Trojan War DBA armies

[Cryns]

Dear Despertaferro,

I love this work of yours so much. The lively variety of all kinds of figures and armaments. Very realistic colors. Great painting of many of the faces. A very funny guy with only his nose peeping out of his over-the-knee long bronze suit and wildboar tooth helmet (I recognize this man from the paintings by David Conolly). I once went to Nafplio, Peloponnesos, Greece, to see this bronze armour in real. But I was not lucky: the museum was closed for at least a year because of renovation. I noticed your newest pics have more color and is deeper in dark tones than the earlyer pics. I like that. But since you are a prof-cameraman I like to know why you changed that. Did you change camera? Or change the color correction because of personal taste?
I also see what you mean by the overload of elite warriors available in this scale and period and very few light troops on the other hand. Thats the same with Classical Greek armies. We have to be creative collecting 'naked' men from other sets. I think Hittites and Bronze Age Hebrews might be interesting for you too.
One more question: did you ever consider using the first of all Bronze age sets: The Trojan Army from Atlantic? Is there any figure among them that you consider to be historical usefull after you studied this period?

[despertaferro]

Hi, many thanks once again for your attention and your kind words.

I used to be an “speed painter” as my purpose always has been to make as many different armies I could. But from the minute I began to post here and felt your positive feedback, my painting (that somehow still being simple and fast) has, step by step, turned into something more sophisticated.
Thanks for that!

Dear Mr. Cryns, nearly all the pictures I post here are taken in the same way: on my terrace and under natural light but always in shade. With wide angle lens and macro. And the grading of the selected pictures I made afterwards is easy and simple: I just push the middle tones down in order to produce deeper shaded areas that helps to focus on the lighted parts.
Roughly, 1 hour taking pictures, 2 at my computer reframing, grading and selecting and 1 hour posting.

The changes you can see between pictures are basically due to the weather, Sun position or period of the year. Regardless that I never use direct Sun and my source of light is the sky (soft but, once framed, directional), light changes from one day to another. And I like to keep these differences visible.

Despite being collector of 1/72 plastic figures from more than 40 years now, I never owned this Atlantic set. But watched at PSR and I thing is more suited for fantasy subject (to fight Conan or Amazons…) than for real Trojan War.

[despertaferro]

Hi friends,

Here I’m desperately finishing and posting my latest jobs because on a few days I must go again.

These are 5 bases of Trojan 4Spears. Figures are from Caesar and Mars.

I hope you like them and many thanks for your time!

[Peter]

Excellent painted army again Joan!

[Wheeling Turn]

Fantastic brushwork. A very unusual army and not often seen. Thanks for sharing the pics with us and for the list of used boxes.