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Miniatures Adventure => Medieval Adventures => Topic started by: Jeff965 on June 05, 2013, 08:14:11 PM
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Well this is my first attempt at creating a topic with photographs, but with a new camera i no longer have an excuse. What you suddenly realize when putting your photos up here is that it shows every blemish on the figure and basing. This just makes me appreciate even more the excellent work by other contributors.
So this is my Warlord who I've yet to name (open to suggestions here), I put him on another thread but I was concerned about using other peoples threads and so I have started my own. I will put up some of his followers once I've worked out how to lower the attachment size so that it comes under the 1500kb limit, any suggestions ?
Jeff
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Great looking figure well done!
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Here he is with his mates, i managed to crop this photo to come within the limit any other suggestions, i warn you I'm an old duffer so not to hot with the puter!
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They look pretty fine to me!
If you're struggling to squeeze the photos under the attachment limit, may I suggest that you open an account with one of the free picture hosting sites (I use ImageShack, but there are loads out there). Then you can upload your photos to that site and use the insert image function to make the larger image file visible.
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Thank you Mister Anderson for your kind comment, and thank you Mister Rab I'll give it a go.
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Fine looking figures,a real hard looking bunch,wouldn't want to tangle with them,it's a case of "do you want a hand loading the women and livestock onto the boat or can you manage ok ?thanks for raiding,please come again".
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Ooooh!
They are rather lovely indeed!
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As for the camera showing up blemishes.....Tosh!
Nothing wrong with them.
I only wish my figures could stand that kind of magnification.
Now, of course, we shall have to demand MORE!
:D
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Lovely stuff, grea brushwork ;D
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Lovely stuff.
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They look good.
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Good Stuff!
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Wicked !! 8) 8)
oh Jeff you got me aah struck again
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Very nice
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Very nice, very colourful. Like your metalwork, those axeheads have a real shine to them.
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Thanks very much guys the comments are appreciated, painting Darkest Africa stuff at the moment but when I do my next Saga point I'll resume the thread.
Jeff
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they look great, would love to put my Normans up against them. What are you planing to play them as?
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Most Excellent Figures!! If you are still thinking about a name for your Warlord you could do worse than read "The Longships" by Frans G. Bengtsson. It has a host of viking names including the protaganist Red Orme named after the colour of his hair and later his temper!!. Other favourites of mine include Styrborn the Strong and Harald Bluetooth and Harald Blackhair.
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Thank you Hu RHu, Orm seems very popular as a name as its the name of the hero in a recent book I read called "The Whale Road". I will have to look at the book you mention before deciding.
Racm, thank you for your kind comment, they are Jomsvikings and they have their own battle board in one of the Saga army books.
Jeff
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My favourite norse name has to be Ragnar Hairy Breeks and among his sons is my second favourite - Ivar the Boneless.
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A great-looking bunch, these.
Actually, this thread (particularly the bit about names) has stirred a half-remembered recollection, and maybe the lovely folks here at LAF could help me to jump-start my brain. I remember reading a book about thirty years ago when I was a young lad. It was about a viking voyage, in a ship called the Nameless. It started with a father and son waiting for someone to arrive at the edge of a forest. I remember trouble at the launching of the ship as the lord running the whole show refused a human sacrifice for the ship (but someone got their leg stuck on the slipway and it got blood in any case) I remember a big fellow called "Doorback", and a nithing with a knife, and at some point they collected a monk called John.
In the end they're all dead but the son, or so I think.
And that's about all I remember. Now it's nagging at me and I can't leave it alone; It'll drive me nuts first.
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I am really dredging the memory banks here as I read a book with those exact same incidents when I was very young (about 40 years ago). I think it was Henry Treece's "Viking Saga" - a three part tale (well, a saga I guess) of a young viking's life - Viking Dawn, The Road to Miklagard (sp.), Viking Sunset. Not sure if this is right but it may be a place to start your search? Now that has made me want to dig that series out of the library again and re-read it.
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Little Odo, you can buy it on amazon for a penny plus postage.
Jeff
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And it's great! I loved those as a kid :D
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That's it! That's the one!
So there was a trilogy, hm?
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Yup, they end up as part of the Varangian guard in Byzantium for a while, in the second book, but I don't remember the third very well.
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Little Odo, you can buy it on amazon for a penny plus postage.
Jeff
Thanks Jeff
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The second Saga point, another four elite warriors. I'm still thinking of a name for my Warlord probably going to go with something from HBO's new series. Anyway hope you like them, I've shown a back and front view this time and a shot of them all together so far.
Jeff
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Oooops and the one all together.
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Lovely new additions to the warband, Jeff.
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Seeing these makes me even more eager to start my own.
8)
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Excellent additions Jeff,easily up to the standard of your first bunch,keep up the good work,will look forward to the next batch.
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Went a bit mad with my camera and decided to upload photos of the individual figures.
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And some more !
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And the second lot !
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Still trying to learn to use the camera as you can probably see. I will keep at it and try and improve my photographs. Hope the close up on the painting shows the blood sweat and tears that went into painting these. I really enjoy these Musketeer sculpts. Not being much of an historian I don't know how correct these colours are, but I did read that we're not even sure if the Jomsvikings existed so who's to know. Please feel free to give me some constructive advice regarding photography and painting it is really the main reason I like coming here.
Jeff
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Right for some reason photobucket deleted my phots so i will try another way.
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Ok that worked lets try another
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Right can i upload two
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Great, now i,ve got the hang of that i just wanted to finish this thread off by showing that i did complete the other two points of my SAGA Jomsvikings warband,
Cheers Jeff
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Ok so I attempted to upload the above photos with photobucket and initially it worked. When I came back onto the thread to look at them, photobucket had deleted them. Has this happened to anyone else?
What I know about computers you could write on my thumbnail with a 3" wide crayon so it was probably my fault lol.
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Very good, great stuff. Thanks for sharing
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My pleasure NurgleHH.
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Nice Joms 8) 8)
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Absolutely stunning!!! Amazing looking figures!!! They look like they would be really awesome on the game table. Thanks for sharing!!!!
Regards,
Hitman
8)
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Nice additions to the earlier posts you made,love the stripey trousers,shields look good too are they all lbms transfers or are any freehand.
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Cool, like those.
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Thanks all, Romark all shields are LBMS ( except wooden ones).