I pondered for a few weeks trying to figure out what to
paint for this round. In the end I plumped for Aragorn. As a
teenager, reading the Lord of the Rings, Aragorn was a true heroic
character. His selflessness, courage, compassion and skill were all features
that I found worthy of emulation, and in fact, influenced my development into
the man I am today. To this day, Aragorn is still one of my
favorites. Uncomplicated by any of the current fad for anti-heroes, he’s
just a well developed character with widely admirable traits. It seems
fitting that Aragorn will take me above my challenge goal.
The model is a plastic GW model from the, really rather
crappy, Mines of Moria, intro set. This is the first model I’ve painted
from the set. By and large the detail is poor, with the exception of the
face and some details on the jacket and leggings. The face in particular
really has a lot of character.
The model was quick to paint up. I didn’t use the
movies as a guide, rather delving back to the images of my teenage mind as I
read the books. In general I prefer to paint according to the books
rather than the movies.
Despite my affection for the character in the books and
movies, I’ve never used Aragorn in a game. He’s too expensive for my
tastes. Now that I have a painted model I might throw him down once or
twice though, since he is a lot of fun to play.
Nice painting!
ReplyDeleteThanks Ray!
DeleteBags of character with this one, great job.
ReplyDeleteThanks Michael.
DeleteThank you Andrew.
ReplyDeleteI have to agree the plastics are terrible however I do like the look you've achieved, especially the face. It's definitely not Viggo Mortensen ( even though I really like his Aragorn).
ReplyDeleteThey are tough to paint, just because they are so uninspiring.
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