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Very dramatic! I got a little cheapo light box off the net and it's really helped out my photogrophy as well. I settled on a grey background as it doesn't mess with the color balance or over-power what I'm photographing.

Haha yes, I didn't think, I was too excited to actually get a photo taken in it to think about what a black model on a black background would look like. He is a floating head and mace of pure rage.

It is a 50 by 50 cm cube, but when it arrived it was folded into a CD sized disc shaped bag. I opened it at work like the pro I am and it literally exploded into its full box shape, so I had to pretend I meant to do that and calmly try and twist it back into its tiny shape at my desk. I think I broke both my hands.

That looks much clearer. try the white one!

What kind of light box is it do you know? Is it big? My flats pretty small but I really want one if I can find it for that kind of price! thanks!

It folds down to the size of a CD, I have it flat at the moment on a shelf in a wardrobe. Its 40x40 cm cube ( I double checked and was wrong about the 50), so actually decently sized when up, but either folds completely flat and square, or into a thicker small disc

This is where I got it. http://cgi.ebay.ie/16-40-x-40cm-Photo-Studio-Shooting-Tent-Light-Cube-Box-/170519062517?pt=UK_Photography_StudioEquipment_RL&hash=item27b3ba67f5

Thanks, thats perfect for my needs!

Skaven lord finished.

I held back on this as it was a time test. About 4 hours work in total I guess, bar the washes drying as thats more leisure time than anything. First finished white prime model. Quite happy, even if he is a little messy. I took the pics far too close to the background so it's not blacked out right, I will prob retake these for my site gallery when I put him up.

Edit - new pics below

Any hints or critiques are welcome as this was an exercise in speed painting and I want to try and get the best out of my time spent on this level of paintjob.

Hi

Wow your work is amazing. May I ask one thing though, in your opinion how hard do you think it would be to get the ravenguard detail off korv? I am thinking about getting one to convert.

Once again WOW.
Waaagh!

Amazing work, truly inspiring.

i love the fact that you have the firefly boxset!!!!! And Korvy is looking brill!!!

I said that some time ago

Nice, very nice, particulary like the tarnish on the helmet, and I'm not going to go anywhere near the fact it only took 4hours - I guess my super power is sloth-like paint skills.
I'd probably drybrush the grass to tone the green down a little, and something's bothering me about the brazier, but I can't place my finger on it.

monkeytroll wrote:Nice, very nice, particulary like the tarnish on the helmet, and I'm not going to go anywhere near the fact it only took 4hours - I guess my super power is sloth-like paint skills.
I'd probably drybrush the grass to tone the green down a little, and something's bothering me about the brazier, but I can't place my finger on it.

The brazier literally has one coat of paint and a wash, it was one of my sacrifices for the speed paint exercise, that and the base :( I will deffo wash down parts of the grass to dull it out. Over white it really is far too bright, and I would be blacking/browning out the base in total from now on. Lesson learned for sure.

waaagh!orksrocks wrote: in your opinion how hard do you think it would be to get the ravenguard detail off korv? I am thinking about getting one to convert.

It would be take a lot of time but should be possible. Getting the raven off his backpack would likely be the hardest, followed by his shin. Everything else is not very thick and should be possible to file off.

Flame and the robe really stands out on the Skaven for me and I like it alot! Awesome job!

Solid work on the Warlord. I must say you are definately stepping up your game cheers.

Cheers Empchild and Limbo. I enjoyed working on him as I had to come at the painting from a different angle in order to get it done as quickly as possible while trying to get it over tabletop quality. I find doing new exercises like that are the most helpful ways for me to learn and improve.

Next in line to be conquered are the right camera and light settings for the photo's. Korvs looked great but the Skavens are slightly blurred and the light is overpowering. It seems you need a lot less light for a lightbox then I had read about, I originally started with 3 but the model was pretty much glowing, so I am down to one but I think it still needs to be further away. Aperture 8 on the camera with a between 1 and 2 shutter speed and iso 80 are what I was using, but I need to lower the shutter speed for longer exposure for a clearer pic. Hard to find the right balance so I need to experiment more.

Awesome skaven warlord. Ir looks really cool. How did you do the fire?

I did it completely wrong which I realise after checking out some fire tutorials, hah. Basically it was enchanted blue base blended down all the way to skull white in the center, then drybrushed with a couple of layers of skullwhite/blue mix all the way up to white again. There were a few asurman washes in between.

I will try to get some in focus shots once I get home, the blur is ruining the detail.

I thought the thing was a warp stone holder and not a brazier for normal fire hmm I might look at the back of the box before I paint mine. If I get mine half as good as yours I will be pleased.

Hi

Thank You Ifalna

Bye
Waaagh!

Iffy try out thetrolltrader on ebay for spray paint primers, sometimes you'll get it cheaper than the stores and sometimes its free P+P too. If you type in army painter spray your bound to stumble across him.

@Sonofruss I am pretty sure it is meant to be flamey for sure, either that or I have seriously botched its painting like a true pro.

@Waaaaaaaagh, you are welcome I guess? :O

@ Lenny Good idea dude, I will look into that tomorow. Going to mess around with camera settings now and see if I can get better pics. Will upload them if I manage it


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OK, so I reshot the pics with more realistic settings. I think this is the best I can possibly get out of my camera.
Which looks better for me to use on my site before I give him back to his owner, the black background, or the white? I have no neutral greys I am afraid.

Edit: White it is! Finished Image:



Click for details please

I would say the white. Can't give you a solid reason beyond it looks better.

white as more light is reflected onto miniture and you can see more detail, in two bottom pics look at underside of spear

I agree guys, thanks I think the black is a good idea for some models, but not the skaven as it is masking the detail in parts for sure. Going to give it back to the store owner today so Bye Mr Rat, then tonight I am on Demon Prince assembly duty, and some detailing on Korv

The backgrounds for the lightbox I have have no greys, does anyone have a link to a nice gradient background I can print out? Grey to white, blue to white etc. Would be a great help.

Sorry I dont, a friend of mine done a cool DP for me, just gont to get him back, he worked for Mongoose and the warmachine guys.

you can make a background on GIMP

I aint typing GIMP into google on my work Pc

Lol. Its a shame cos Gimp is a great photoshop style program. It does everything. I don't blame you though. Type in 'free photo editing programs' instead

I could knock some up tonight for you if you want?


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won't take five minutes, what would you like? I could probably make one similar to the ones GW do, white to a pale blue

Ah cheers Anthony that would be awesome, I can print them out at work The blue fade one would be great I think!
Weety, glad you cought on why that was a bad idea haha I think even with safesearch, I would have gotten some slightly worrying results!