I find the white background captures the darker colours better, and the black background brings out the light colours better.
I agree. There are pros and cons for each. With the white background I had to manually overexpose due to the way cameras auto-exposure works, and the colours are a bit more genuine. The back background makes colours more saturated (again due to camera sensor algorithms). The gun casing and barrels are not actually that blue on the model- they're supposed to be much more muted grey-blue glaze. Also black looks a lot more dusty. It's hard to wipe up all the dust specks. Either way, both types of background make my paint job look good
I forgot that I had finished Agnes Ferreira back in May, so here she is. I like her Defiance colour scheme and followed it. I did her rather quickly, so she's looking a little rough. My favourite part is her skin tone and the base, which I had a lot of fun painting. Spoiler: More views Now- the mighty Yan Huo with HRMC! What a great sculpt and an absolute pleasure to paint. I took some time to do some free hand, and attempted some battle damage on the armour. I think they turned out ok. I showed my wife and she said, why don't you just take your knife and hack at it a bit? Well, yeah I could, but then the damage would be permanent. Annoyingly, I put together the big cannon before checking the alignment on the back (which was not easy or obvious how it should be connected). It ended up not lined up with where the head is looking. Not obvious from the photos, but very obvious when viewed from certain angles around the front. Ah well.
That may be, but I like the look. The support legs on his back are up and he is solidly walking to a better fire position to lay down some hate!
I see your point! To me, the struts seem to be there just for balance- too thin to poke into the ground to support the legs. It's perfectly fine, just the OCD part of me wanting the cannon to line up with the head.
