The Marvelous Miscellany of MMcV

[Techno]

That is just your techical ability Phil, and before you say owt, I can never get anything in focus...

Seriously.....Way back when I used to use a 35mm 'film' camera.....There 'were only' two colour balances you had to worry about.....(I'm forgetting 'normal' sunlight, here.)

You had the choice of 'tungsten'.....The OLD 'ordinary' lightbulbs...which gave off a very yellow/orange light....or florescent. (Which gave a horrid green 'cast' to your photo's)

You could get around the colour cast by sticking coloured filters in front of the lens. Pale blue (in three different densities) to counteract the yellow cast of a tungsten light.....and 'orange', again in different densities, to counteract the green effect of florescent lights.

Nowadays.....There won't be many tungsten bulbs in use*....There will be the 'energy saving' florescent type.......Then there's sodium lighting....And I'd have to admit, I haven't got a clue what colour temperature LEDs produce.

I cheat.....By not bothering with changing the settings on the camera itself....Once the photo is taken, I use a couple of programs on the PC and alter the pic, there.
(If I can be bothered, I can do ALL sorts of weird and wacky effects with those.)

If you ever watch a really old TV repeat.....You'll notice that although the room, and the characters look 'normal'......If the camera pans around to a window, where there's natural sunlight coming in,....The window will be a strange blue.

That's because the old lighting that was used in those days was all tungsten (yellowy/orange)...and to get around that, they'd stuck a pale blue filter in front of the camera's lens.

Cheers - Phil

* I've still got LOADS of those...I like them, because they give off more heat...and I can use them to quicken the drying/setting time on the putty....Wot I use.

[mmcv]

Pretty overcast here so light still terrible but some quick buildings and tents:



Think the tents are IM. The buildings were resins off eBay I got ages ago. There's a few more but they're pretty chipped up so will need some cleanup. These will serve as camps or settlements for raiding.

Also finished up basing if a few bases so pictures when dried.

[Techno]

Looking good, Matthew ! 

Cheers - Phil

[DaveH]

Nice work.

[mmcv]

Thanks 😊

Interestingly I just noticed my Google photos settings was set to original quality rather than high quality compressed. This may explain why the image file sizes have been fairly large. Will switch to compressed for a while and see if there's any large drop in overall quality. Should be smaller files though.

[Techno]

We await, with anticipation.

I'd guess that there won't be a massive difference, Matey !

Just bung one in, as a test. Won't matter if we've seen the shot before.

Cheers - Phil

[mmcv]

Some more Qin infantry:





Some Qin heavy cavalry:







The Chu crossbowmen need a bit more touchup before photographing.

Don't think the quality change it actually made much difference, to file size or quality making the switch. May still be higher quality on my phone and only lower on the cloud. Though since I've been using a bit more zoom and crop on taking images it's halved the file sizes anyway so hopefully load up quickly enough for most!

[mmcv]

And the touched up Chu crossbow:

[mmcv]

The dice gods have decided. My next bit of painting will be from my so far untouched 20th century range that I'm intending for AVBCW (or rather AVNICW) as will be my local region. To the sample bag.

[Techno]

Nice ! 

I don't think it's my imagination.....But I'm pretty sure those were quicker to load.

Cheers - Phil

[Steve J]

You're right Phil, quicker to load for me too .

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

All looking ace. 

[mmcv]

Good good. Cheers!

20th century now, these are for my AVBCW project. Don't have any army lists yet as awaiting the BKC SCW supplement for inspiration but got some sample packs last year and been thinking about factions, etc.

These guys are part of the Ulster Protestant League, an ultra-Protestant fascist group.











The figures are SCW Carlist Requetes, a delicious irony given their ultra-Catholic leanings!



The dice of fate has spoken, next up will be back to China.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Like those

[paulr]

 

[Techno]

Very nice, indeed ! 

Cheers - Phil

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Nice idea using a die to decide on next task

[mmcv]

Thanks!

Nice idea using a die to decide on next task

For a long time, I was just focusing on one project at a time and neglecting others, so been trying to work on more varied bits lately. It's a nice way to force me into tackling things I'd been putting off. I'd probably not have gotten to the 20th century for a while if I just kept picking myself so adding a few options to the list I'd been procrastinating is good. I may up to a d8 shortly once I get airbrush set up and can prime a few bigger jobs that would take too long to hand prime.

[Steve J]

Nice work and the die roll a neat idea.

[mmcv]

Two more bases worth of Chu infantry painted up. Went with purple and white rather than grey and white for these as they'll be in a different army division.

Hopefully get them based tomorrow.