Wednesday 15 August 2012

Trappers and adventurers

James Forrester and his two companions Pierre and Pascal Albon.

Pierre and Pascal Albon. More about Pierre and Pascal HERE
The history of James Forrester HERE

The history of James Forrester HERE

31 comments:

  1. Wow.. nice work on these guys. Like the colors, and with the real forest backdrop, they look very realistic!

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  2. Very well done. Those are some great pictures!

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  3. Very nicely painted and presented.

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    1. Thanks :-D
      @Lee..it´s a flower bed but it turned out looking quite effective..better thna my purpose made scenes.
      Cheers
      paul

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  4. Lovely work, I can smell the wet beaver pelts!

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    1. Thanks Fran.
      You can smell them? Better tell Ray to change his pants :-D
      Cheers
      paul

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  5. Very nice photos and minis! The presentation is excellent!

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    1. Thanks Phil...more luck than design with the result though.

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  6. Atlantic Davey Crockett set?

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  7. Allways good to see some old sets painted. And you did a great job on them Paul!

    Are you planning to paint the rest of the set to?

    Greetings
    Peter
    http://peterscave.blogspot.be/

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    1. Thanks Peter.
      One of the set (and his bear) have turned up elsewhere in an oilpainting of the "incident". The rest will get painted..but as the story developes.

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  8. One of my favorite Atlantic sets! You painted them superb!

    Cheers

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    1. Thanks.
      I´ll have to set up a scenario for the rest of the set. Fixing the oars to the canoeists is virtually impossible though
      Cheers
      paul

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  9. Some more nice bods there. Like the backdrop, obviously was not raining there

    Ian

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    1. Thanks ian.
      Nope..it wasn´t raining ;-D
      Cheers
      paul

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  10. These are even better than usual. I love the palette and the lighting.

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    1. Thanks
      I think that sometimes it works better if I paint something a bit different to my usual stuff, the change makes me see things a bit differently.
      Cheers
      paul

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  11. Excellent painting and some characterful bods

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  12. These are nice figures and I like the burros as well. You know what would be a cool addition and I know you could do it. Do a conversion of a deer and have it trussed and hanging upside down from a pole to represent the kill they made.

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  13. I hate to bother you with another question but you do a lot of terrain building and you know a lot.

    I'm having trouble with scale when making exterior faces of buildings. Will using fixed ratio's work. Let's say if I know that a man of average height is one sixth the sie of a standard dwelling can I then translate this into cm and mm and have it work. Also will shooting in macro throw all this off given the difference in mag of the shot being taken and the distance I place the figure from the building. And then what about if I put in sidewalks and place thet figure on a street in front of the building. Is there a standard equation you use.

    My question mark key is broken so that's why my questions aren't ending with them.











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  14. Great work! The figure painting is superb, and the photos look amazing!

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  15. Just beautiful! Great work Paul.

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  16. Nice! Can you still get Atlantic figures?

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    1. Thanks Scott.
      Some of the sets have been re-released under the brand name Nexus..unfortunately not all and not a couple of the really good ones like the Outlaws set.
      Cheers
      paul

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  17. I love this set Paul and how you set up the shots. The way Dora and Dottie are scurrying away, it looks like they might have smelled a bear!

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  18. An excellent little set of figures, I love the dull colours you've used and the poses are all great as well.

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  19. Wonderful work Paul. Really like these guys.

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