Angeliccypher wrote:
It is a very short read if you find it.
Thanks! I'm lazy, so that certainly does provide extra motivation!
potchip wrote:
Wow, shading on 1/700 figures! Beautifully done! Do you use particular brand of PE figures (for easier pose-ability?) I find Eduard figures not easy to 'bend' to natural motions particularly around hip/shoulder.
Thanks! I find the shading and highlighting actually very important to emphasize the 3D-look of the figures, just like any other element of a model. It also makes it possible to make their colours "pop" much more without it looking unnatural, as the lightest and most saturated colours are limited to the highlights.
I bought a couple of brands (Tom's modelworks, Lionroar and Eduard), and only used Eduard in the end.
They can be a bit harder to bend indeed, but nothing impossible with good tweezers. I am happy though with the general proportions of the figures and most importantly the spacing of legs. In an attempt to include more detail, the spacing of the legs can sometimes be less natural looking with other brands, which is very difficult or impossible to rectify. But it is so small I guess this doesn't matter too much, and I could have used most figures of the other brands too. The other brands were a tad bigger though, which is the reason why I didn't mix them with the Eduard figures.
I was also happy with the mix of poses on the Eduard sets I used (at least for shaping into different poses, and for having lots of figures "standing around"). The other sets do have more detail on the figures, but this is irrelevant if you thicken them. I like that you get 400+ figures on the larger sets of Eduard, which makes it pretty cheap.
If I could have, I still would have used the Northstar figures though.
Cheers,
Marijn
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