Saturday 2 January 2010

Basecoat - and a problem

Firstly, as you may or may not know, the UK goverment has changed the policy on lightbulbs, and now its hard to get standard 100W light bulbs these days, instead you need to get the more environmentally friendly, low energy bulbs, which unfortunately dont give off as much of a good level of light as the old ones.

As I currently dont have a desk light for working from, I thought this would suffice for working under when not doing any fine detail work, but unfortunately its just too dark to really make out much of the miniature. The photo below was taken after a first bash at doing the base coat on the blood angel, crimson fist and dark angels marine. Aside from the obvious red of the blood angel, the other two still seem to be almost black in this light, however as you can see from the flash-enhanced camera shot, the green and blue show up, and show some obvious parts that I've missed.

It seems that in order to work at night, im going to need to invest in some lighting a bit closer to my work area, as my room light is completely unsuitable for the task.

1 comment:

  1. Hmm... do you have different wattages of bulbs? In the US we have 60/100/150 watts as standard sizes. Maybe an exterior flood light pointed at a white surface would provide enough light without blinding you.

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