Grays giving me the Blues

Since the start of the year I've gotten a fair bit of hobby stuff done, that was until May as between hols & family home for awhile not much happened, but I did start a project in the first week of may that I've now finished & that is the point of this post.

They say a camera never lies but don't you believe that, if you look at the picture above you'll see one of the gray's I use on this project is more of a blue then gray & that is something I've noticed before & have had problems with when painting something gray.

As most of us know in this game lightning effects a picture when you take it & the odd thing is that when I took pictures of the finished piece it did look gray yet when I looked at the set it it was to blue.

Right you say, you've gone on about grays giving you the blues Frank but what is it your making ? fair question, you guys might remember I did a set in a shoebox ? well this is another one of those.

There are three things I really like about sets in a shoebox, one is they are very easy to store, two they require very little setting up & the third is they add a whole other dimension to a movie/game.

 The first two things explain themselves the third one I'll try to explain, it all has to do with building & scale for me, a building that works well with our models on the gaming table doesn't always work well if your using the inside of it, for me they often seem to small.

Also for many different reasons you might not be able to use the inside, there might be no inside or the roof might not come off & even if the roof does come off you can only take pictures from above, now there nothing wrong with that but imho it better if you can take a picture at model level.

Some of you might have seen Ivor's post No time for love Dr Jones over on his wonderful blog Saturday mornings, https://saturdaymornings13.blogspot.com/ its show Indian Jones at the entrance of a temple, but what he never can show is Indy inside said temple not without building a set to do so.

 See now its all starting to make sense, you could play out the game/movie with it ending with getting to the temple entrance but the trilling climax couldn't be played out inside it with a little bit of work :)

 Sorry I don't have an Indian Jones as my studio's doesn't have a big budget like Ivor's :)
What sets like this do is let you change the games ending, the little shoebox set can be on the table beside you & when the entrance is reached you can just remove the model & place it in the shoebox set for the finial act.

Now I started this post grays giving me the blues & how a camera can lie, the last picture was taking before I did the repaint, it looks gray doesn't it ? but believe me its not the case & giving how you lot know how I don't like painting I think you'll all know I didn't repaint it just for the fun of it.
You don't need the inside of a temple ? how about a resting place ? but be careful as I think the sun's about to set :)

That's a wrap for this post, as always my thanks for dropping in & if you'd care to leave a comment it would be welcomed :)