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The one in the gallery is fuzzy and fluffy looking, it was taken with an SLR (on a tripod).
The second pic was taken on an iphone and attached, its clearer and better looking for some reason

I find my bridge camera’s autofocus struggles if I zoom in more than x2, given the low distance from camera to model. I have to crop the photos down in post, could it be something like that?

here's a quick WiP of my wagons...still a lot to do, but I've at least got the main bodies basecoated, and a bunch of accent panels blocked in...so, just a load of metal, various details and whatsits, and of course, a load of weathering...easy!

Nice. reminds me I need to finish my evil sunz

I have 2 macro settings so will play with them later

Nice work Zobo, good progress so far.

Rybrook wrote:
The one in the gallery is fuzzy and fluffy looking, it was taken with an SLR (on a tripod).
The second pic was taken on an iphone and attached, its clearer and better looking for some reason

It might be to do with exposure length, if its a longer exposure time when you press the button it will blur? I put my photos on a 2 sec delay (just a guess btw no idea what your set up is)

Let's see if I can do better than last month with Grand Master Mordo:

I'm gonna go with another mini from Mierce, a big nasty warlord of Ysians.

He's huge for a human and I like it. Full name, Carrowek of Carn Dhu.

In my excitement to finish up, I forgot to post my primed photo:



Ignore the models in the background! I can't afford the time to paint them yet. Plus, they are great for painting contests later. Haha.

The Captain for my Flesh Tearers successor chapter, the Angels Ferrugine. The theme is serendipitous because their motto is "Right makes might." Alas, they are a doomed chapter that has almost entirely succumbed to the Black Rage, kept going only by a penitent order of Mechanicus tech-priests that have vowed to find a cure for them.

I am going to throw my hat in the ring again. This time ill actually be done in time for it to count

I decided to start an AoS Army, Mostly its Sylvaneth but I am allying in one of those Akhelian Leviadon's. Because Ill only play the giant turtle in a game where Everqueen Alarielle is present i did a bit of bashing and combining them. She will be surfing on the turtles back, and the leviadon's crew will be upon her beetle bailey's back.

Here's an update shot. Having family visit for a week cut into painting time. Hoping to get the base coat done with my day off tomorrow.

Captain Sidero
-Kitbashed from Stormcast Eternal Prosecutor, Skitarii, and various Blood Angels bits
-Right shoulder displays the chapter symbol of the Angels Ferrugine: a vermillion tear, trimmed in gold, with steel wings upon a field of rust
-Left shoulder displays Terminator Honours and a winged guard
-Wings were first wet blended sky blue to white, then the outer-facing edges given a brighter glaze

Upped my presentation game a bit. If you're going to slam, better slam in style. Background credit for first image goes to Tainted Lands by Dario Coelho.

Suzuteo wrote:

Captain Sidero of the Angels Ferrugine

Upped my presentation game a bit. If you're going to slam, better slam in style. Background credit: Tainted Lands by Dario Coelho.

Nice work. Could we get some more angles or close ups?

One thing about voting is that there are a lot of great entries. Who gets the final votes (I try to keep myself to around 5ish) can be rough. A lot of entries look really cool, have neat aspects etc. but only get one long-shot pic to judge them on. I look at those, think “nice mini, I’d like to see more, or how he pulled off that part swap” but I don’t get to. The next entry might deliver the detail, and get bumped up the vote list.

It doesn’t take an expensive camera. Good lighting an a something to brace it on goes a long way, even with phone cams. You don’t need expensive post-processing software. I know a number of us use a free program called PhotoScape to make collages and do minor tweaks. But we get multiple pics, might as well use them

I’d like to see a better pic of the marine’s body. With those wings, you can’t really focus on the marine himself without cropping.
I different angle without the SS blocking half the guy.
What do the wings look like from the back?
How is he leaping/connected to the base?
What do you think the best part of the mini is? let’s get a close zoom of that.

I guess I can use this as an excuse to finish my Stormhawk.

