| Eric Noe | 09 Nov 2009 2:46 a.m. PST |
Good morning to you all.
Here are a few pictures of my last production, cuirassiers charging "sabre au clair".
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picture Here they are seen charging alongside the command group.
picture The british trooper is from the box of new plastic cuirassiers/carabiniers. |
| Whatisitgood4atwork | 09 Nov 2009 2:58 a.m. PST |
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| de Maistre | 09 Nov 2009 3:05 a.m. PST |
Beautiful work, I really like the contrast brought by the flowers on the base. |
| John de Terre Neuve | 09 Nov 2009 5:11 a.m. PST |
They are very nice. Great job. John |
| wrgmr1 | 09 Nov 2009 10:15 a.m. PST |
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| Royalmunsterfusiliers | 09 Nov 2009 1:02 p.m. PST |
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| Greg B | 09 Nov 2009 3:21 p.m. PST |
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| Russian Bear | 09 Nov 2009 5:16 p.m. PST |
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| Arkoudaki | 09 Nov 2009 8:31 p.m. PST |
Great work Eric. Now I have to get working on mine… |
| DeanMoto | 09 Nov 2009 8:52 p.m. PST |
Excellent – everything from tip of sword to flora on the base. |
Chortle  | 10 Nov 2009 12:35 a.m. PST |
Really nice. You have a problem with the colour in your photographs. It seems that the white balance is off. It could be that you are using flash but have white balance set for room lighting or outside lighting (or the reverse.) Ideally you want to make a light box. You can google up many designs. With a light box you close off all light but controlled sources and then set your camera to expect this single type of light. Typically you use a couple of cheap "daylight" table lamps crossing onto the subject to kill shadow. Cheers Neil |
| uruk hai | 10 Nov 2009 3:37 a.m. PST |
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| Eric Noe | 10 Nov 2009 6:13 a.m. PST |
@Chortle
Thanks for the advice. The sky was overcast when I took the pictures, so I used a lamp to increase what daylight there was, but the result is rather disapointing. I had to artificially increase brightness and contrast on the pictures, but it does not work on all computer screens: on some the image is darker, on others there seems to be too much background light.
I don't know how to correct this, so if you have any suggestions, I'll be happy to hear them. |
| grecian1959 | 10 Nov 2009 4:00 p.m. PST |
Eric class brushwork i also like your basing -where did you get the floral decoration looks really good with the figures
cheers peter |
| Eric Noe | 12 Nov 2009 3:09 a.m. PST |
@Peter/Grecian1959
The grass tufts -with and without flowers- are made for railroad modelling by Noch. Each pack contains about 100 of them, and flowers come in three colors – red, yellow and white. They are available from many modelling shops. I got mine from Antenociti's workshop. |
| Enzedmaster | 12 Nov 2009 5:07 a.m. PST |
New to the forums, been a long time lurker. Your bases are absolutely stunning. Would you be so kind as to write a list of exactly what materials you used? They are really good looking and I would like to try do the same for my Perry french naps. |
| Eric Noe | 12 Nov 2009 5:46 a.m. PST |
@Enzedmaster
Well, the bases were made of plastic strips (25mm x 50mm) with a thin magnetic "sole" glued underneath.
The "earth" was made with two layers of a mix of very fine and coarse sand sprinkled over white glue. I added a few small pebbles here and there to represent larger stones.
This was drowned in a brown wash containing more white glue.
When it was dry, I drybrushed the base with two colors : light sand and stone (both from Prince August) to give different highlights.
Then I painted the sides of the bases in very dark blue and gave them two coatings of gloss varnish.
I then placed the grass tufts, and finally added spots of short static grass and green flock (from Games Workshop).
Lastly I added some stalks that I had bought some time ago at a convention… I think they were made in China. Eric |
| Enzedmaster | 12 Nov 2009 11:20 a.m. PST |
Thank you! So you can't remember where you picked up those slendy green looking plant stalks? I managed to find the noch flower tufts. link the flower ones right? |
| trailape | 12 Nov 2009 7:48 p.m. PST |
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| Eric Noe | 13 Nov 2009 3:14 a.m. PST |
@Enzedmaster
Yes, you've got the right link.
The other plants came from there:
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The site is in french, and I think the company operates from France – I bought their products at a convention near Paris. I believe they deliver abroad, though. They have a whole lot of different trees and shrubs and grasses. |
| Joe Dever | 13 Nov 2009 7:16 a.m. PST |
Hi Eric, thanks for posting these, they are very nice. Regards your comments about the difficulty you had photographing these figures, you may find this (free) colour correction software very useful: tucows.com/preview/404582 I hope you don't mind, but I ran your pictures through its auto-correction process. Here are the results: picture picture picture picture Photo tip: when using a lamp to add extra light, make sure you use daylight bulb(s) with a LUX rating of 5000. Regular lamp bulbs tend to be too warm (i.e. they have a lower LUX rating of 2800-3000 and cast a yellowish tint on the figures). |
| Eric Noe | 13 Nov 2009 9:26 a.m. PST |
Thanks Joe. That correction software is a nice tool, and easier to use than photoshop…
Problem is, I think the result is still too dark. To get brighter pictures I'm afraid I'd need to reshoot the minis with much better lighting – it's what I should have done in the first place. Eric |
| Rob UK | 13 Nov 2009 9:41 a.m. PST |
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| Mister Rab | 25 Nov 2009 1:57 p.m. PST |
Those are exquisite! (I might have to get some of those Noch flowers, too) |
