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Post by jabbro on Oct 9, 2009 14:36:00 GMT -9
Looks good, Ashton. I am glad you picked these up again. They are looking nice. I usually avoid things like historical accuracy, but I like the looks. If you have to do one or the other, maybe you can mix them. Yoke with shoulder patches?
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Post by tonsha on Oct 10, 2009 23:25:55 GMT -9
Thanks again for the continuing feedback And apologies for no update yesterday - Saturday was busy, busy, busy. I will probably do a page with the yokes and a page with the shoulder pads. So whoever buys this set will be getting a good deal. I've managed to do a print test using the Cream uniform, and it looks OK colour wise. But the figures themselves look a bit wimpy when compared to Jim's elf & skeleton figures. They are exactly 30mm from base of foot to eyeline, but they look really thin. I may take them up to 31 or 32 mm and see what they look like then. I'm hoping that will fix it. I don't want to have to go through everything and scale things width wise - that would basically mean starting from scratch again. I'm already going to have to do it with the spears - they are just too thin. At the current size I could probably fit 10 or 12 figures on a sheet. If I do one page of 'yokes' and one page of 'pads' that will be 20+ figures!! I also want to provide a standard bearer and unit leader (both with swords). One set of shields (one colour) and a selection of banners (same colour to keep the theme). So I'm looking at 4 sheets in the set. The only thing I'm thinking about is the colour combinations. Here's my current thoughts: Set #1: Cream Uniform - with blue yokes/pads, shields and banners Set #2: Green Uniform - with red yokes/pads, shields and banners Set #3: Brown Uniform - with green yokes/pads, shields and banners Too much do you think? DaveA
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Post by jabbro on Oct 12, 2009 10:28:51 GMT -9
Sounds good, Dave. I don't know about historical accuracy, but for aesthetics sake, I would go with green and brown on set two.
As long as you are just changing the color and not doing new poses, I do not think the recolors are too much. But that is really a matter of personal taste.
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Post by anitangel on Oct 12, 2009 10:58:48 GMT -9
Yeah, Jabbro doesn't think that recolors are much good. No matter what I tell him, he thinks it is waste of space in a pdf. I don't agree, I think it is time saver for your customers to provide different color schemes. I don't think it would raise the price of the product though, it wouldn't be fair. So in that point of view the artist could turn the recoloring time into his/her new project.
Anita
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Post by magpiestear on Oct 12, 2009 13:32:46 GMT -9
Tonsha are you thinking of selling them as separate sets? I like the idea of variety in one set rather than buying three individual sets to vary the look of my units!
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Post by tonsha on Oct 12, 2009 21:48:48 GMT -9
I don't really know - I haven't done this before. I was wanting to provide a decent variety of poses, uniform colours and shield/banner colours. Considering that I could get 10-12 figures on a sheet, that satisfied the poses. Three uniform colours makes 3 sheets (each with 10-12 figures). Shields & banners in a single colour is two sheets. I would duplicate these in three colours (red, blue, green) which makes 6 sheets. So a 'full' set would be 9 sheets! (That's not taking into account yokes/pads). That's a big download. I thought splitting them all up would reduce the size considerably. Maybe it's all too much. OK - how about this. Stick with twelve figures. 4 cream, 4 green, 4 brown. All yokes. 1 helmet, 1 pillbox, 2 bare headed per colour. 1 sheet of 12 shields. 4 red, 4 blue, 4 green. So that's two sheets in set #1 Set #2 would be banners (12), banner bearers (1 per uniform colour) & unit leaders (I'll do 3 uniques) will form a separate set. Does that sound more reasonable? DaveA
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Post by tonsha on Oct 14, 2009 2:08:53 GMT -9
AAAAAAARRGGGGGHHHH!!! I've been busily resizing the figures (32mm looked best when compared to Jim's skeleton spearmen) and managed to delete the cream uniforms!!! Gosh, that's annoying!! Almost made me want to swear out loud.... I'm going to have to spend the next hour or so fixing that now. DaveA
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Post by jabbro on Oct 14, 2009 3:57:30 GMT -9
Stick in there. I know it is frustrating. I once had my machine crash and I had to recolor an entire figure from the beginning (2-4 hours work for me). Since then Ctrl+S have been my friends.
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Post by tonsha on Oct 14, 2009 12:07:04 GMT -9
Stick in there. I know it is frustrating. I once had my machine crash and I had to recolor an entire figure from the beginning (2-4 hours work for me). Since then Ctrl+S have been my friends. Yeah - I deleted them and then did Ctrl+S. Anyway - all sorted now. Back to where we were. Ready to select the twelve... DaveA
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Post by tonsha on Oct 20, 2009 22:00:06 GMT -9
WHOA!! I've been backlsiding! (Got a bit distracted with other things there! ) ) I've picked the 12 and got them scaled for size. I need to add acoutrements (Belt purses 'n' daggers) and then do the backs... DaveA
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