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So what are the shamblers? they look cool :-)

What range are the Shamblers from?

Theyre like swamp zombies- All dead-looking and theyve got bits hanging off them all over the place.
I believe they are minis from Privateer... Hordes, to be more specific.

"Thriller" is right . The WIPs are looking great, love those tones!! And yes, the shamblers are one of the few actual Privateer Press models in this army (they are called "Bog Trog Shamblers")

Regarding pics, I do think it's probably how close the camera is. I just clicked on a pic on your webpage and realized it's absolutely humongous! So, you could hold the camera back further and still get a giant image if you crop out the edges. However, there's one other possibility - and that's the Dakka gallery messing with things. I discovered that with the iPhone 6, I have to resize images before uploading them or else they would show up super blurry in the gallery.

I left this image in the gallery of the Shaltari you painted for me as an example of this bug. The first pic I re-sized before uploading, the second I uploaded at full size. It's a pretty stark difference in clarity:


Just wanted to post that in case it could be part of what is going on / as an FYI in case your camera resolution results in what the gallery does to the iPhone 6 native camera resolution pics.

@ RiTides - yeah - I've noticed that the images I put up come out a little blurry in the gallery. On my computer - supersharp. In the gallery - touch blurry. Drives me nuts. I shoot with a Canon Eos and my ipad for WiP shots. When you say 'resized' - how do you mean - cropping the image or lowering the resolution/file size?

I just opened the image in another program and lowered the resolution. I should check if just selecting "large" instead of "full sized" when sending the pic from my iphone accomplishes the same thing, but I thought that it didn't...

ahhhh - interesting.....I always save at the highest res but maybe dropping the res makes for a sharper image when uploaded.....weird bug eh?!!! Cheers RiTides...will give that a bash when I'm uploading again

Hmmm.... very curious behavior indeed... I'll need to play around with it all and see what works best. Solve one problem, another pops up.... At least I've got all of you to help me iron out the bugs!!

Perhaps if I dropped the resolution of these pictures a bit (currently its at the camera's max 16 megapixels), it would be forward progress in the fight against blur. And of course taking photos from just a little further away. experiments experiments.

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Shamblers have more color.
I think at this point, itll just be a case of painting areas of red flesh then the bases. In theory, theyll be done Monday! Would be tomorrow, but I've a busy weekend this time...

Love it! And of course, now I've got Michael Jackson songs stuck in my head

Hehehe... You're welcome. Enjoy the ear worm





Shamblers are complete!
Messed with the settings a bit more and backed the camera away from the subject a bit, and it seems that Im on the right track so far. I think dropping the resolution (something i didnt do yet) might make the photos look a little sharper on this page. It seems that the gallery image drops some of the sharpness because its "zoomed out", so it just makes guesses at certain points in the photo...

Makes some very zoomable pics, though...



And some close-ups:

Knights up next, or something else?

Something else, I hope!

Current schedule will be for the Knights (sorry Alpharius! )

There is "something else" also on the table (actually 2 "something elses"), but those are a secret till theyre done

I'm just kidding - I love seeing what you do with the Knights!

Nice job with those infinity models. i might try to search for one of those crouching guys from the third picture (page 101 infinity set) and use it as a proxy vindicate

If you know the official name of those models private message me the name.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Knights up next, or something else?

You out of models for him to paint... Inconceivable.

Oh man, the green bubbly slime on those bases is everything I dreamed it would be

And I just clicked on the images and zoomed in - it is definitely the Dakka gallery bug that has been getting you, Ramos, likely this whole time - not the camera! If you just click one zoom in in the gallery the sharpness suddenly appears. These look great! Seriously guys, click on this image link and zoom in just one click - the difference is amazing:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/723771-.html

How did you like the speed painting experiment on these? Seems like you were able to crank them out and I am really happy with the results for these shambling undead things.

Edit: I tried re-sizing the image and uploading it, and it looks to me like even after that, if you choose the "medium" size, Dakka's gallery makes it show up blurry. Below is a medium and then full-sized view of the image I re-uploaded... the full-sized looks a lot sharper, and it's not just because it's a little bigger, imo:


Legoooooo!!!

 Solar_lion wrote:

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Knights up next, or something else?

You out of models for him to paint... Inconceivable.

Oh he's got some models for me, I just know they aren't next in line.

Your right RiTides they look much better in the gallery zoomed in a bit.

This thread - and my own lack of time - has convinced me to eventually send over my True Scale Marines and Vehicles to you for painting.

I'm probably looking at December timeframe, maybe slipping into 2016.

Should I work up a list this far in advance or what until we're a bit closer?

Wait until he's done with my Knights dagnabbit!!

... and get off my lawn!

Here I come!



(And yeah, I own this in t-shirt form!)

It'll be good to see them get some life again. I know you previous commission experiences were a bit spotty.

 Alpharius wrote:
This thread - and my own lack of time - has convinced me to eventually send over my True Scale Marines and Vehicles to you for painting.

I'm probably looking at December timeframe, maybe slipping into 2016. Should I work up a list this far in advance or what until we're a bit closer?

You won't be disappointed!

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Wait until he's done with my Knights dagnabbit!!
... and get off my lawn!

Awww....Looks like Ramos is the prettiest girl in the class...

Anyway where are the Knights in the Que.. Do you have a Que?

Yeah Alpharius, you probably want to communicate with him about it now! I sent my gators over just after AdeptiCon, but Gits and Whalemusic were already in ahead of me with their Knights / etc!

I think after Gits' Knights, the rest of my gators are next, and then I've got one final batch I've queued him up with for the September timeframe. (That might come after whalemusic's mystery stuff, not sure). No rest for the wicked

Of course smaller jobs can be worked in between the big ones, as you've seen with the Infinity / Assassins / etc he's gotten done recently. Very prolific lately, which is awesome

I've also got a warlord sized project when it is available.

Ramos still has several of my SDE minis :(

But he said he wanted to paint them in his spare time, soooo with you all keeping him busy I'll see them, maybe in a decade?

 whalemusic360 wrote:
I've also got a warlord sized project when it is available.

Do tell! or do you mean a Reaver sized project!

Was going to get a Reaver, but the Warlord will get used just as often (ie, almost never) and has an even higher cool factor imo. Just need FW to actually let me order one.

Yes! A Warlord-sized project!!!
Needless to say, Im super excited at the chance to play with the million-ton resin beast! Just waiting on FW to unleash the beastie...

Have a feeling I'll end up closing shop for a few weeks or even months while painting it, but until then assume normal operations!!


I do indeed have a queue, SL- Right now its Gits' knights (SO MANY!!), then RiTides' Gators, then a pair or smaller infantry projects, then more gators, then WMs random assortment!. That should take us into October at least... Maybe even November!
Wild


@Alpharius: December timeframe would definitely be workable, and scheduling you in now is better than later, like RT said! Its a little too early to get into specifics, but I can definitely pencil you in for then. I'll shoot you a PM here in a bit and we can fiddle with the details

@Alf: I've the big flame dude, the metal Candy mini and 3 adventurers. Really sorry they've been in my hands so long. Of those, Ive just got the Candy mini done... Lemme know if you need these back soon- I'm still all for messing around and painting em, but it might be a few weeks/months before I get back to them.
(also, I want that shirt )

@RiTides: Wow, yeah that is a considerable difference. I think re-sizing is going to be the next step in making my pics look better... Thanks for doing all of that work with the re-sizing xD
I noticed that the difference between our photos was massive... 800x600 compared to more than 4000x3000!

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Now for the meat of the update.....






Knights are assembled, gap-filled, and stuck on sticks- Tomorrow we prime!!





such update

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