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Keep calm and post more pictures.

If you really want to make a difference, take two sheets of office paper (because of transparency), slightly bend them to make floor and back wall and take pictures with minis on them. That is my personal trick for photo booth.

Spoiler: At your own risk

And sometimes, when I feel particularly adventurous, I roll couple of balls of poster putty to keep that paper in place, but that is more advanced.

 

Part of the problem is that the lighting in my home is... less than ideal. Though thankfully not as bad as last week when my lightbulb decided to tell me it wanted replacing by trying to give me a seizure (no joke, I was lucky I'm not epileptic). But even with the bulb changed, there is no way to get good lighting, and you can tell which pictures I resorted to using the flash just to get something that you could see...

Still, I'll work on that. At some point.

 

Next on the agenda that isn't more redcoats... Pretty sure @JTSleep would like to see this chap done.


You can't kill the Messiah! But you can colour him. The question that comes is how to paint him... all blacks isn't visually interesting, even if that would be closest to his on-screen appearance. Purples for the trim perhaps? (He did have purple in his chaplain outfit in Wrath of Kane), or Red to go with the ol' Nod colour scheme (which would match his C&C Renegade outfit), but then I'll be using red for that patch on his right arm... Green for that belt buckle definitely.

Choices choices.

If anybody is interested, this figure came from Anvil Industry. Alternate head was Yuri from C&C Red Alert 2.

 

You are not wrong here

 

Kane lives!

Picture annoyingly doesn't capture my Tiberium crystals very well, though they are still noticeable. Also gad dangit, I swear taking pictures always mucks up the colouring. The hands look more grey than they actually are. The belt buckle isn't looking as green as it is. I swear, he looks better in person!

 

Great job! I am more concerned about him smiling than grey hands.

As for lighting of picture, I once saw great tip that I use.
One light from above (Lamp) and one light from same aide you are taking picture (I simply turn on LED on my phone instead of flash). Works wonders.

 

My phone has an irritating "feature" in that it doesn't let the LED be on while in camera mode. It's flash or nothing. Do plan to get a lamp at some point, so I'll put that higher on the list of things I need to do/get/sort.

That is a smile to fill you with dread.

 

My New Age Viking dude-man-dude.



You know what the absolute worst part about taking pictures of my work is? It isn't the lighting and picture quality that I do so like to complain about... it's now certain imperfections and mould-lines only become visible after a picture is taken. I swear I can stare at the model for literal hours and find nothing. I can paint them, still find nothing. Then the moment I take a picture, BOOM, mould-lines and sprue-scarring. Like they are tumours that emerged only because I took that picture. >:-(

 

Joint the club, brother. We have cookies. They are in jar somewhere, unless AA's eaten them all, we share members.

 

Miscellaneous sci-fi rpg model. This one is another of those "throw random bits together" projects I did a few years back. Turian head bought from the Shapeways, Cadian torso, Catachan legs, ISB agent (Star Wars Imperial Assault) arms