31-10-2011, 05:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 31-10-2011, 05:58 PM by precinctomega.)
Today I finally got started on this project that's been awaiting my attention for over a month:
![[Image: 111031KEH-GreyKnights-Warhound-WIP1.jpg]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/precinctomega/Titans/111031KEH-GreyKnights-Warhound-WIP1.jpg)
The client wants the whole interior painted and magnetized with removable plates and magnets at the waist and weapons, so the model has been built to this stage ready for priming. The only thing I've not yet finished are the cables attaching the weapons to the titan, as that's a fairly complex little process.
The difference it made having built three of these and a Reaver already was enormous. I got this whole thing done in a day, when last time the build on each titan took the best part of a week.
@-=IP=-
I use PaintShop Pro (basically a cheaper, not-quite-as-user-friendly version of PhotoShop). I am preparing an article on this very subject, but basically I take a photo of the model, well-lit, against a white background, then use the "magic wand" selection tool and other selection tools to select the background (easy if the background is all one colour), then invert the selection (so I've selected the models), contract the selection one pixel, feather (inside and out) 2 pixels and copy and paste the selection onto a plain white background. The first few times you do it, it's a little fiddly and takes longer than you expect. I'm a few hundred tries in and can now do it really quite quickly.
R.
The client wants the whole interior painted and magnetized with removable plates and magnets at the waist and weapons, so the model has been built to this stage ready for priming. The only thing I've not yet finished are the cables attaching the weapons to the titan, as that's a fairly complex little process.
The difference it made having built three of these and a Reaver already was enormous. I got this whole thing done in a day, when last time the build on each titan took the best part of a week.
@-=IP=-
I use PaintShop Pro (basically a cheaper, not-quite-as-user-friendly version of PhotoShop). I am preparing an article on this very subject, but basically I take a photo of the model, well-lit, against a white background, then use the "magic wand" selection tool and other selection tools to select the background (easy if the background is all one colour), then invert the selection (so I've selected the models), contract the selection one pixel, feather (inside and out) 2 pixels and copy and paste the selection onto a plain white background. The first few times you do it, it's a little fiddly and takes longer than you expect. I'm a few hundred tries in and can now do it really quite quickly.
R.