[SR - MCRA] Mar '16 - The Other True Tale of the Sacking of Tarlo

[Gulagurag]

The cool, night breeze tickled Amara’s skin as she waited for the signal. The small town of Tarlo slept peacefully, blissfully unaware of the threat that floated in the harbor. The amazon scanned her crew and was satisfied with their state of readiness. Shirtless had the stern gun pointed and ready to commence bombardment. Vanessa sat in wait near the two main cannons. Patches stood on the bow, peering towards Meloche’s vessel, in eager anticipation of the signal being given.

The flash of lantern light cut across the bay and let the Athena’s Grace know it was time to fire the first salvo.

The cannon’s roar echoed across the bay like a thunder clap. Quickly, the crew reloaded and continued firing while Meloche and his crew closed the distance to what would remain of the town. It took less than fifteen minutes before Tarlo was ablaze and defenseless.

“Make for the rendez vous point shirtless” Amara ordered and the crew sped off to carry through with the new orders.

An hour later, Meloche and Amara stood on the hill overlooking the devastation they had caused.

“A good night’s work captain.” Amara complimented.

[TitusV]

I like the fact there are two true tales about what happened!

Nice build, I like the last image

[Ayrlego]

Some nice forced perspective here. As I said in Kwatchi's thread I love how you guys are acting like real pirates - it makes for a great story!

[blackdeathgr]

Nice photos and a great microbuild!

[dr_spock]

Good story telling and shots.

[BrickOn]

Great micro build, I like the burning town and the two-toned wet-dry tiles for the beach look fab. A good month for a Searat ;-)

[Gideon]

Excellent micro build! The last picture also has a great feeling to it

For the forced perspective shots I have two suggestions for improvements: First, it would be nice if the burning town was visible to the side of the figures. Secondly, if the background is blurrier so the studs are not as visible it does a lot to the forced perspective illusion. (Best way is to do it already when taking the picture using a large aperture and/or as long focal length as possible but otherwise it can be done in post-processing as well...but that is much harder to make it look natural)