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Armor/AFV: Braille Scale
1/72 and 1/76 Scale Armor and AFVs.
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DaGreatQueeg
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Posted: Monday, March 23, 2009 - 11:55 AM UTC
Hi All,

Entered these in the Big Cats campaign. Had a big commission job on with these included and so the timing for the campaign was super ...... Also chucked in a pic of the completed commission.

cheers
Brent

















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Posted: Monday, March 23, 2009 - 02:25 PM UTC
Hi Brent,

I see you've created yourself something on an army there!

Excellent work at such a small scale -- I've seen (and made!) less realistic 1/35th scale models. Thanks for sharing

Cheers,
Ian
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Posted: Monday, March 23, 2009 - 02:43 PM UTC
Amazing!
tread_geek
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Posted: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 - 03:23 AM UTC
Very inspiring Brent. Your first photo of the series is amazingly nearing that of a picture of the real thing!!!

Cheers,
Jan
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Posted: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 - 04:22 AM UTC
great work, I love your panzer division What I would like t know is how do you take your pictures. They are incredible. What kind of light, background, a light tent???

thanks
spit
DaGreatQueeg
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Posted: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - 01:05 PM UTC

Quoted Text

great work, I love your panzer division What I would like t know is how do you take your pictures. They are incredible. What kind of light, background, a light tent???

thanks
spit



Hi matey,

Its all pretty simple really, a sheet of card, white paper and one, occaisionally 2 lights. I prefer fluros as its easier to colour correct if required. The plan this year is to set up something a bit more permanent and with three lights so I can just take the model for the bench and put it straight under to get better SBS pics ........

cheers
Brent



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Posted: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - 01:48 PM UTC
Is it me or does 334 have a droopy barrel?

INCREDIBLE models and excellent pictures!!

What is the "tall grass"?
sabredog
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Posted: Thursday, March 26, 2009 - 12:14 AM UTC
Magnificent as always!

Cheers

Mike
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Posted: Thursday, March 26, 2009 - 12:28 AM UTC
I'll keep it simple...

WOW
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Posted: Thursday, March 26, 2009 - 06:15 AM UTC
Nice to see some of your work Brent, it's been a while. Fatastic as always.
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Posted: Friday, March 27, 2009 - 06:49 PM UTC
Brent,

I have got to build me one of these small scale armies for myself. Just way to awsome!!! Too AWSOME!!!

-Eddy
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Posted: Saturday, April 04, 2009 - 11:38 AM UTC

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Is it me or does 334 have a droopy barrel?

no, it's not just you i noticed that too. maybe it's just the camera?
toyz4boyz
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Posted: Saturday, April 04, 2009 - 05:59 PM UTC
In a few of the photos, tI think that there's a subtle amount of "curvature of field", which is par for the course with certain lenses, including some fast zooms and short focal length lenses.

The best way to avoid that is to use a longer focal length lens (Canon and Sigma have excellent macro lenses in the 90mm-100mm range), and set the camera farther back from the subject. Of course, your depth of field may be lessened, so some experimenting is in order.

There is 'de-curving' software available to remove the curvature too....but I have not ever used such software.

regards

Derek

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