Blood Angels Army Project (pic carpet bombing)

[Meph]

I thought I'd take some quick photos as even just a few secondary colours already add so much character, dontchathink?

[Blackadder]

One thing I need to do is show my work on a professional background, how do you do that?

[40kGamer]

The tank looks ace mate! I'm starting to get motivated!

[Meph]

Well, I got me one of these and use the black background:
[URL]http://www.lightcase.co.uk/[/URL]

It's basically rather thick black, flexible plastic that has a fine pitted texture to it. The Lightcase is such that you stick in the background into some lips and it bends gently in the lower back corner so you don't have a crease or fold.
I also stuck a white A4 sheet in 'landscape' to the top of the large opening to block off more direct light and photograph through the lower half.

The whole lightbox is from the semi-transparent matte plastic which diffuses most light nicely, but since I'm using two LED lamps with a 4K colour wamth (almost daylight), I use the extra transparent- and white background as extra covers for the sides to remove any glare as much as possible. I also take the photos somewhat under-exposed so there are no other bright glares on the model. For the WIP pics I just use any combination of auto-contrast, auto-colour, and auto-tone to adjust the photo back up to realistic lighting. Sometimes I have to do all three, sometimes just one or two, depending on the actual lighting conditions.

I think for your work you'll have to look around for something larger. I have seen A3 backgrounds out there, either with a cloudy airbrush-like background, some flat colour.

Quickie google search: [URL]http://www.hangar18miniatures.com/hangar-18-miniatures-photo-backgrounds-bigger-and-better-in-a2-size/[/URL]

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The tank looks ace mate! I'm starting to get motivated!

Good! have at it! Muhahahaa

[Meph]

Wehey, Slow progress, but progress nontheless.
After finishing the secondary colours, I applied the decals, and took my time applying about 10 coats of micro-sol to blend 'm in real good. Since I only managed to put in a half-hour or an hour on most days, it went kinda slow.
I then sealed the model with Klear and added some chipping with a black-grey, a grey-brown, and gunmetal. I think I'll seal it again and give it it's oil wash.

[Blackadder]

Nice colouring and the 'wear' is spot on :groan:

[Darren Richardson]

she is really turning out to be a beauty, the black contrasting X really make this baby stand out from the crowd....

Keep up the excellent work!

[Meph]

Nice colouring and the 'wear' is spot on :groan:

Don't let the result fool you! I just dabbed on three colours with a piece of foam leftover from a miniature carrying case. And a few touch-ups with GW's small drybrush brush (because of its wild hairs) with gunmetal)
Seriously, grap a pice of cardboard, spray on any colour, give it a quick but dry drybrush. Take a pice fo sponge or foam, dab on some paint, like dark grey or a dark brown, rub it on some old newspaper until almost nothing is coming off, give ti some test-dabs, and try it out on the piece of cardboard.

she is really turning out to be a beauty, the black contrasting X really make this baby stand out from the crowd....
Keep up the excellent work!

Yeah, it really does strike the eye, doesn't it? it was definitely worth the headache of masking out that X.

[Haineko]

Ehrmahgerd, I'd love to get my models even a tenth as good looking as this! Absolutely LOVING the Metal Bawx, in all its "variants".
Anywhere that a newbie could get critique to improve? Like.. beginners section or something? I can see here that I need to up my skills -quite- a bit

[Darren Richardson]

Ehrmahgerd, I'd love to get my models even a tenth as good looking as this! Absolutely LOVING the Metal Bawx, in all its "variants".
Anywhere that a newbie could get critique to improve? Like.. beginners section or something? I can see here that I need to up my skills -quite- a bit

With talent like Mephs' we all do