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For years I thought about putting together a light box. After all, you can get good results from a few desk lamps and a box with holes cut out and some parchment paper to difuse the light. Never got around to making one. One year my not-yet-Ex got me a nice one from LimoStudios. Under $50, folds up nice, comes with 2 high output LEDS. Would solidly recommend it to everyone. Helped my photography immensely.

I’d also reccoment a basic photo editing tool like Photoscape X. Free, does things like cropping and white balance, and lets you make nice collages.

It’s made a huge difference in how I showcase minis.

I have finished my Sepulchral Guard. I tried putting texture into the cloaks for the first time, not too badly I think.

I'm running out of time but ehhhh worth doing my first freestyle decals for the 13th company using metallic media for the white with a slight blue tint.

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thechosen1 wrote:
Calling the quick and dirty job almost done. I gotta bulid a lightbox. The photo looks terrible. Just some more touch ups to go.

Nice camo work!
Ye, lightbox is a must. although I ran int a problem of black stripe lines from the led lights, something frequency something picked up by phone camera.
lucky I had old canon rebel laying around, and none white background helps too!

If I understood that correctly, I think it should help if you change ISO and shutter speed when taking the photo. I get the black stripes when either of those are too high.

Not really had chance to follow progress here (but some great looking minis from what I've just quickly looked at), or post my own until now, but here are a few pics. Pretty close to done now.

Absolutely stunning work so far! Good job everyone and good luck for finishing all your entries!

Calling my entry finished now. Leaving for a trip the day after tomorrow, so don't have much time to touch it up anyway.

Went with muted colors, that fit the color scheme with the rest of my army.
I decided against doing OSL for the muzzle effect nor any other fancy techniques, as I had only a week or so to build and paint this entry.
There are some tracks amidst the frozen mud I did using the wheels from the turret carriage, but they are not very visible as there's so much stuff in the base


Death Korps of Krieg Autocannon team. (Full size image in the gallery).

Terrific job on that autocannon team, Ezki.

Awesome work on that gunner team, really tells a story just in the base details, let alone the great paintjob.

Going similarly Kriegy for my entry this month with this DKoK bust I 3d printed . Needed alot of cleanup (even more after the proof pic highlighted some supports I missed) but I've made a start on it tonight and it's coming along very nicely now. Messy Oldmarine for scale, it's around 70mm tall to the top of the helmet .

Late this month, going for an objective. It will be adapted to make it look less generic.

@paradigm I've had the file for that bust for a while; I must have made half a dozen different slices and still not convinced I'd get a clean print on it. Did you do it all in one piece, or helmet and plinth separate?

Also, hope the eyesight is improving.

One piece print for the torso and head, not sold on the plinth file it comes with so I may find something else to eventually mount it on..Took around 10 hours at 0.12 layer height on an Ender 3, and there was a ton of cleanup in terms of supports, but underneath it's nice and clean, no malformed or broken parts.,

Won't clog this thread with printer talk, but if you want I can PM you with a full breakdown of the settings I used for it.


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Still very much WIP, but i'm already really pleased with this. Got to smooth out the e blends a bit, but the texture work is definitely the focus and I think I'm on the right track,




A shot in the dark, but does anyone have any of the Forge World Krieg books to hand? Google is drawing a blank on my attempts to find the right rank/unit insignia for the Korps, so if anyone can shed some light on that, it'd be a big help.

Thanks for the kind words Pariah Press and Para!

That Krieg bust is amazing! Coming along really well too.

Only have the index book, so no insignia there I'm afraid.

Lots of great entries, I finally decided that I will enter my Seraphim, that are already painted for about a week Here's the proof from the beginning of the month and will take some glamour shots later.

Subject Poll for next month:
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/790371.page#10878584

Finished my zombies. As always feedback is very much welcome and appreciated.

Love those zombies. The blood from the gaping leg wound on the first one is spot on. Great stuff!

I think mine are finished. Just need to snap some photos later.

Cheers Whittlesey

I now can't decide which 5 of the 40+ guard I've painted this month get photographed for this. Does a weapons team count as 1 model because it is 1 base, or 2 because there are 2 figures on it?

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I now can't decide which 5 of the 40+ guard I've painted this month get photographed for this. Does a weapons team count as 1 model because it is 1 base, or 2 because there are 2 figures on it?

Well, I think a base of rippers or scarabs would be considered one model, and guard are just a step above that. Sounds fine to me.

Just realized I took the pictures, but didn't put them up

Here's a Seraphim squad, ready to strike down from the heavens to grab secure that objective and turn the tide of battle.

I started off doing some infantry for this month's Obsec challenge, but changed plans about 3 days ago when I designed/printed some missile launchers for my Tallarn. to make it up to the 5, there are two mortar teams as well

I managed to complete four Regult Tactical Battlepods before the deadline. Two more to go before I'm ready for my first game of Robotech RPG Tactics.





Trying out the new gray backdrop. Maybe I'll open my aperture a tad more next time.

Damn! those look good!

Love how the desert guard are part of the environment!

and the battle pods looking great!
wait, what scale are those? are those comparable with the dropzone 10mm?

Fraid I'm not going to make it before the deadline. Lack of motivation throughout the month, plus the arrival of a certain new box set kind of kept me out of the painting zone.

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Damn! those look good!

Love how the desert guard are part of the environment!

and the battle pods looking great!
wait, what scale are those? are those comparable with the dropzone 10mm?

Thanks! The battlepods are 6mm scale.

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Thanks! The battlepods are 6mm scale.

Whaaaaa that is tiny! respect!
I just got interested in the dropzone recently, and was checking out their armies.
So the pods are huge, but at 6mm, so next to the dropzone vehicles they would look quite comparable.

Never owned anything smaller than historical 72nds though.

See, that’s where you need to put something in for scale, because it takes a pretty good paint job to a jaw dropping “how did you do that?!”

Unfortunately my month has been a bit hectic since starting a new job, but I made a committment to entering every month this year. So I'll be doing up these little token objectives as an entry. Emperor forgive.

Final pictures;

Mine is done. Expect photos tonight or tomorrow.