Last up some terrain pieces, the colours didn't come out too well on these, they look a bit more natural in real life.









I've also got two hills to paint and flock but will hit them next time I've the airbrush out. Finally I'll have terrain that isn't just bits of card with colouring pencil terrain drawn on!

After taking the photos I also painted a few medieval tents and middle Eastern buildings to use as camps for some upcoming crusades games.

Some pics on previous page for those who just jumped to latest and can't see the figures for the trees.....

Not sure what's up next, possibly keep up the momentum on the Chinese or dip into the bronze age for a bit. Considering numbering my projects then letting a dice roll decide which I do a unit of next... But for now probably keep up with the Chinese.

Very nice work

Quote from: mmcv on 22 June 2020, 10:10:38 PM
Some pics on previous page for those who just jumped to latest and can't see the figures for the trees.....

Not sure what's up next, possibly keep up the momentum on the Chinese or dip into the bronze age for a bit. Considering numbering my projects then letting a dice roll decide which I do a unit of next... But for now probably keep up with the Chinese.

I remember we used to play the boardgame Civilisation in a group including a dear Chinese. She was so adamant that her people were blocks and streets ahead of everyone else that we ended up renaming the game Catching up with the Chinese.

Nice terrain and figures, with the dark colour scheme on the latter very effective.

Quote from: mmcv on 22 June 2020, 10:10:38 PM
Some pics on previous page for those who just jumped to latest and can't see the figures for the trees.....

Glad you mentioned that........They look great !!

Cheers - Phil

Thanks guys!

Quote from: FierceKitty on 23 June 2020, 02:06:28 AM
I remember we used to play the boardgame Civilisation in a group including a dear Chinese. She was so adamant that her people were blocks and streets ahead of everyone else that we ended up renaming the game Catching up with the Chinese.

Was there a special event for the Chinese fracturing into 3/7/16/18 different kingdoms every couple of turns?

Quote from: Steve J on 23 June 2020, 05:28:47 AM
Nice terrain and figures, with the dark colour scheme on the latter very effective.

Thanks!, Yeah the Qin are noted for favouring black so thought a black (well dark grey) colour would suit them. Makes them hard to photograph though! The impressed spearmen look a bit darker in the photos than they really are - they're a mid-grey and a dull purple. Left them looking a little more dirty and scruffy looking than the regular troops as they'll generally be "Raw".

Matthew.

What are you using to take the piccies ?....An actual camera, or some sort of smartphone ?

If it's an actual camera, you might have the facility to alter the 'colour balance'....Depending on the light source you're using.
If it's a smartphone, I can't really give you any help, as I don't know how much you can 'mess around' piccy wise with one of those.

Forbes would probably know...The camera on his phone takes far better piccies than my 'decent' Canon camera.

Cheers - Phil

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

Quote from: Techno on 23 June 2020, 10:35:06 AM
Matthew.

What are you using to take the piccies ?....An actual camera, or some sort of smartphone ?

If it's an actual camera, you might have the facility to alter the 'colour balance'....Depending on the light source you're using.
If it's a smartphone, I can't really give you any help, as I don't know how much you can 'mess around' piccy wise with one of those.

Forbes would probably know...The camera on his phone takes far better piccies than my 'decent' Canon camera.

Cheers - Phil

I'm just using my phone. It does have some colour balancing options and can do some tweaks to the colour and light balance in Google photos too so they mostly come out okay. Think it was mostly just the time of day I was taking them. I had my painting light over to give some additional brightness but the natural light was starting to go a bit as was coming up on 10pm so think it was the balance between the lower natural and artificial lights. Think most of my figure pictures are coming out a bit better recently, especially since trying your trick of using coloured or textured backgrounds to improve the focus. And applying some colour/lighting adjustments before uploading.

Quote from: ianrs54 on 23 June 2020, 11:02:57 AM
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.

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.

Looking good, Matthew ! 

Cheers - Phil

Nice work.

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.