[OT] I blame Agis

Nice job on the Kra'vak infantry!

-- Rick

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Since Agis insisted on demonstrating his considerable painting skills. It got
me in the mood to get painting myself and update my gallery pages.

I've put my dirtside miniatures on to the page, not much to look at but it's a
start. So if you want to view the other end of the painting spectrum then be
my guest.

http://www.germwarfare.co.uk/dsgallery.htm

> Jeremey Claridge wrote:

Don't be so hard on yourself! They're more than respectable. I love the 6mm
Kra'Vak infantry.

> > Since Agis insisted on demonstrating his considerable painting

Well they are good enough that I don't have to pay someone else to paint them
for me:) And in case anyone is interested the vehicles where painted with the
'spray paint through grooves cut in a piece of cardboard' trick.

I cannot paint cammo schemes to save my life!

From: "Jeremey Claridge" <jeremy.claridge@kcl.ac.uk>
> Since Agis insisted on demonstrating his considerable painting skills.

You can't view the low end of the painting-skills spectrum because I
haven't posted any pics.

Tell me about the spray-thru-slits method--how wide a slit?  How close
together can you put the slits?

Yeah, well, the Kra'vak and not-Starfuries look REALLY good, and the
rest have a nice, subtle quality that works very well.

So, I blame you both for my feelings of complete pigment inadequacy. *phfffft*

> Yeah, well, the Kra'vak and not-Starfuries look REALLY good, and the

I think my biggest triumph was managing to scan the fighters without
destroying them. Good job they were heavy fighters, standard ones would have
been destroyed by the weight of the scanner lid:)

Or at the least fallen off their respective cocktail sticks;)

> > Yeah, well, the Kra'vak and not-Starfuries look REALLY good, and the

Maybe you already know this (and used the lid for some other reason), but
everytime I scanned miniatures... I left the lid up and grabbed either a black
or white cloth and draped it over them. Seemed to work fine.

Delurk!!!!!

Daryl said
> Maybe you already know this (and used the lid for some other reason),

Yeap i use the same method but find a dark brown cloth gives better effects
than black.. not sure why?? I support the figs with fingers to improve angles
etc. the cloth draping makes this possible.. for results look at
http://rt000rhc.eresmas.net/the1.htm

Wow - now that's a lot of fighters... !

They look extremely cool indeed. The huge variety of fighter classes seems
absolutely amazing to me, used to just fighters and heavy fighters... I must
try scratch-building a few... The rest of your site is great as well,
with fantastic conversions, I think it's brilliant!

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> Delurk!!!!!

if I wanted a dark background with mine, I just left the lid open and put
nothing on top of the figures. This usually worked pretty well. Sometimes the
results were strange, if striking:

http://www.geocities.com/johnxcrim/Graphics/NSLShip

..came out with a sort of maroon background for some reason.

G'day,

They look great Jeremey! One reason I went for Daleks is that they don't need
cammo;)

> You can also use a styrofoam or paper cup placed over top to protect

Great idea probably why I never thought of it.:)

Somewhere on my trawls around the web I found a page about making a simple
scanning box. In this case it was made from foamboard (expanded foam
sandwiched between thin card) but there's no reason why it couldn't be made
from card, wood or plastic.

The idea was to make a simple small box with one open side. The example was
about 5" tall x 3" wide x 2" deep with one of the larger sides open (it was
intended for 25mm figures). The model to be scanned is attached
to one side of the box with silly putty, blu-tak, whatever, and the box
is placed on the scanner glass, open side down. This means that the model is
suspended parallel to the glass rather than leaning against it at an odd
angle, and it also has a background. The box can be painted whatever colour
you like (pale blue is a good choice).

I can't find the original page anymore (searching for "miniatures" and
"scanner" produces waaay too many results) so I hope the above description is
enough

Tony

> Germ Work wrote:

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> Just for the record, I am back on this list after a long hiatus. . .I

Beth was talking about that--what, 18 months ago?  Quite a while.
You've got a lot a time in the Archives ahead of you if you want to catch up
:-)