jackson' LOTR trilogy, Part 1 'The Fellowship of The Ring'. I think a good title for this would be 'The Search For Frodo',
Ed
This second coat of medium gray was kind of a wet-dry brush coat. Huh? What? Well, I needed to cover most of the first coat, but not quite. For that, the brush had to loaded with a bit more paint than what a total dry brush would require. Once the paint dried I set up a few of my Tri-ang Moon Base HQ compounds to see what they looked like on this thing.
Ed
The figures this Chat were based on is from Play Along Toys Armies of Middle Earth Warriors and Battle beasts series from 2003.
Ed
Generally, I use up to five colors when doing scenery. The first few are always shades of the same color starting with the darkest shade first, then dry brushing on the remaining colors in succeedingly lighter tones. The last color is always white applied with a very dry brush (that is to say, nearly all the paint wiped off on a piece of craft paper, paper bag, or newspaper - whatever's available - before applying the paint. This time however, as I didn't have a full compliment of colors available, I went with what I had: dark gray, medium gray, white.. The dark gray is the cover coat and it took a few passes to get all the little nooks-&-cranny's filled in.
Ed
I posted this Treebeard the Ent figure from Toy Biz way back in December 2011 and am now able to highlight this terrific toy again - but in a different way. The toy is battery operated (enabling the talking) and is 17.25" (43,81cm) H. The legs and arms are articulated and can be moved around and, while it's not made by Play Along Toys, is a great companion piece to their LOTR figures. Back in 2011, the photos were my basic set of orthographic inventory shots, but with the help of a little computer aided wizardry, Treebeard now is in a setting which makes him look at home!
Ed
