I love playing around with my camera and trying to create more cinematic scenes of my Hobbit models. I took the above shot with my DSLR on a tripod with a 25 second exposure. I used a red light to illuminate the centre of the picture for 10 seconds and then lit the left and right hand sides for 7.5 seconds each using a white light. Once it had finished exposing it looked quite good. You can see “normal” shots after the jump.
Luckily, Bill, Bert and Tom didn’t turn to stone when I took their picture with the flash on. I am really happy with how they turned out. I’ve wanted to add them to my collection since they first came out.
Whilst the Trolls aren’t huge plastic kits when compared to some of the big Warhammer 40,000 kits, they do however tower over the Dwarves and Bilbo Baggins. I love this kit, the sculpts are very very good. The only downside is you only get three 60mm bases. You don’t get one for the camp fire. I had to buy a separate bag of bases for that. I think the campfire looks better on a base.
Bill the Troll
Tom the Troll
Bert the Troll
The Troll’s campfire.
If you’d like to to see the tutorial for the Trolls or any of our other Hobbit miniatures. Check out the link here. Coming soon Hunter Orcs on Fell Wargs then Azog the Defiler.
Brilliant blog as always, keep up the good work. Also, could you get a paint breakdown for these? I really need the help.
Thanks
The post provides a link to a full tutorial on how to paint the trolls. The tutorial includes a paint list.
Fine paintjob, of all the trolls I like Tom the best. Hunter Orcs and then Azog? Looking forward to that!
Bill the Troll is a very cool model I like how the "straps" actually have space between them and the body. Well done GW nice touch.
Great painting as always Garfy I used up my 2013 superlatives so you will have to settle for that I will buy a thesaurus for describing your works i n 2014 and thank you for all the great tutorials this year!
Great pictures and thanks in advance for Azog and Warg tutorials. They will be greatly appreciated.
Amazing paint job man and a great cinematic shoot 🙂