 Nevelon wrote:

Suzuteo wrote:

Captain Sidero of the Angels Ferrugine

Upped my presentation game a bit. If you're going to slam, better slam in style. Background credit: Tainted Lands by Dario Coelho.

Nice work. Could we get some more angles or close ups?

One thing about voting is that there are a lot of great entries. Who gets the final votes (I try to keep myself to around 5ish) can be rough. A lot of entries look really cool, have neat aspects etc. but only get one long-shot pic to judge them on. I look at those, think “nice mini, I’d like to see more, or how he pulled off that part swap” but I don’t get to. The next entry might deliver the detail, and get bumped up the vote list.

It doesn’t take an expensive camera. Good lighting an a something to brace it on goes a long way, even with phone cams. You don’t need expensive post-processing software. I know a number of us use a free program called PhotoScape to make collages and do minor tweaks. But we get multiple pics, might as well use them

I’d like to see a better pic of the marine’s body. With those wings, you can’t really focus on the marine himself without cropping.
I different angle without the SS blocking half the guy.
What do the wings look like from the back?
How is he leaping/connected to the base?
What do you think the best part of the mini is? let’s get a close zoom of that.

Added a collage of angles.

You were right. There are actually a lot of details obscured by the shield and wings. On the left shoulder, my Captain displays his Terminator honours. The scrollwork was done painstakingly in gold. The outer-facing edges of the wings are a different tint than the inner-facing shades. Taking pictures of this guy is tough because of all of the harsh shadows cast by the edges. That and because I have nothing buy a crappy Android camera and desk lamps for lightning. Thank goodness the base is magnetized at least; off-camera, I am stacking cookware to get this guy elevated.

Thanks for the PhotoScape recommendation. I used it to make the collage.

Two more weeks to go... Now would be a good time to enter my scratch built chaos knight right ?
Here is my proof :

Finally decided on a head for my Slamguinius, so here's this month's proof pic.

This is where I've got to so far:



Just the block colours at the moment, but hopefully I'll figure out how to do a good heat-effect on the incinerator muzzle by the end of the month.

ssisal - I love that you have a giant turtle as part of your entry. (the Turtle moves!)

Suzuteo - Nice work, the model is a good combination of parts. Really glad you added those extra pics. Photographing miniatures is in art all in itself.

I'm looking forward to another interesting conversion from you KernelTerror

DrGiggles, Dwro1234, craggy, SmallChanges good solid entries and/or progress so far. Keep going

work in progress pics for anyone interested;

Oh, Para, I’m not appearing in the entrants list, could you update please?

Done. I tend to do 3-4 big updates a month now rather than adding entries as they pop up, so don't panic if you don't show up for a few days!

Good luck guys

Nearly there! By my reckoning, just some purity seals, the blood drop, and maybe glowing eyes to do.

Thank you very much Midget Gems !
I was able to do quite a lot of progress over the weekend, both of the knight's weapons can be called finished, modulo some touchups here and there...

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 Paradigm wrote:
Done. I tend to do 3-4 big updates a month now rather than adding entries as they pop up, so don't panic if you don't show up for a few days!

Thanks Para, didn’t mean to nag. I really appreciate the time you take out to organise all of this.

Hey guys! Tuning in with a WIP. Finished the banner of my standard bearer so i've just started moving onto the marine himself with the details. Hope everyone's coming along okay!

Wow, is that banner freehand? That's amazing!

Yes it is I followed a really good guide so I just had to keep a very steady hand

Hi all. a busy weekend so only just got around to updating the league table. Here you go, interesting contest for top place at the moment

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/732117.page

I am interest jb1981, the knight is looking very good, a nice shade to the metal.

Welcome Stormatious, I hope you enjoy painting and playing

I like the purple you have added SmallChanges, its add a bit of interest to the silver

and also welcome to ingtaer, a cool looking ship but also looks quite hard to paint in detail.

Wow lipsdapips, that really is very good. I tried my own banner a few months ago and it really is art to get it that good. Well done )