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David Daines 's Painted Dioramas. Page 2

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The Entombed Balrog

The Horn of Helm

Watcher in the Water.

To recreate the Watcher is actually a relatively simple process as I used a Shelob’s Lair that I got cheap on EBay and by utilising the abdomen part of Shelob it still leaves a bit of mystique as to how the Watcher may have looked – the fact you can see the body heaving itself out of the water, but any ‘head’ is still hidden, appealed to me.

The hardest part to recreate are the tentacles which I created out of Super Sculpey (a heat curing synthetic clay a bit like Fimo I guess); and to do this I simply rolled out long strips and ran a ribbed plastic bottle lid along one side to give the ribbed effect, stuck a small metal rod in so that I could stick it in the base, twisted the tentacles to shape and baked them.

If you follow this idea and have more patience that I do I would suggest adding bumps and bobbles to give the tentacles some texture.

For the observant viewer, you may notice that the doorway is a little low – this is due to building the groundwork up too high.

'Gandalf & Gwaihir' & 'Hirluin' Fellowship miniatures.

'The Journey to the Crossroads' and 'Old Man Willow'.

T he King is a figure of Denethor from a magazine series Lord of the Rings Collectors models, although the head is from the King Theoden figure from the same series.

Old Man Willow was created by using a suitable 'twig' with all his boughs drilled and glued in place to give him a 'busy' look. Trying to replicate a willow's leaves would have required reserves of patience that I do not possess, so I glued on some micro-roots from the garden and painted them green. Old Man Willow has a face painted on him just for my own personal touch although this does not show up too well in the photograph.

The Wirthywindle water is Water Effects by Woodland Scenics, Tom Bombadil is from Tom and the Badgers vignette and was I felt the most ideal pose for Tom as he appears to be listening to the two hobbits. I have not added any hobbit feet sticking out from OMW, but if I ever get some spares I may do.

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