Fred's 2015 Painting Diary

[fred.]

The last few photos of this mega update

Imperial Lancers

Kallistra figures from a mix of packs - the horses on these figures had been painted a while, so getting the riders done was quite quick.

Imperial Guard

Warmaster figures - got these mostly done last night - fairly quick with a dry brush on the armour, paint the cloaks, then detailing on flesh and hair. Now need some highlights to finish them off.

[fred.]

Got the above chaps on to some bases, after a bit of highlighting to the cloaks, hammers and hair.

I've managed to free up 9 painting sticks, 7 by painting the stuff on them, and 2 by moving the few bits of Araby stuff off them into a bag - these were mainly figures from the command packs that are more suited to dioramas than units of troops.

Going to crack on with painting stuff to clear more sticks, rather than just spraying a load more stuff!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Nice work chap.

[Techno]

Hear, hear !! 
Cheers - Phil

[fred.]

Sorry, back to crappy phone photos under single direction lighting...



Got the lizardmen out of their box - 8 painting sticks - mostly base coated in colours. Finished the bases in brown - only 3 sticks I think needed doing. And did purple on the large lizard riders and the stegosaurus style dino.  

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Nice Fred!

[Techno]

Look forward to seeing those 'ready for the table', Forbes !
Cheers - Phil

[jchaos79]

Teutogen guard, I really like this reference!

Good work Fred.

Did kallistra fit well in height with GW or pendraken?

[fred.]

Kallistra - they are generally quite big!

You may know that Kallistra's original figures were designed to fit with the Pendraken Fantasy range - which is definitely more on the 12mm size, rather than Pendraken historicals which are more at the 10mm end of the size range.

But all 10mm figures are not made equal - for example GW WM Empire Knights are huge - and the Kallistra cavalry go well with them.

One of our group has a couple of Kallistra armies (Dogs of War and Dwarfs) and on the table they don't look out of place against GW or Pendraken figures.

[fred.]

Played around with taking photos a bit tonight





with some mixed results
Old stand of finished lizard riders - this has photoed quite well


but a group shot of the tribal lizard riders is still pretty dark


A MM dinosaur

This has come out fairly accurately

Most of the lizardmen are now pretty much painted. I'll give the newtmen a quick black wash, and might be able to get them based up tomorrow night. Then a few flyers and wizards to finish off.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Coolness

[Techno]

Great stuff, Forbes ! 

That's a bit odd, re the photo's.
The light source looks as though it's somehow more above and behind the figures, in that one.....Because of where the shadows are.

Cheers - Phil

[fred.]

Thanks chaps.

Phil, you are probably right about the light source. With my painting board on the desk it's hard to move stuff back far enough to get the light above and in front. I really need a second light source, but then that just gets in the way when I'm not taking photos.

That the single figure ones came out well, kind of shows the low tolerances on this - a few cm further forwards or back and the lighting suffers. I'm also surprised at how washed out the blue background is in the close up shots compared with the long shot ( which looks pretty accurate for colour).

[Fenton]

The Jay Adan you tube channel has lots of interesting tips for taking photos

[Techno]

It's a total swine if there's not enough room on the table !

YEARS ago, I used 3 table lamps (one each side at around 45 degrees to the subject(s) ) and a stronger light above, to knock out as much of the shading as possible) a colour correction filter, plus a tripod, because the exposures ended up being relatively lengthy.

That worked quite well....But I wouldn't have time (or room) to keep setting that up and then taking it down, nowadays.
I've got to have more of a play with the ring flash for the SLR.....That should give decent results and be pretty quick.

Cheers - Phil