Blog Archives - LexCore - Epic 40K

Spiaral Success

31/5/2022

Although against my "trying to save space" motto with scenary pieces, I decided to try this concept. Hence the attempt to re-use the circular scraps. My first mistake was trying to use the larger circle for the steps rather than the cut-out smaller circle as the basis. After that light bulb moment, the stairs came together nicely. Hopefully I'll have continual success with the rest of this shrine.

Failure to Start

29/5/2022

It doesn't help the lack of inspiration to start something when I'm too busy playing SimCity Buildit on multiple tablets :( With the recent updates to the Eldar, I thought it'd be nice to create a shrine for my Striking Scorpions that I've had painted, but never taken photos of. Unfortunately I thought I'd try and use these left overs, 25 mm circles I had my sisters cut out for me many years ago (cheap labour) that I then never used as I needed more 15mm instead. This made it more difficult too.

Passage of Time

28/5/2022

I had a few photos of the Eldar Wrathgate and Fire Dragon Shrine and decided to add this into a new page in the Terrain section (although not many photos). As per the theme, I thought I take more photos for the Waterfall, only to find after the passage of time, the top river section's bubbled up. Much to my annoyance, the photo taken above on my Samsung A40 looks great when I only need focus in the centre of the picture.

227 Pictures Later

22/5/2022

Although a mixture of some new and mainly old models, my Eldar under the Armies section is finally updated. There is only two pages of photos considering I had taken in total of 227 pictures. A few taken from the Cannon IXUS 7.5, majority from my Samsung A40 that not got used and the remainder on my wife's Samsung A4. Unfortunately I have very little photography and editing skills to keep the photos consistant, especially in comparison with some of the other armies.

Older can be Better

22/5/2022

I got annoyed while editing the photos taken on my Samsung A40 due to the loss of focus on the edges in group photos. I was on the verge of abandoning a site update, until my wife suggested why not use her old phone. Although the A5 is a lot older (as she didn't want to upgrade it), the focus was much better whenever we took family photos. So I tried it... and annoyed that it was better. Unfortunately the colour balance was different, so I had to take all the photos again and re-edit them :(

Nostalgia

19/5/2022

The magnetic strip base has now been painted green as I need it to take photos for my Eldar Seer Council. While hunting for the old crystal scenary I used in my previous Eldar photos, I've come across several boxes of scenary pieces back when I was younger. These were before I discovered plastic card and all of these are on mounting card and sprisingly havent warped. Amongst them is a Cathedral and a wide building front. None of these were ever finished and I may get around to taking more photos... or even finishing them off!

Digital Camera vs Mobile Camera

15/5/2022

Although a bit unfair comparing an age old ~2007 Cannon IXUS 7.5 with a ~2019 Samsung A40 (with a bugged camera app), the digital camera still held out to take consistant macro photos. Even though the 7.1 Megapixels meant zomming into the photos, it quickly becomes pixilated comapred to the 16 Megapixels, but at least the photos came out similiar. The camera phone came out with sharper photos (due to the MP difference), but some photos looked different as the app tried to adjust the white balance and every other settings. The stranger thing

was the Wave Serpent in opposite angles (top left and bottom right) was out of focus, while the camera photos was always towards the edges.

Re-Based

15/5/2022

I re-based the Phoenix Lord on a circular base with a hole to imbedd the model into and repainted so it blends in with the shrine. The shrine top was also plain, so I painted some circles, but making them look worn was tough. The horns on the Falcon Grav Tank had also broken off so I had to find replacements and as the bone/plastic natural colour made it stand out a little, I decided not to paint them. The front of the shrine base was trimmed a bit and also the Falcon Grav Tank's base too to make the two a little more slim. Suprisingly after all the handling, the Phoenix Lord suvived with no breakage!

Tauhausted

7/5/2022

So I had a bit of a break after working so long on the Tau Tower. Unfortunately that meant getting re-addicted to SimCity Build It, Lego Tower and Diablo 3 the next season. It was time to switch to something entirely different.

The Eldar Fire Dragons in the Eldar Army section were taken ~2005. I had also made the shrine for it too using Dragon statues from a Warhammer army box set game (can't remember what it was called). I was tempted to replicate something similiar for my Striking Scorpions, however got stuck on inspiration. Also I didn't have any scoprion figures, hence would need to make something from scratch. Instead I decided to re-work this scenary a bit including mounting the Phoenix Lord on a round base that matches the shrine. Rather than break out the Dremil, I just drilled a hole and carved it to size with the scalpel instead. Less messy, but slower.