French Made Heroes

Usually, I laud the awesomeness of my readers before showing you their entry, but sometimes, when the reader is as awesome as French Jess, there is nothing I can add that competes with her own words and pictures. You will see therein that her boyfriend is awesome, too. This is good. I wouldn’t want her dating some chump.

Just a quick reminder, there are only five days left to submit your Homemade Hero Contest entries, so finish up the paint jobs and take some pix! Competition is fierce, but there are lots of prizes.

On to Jess:

Hi Peat,

I finally finished my entry for the contest. It took me a lot more time then I thought, but this morning, seeing the closing date approch, I decided to take all the morning to finish it and here it is!

Here is how I made it :

-It’s my boyfriend who gave me the idea, certainly exhausted to go every week end in search of hold toys in the bric-a-brac trades near our appartment. He is a great fan of role playing games ( he even succeded to recruit me for several Live action Role Playing games next summer! ) and figurines games (like Warhammer) so he told me he had a Balrog figurine from the Lord of the ring game he wanted to use in his warhammer game but he changed his mind so he had this Balrog and nothing to do with it. Like he told me, One Arm, on the cover of the french version of L’Homme Rune, his really alike a Balrog. I decided to do One-Arm, and we search in the Game Workshop website what could make a fine Arlen or Jardir. I remembered the warriors of Harad from the Lord of the Ring, so we want to the store and bougth a box of this warriors. One made a fine Jardir and I decided to make some Sharum as well.

-First, I had to cut all the different parts of the figurines and glue them together. I cut some parts that had nothing to do with the characters I wanted to make. For One Arm, I had cut a lot of parts, and I decided to create some new parts to ressemble more. I cut some horns on warhammer demons my boyfriend hadn’t use, and stick them after creating a base in modeling resin. I also created some horns from the same resin to give One-Arm his horned back and tail.

-After a few days of drying, I spray all the figurines with an under-coat of black paint.

-After a day of drying, it was time to begin to paint all of them. I decided to had some touchs of fantasy for One-Arm (painted the horns in silver and gave him some green glow from the Core) to give him more relief.

-After that, I decided to had sand on the base of each figurine, by glueing it.

-Finally, I draw wards on the spears with a permanent marker.

And here is a little group with Jardir as Shar Dama Ka and his Sharums vs One-Arm.

Hope you’ll like it 🙂

I also hope all this is comprehensible, because I have to admit it’s not a vocabulary I’m used to!

Have a good day

Jess