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Author:  polarbird2 [ Sat Nov 27, 2010 9:45 pm ]
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ok, so heres some of the guys i recently started to paint :P

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sorry for the amount of pics, i got carried away with the camera :oops:

Author:  Cyndra the Grey [ Sat Nov 27, 2010 10:28 pm ]
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Wow they are amazing. the pics are a little dark but veiwable. How long did they take you?
Great highlighting as well. Keep up the good work.

Cyndra the Grey

Author:  polarbird2 [ Sat Nov 27, 2010 10:54 pm ]
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thank you :) yeah its either slightly dark or incredibly yellow :P i have a REALLY bad camera and cant find a decent place to take pictures :/ umm about a day altogether, but with all the brakes i had inbetween... about a few months or so :oops:

theres many more to come :P and Sauron aswell :) im gonna have to start painting him soon :-D

Author:  polarbird2 [ Thu Dec 02, 2010 11:31 am ]
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so, i have another 5 finished, but... can someone please give some tips on how to take decent pictures, ones that wouldnt turn out too dark or -in my case- yellow?

help is much appreciated

thanks :)

Author:  Drumstick [ Thu Dec 02, 2010 11:39 am ]
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polarbird2 wrote:
so, i have another 5 finished, but... can someone please give some tips on how to take decent pictures, ones that wouldnt turn out too dark or -in my case- yellow?

help is much appreciated

thanks :)


Best way is to have a blank background - like you have. Use the Macro setting on your camera with no flash. Make sure there is plenty light, could be the light your using. A fairly strong light will do the job, there's not much silver in the mini's your doing so it's easier (normaly it shines off)

Author:  polarbird2 [ Thu Dec 02, 2010 3:03 pm ]
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ok, ill give that a go :) so far i've been doing all that but i dont have a very strong light :oops: snd so all the picture were very dark :(

this time ill switch every single light i find and see what i can do with that 8)

Author:  hero of gondor [ Thu Dec 02, 2010 3:28 pm ]
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Great work very natural the pics are a little bit dark but they are sharp.

Keep it up

Author:  garmenhord [ Thu Dec 02, 2010 8:20 pm ]
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They look good :) , I am almost trough mine 3 to go :-D

Author:  polarbird2 [ Thu Dec 02, 2010 8:27 pm ]
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@garmenhord
cool :) hope to see some pics :D

Author:  Lord of Edoras [ Fri Dec 03, 2010 9:14 pm ]
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Very nice paint scheme on those Uruks! I like them a lot.

Author:  polarbird2 [ Sat Dec 25, 2010 8:43 pm ]
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could someone tell me how to paint wood? :oops:

just the colours need because every attempt turned out horrible and i dont want to muck up my current little project and as it involves quite a lot of wood i wouldn't want to ruin it :-D

any help would be greatly apperciated 8)

oh, and MERRY CHRISTMAS to everyone! :D

Author:  Elros of Numenor [ Tue Dec 28, 2010 5:10 am ]
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Depends what type of wood you want to portray. if it's oak, then you should start with a scorched brown base with not too many highlight stages. if it's birch, then you'd start a bit lighter, like maybe graveyard earth or something.

Or do you mean real wood?? if so then you'll want to abrade(sand) the wood a bit first. then to make sure it's fully covered, put more than one layer of paint on the wood.

That's all I know.

Author:  polarbird2 [ Mon Jan 03, 2011 11:56 pm ]
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to be honest i dont actually know what kind of wood i want
i've finished the piece i wanted but im too damn lazy to put up the pictures :oops: even though i finally got the camera i wanted to take pictures of my work :rofl: but ill be sure to put some up soon along with the rest of the stuff i've been working on recently

thanks for the tip though, next time im gonna paint wood i'll be sure to try different colours and see what i get :)

Author:  polarbird2 [ Wed Jan 05, 2011 5:36 pm ]
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well, thats the wood i painted, you cant see it VERY well but it looks kinda good when you look really closely at it :P

but thats what i had in mind anyway just to make it look 'good enough' ill post more pics of the building i've finished in a minute :D

Author:  garmenhord [ Wed Jan 05, 2011 5:39 pm ]
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It looks well for me :) Nice job.

Author:  polarbird2 [ Wed Jan 05, 2011 5:52 pm ]
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after a whole night work (didnt sleep at all :shock: ) i've finally finished 3 buildings :) once again, they're not really for lotr but for 40k but i havent worked on anything Middle Earth-related so i dont have anything else to show you :oops:

but i promise that my next project will be the proper theme, thats why i needed to know how to paint wood and the previous picture(should be 2 of them but i dont know what happened :( ) is part of the project, i should be finished fairly soon as i have done most of the work already, ill post the pics of that quite soon aswell :P

Author:  Cyndra the Grey [ Wed Jan 05, 2011 7:56 pm ]
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The wood looks great- well done. I love the 40k buildings (being a player myself) the wires and the corrugated iron/cardboard give it a nice touch as well. Is the main structure just foamboard?
What do you use for texturing as well if you don't mind me asking?
Great work again.

Cyndra the Grey

Author:  polarbird2 [ Wed Jan 05, 2011 8:42 pm ]
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thanks!
and yep :) its only foamboard i wouldnt mind trying to do the same with some thicker polystyrene to see if i could make them bigger :-D

and the texture on the walls is quite simple actually, i just mix some wheat flour, pva glue, plaster and water and apply a thin coat on the foamboard, after that you minght want to paint over it with watered down pva glue just to make it stronger

Author:  Elros of Numenor [ Fri Jan 07, 2011 11:06 am ]
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Good job! I can see it fine, the drybrushing shows up nicely. 8)

You're welcome for the tip. :)

Author:  Eaothen-the-brave [ Sat Jan 08, 2011 1:22 pm ]
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I like your Uruk-hai! The buildings look great too, keep up ;)

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