Round 6 'Rally the City Watch!' vs. Six shooters

[Captain Blood]

[mikedemana]

Joe -- great effect with this photograph! I love the houses one behind the other. And your reds are luscious...especially the tunic on the mounted officer.

Overlord, another fine batch of Old West figs. Love the graybeard and the pose on young'un on the far right...

Mike Demana
www.firstcommandwargames.com
http://leadlegionaries.blogspot.com/

[Admiral Benbow]

Very nicely painted and staged Six Shooters in front of the Wells Fargo building.

I like the City Watch scene for the beautiful miniatures and its depth-effect from the houses behind each other. Neldoreth, is the mounted officer a conversion or readily available?

[Dr. The Viking]

The colours are oversaturated on my screen for the city watch I'm afraid.

[Hawkeye]

Both wonderful - Overlord, who's the creepy guy behind the barrel on the porch? I almost didn't notice him at first...

[Plynkes]

I think it's Captain Black, from the "Spectrum is Green" Round 2 entry. Looks like Overlord is pulling a Hammers on us, with a recurring background character.

[Hawkeye]

I think you're right, Plynkes. I'll be watching out for him in future rounds...

[Overlord]

I think it's Captain Black, from the "Spectrum is Green" Round 2 entry. Looks like Overlord is pulling a Hammers on us, with a recurring background character.

You are correct..... Earthman.  OO
I didn't start out with the intention of a Hammers tribute but, after deliberately including him in the two Spectrum teams (rounds 2 & 3), I decided to continue with him in future rounds.

[Neldoreth]

Thanks all for the kind words!

Excellent work Overlord, nice and clean and a great scene setting. I agree with Mike about the greybeard, very effective.

@Admiral Benbow thanks! That figure is actually the Bastard of Orleans from Perry miniatures. It comes with Jean D'Arc, which is why I had it to be honest. It was a very challenging figure to paint to be honest; the tunic was the issue, as most of the fleur de lis were sculpted right on to the figure and difficult to paint crisply. I'd love to see how you paint it up though!

@Dr. I had tested the image on a few monitors. To be honest, it is a little over saturated on my top-of-the-line, bleeding edge, high-pixel-density Surface Book (I'm not bragging, I got an good deal on a refurbished model!) but on all other monitors it looked properly saturated. I imagine you're running something new and spiffy like a Mac or something?

Thanks again all,
n.

[Plynkes]

So if it looks fine (which it does), does that mean I have a crap monitor?

Odd sort of high quality monitors, if they make images look worse.

[Neldoreth]

So if it looks fine (which it does), does that mean I have a crap monitor?

Odd sort of high quality monitors, if they make images look worse.

I don't think you necessarily have a crap monitor...

I think there may be a couple of things going on here:

• The standard monitors might not have the brightest LEDs or LCD back lighting. That's not a bad thing though, since bright monitors mess up your eyes and the brighter ones cost more: 10% more gain for 50% more cost.
• The high-end devices want to make themselves look better, so their default settings may be turned up. Saturation is definitely a target for that kinda thing. I imagine on those devices every picture looks more saturated. I'm looking at you Apple and Microsoft! Dell/Acer/Asus/HP for the win!

It's also possible that the monitor settings may have been manually changed for some reason... I set my brightness low on purpose, and then forget all the time After years of staring at a screen all the time I have some issues with low-contrast situations, so I try to mitigate that with less-bright monitors. That being said, I turned up the brightness to 50% for checking my images!

Thanks
n.