It's a great game. Massively underrated, I wish Games Workshop would push it more!

@@criticalhitwargaming5290 yes, i cant agree more. I have so many unpainted Miniatures from lotr and since they are a bit smaller i think contrast Paint is a great start to get them to a Tabletop ready State. Then continue work on them when you want at a later time

No worries buddy! Let me know if there are any models you'd like to see in particular. Between this video and the one on Morannon Orcs, you should be set for a while!

I'll make a Parade Ready addition when I've covered all the other models in the set! Thanks for watching!

I know, right? Help a brother out and share it to the world 😭

Awesome, thank you very much!

Awesome tip! Thank you 🙏🏻😊

Pleased to hear it buddy! Thanks 😊

I'll do my best!

@@criticalhitwargaming5290 Gondor and the east. :P

@@Njwobrien Unfortunately my main limitation is models, I can only paint what people send me for commissions or what I have in my own collection. If you're in the UK and have a Gondor/Easterling model you wanna chuck my way to be painted for the channel and sent back to you, I'd be eternally grateful!

No problem! Thanks for watching :)

I didn't actually, but I will try and remember to put some Instagram some time when I'm all unpacked after moving country!

Which bit did you forget to use it with? I only mix contrast with Basilicanum Grey when painting these.

Of course! How shiny are we talking? Eye-wateringly bright or just typical steel armour?

@@criticalhitwargaming5290 great! I'd like to see my reflection off of it. Half kidding, I'd like to do full ceremonial plate armor so it would not be too battle-worn

@@WMfin I'll see what I can do. What is it you're painting, to give me an idea what you're talking about in particular?

@@criticalhitwargaming5290 Been buying some Perry knights lately but what I have really tried to get shiny is painting lotr elves in steel color rather than gold. Also there's box full of Gondorian soldiers waiting there but they can be battle-worn steel which I am not too great at doing either.

@@WMfin I have neither of those models, but I'll sort you out somehow, fear not!

You can indeed take them to the next level with some extra highlights, even over the top of contrast paints! I'll make a video on it at some point. Unfortunately many of the contrast paints look a bit... cartoon-like, for lack of better words, when used on more realistic models such as those found in LoTR.

@@criticalhitwargaming5290 they look fantastic on yours. Not cartoony at all. Though I did see on other videos that the lighter contrast paints can be difficult to work with in that sense. Nonetheless, I have no other colours for horse variety, so I'm interested to try with these paints. Hopefully I get the same result as you were able to. .

@@nickmeredith002 Ah apologies yeah I meant contrast paints outside the ones used in the video. The brighter colours like purples, yellows and blues look too vibrant on LOTR models which are more subdued for the most part. For coverage on horses like in the video, they're superb. Saves an unbelievable amount of time.

@@criticalhitwargaming5290 well this hasn't really worked. The contrast paints are causing everything to go really streaky and splotchy and it looks horrible. In order to combat this, the paint needs to be so thick that my snakebite leather is looking more like your cygor brown. I'm not quite sure how you're applying the paint and avoiding this, because as soon as I touch the miniature to apply the first coat, the brush strokes just create an instant mess of paint with uneven coverage that I'm then having to try and go over and redo later, which also makes things worse if it isn't dry.

@@nickmeredith002 That definitely shouldn't be happening. Something has gone wrong there for sure. You have spray-primed your models, right? If so, what undercoat did you use? There's no magic occurring in this video - I'm literally just dunking my brush in the pot and putting it straight on the model!

I'd like to, don't have the Osgiliath box unfortunately!

@Critical Hit Wargaming I mean I'm most interested in the knights of minas tirith, be good to see a speed paint on those mounted units, I imagine they aren't far from the rohirrim but I'm a typical guy and love visual aids haha. Osgiliath box can wait haha, but I can imagine that being a good next step with it just being released =)

@Andyyybeeeee I've done it a few times now, if you have one of the models send it to me in the post and I'll paint it and make a video out of it and then send it back to you. Ping me a message on Instagram or Facebook if you're interested.

@Critical Hit Wargaming sounds like a lot of effort on your part for a video but I mean if you wanted I could =)

Yeah, next up is Warriors of the Dead! Thanks 😊

Both the contrast paints for the green (Creed Camo and Militarum Green) are both crap, basically. Their coverage is shite. It looks infinitely better using a proper paint.

@@criticalhitwargaming5290 maybe you should do a video on best contrasts to use love the honesty

@@masterballuk6780 That's a good idea actually, well played. I'll come up with something.

@@criticalhitwargaming5290 not sure if you seen my other comment but I have messaged you on Instagram about another project

@@masterballuk6780 Seen and replied!

Thanks very much, I'm glad it helped! That's the aim of these, to make good results quick and easy to achieve. As for models, anything that I don't currently have really from AoS, 40k and MESBG!

@@criticalhitwargaming5290 Seems like Theoden is the only model left from the Pelennor fields box set without a video (and definitely the most intimidating one for me). Do you have any plans for Theoden? I'd be happy to supply the model.

@@mattgrimwade5380 I do have him, he's unfinished for me too! My main issue is finding the time at the moment. I'll try and get him done at the weekend to close the Pelennor Fields chapter!

I have not, no! Made this long before they came out, same for the Army Painter Quickshades.

There is one for Morannon Orcs, and for the Witch King and Troll. On the Good side, there's Riders/Warriors of Rohan and Warriors of the Dead. I just need to do Theoden and that's the whole Pelennor Fields box!

@@criticalhitwargaming5290 oh amazing thank you very much

Thanks Iain! Hope it helped.

@@criticalhitwargaming5290 I bought the two Towers game over 10 years ago and only ever got round to spraying the models. I still have them now but most of them have snapped spears or swords - still unpainted too.

That's only for the Basilicanum Grey horse. Basilicanum Grey straight out the pot goes very blotchy, whereas all the others are straight out the pot. Since making this video Army Painter have released a set of speed paints, and Gravelord Grey does a much better job for grey horses.

@@criticalhitwargaming5290 would say the army painter ones better overall?

@@pray4plagues177 As with all paints, yes and no. They work slightly differently. Some of them are better, some of them are worse. In this case, the Contrast browns are better, but if I were to recommend two of the Army Painter ones for painting Rohan in particular, it would be Gravelord Grey and Hardened Leather.

@@criticalhitwargaming5290 thanks so much. You don’t know if their white contrast is any good do you? Find GW one great

@@pray4plagues177 I've not tried it mate! Be interested to see.