Maketoys My First Blaster

Spiff-O-Matic · March 03, 2014, 03:45:53 PM

This items is sold as a model kit of sorts, as in it's on sprues and you have to assemble it. How do we want to do parts on this?

Spiff-O-Matic · March 04, 2014, 09:24:32 AM

Anyone? I want to put this together, but not until I know if I need pics of the sprues as-is or not.

shmax · March 04, 2014, 09:32:49 AM

Quote from: spliffdizzle on March 04, 2014, 09:24:32 AM

Anyone? I want to put this together, but not until I know if I need pics of the sprues as-is or not.

When in doubt, take pics of everything. Bagged, sprue'ed, upside-down, in a box, with a fox, etc. Regardless of how we decide to layout the part records, we can use 'em...

Spiff-O-Matic · March 04, 2014, 09:50:16 AM

The main reason I haven't yet is due to the one being white. What a PITA those are.

shmax · March 04, 2014, 01:17:13 PM

Quote from: spliffdizzle on March 04, 2014, 09:50:16 AM

The main reason I haven't yet is due to the one being white. What a PITA those are.

Oh, ouch, you sure got that right. We've had a lot of discussions about how to best shoot white stuff. I think HighPrime made the most progress toward getting it figured out; he had various tricks, but the one I liked the best was to array a black t-shirt or cloth right around the perimeter of the object (so it would pick up some dark accents via radiosity), then crop it out via Photoshop. If you dig around in the forums here you might find more advice...