(Not) Santas Workshop of the Strange, Wierd, and Wonderful - 8 Jun 22 - EREBUS and ALALA - pg 78!

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**storag**

Usally I'm not fond of OSL but this daylight lamp looks great!

**tipios**

That looks fantastic, the lamp OSL abover the door is amazing, the gun flash not so good, but I think it might be the photo that is doing that. It really is a very nice diorama. Nice job!!

**Mastiff**

It's looking great so far!

If I could make one suggestion to increase the dramatic impact of the piece, I'd suggest revisiting your lighting effect on the wall. Right now, the flash is throwing colour on the wall (it's yellow) but not any light (it's the same darkness). There's a way to see the difference by cheating.

Take your photo, and desaturate it, so it's just shades of grey. You end up with the following:

Oirginal:

Desaturated:

See how the flash disappears? That's what I mean by throwing colour on the wall, but not light. The stone is reflecting the same amount of light whether it's in the flash radius or not, while it should be brighter. Use some white to highlight the bricks, and/or add more dark washes to the walls and floor outside the flash radius. You're aiming for something like this:

The darker washes will also help focus attention on the two characters, who can get a bit lost in such a large canvas despite the central positioning.

I highly recommend viewing images in greyscale, rather than colour, when you're testing the effectiveness of OSL. Before Photoshop I would sketch things out with pencil, but technology is faster and easier. Remember, if you ain't cheatin' you ain't really tryin'.

Hope this helps. Cheers!

**tipios**

@Mastiff - wow, that is a very useful hint for everyone trying OSL, Nice one

**Klaus, not Santa**

Wow Mastiff!
Thanks for the trick!
I had my scetches and everything, but I didn't think about the desat photo - great tipp!
I'll try to re-work the wall and some of the floor

THANKS!
Klaus

**mxwllmdr**

I guess I am gonna have to break down and buy some Hirst Arts Molds. That is fantastic, Not Santa.....

**Klaus, not Santa**

Again: THANKS

Whaddayathink? Is this better?

C&C Welcome

Cheers
Klaus

**dsteingass**

Oh Wow! YES MUCH!
..But you should still zoom in, it's just too big from way back here

**mxwllmdr**

I agree, give us a shot up close.....

That muzzle flash is wicked but the flourescent is just amazing........

**Viktor von Domm**

hey kids... tha man provided rather big pics here... go into the gallery and zoom at your hearts desire... with these pics you can get so close as to be utterly iundescent with a SoB

and the second series looks better now... the first series surprised me for the brightness of them... very unlike you klaus^^ but i guess it was to show some daylinght pics i asked for^^

the light above the door is a nice twist! gives the whole dio a lived and used feel... something we don´t see so often with all those ruined stuff for the grim dark scenes...

**bigfish**

looking really good now, very cool trick as well

**Rogue Wolves**

man that looks great klaus the OSL is ace

**mxwllmdr**

Oh sure, Vik....

Stick up for the fellow German.....

I see how it is.....

Still fantastic, Klaus.....

**Capitansolstice**

Really cool!

**Rawson**

tipios wrote:@Mastiff - wow, that is a very useful hint for everyone trying OSL, Nice one

Second that! Great tip!

Klaus, fantastic work as always! My favorite parts: the tile floor and the recommisioning the spacehulk termie (looks very natural!)

My only CC: I'd like to see a bit of shadow at the top of the launch door. Since it's recessed in there, wouldn't the flourescent light only reach the bottom half?

Keep up the great work!
Rawson

**weetyskemian44**

Oooo I'm looking forward to seeing what they are last standing against. Love your work klaus.

Mastiff your osl tip is useful - I will remember that

**Bongo_clive**

This thread is quite spectacular. Good work

**Klaus, not Santa**

Again, thank you all

I really hope you enjoy your read and you can discover the one or the other helpfull or inspiring thing in here.
14 pages is a lot to digest

Again thanks to Mastiff for his neat trick. I posted it also in my blog, so others can benefit from it too:
http://fischers-design-shop.blogspot.de/

For now I call the "Rear Guard" finished and I will put it aside. I'll try to get better images over the weekend.
AND
I will try to gather my courage and get the one and only project you're all hoping for back onto my desk.
Eventhough the release of Diablo 3 could interfere here

**mxwllmdr**

If anything could make me spend $500.00 on a new computer Diablo 3 would.......

**Capitansolstice**

Klaus, check out the GW page, in the flickr pool: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/wnt/blog.jsp

**SagesStone**

Think that means people like it.

**inmygravenimage**

Sehr gud!

**Mastiff**

Glad I could help. The final result looks fantastic. I'll keep my eyes open for your next project!

**monkeytroll**

Fantastic work as always Klaus

Great posing, just as it was the first time round, and the base is awesome. The flourescent lamp is bloody brilliant

**dsteingass**

...What I meant by closer pics was more in the framing of the shot I think...I'm not sure exactly how to explain what I mean unfortunately.

Have you ever looked at gardening/landscaping DIY books? In the theory sections, they always refer to "creating interest" in the back yard by planting things and placing objects so that paths curve around and dissapear around corners or bushes so that you naturally want to walk that way and see what is around the corner. It creates a "mystery" that you naturally want to discover. In your pics, we can see the entire diorama, so we already know the odd shape of the base...However if you add a little mystery, by leaving the viewer to speculate what is beyond the frame of the shot, just hinting or teasing about the rest, it is actually more excitign than seeing the whole thing.

Not unlike the way scantily clad females can be more exciting to look at than completely naked females because it gives the imagination more to do...I hope that makes sense.

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I hope you don't mind, but I zoomed and hacked up your pic here to maybe illustrate better.

See how this adds more visual interest? You KNOW there is more to the right and the left of the shot, but you can't see it so it's more imaginitive. This is such an amazing diorama, with so much amazing action captured with your excellent OSL work, this is the type of shot they would publish in WD for the Golden Demon awards mathinks!

**Viktor von Domm**

ok...dave now with that explaination i see your point...

**Rogue Wolves**

^ to be honest dave, i could see most of klaus models in the GD.. is it because im biased for IG and think all of his stuff is created by gods? ... probibly

**Klaus, not Santa**

Hey guys, surprise!

yesterday I took the opportunity to take a status video of the ATHENA:

http://youtu.be/9Er0gxpB7ms

It's about 10 minutes and I talk a bit about the history of this model and my plans going forward.
I hope you like it

Cheers
Klaus

**Vitruvian XVII**

Awesome that video was inspiring.

Cheers for the opportunity to see how you go about everything. And the full 360 of the athena was a beautiful sight.

**mxwllmdr**

That thing is uber wicked, Klaus....

I am in absolute awe of the guns and detail....