Though I haven't been able to find a lot of time for minis, I have not been completely idle.
I've finished a gaggle of figures of various kinds.
54mm Stormtroopers, 28mm alien figures from the Heroscape game, and Greys Scientists from Reaper (28mm I suppose, it's hard to tell with aliens, since their aliens...).
The Heroscape aliens are actually very nice sculpts, they were just painted horribly. IMO, these are better. I went with metallic green for their metal, because they're alien.
28mm figures. Sci-fi figures of various manufacturers, Fantasy Goblin/Orc things from the Weapons and Warriors game, Thugs from Heroclix. Scratchbuilt droids. Console from some bag o' army men. ( I wish I could remember which one, because it's really nice.)
A couple of scratchbuilt droids for my sci-fi games. Probably for decorative terrain, but maybe objectives. The fork truck droid I actually have a use in mind, but the power droid was just fun to build.
These photos were taken in my new Photo Lightbox. Now this is very cool, and quite useful. I'm still trying it out, tweaking the light positions and settings, etc, but I'm already really liking it!
It's three sheets of foamcore from the dollar store, and parchment paper for diffusion, and poaster board as the background. The poster board isn't attached, so I can change it out if I
need/want to. I'll try a piece of black at some point.
It's as simple as it looks. Cut the board to the box size, then cut out the window. I just used the width of the ruler I was using which was 2" I think. The back piece is a solid piece, a left-over so it only goes 1/2 way down. The cover the windows with something that diffuses light. I used Parchment paper because we had some. Wax paper would probably work as well, and some Muslin Elona gave me would also work. I didn't want to iron that, so just used the paper.
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The poster board, cut to the right width, just sets inside.
My original version had a slot across the upper back. The idea was for the poster board to be inserted there, that way it would stay in place. Turns out that it stays in place just fine on its own.
Then it's just a matter of shining lights at it. You can use any sort of light, these work lights are just what I had available. Some kind of clip lights would also be fine.
My first version was much too large, there simply wasn't enough light to have any use.
This version is smaller. I would have to measure, but you might be able to use only two sheets if you wanted to save a $1.
This version is still pretty big, you could easily go much smaller.
It's an easy project, and it seems to be more than a little useful.
I've finished a gaggle of figures of various kinds.
The Heroscape aliens are actually very nice sculpts, they were just painted horribly. IMO, these are better. I went with metallic green for their metal, because they're alien.
These photos were taken in my new Photo Lightbox. Now this is very cool, and quite useful. I'm still trying it out, tweaking the light positions and settings, etc, but I'm already really liking it!It's three sheets of foamcore from the dollar store, and parchment paper for diffusion, and poaster board as the background. The poster board isn't attached, so I can change it out if I
need/want to. I'll try a piece of black at some point.
It's as simple as it looks. Cut the board to the box size, then cut out the window. I just used the width of the ruler I was using which was 2" I think. The back piece is a solid piece, a left-over so it only goes 1/2 way down. The cover the windows with something that diffuses light. I used Parchment paper because we had some. Wax paper would probably work as well, and some Muslin Elona gave me would also work. I didn't want to iron that, so just used the paper.
.
My original version had a slot across the upper back. The idea was for the poster board to be inserted there, that way it would stay in place. Turns out that it stays in place just fine on its own.
Then it's just a matter of shining lights at it. You can use any sort of light, these work lights are just what I had available. Some kind of clip lights would also be fine.
My first version was much too large, there simply wasn't enough light to have any use.
This version is smaller. I would have to measure, but you might be able to use only two sheets if you wanted to save a $1.
This version is still pretty big, you could easily go much smaller.
It's an easy project, and it seems to be more than a little useful.
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