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Title: Looking for Pirate miniature photos for my Standee collection!
Post by: Cherno on June 21, 2012, 06:20:53 PM
As the thread title says, my Standee Collection (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=40650.0) needs to grow, and my next project shall be Pirates!

So what I'm looking for are nicely painted 28mm+ pirate miniatures and everything that is related, such as Navy sailors/soldiers, militia, Governors and their daughters ;) ,  ghost pirates and Cannibal natives :)

The miniatures have to be photographed in a specific way which I have outlined in the following thread:

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=43019.0

It's only a tiny amount of work to set it up like this, but I'm willing to pay 0.50 EUR for every miniature photographed in this manner :) So think of it as a way to get a third or quarter of the price of your miniature back just by taking two photos of it!


All Standees are for my personal use and will under no circumstances be distributed!
Of course, please allow me to post results here and there to show how the supplied photos are used :)

I'm especially interested in the complete Black Scorpion pirate range.

Please do write me a Personal Message or post in this thread if you want to help out and earn a little for your troubles, preferably with a picture of your miniatures so I can see if they fit into my project  8)
Title: Re: Looking for Pirate miniature photos for my Standee collection!
Post by: flags_of_war on June 21, 2012, 06:25:46 PM
Can you profit from pictures of other manufactures miniatures? Not sure how that would work.
Title: Re: Looking for Pirate miniature photos for my Standee collection!
Post by: Cherno on June 21, 2012, 06:33:24 PM
Well if someone sends me pictures for free I'm happy as well :)

I can't see anything wrong in paying someone a little bit for some photos.. After all, they are strictly for my personal Standees and won't be republished or anything like that :)
Title: Re: Looking for Pirate miniature photos for my Standee collection!
Post by: flags_of_war on June 21, 2012, 10:44:14 PM
Well if someone sends me pictures for free I'm happy as well :)

I can't see anything wrong in paying someone a little bit for some photos.. After all, they are strictly for my personal Standees and won't be republished or anything like that :)

Ah sorry mate i thought you were selling the standees. I wasn't sure how that would have worked.

 
Title: Re: Looking for Pirate miniature photos for my Standee collection!
Post by: Cherno on June 21, 2012, 11:01:52 PM
No problem, I was kinda wondering how I could make profit by collecting some pictures ;)
Title: Re: Looking for Pirate miniature photos for my Standee collection!
Post by: Elbows on June 22, 2012, 02:15:56 AM
Porn?   lol

Sadly, I do have all of the Black Scorpion pirate minis, but I'm not the best painter - particularly of resin mini's.  I have a few painted, but none worth pictures.  There was a guy on here though with a nice pirate set-up and his buddy had some excellently painted BS pirates.  Look around in the top few pirate threads.
Title: Re: Looking for Pirate miniature photos for my Standee collection!
Post by: Cherno on June 22, 2012, 10:17:57 AM
Thanks for the hint :)
Title: Re: Looking for Pirate miniature photos for my Standee collection!
Post by: Dr.Falkenhayn on June 22, 2012, 11:27:23 AM
i have some (30mm) Pirates to paint for a Comission,i should be able to take Photos within this Weekend  :)
Title: Re: Looking for Pirate miniature photos for my Standee collection!
Post by: Cherno on June 22, 2012, 12:27:46 PM
i have some (30mm) Pirates to paint for a Comission,i should be able to take Photos within this Weekend  :)

Cheers mate, I'd be great to see what you come up with :)
Title: Re: Looking for Pirate miniature photos for my Standee collection!
Post by: Heldrak on June 22, 2012, 01:26:48 PM
Sent you a pm.
Title: Re: Looking for Pirate miniature photos for my Standee collection!
Post by: Cherno on June 22, 2012, 01:46:09 PM
Thanks, message received =)
Title: Re: Looking for Pirate miniature photos for my Standee collection!
Post by: Dr.Falkenhayn on June 23, 2012, 01:43:02 PM
ok here`s my first try  :?

(http://i940.photobucket.com/albums/ad244/Falkenhayn/new005.jpg)
(http://i940.photobucket.com/albums/ad244/Falkenhayn/new006.jpg)

 a bit too dark i think,sorry cloudy Weather  ::)
Title: Re: Looking for Pirate miniature photos for my Standee collection!
Post by: Dr.Falkenhayn on June 23, 2012, 01:52:11 PM
and that one

(http://i940.photobucket.com/albums/ad244/Falkenhayn/new002-1.jpg)
(http://i940.photobucket.com/albums/ad244/Falkenhayn/new001-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Looking for Pirate miniature photos for my Standee collection!
Post by: Cherno on June 23, 2012, 02:41:42 PM
They are a little dark but the wether is unforgiving so what can you do ;)

With a little bit of photoshop help the image can be enhanced though.

Remember that at the size they are printed (28mm scale) those artifacts from the brightness enhancement won't be too visible.

Apart from that small issue those ar every nice photographs, the figures have exactly the right size for my template and the front and backsides match up perfectly. Great work and thank you very much! I hope you find time to do more of them :)

(http://www.abload.de/img/pirate_1srqp3.jpg)

(http://www.abload.de/img/pirate_2hnptd.jpg)

I hope no one minds me posting these, I just wanted to show how the end result would look like :)
Title: Re: Looking for Pirate miniature photos for my Standee collection!
Post by: Dr.Falkenhayn on June 23, 2012, 03:12:02 PM
wow this is so cool,second one is a bit grainy,however i will take some better Shots  :)
Title: Re: Looking for Pirate miniature photos for my Standee collection!
Post by: Cherno on June 23, 2012, 03:54:11 PM
Yes don't get me wrong but the dark skin is "problematic" in this case ;)

Wow that's so racist ;)
Title: Re: Looking for Pirate miniature photos for my Standee collection!
Post by: Cherno on June 30, 2012, 12:49:15 PM
Still looking :)
Title: Re: Looking for Pirate miniature photos for my Standee collection!
Post by: Cherno on July 01, 2012, 03:43:59 PM
Update: I now have the Black Scorpion Undead Pirates and British Soldiers, but what I severly lack as of now are:

- Pirates, Swashbucklers, Scurvy Rats... You name them! I just found out about the Foudnry pirate range, so I am interested in those too! :)
- Some Civilian / Colonist types like Governour & Daughter
- Natives, Cannibals, Voodoo priests...
Title: Re: Looking for Pirate miniature photos for my Standee collection!
Post by: Cherno on July 09, 2012, 02:38:33 PM
Doopdeedoo... I still wasn't able to procure any pirate images, so I'm still looking ;)

To all the people I sent a PM to, please consider helping me out if you can find the time ;)
Title: Re: Looking for Pirate miniature photos for my Standee collection!
Post by: Cherno on August 13, 2012, 01:13:03 AM
Still need pirate photos  8)


Watch this video of the greatest 80s cartoon series intro and then shoot some pictures for me! :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzAQu23t19A

TALLY HAWK!