Monday, September 15, 2014

Please Don't Feed the Animals: Blindwater

I got some time to play with taking better pictures. I stress the word "better" and for you to realize I didn't say anything along the lines of great or even good pictures. I decided to use some of my Blindwater models (that some of you may recognize from the last couple years of Templecon) as the Guinea pigs. My color scheme is based off of Rust Dragons from Dungeons & Dragons.




When I received Rask his legs were a little bent and when I straightened them, his right leg snapped at the ankle. This was depressing but I made lemonade out of shit and gave him this sweet Captain Morgan-esque pose. His coloring and the coloring of my other bog trogs is actually that of common carp.



My Swamp Horror is actually still in the scheme except for one color, which is the orange if you didn't notice.


It may be hard to notice, but on the Swamp Horror and Spitter's bases I did a water effect. Its actually only gloss varnish. I left the spots I wanted to have water dark and blended in some of the gray I used on the rest of the base to paint in a "shore." I just put a couple of coats of gloss over this until I was convinced it might be water.



The Blackhide Wrastler is one of my favorite models in the game. Unfortunately, it is by far one of the hardest models to photograph and maintain its coolness factor. People always say "Jazz Hands," but I always think it looks more like he is tripping. Anyways...




These are actually two different snappers; I own four. I find myself taking three as my battlegroup to jam in three posses wherever I can. Hopefully things change a little more come Exigence.

After seeing how these came out I realize my errors. Using daylight bulbs is pretty important it seems. I used two quartz lights here and the end result is too yellow. My endless paper should look white but it in no way does. I'll retake but I hope you at least enjoy these. It looks like its back to the drawing board for now.

3 comments:

  1. I'm going to retake these pictures. I bought some new goodies from home depot and intend to put them to use!

    ReplyDelete
  2. How does an electrician fuck up the lighting so badly?

    ReplyDelete
  3. My motto at work is "if the lights are on be happy; it beats the alternative," I use this when lamp colors don't match.

    ReplyDelete