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I painted this box set as a birthday gift for a friend. I used HO scale lumber to make the floorboards, greenstuffed the rugs, and used quarter scale dollhouse furniture for the accents. I'm pretty damn happy with how the crew turned out.












More pics on Imgur
http://imgur.com/a/nEND1#0

Nice work.

That guy in red suit is so simple yet so functional.

You should use the "Macro" function next time you photograph some paintjobs. On most cameras it's the little flower-icon button. Also, short of investing in a nice lighting setup, you need to adjust the white balance on your camera towards blue. Right now, your pictures are very, very warm and yellowish. You might wanna consider saving your images as a PNG-24 file instead of JPEG - JPEG files are really compressed, and most photo uploading services compress images when you upload them. Those two layers of compression leave images really blurry and out-of-focus. Even the best photograph can be killed by that. Photography is very tricky and fiddly, but there are some shortcuts like the ones above that will grant you much better results with very little effort.

Anyways, I love the painting you have going on here. The OSL on the monsters is quite nice! It's a great looking crew.

~Tim?

 Some_Call_Me_Tim? wrote:
You should use the "Macro" function next time you photograph some paintjobs. On most cameras it's the little flower-icon button. Also, short of investing in a nice lighting setup, you need to adjust the white balance on your camera towards blue. Right now, your pictures are very, very warm and yellowish. You might wanna consider saving your images as a PNG-24 file instead of JPEG - JPEG files are really compressed, and most photo uploading services compress images when you upload them. Those two layers of compression leave images really blurry and out-of-focus. Even the best photograph can be killed by that. Photography is very tricky and fiddly, but there are some shortcuts like the ones above that will grant you much better results with very little effort.

Anyways, I love the painting you have going on here. The OSL on the monsters is quite nice! It's a great looking crew.

~Tim?

I knew the white balance was an issue, but I've never really fiddled with it before, and I wasn't happy with how GIMP's Auto White-Balance function ended up. As far as Macro goes, I believe these were all set to Macro, but I could be wrong... the thing that killed my pics was the JPEG, but my camera only outputs JPEG, and there's not a custom firmware for it, yet (it's a new Cannon point-and-shoot from last Christmas... I keep waiting for someone to hack it, because I REALLY want time-lapse).

So, in short, I'm totally aware I need to work on my photography. :p

Well, GIMP should give you an option to save your images as PNG files. I always shoot in JPEG and then convert the images to PNG in Photoshop.

~Tim?