Diorama - yay! We have photos....

barnacle111 · Post by **barnacle111** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 8:37 am

Thanks pod. Not sure what I'll do with it. I don't really have somewhere to display it, maybe I could build it into a larger scene...? Hmm. No idea.
Probably end up in the cupboard. The fun thing for me is the building and designing.
Elf left 'hand off' hand is actually from an imperial guard arm just re angled. Right ball carrying hand is actually a left old dark eldar open hand with thumb cut off. I then made a green stuff ball, tucked it under the arm and made her a new gs thumb on top. Very simple really.
The skeletons are standard hands, although the elf leg was cut and shunted around a spear carrying skel hand.

traveller · Post by **traveller** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 9:59 am

Nice action! Looks like she is trying to attack his eyes... ( eyes? Do the skeleton has any left?

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Thx for the picture from other angle.

Traveller

nazgob · Post by **nazgob** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 11:17 am

Looks brilliant. As others have said, the pose is excellent.

Out of interest (and if you don't mind answering), I'm intrigued to know more about the colour blindness. DOes it present a big obstacle to your painting?

fitch-face · Post by **fitch-face** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 11:59 am

This diorama is turning out great. The colours look spot on to me.
I think the wych makes a good pro elf. The only bit I'm not sold on is the bone through her hair but that's a really minor thing. Overall the diorama is top-notch.

traveller wrote:Some years ago i build one myself for a GamesDay.

I remember this! I was just a snotling back then

Very cool anyway.

MyKi#1 · Post by **MyKi#1** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:17 pm

That looks awesome Barnacle111, cant wait to see more

barnacle111 · Post by **barnacle111** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 9:58 pm

Cheers all, I'll keep you posted...

I'm now trying to decide on the next step. Originally I had planned on a further elf and skeleton on the base, but fear this might be too crowded. Now torn between one elf interacting with something off base, and squeezing both on in a more hectic bb style scene. Any thoughts?

As far as the colour blindness, i dare say I'm not the only one (one in three males are colorblind and one in ten females if I remember my genetics correctly!). I tend to find the occasional complete misread of what colour something is. Primarily I find it tricky with blending to tell which colours belong together and where in the scale they sit. I don't know if this explanation helps?! But I was first diagnosed after I told my mum that the traffic lights turned blue (apparently they go green - I'm still not convinced!).

Let me know your thoughts on numbers on the pitch...

Aino · Post by **Aino** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 9:44 am

barnacle111 wrote:.... Primarily I find it tricky with blending to tell which colours belong together and where in the scale they sit. I don't know if this explanation helps?! ...

Sorry, didn't understant... so it doesn't help this fellow colorblind person

Which is a shame because I need to rely on what is written on paint pots rather than trusting my eyes on what are nice combinations

barnacle111 wrote:.... But I was first diagnosed after I told my mum that the traffic lights turned blue (apparently they go green - I'm still not convinced!).

Let me know your thoughts on numbers on the pitch...

Guess you just have a different way of grouping shades and colours... Always heard the ancien Celts grouped green and blue together as being 1 colour (just like we would see shades of vermillion, carmine,... as being "RED")...

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Shteve0 · Post by **Shteve0** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 8:05 pm

Aino wrote:Always heard the ancien Celts grouped green and blue together as being 1 colour

I'd imagine that's to do with it being the colours of the sea, much like red to brown reflects british soil variations.

Edit: that's so off topic, even for me. Apologies. Diorama looks great! Glad the app worked out

fitch-face · Post by **fitch-face** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:18 pm

Shteve0 wrote:
Aino wrote:Always heard the ancien Celts grouped green and blue together as being 1 colour
I'd imagine that's to do with it being the colours of the sea, much like red to brown reflects british soil variations.

Edit: that's so off topic, even for me. Apologies. Diorama looks great! Glad the app worked out

(Sorry- Even more off-topic butt... ) If I may weigh in here, I speak Gaeilge (Irish) and we do actually have funny colours but blue is pretty much always just blue ("gorm").
Uaine is used for synthetic greens.
Glas is used for natural greens as well as the brownish colour of animals, sometimes the colour of horses and sheep too. Black people are idiomatically called blue people. We're a strange bunch, the Gaels.

Shteve0 · Post by **Shteve0** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 1:33 am

Well, fitch face, I'm Welsh, and our colour for blue is also "glas" - like your green - derived from the ancient welsh term covering any colour on the blue-green spectrum.

Look up 'grue languages', when you get a sec, and Stephen Fry's faux pas on the subject. QI indeed

fitch-face · Post by **fitch-face** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 4:48 pm

Shteve0 wrote:Well, fitch face, I'm Welsh, and our colour for blue is also "glas" - like your green - derived from the ancient welsh term covering any colour on the blue-green spectrum.

Look up 'grue languages', when you get a sec, and Stephen Fry's faux pas on the subject. QI indeed

Ooo very cool, I did not know that! My grandma could speak welsh actually but I never picked it up. The one word that's stuck with me is bwrdd smwddio

But yeah I watched a program a while back where speakers of some African languages with even weirder colour combinations are effectively blind to the differences between some colours but incredibly sensitive to minutely different shades of others. Utterly bizarre. And so off topic, I apologise.
Would love to see more updates on the diorama as you go

barnacle111 · Post by **barnacle111** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 9:26 pm

Well since its all gone horribly off topic here, I might as well add another pic which is also off topic. Not diorama, but a galadrieth gladiators lineman I felt like painting...

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barnacle111 · Post by **barnacle111** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 2:56 am

Okay so the diorama is almost finished... Been very slow and indecisive at the last, but in the meantime here is another not even bb distraction (sorry!)

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Real life roller derby! Never been before, left entertained but a little bemused...

barnacle111 · Post by **barnacle111** » Sat Jul 28, 2012 1:46 pm

So here we have the finished scene... C&c requested! I'm not totally convinced, and before setting off on another diorama (maybe more dynamic?), thought I'd get some feedback...

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barnacle111 · Post by **barnacle111** » Sat Jul 28, 2012 1:46 pm

And another

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