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I think it's important to use two or more lamps, it gives you a light source from different perspectives and overall increases the outcome of your models.

I use daylight or normal lightbulb and a lamp

I paint with the best light available, although prefer natural light if it's available

I tend to use a daylight bulb; maybe it's my eyes, but I like the intensity =) Though, oddly, despite wearing glasses for reading and using a computer screen, I never use them for painting lol.

I use a Quick 228 Magnifying Lamp x8 mag witha blue/ natural light bulb.

I use 2 regular lamps and a a blue halogen lamp and a Fluorescent.

I paint in a stark-white room with fluorescent tube lights on the ceiling. They have diffusers on them to soften the light and eliminate shadows; I find that a clean, white space allows me to focus entirely on the scheme. Painting in incandescent or colored light has thrown me off in the past.

Daylight is best for me. The lighting in my house is pretty bad, and I like knowing exactly what my model will look like.

During the day its natural light, for my home is awesome for it! Otherwise its my dinning room light as I spread out on the table and work away!

My ceiling fan lights, my lamp in the corner and when I need a glue to dry faster I use my lizard's heat lamp. He gets annoyed for a bit but eh.

150 watt Halogen lamp, fear the power!

As long as I can see the thing its fine!

Well, I wouldnt do too much if I couldnt see it properly, but I do what I can and check it at the window in the morning.

Always pleasing when you have a good look at your work the next day!

The bare-bulb hanging from my ceiling.

I use a daylight bulb (one of those power saving ones) in a lamp. I do find it can make me miss some details, but Mum doesn't like me painting on the dining room table, which has the best access to light.

I have a desk lamp and a energy saving light bulb main room light (called the "big light" in this house since before I was born)

exactly what Sanchez01 uses

I have a normal lightbulb lamp that clamps on my table with a built in magnifying glass meant for embroideries. Works great.

Florescent bulb in one of my old work lamps.

two clamp on shop lamps (the ones with aluminium reflectors) with natural light bulbs in them and the ceiling light, a very bright, very effective way to paint, and if brought in close they will dry glue and paint quick if i want.

I use a nifty desk lamp with a bright circular florescent bulb with a magnifier. It helps prevent eye strain.

Fluorescent bulbs. My kitchen has some really nice fluorescent lighting (as opposed to the godawful normal bulbs in the rest of my apartment that give off that really sickening yellowish light my wife seems to love), so I make as much use of it as I can.

I used to paint using a regular CFL bulb. Now I use a daylight flourescent bulb on a magnifying lens. Me likey!

I use Chain Lightning, it's really the best, when there's a stack of grumpkins down that hall and you want ALL of them dead not just the first one and...

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Lighting

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Iuse the room light and a head lamp.

Normal ligth/ dayligth

Three lamps, two soft yellow so my eyes don't strain like all hell (plus their heat helps cure things) and a cold light lamp with a built in magnifier. The latter is also mounted on a bendable stalk to adjust as I need.

But I always check the quality of my finished models in broad daylight.

I use a cheap desk lamp I bought from Target. One day I hope to purchase a nice daylight lamp with magnifying glass

I think one , or two , lamps will do the trick!

I use natural daylight as much as possible and i have to lamps on my desk and then big lamps in the room in the corners and lights above. But if i couldn't use any natural light i don't think i could paint without bad head pains.

I wasn't convinced about this until 2 years ago, when i bought a Daylight bulb and put two Lamps next to each other the difference painting in hte evening or over night is huge. It cannot be overstated, I have never looked back and will not ever use any other kind of Bulb. It makes that much of a difference! plus it makes for better Photo's as you don't need to use the Flash and get a much better more realisitic representation of the Colour of the miniature.



My lamp, bulb cost £3 seriously just go to your local market and buy one (remember they get super hot and I know I burned and electrocuted myself on one, long story short!). Otherwise the best place I paint is at my parents house in Greece on their Veranda when the wife lets me take my paints with me.