Rob's Painting, Lining and Weathering

[Rob Pulham]

I have been a bit lax at updating this thread recently but I thought that I would add a few of the things that I have been weathering over the last few months or so. These have appeared on my workbench thread but I appreciate that not everyone looks at every bit of the forum.

 

Starting with a couple of the old Three Aitch wagon kit's that I bought not really knowing what they were - read how crude they are by today's standards....

 

It's a bit photo intensive because I was quite pleased with how they turned out in the end.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Rob Pulham]

I have been experimenting with photo stacking for some time using the free software 'CombineZP' but only recently have I played about with changing the point of focus.

Here are some of my experiments using a couple of timber and ore wagons

Using a Canon 350D, first I used the manual point of focus setting for the following shots. They were then stacked using CombineZP.

Unfortunately there are only 5 manual focus points on the horizontal plane (there are only 3 in the vertical plane) and for some reason I cannot seem to select the one on the extreme left (unless it is selected but the LED has died). This means that some of it is out of focus.

The last photo is taken using the cameras Auto Depth of field function and then 6 shots stacked.



It has turned out to be the best of all of them.

[Chas Levin]

Hello Rob, just found this thread, very much enjoyed reading through it! I don't weather my models but I appreciate others' work - there's some superb modelling there. The first NE van, that's a wonderful transformation, I did a double-take and went back and looked at the sequence again .