Coleman Stryker PIP 31020

[Darkmeer]

Here's my second Coleman Stryker that I have painted.  This is definitely my favorite of the two, and, despite aiming at Tabletop, this ended up slightly above that level for me, terrible photos notwithstanding.  The two-year-old was helping with my photos this morning...

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Color commentary welcome.

[Last Knight]

Very nice! I rather like this model of Stryker; I only have the original, where he's carrying Quicksilver across his chest with both arms.

[Slendertroll]

Looks great! I like the blues, though they could stand to have more contrast. (Higher highlights! Deeper shadows!) Are those shaded metallics? They look pretty good too.

 

On the photography front, the easiest way to improve your pictures is to throw them into some photo-editing software. I use the GIMP, which is absolutely free, but you can use Photoshop if you have it. They all have a button to automatically adjust the photo's white balance. It's an extra thirty seconds before you upload them, and the results are way better. I hope you don't mind, but I threw your first pic there through GIMP's auto-white-balance to show you the difference it can make.

 

 

[Darkmeer]

I painted one of those up last year (I own four of them), and I have to say that that particular pose just annoys me to tears.  Oddly, I'm not as fond of the new Stryker model they released, but I'll probably get one and paint it up as well. 

[Darkmeer]

Looks great! I like the blues, though they could stand to have more contrast. (Higher highlights! Deeper shadows!) Are those shaded metallics? They look pretty good too.

 

On the photography front, the easiest way to improve your pictures is to throw them into some photo-editing software. I use the GIMP, which is absolutely free, but you can use Photoshop if you have it. They all have a button to automatically adjust the photo's white balance. It's an extra thirty seconds before you upload them, and the results are way better. I hope you don't mind, but I threw your first pic there through GIMP's auto-white-balance to show you the difference it can make.

 

Coleman.png

 

 

Slendertroll: 

 

I had the Gimp on my old machine (and prefer it to what I use now), but I have had a heck of a time getting it to run properly on my Win 8 machine (running the most recent update).  I'm not quite sure what I'm doing, but I get about 2 days worth of use, then windows says it won't run properly

[Slendertroll]

Hmm, have you tried just reinstalling it? That tends to fix most of those weird issues like that.

[Darkmeer]

I have, every time windows has updated.   

 

GIMP is by far my favorite image editing program.  Second to that is paint.net, which works much like Fireworks does.