Project Log: 10mm Pike and Shot Armies of the Late 1500s

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Very cool

[paulr]

        

[Steve J]

Brilliant work yet again!

[Techno 3]

Absolutely terrific !!

[fred.]

More great figures.

Regarding the macro lens - my experience with these is they aren't great for taking photos of figures - they don't have enough depth of field. They are designed for taking photos of things like coins that only have the slightest 3d.

Macro mode on the phone/camera (often a flower symbol) does tend to work well as they are intended for close-up work, rather than true macro (eg flowers!)

[hammurabi70]

Most impressive,  Is the flag of the Vlissingen Musketeers a flag of Vlissingen or of the Staten General?

[willphillips]

More great figures.

Regarding the macro lens - my experience with these is they aren't great for taking photos of figures - they don't have enough depth of field. They are designed for taking photos of things like coins that only have the slightest 3d.

Macro mode on the phone/camera (often a flower symbol) does tend to work well as they are intended for close-up work, rather than true macro (eg flowers!)

That's really helpful info - thank you! I feel very much out over my skis with mini photography.

[willphillips]

Most impressive,  Is the flag of the Vlissingen Musketeers a flag of Vlissingen or of the Staten General?

The flag on the label is a common variation of the "prinsenvlag" that was in use in the Dutch Revolt. I'm not sure it'd be quite accurate to call that particular variety the official flag of the States General.

I'm using it as wholly fanciful yet plausible army symbol for my mostly generic and fake Dutch States / rebel geuzen army that will be facing off against the Habsburg royalists.

[willphillips]

With great apologies to Leon, my order of pikemen from Warprinter's Theatrum Europeum came in today.



If I'm to have any luck keeping momentum going with this large battles wargame project, then frustratedly cussing my way through affixing separate pikes to tiny 10mm scale figures isn't the way forward.

I've found that's just not something I enjoy, and the cast-on pikes are too delicate to make that an option I'm interested in, either.

So while a solid 90% of this project is Pendraken figs, most all of the pikemen moving forward are probably going to be these guys.





https://www.instagram.com/p/C6ZPpW-RrOB/

[fred.]

Your photos of your figures look good.

You are presenting them enlarged - i.e. the figures on the photos are bigger than they are in real life - while this looks great, it will magnify any issues beyond what is seen normally. 

Given the number of pixels most cameras capture vs the small size needed for use on the web, you can easily take a photo of figures that only half fills the frame, then crop this to show what is needed. You may already be doing this, as in your photos the figures always fill the image, which suggests some cropping.