Fred - 2017 Painting Diary

[fred.]

30x30mm
I've got some figures ready for the Sudan.

[fred.]

LED Light box

Received a small LED Lightbox today - I got mine of ali express (about £5, two weeks delivery).


Empire Camp - desk light




Empire Camp - light box


Both photos have had minimal post production work, just cropping and an auto balance.


In situ

[fred.]

Giant Snake Riders

Desk


Light box

[toxicpixie]

Good results Fred, especially those snake riders!

[fred.]

Good results Fred, especially those snake riders!

Yes - I'm thinking the same. The snake riders look much better in the light box. The camp less so, but the light box gives a more even light.

I also like that as it is higher up, I am taking the shot from the figure's height rather than overhead.

What I don't like is that I am seeing so many messy bits of painting and basing with supersize photos 

[toxicpixie]

Oh Ghu alone yes - I look at painted stuff, think I've done a nice job, take a photo and look on the phone, think it's still decent, look at it on a decent monitor and cry

I have to remind myself that it's 10mm, and blown up to 1/32nd it's not going to be good

The camp's come out better - the rider in the first shot looks HUGE, far bigger than the other figures but the angle in the second plus I guess more even light makes him less IN YOUR FACE so he's in scale? The bright tent and flags do look a bit subdued tho.

[fred.]

The rider is Kalistra so is big. The troops at the front are GW, so pretty comparable with Pendraken historicals.

[toxicpixie]

Ah, he's twelve going on fifteen, and the foot are ten going on ten then

Yeah, ok, no wonder he looks big!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Okay, need

[Techno]

Nice comparison shots, Forbes.

I think I'll have to invest in one of those, at some stage.

Cheers - Phil

[fred.]

Nice comparison shots, Forbes.

I think I'll have to invest in one of those, at some stage.

Cheers - Phil

Go on, its only £5.50, delivered  https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Portable-Folding-lightbox-Photography-Photo-Studio-Softbox-Lighting-Kit-Light-box-for-iPhone-Samsang-Digital-DSLR/32824251578.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.NiGAEU

[fred.]

Best Brown

Making good use of the local Homebase closing down sale, I picked up a big pot of brown emulsion - claims to be chocolate, but not sure myself.

I'd got some sheets of A3 MDF a while ago to make terrain bases, to replace the rather basic bits of funky foam I have been using.

So I painted the MDF, when you use a proper decorating brush (2.5" in width) not a tiny hobby brush you can paint a lot of flat stuff very quickly. Very glad I painted these before cutting.

Decided to paint the ovals of bright blue foam I use for hills too.



This was about half-way though. The MDF has had a coat of paint on both sides, and I have added sand to the still wet top coat.
I have given the hill ovals a coat on each side. They eventually got another coat to cover the blue fully (and to cover the edges).

Once the sand had stuck, I gave another patchy coat to 4 of the boards to use for temperate ground, left the other 4 for desert. Then added a dry brush to al the boards. And decided the desert ones were too dark so added a couple of heavy dry brushes of sandy shades to them.

[Leman]

Very interesting at the top of the page - today I acquired a Warmaster Empire army, which will be joining the ranks of my Italian Wars stuff.

[fred.]

The camp? Yep GW Empire generally works well for Italian wars. You may need to file off a bunch of skulls though!

My Empire stuff can be seen here http://www.kerynne.com/games/WMEmpire.html

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Nice one Forbes!