[COR-FB] Standing For Portraits, Spudkirk

[evancelt]

Private Neville noticed Captain Hardy approaching the spot where he stood. Neville had been standing there for the past two hours while a local Spudkirk artist sketched his portrait.

"I say, old chap", the captain said to Neville, "You've found the best light in camp! Mind if I set up right here next to you for my portrait?".

The captain's portraitist began setting up his easel.

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OOC: Trying out some 8x8 round tiles as MOC bases. Also trying some partially-erased TLG red arms for use on infantry and officers.

[NOD]

It is a very great honor for Private Neville to stand next to Captain Hardy. I can see the happiness on his face.

[Garmadon]

Those little trees are so cute!  Excellent use of the circular plates too 

[LM71Blackbird]

I think the round base works out really well. Good to see the men getting themselves recorded in the history books!

Where did you get the hat for the Captain? I've seen it before but can't remember where I saw it. 

[Ross Fisher]

Love the fir trees. A bit of a duplo vibe, but still lovely. 

[Spud The Viking]

Super presentation, as others have said, the trees are a great design! I feel the circular bases would be cool for a tabletop version of BotBS.

You're a big fan of that eraser, which I can't decide is a good or bad thing 

It must be good, as it means more redcoats! 

[Jeff of Clubs]

Oh fun! Good call with the story.

[Kai NRG]

Fun little builds, really well photographed, and the round base works great!

[evancelt]

21 hours ago, NOD said:

It is a very great honor for Private Neville to stand next to Captain Hardy. I can see the happiness on his face.

19 hours ago, Garmadon said:

Those little trees are so cute!  Excellent use of the circular plates too 

Haha thanks. The tree designs are based off of Friends sets I got for my daughter

16 hours ago, LM71Blackbird said:

I think the round base works out really well. Good to see the men getting themselves recorded in the history books!

Where did you get the hat for the Captain? I've seen it before but can't remember where I saw it. 

The hats are custom pad-prints from Brick Guild. You might still be able to get some on their site. They are some fun diversity. I've tried drawing custom emblems on plain black bicorns and it hasn't looked very good.

11 hours ago, Ross Fisher said:

Love the fir trees. A bit of a duplo vibe, but still lovely. 

Haha yeah they are a little simplistic, but fun little trees

9 hours ago, Spud The Viking said:

Super presentation, as others have said, the trees are a great design! I feel the circular bases would be cool for a tabletop version of BotBS.

You're a big fan of that eraser, which I can't decide is a good or bad thing 

It must be good, as it means more redcoats! 

Thanks! Yes I think it's a good thing. I'm not going to use Vidiyo or Batman pieces in their original form often, so modifying them to be more useful is A-OK by me 

4 hours ago, Jeff of Clubs said:

Oh fun! Good call with the story.

Thanks! Seemed like a little silly thing to add a little color to our stopover point in Spudkirk

1 hour ago, Kai NRG said:

Fun little builds, really well photographed, and the round base works great!

Thanks @Kai NRG! I've been playing around with a new lightbox that @Ayrlego recommended. It helps a lot, though I'm still working out how to get the background completely white without washing out the white elements in the foreground (the backgrounds here are *almost* completely white )

Yeah those bases are fun. I have a black 8x8 round tile too that could be fun for a non-grass base. Will have to think of a use!

[LM71Blackbird]

1 hour ago, evancelt said:

The hats are custom pad-prints from Brick Guild. You might still be able to get some on their site. They are some fun diversity. I've tried drawing custom emblems on plain black bicorns and it hasn't looked very good.

Thanks! They are sold out, but I couldn't remember the website I saw them on for anything!

[Khorne]

These are great! I love the stylistic trees. They work really well in this clean context, but perhaps they'd look too kiddy for an actual "realistic" MOC? The bases are also really slick and work so well for presentation.

[Captain Braunsfeld]

You are the master of red coats!

[blackdeathgr]

You can easily incorporate those bases and figs in a board game!  Regarding photoshooting, I find the first pic almost "too white" compared to the other two that I find perfect.

[evancelt]

On 3/1/2022 at 3:09 PM, LM71Blackbird said:

Thanks! They are sold out, but I couldn't remember the website I saw them on for anything!

Matt (the owner of Brick Guild) is pretty responsive to making custom things. I bet if you ask him he'd print some up for you!

On 3/2/2022 at 10:09 AM, Khorne said:

These are great! I love the stylistic trees. They work really well in this clean context, but perhaps they'd look too kiddy for an actual "realistic" MOC? The bases are also really slick and work so well for presentation.

Thanks @Khorne! Hoping to try a few other new things with the round bases

On 3/5/2022 at 7:48 AM, Captain Braunsfeld said:

You are the master of red coats!

Haha thanks! I think @Ayrlego is the master of the redcoats. I do have a redcoattail post for you to check out though 

 

On 3/6/2022 at 1:02 AM, blackdeathgr said:

You can easily incorporate those bases and figs in a board game!  Regarding photoshooting, I find the first pic almost "too white" compared to the other two that I find perfect.

With the first picture it was a single shot at a higher exposure. With the second two pictures I took two photos in the same spot at different exposures and overlaid the darker foreground on the lighter background... while it took more editing work I agree the outcome of the individual shots is a little nicer.