Photography

This is a call out to the readers.

I would like to start putting up more photos of WIPs and do some hobby articles concept to finish. BUT I need to take some quality pictures for that.

I have trouble getting good results though when trying to get pictures of my minis. They never look as good as they do to the naked eye and glare occurs. Stuff like that.

SO if you have any suggestions or tips please leave a comment. Any pointers would be helpfull.

In the mean time, here is some of my photography work, albiet unrelated to 40k.

Port Call 2: Pictures

Here are some old photo's of my fleet. Not everything I listed is in it yet and they are not very good images. The second picture is the Terra Class Battleship Jutland (the first Terra to exist as far as I know).

The Terra was made from a Retirbution Class Hull. I added the old Master of the Ravenwing pit to the prow after cutting off the eagle. As well I took the bridge off the Retirbution's superstructure and put on a plastic chaos cruiser bridge. To make it a Terra Class, you just do 2 WB sets and one lance set.

The colour scheme is an attempt to look older and worn, with the blue and white markings being the newest paint jobs, the rest of the ship being rather bare. They started out as just the reddish look with the white and blue, but one day I spilled my boltgun metal, so instead of letting it go to waste I put it on my fleet at the time (6 cruisers and a Battleship) and it looked decent enough that I stuck with it. All were painted when drybrushing was the thing to do rather than highlighting or layering.

Port Call

So in themed with my last post a few minutes ago, I thought I'd let you know about one of my forces I have (and my most complete at the moment).

Battleships:
Emperor Class Conqueror (Converted from Ret. Class)
Retribution Class Champion of Order
Terra Class Jutland (Converted from Ret. Class, I did the original concept submition)
Invincible Class Count Moriathas (Converted from 2 plastic cruisers and 1 dauntless)

Non IN cruisers:
Punisher Strike Cruiser Audacious (Converted from dauntless and plastic cruiser along with Invincible battleship, maybe I will do 1 more of each with a hobby article)
Blood Angels Strike Cruiser Crour Angelus

Imperial Cruisers:
Lunar Class Retribution
Lunar Class Lord Daros (NC variant)
Gothic Class Relentless
Gothic Class Usurper
Dictator Class Uragal Hammer
Dictator Class Archduke Tymalt
Tyrant Class Zealous (45 cm WB)
Tyrant Class Dominion (45 cm WB)
Dominator Class Jade Dynasty

Battlecruisers:
Mars Class Imperious (Lft Col Shift)
Armageddon Class Gethsemane
Overlord Class Cypra Probati

Escorts:
Red Squadron Firestorms; Hannibal, Marauder, Prophet
Anvil Squadron Firestorms; Leviathan, Kraken, Behemoth
Alpha Squadron Firestorms; Cardinal Domingo, Constellation, Renown
Bronze Squadron Falcions; Nunc Agh Semper, Governor Hiatious, Ebon Hawk
White Squadron Falcions; Vossian Pride, Graf Spee, Miracle
Zulu Squadron Falcions; Hatchet, Hindenburg, Incandescent 
Saber Squadron Swords; Macedon, Boeotia, Thermopylae
Viper Squadron Cobras; Count Malaflour, Martyr, Revelation
Escort Carrier Squadron; Ticonderoga, Wasp, Oriskany

So this is based off Battlefleet Armageddon. My personal name for my fleet is Battlefleet Divinity.

Pictures will appear later.

Hobby: What I am up to

POLL RELATED POST:

So I thought I'd let you guys know what I am working on between school work and actually playing:

Aeronautica Imperialis
Unpainted: 1 & ½ thunderbolts, 2 Vultures

Battlefleet Gothic:
Unpainted: 6 falcions, 3 firestorms, 1 & ½ escort carriers

Blood Bowl:
Unpainted: 3 ogres built and primed
Unprimed: 1 ogre built
Required: 1 ogre, Snotlings (guardsmen double for them right now)

40K:
Armoured Company:
Unpainted: Baneblade, Vanquisher, Conqueror, Battletank
Unbuilt: Marcharius Vanquisher
Uncompleted: 2 Conqueror, 1 Vanquisher, 3 Demolishers, 2 Battletanks
Needed to be stripped and repainted: Thunderbolt Flyer

Blood Angels: These guys were stripped last fall to be completely redone
Unpainted: 59 marines, 5 Terminators, 1 Furioso Dreadnought
To be touched up: Librarian, Rhino, Moriar the Chosen, 1 Baal Predator
To be repainted: 1 Assault Marine, 1 Rhino, 1 Vindicator, 1 Land Raider, 1 Landspeeder
Unbuilt: Terminator Captain conversion, 4 marine conversions (all from Marneus Calgar and Honour guard)

Imperial Guard
Unpainted: Chimera, Armageddon Pattern Basilisk, 51 Guardsmen (including stormtroopers and other metal models), 5 heavy weapon bases, 5 Grey Knight Terminators

Brettonians
Unpainted: 16 peasant bowmen, 4 defensive stakes, 2 damsels, 1 trebuchet and crew, 2 pegasus knights, 9 knights errant, 5 knights, 5 questing knights, 2 hero knights
To repaint: Lord on Hippogryph

Misc:
2 Orks, 1 Dwarf slayer

PROJECTS:
Knight Scratch Build
Blood Angels Revamp
Snotling conversions
Terminator Captain Conversion
Creed Commissar Conversion

So yeah, thats alot to do. Wish me luck.

WHERE WOULD YOU START? Poll over there --->

Aeronautica Imperialis 0 (0%)
Battlefleet Gothic 2 (11%)
Blood Bowl 2 (11%)
Armoured Company 1 (5%)
Blood Angels 4 (23%)
Imperial Guard 2 (11%)
Brettonians 0 (0%)
Painting anything 1 (5%)
Conversions 2 (11%)
Repainting 1 (5%)
Superheavies 2 (11%)
Touching up things 0 (0%)

Poll Results for archival purposes

This Poll had no home article

Which Imperial Guard regiment do you think is the coolest?

Cadian Shock Troops 2 (5%)

Catachan Jungle Fighters 2 (5%)

Death Korps of Krieg 11 (28%)

Elysian Drop Troops 5 (13%)

Savlar Chem Dogs 3 (7%)

Preatorian Guard 3 (7%)

Mordian Iron Guard 0 (0%)

Vostroyan First Born 2 (5%)

Tallarn Desert Raiders 2 (5%)

Valhallan Ice Warriors 2 (5%)

Armageddon Steel Legion 6 (15%)