Jimmy came over last night for our weekly hobby session, and for some reason we were both quite productive. I mostly finished Vayl, painted that little Cryx cutie in the middle from primer and put the starting basecoats on a mini that I'm painting for Monster Zero of the UnderEmpire. One of the things I did with Vayl was paint up her little orb-weapon thingy in shades of blue to white, then put a few thin coats of Vallejo Model Color Metal Medium over it. VMCMM is basically just metal flakes and acrylic medium, so it addes a pearlescent shimmer to things. I last used it on the Howling Banshees power sword from the diorama I did for competition last year (and my first 8 on coolmini or not!) also put a little on her headpiece, since I'm not even really sure what it's supposed to be, so why not be shiny too! My digital camera also appears to have had a conniption over the colors in this picture, since it decided that everything should be a little more blue.The photo above reminded me of mentioning the table refinishing too. The pic below is from a couple years ago, and you can see the darker finish of the table. For some reason the finish was getting more and more sensitive to temperature and moisture, leaving rings when anything came in contact with it that was hot, cold or wet. Any papers left on the table with the slightest bit of moisture would stick to the point of needing to be peeled off and scraped. Stef decided enough was enough so she dragged the table out onto the deck and started sanding the finish off, which basically carmelized the varnigh onto the sandpaper. In the end it took a great deal of turpentine, but we stripped off the gummy old finish and put a few coats of clear, semi-gloss polyurethane. The results were pleasing.
Have you tried fiddling around with your camera's white balance setting? That should fix the "too blue" result.
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