Quote from: Techno on 23 January 2014, 07:41:10 AM
....Models I'm working on neatly lined up in groups.....

Blimey! Your house must be like a perpetual Miss World competition!

Quote from: fsn on 23 January 2014, 09:01:57 AM
Looks good. I'm impressed with the very orderly way you have your paints organised. (You may want to talk to a professional about that.)

Are the lamps daylight bulbs? I can't paint without them. (I ain't that bloomin' good with 'em!)

To quote someone on a different thread (Nik I think); I have CDO: it's like OCD but with the letters in the correct order

They are daylight bulbs: there is also an angle poise daylight from above (you can just see it in the photo).  Makes a massive difference to your painting.

Quote from: get2grips on 23 January 2014, 09:20:24 AM
To quote someone on a different thread (Nik I think); I have CDO: it's like OCD but with the letters in the correct order

They are daylight bulbs: there is also an angle poise daylight from above (you can just see it in the photo).  Makes a massive difference to your painting.

The only thing that would make a massive difference to my painting is someone else doing it.... 

Quote from: Hertsblue on 23 January 2014, 09:30:11 AM
The only thing that would make a massive difference to my painting is someone else doing it.... 

If Darth Vader had seen this, "Impressive!"

Quote from: Dour Puritan on 23 January 2014, 09:58:42 AM
If Darth Vader had seen this, "Impressive!"

Ta

Quote from: fsn on 23 January 2014, 09:03:45 AM
Blimey! Your house must be like a perpetual Miss World competition!

But without a word of a lie, I can say I used to get paid for taking photo's of thousands of models. 
That's actually impressed some people.....Until I've explained.
Cheers - Phil

Quote from: Techno on 23 January 2014, 10:39:24 AM
But without a word of a lie, I can say I used to get paid for taking photo's of thousands of models. 
That's actually impressed some people.....Until I've explained.
Cheers - Phil

Quote from: Hertsblue on 23 January 2014, 09:30:11 AM
The only thing that would make a massive difference to my painting is someone else doing it....  

I did a controlled experiment to decide on the best lighting rig. I changed the lighting whilst painting Pendraken ACW infantry (ACW1) to the same scheme. They were all undercoated the same way beforehand 10 figures were painted under each lighting condition. Each figure was based with a code underneath so that they could be mixed and judged in a blind test. Each figure was scored for paint quality in daylight and only then was the base checked to see what lighting conditions the figure was painted under. Throughout, the same paints and brush were used, and the order in whch the paints were used was standardised. The experiment was conducted over a series of nights, starting at the same time every night and noting progress after every hour to see if speed was affected by the light.

   * a daylight lamp either side, 12" from the figure plus overhead lamp.
   * removal of overhead
   * Removal of each daylight lamp alternatively,  
    * putting both daylight lamps  on one side
    * removal of daylight lamps, overhead only
    * removal of overhead lamp, painting by the glow from the telly
    * (Power cut option) 1 candle, 6" from figure
    * total darkness.


The results were inconcluive. No lighting rig provided a better quality of finish, and the speed was only marginally impaired by total darkness.

I'm going to try again changing brush size. I think this 2" brush may have been the problem.

 

Quote from: fsn on 23 January 2014, 01:05:49 PM

I'm going to try again changing brush size. I think this 2" brush may have been the problem.

He gets worse, doesn't he?

Put him back in the microwave ! 
Cheers - Phil.

I just wish I had my own dedicated space... .

I have a dedicated painting table. but because I can leave it up all the time it is now full of crap with no room to paint at it anymore

I'm lucky I have a study to paint in. However my painting kit fits into one of my wife's old make-up boxes so easy to tidy away - 25 or so paints, couple of brushes, file, scalpel, couple of sheets of A4 to paint on.

Quote from: Techno on 23 January 2014, 03:03:03 PM
Put him back in the microwave ! 
Cheers - Phil.

Why does the image of the dormouse in the teapot spring to mind

  ....Probably rather an apt observation Steve.
The Mad Hatter ? 
Cheers - Phil.

Quote from: Fenton on 23 January 2014, 04:06:46 PM
I have a dedicated painting table. but because I can leave it up all the time it is now full of crap with no room to paint at it anymore

Quote from: get2grips on 22 January 2014, 09:47:14 PM


Anyone else use rolls of kitchen roll or bog roll?

Yep I buy the cheapo toilet roll and I have a " Wire hanger" screwed into the bottom of a shelf next to me  so I can jsut grab a bit from the end of the roll when needed. Get through quite a bit.

Got in trouble the other day - I ran out and nicked the last spare roll of Andrex out of the bathrom.  I was informed that :-

1 Needing it for painting did not constitute "an emergency
2 "my need was not greater than the needs of the rest of the house".  I did try to argue that with three toilets in the house there was actually 3 rolls avaliable for conventional  use but this was overuled. 

To this I replied that in future my "painting roll" was not avaliable in emergencies as loo roll  no matter how dire 

Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 24 January 2014, 09:30:58 AM

To this I replied that in future my "painting roll" was not avaliable in emergencies as loo roll  no matter how dire 

Unless it's YOUR emergency however