Your figures displayed in Field of Glory

[paulrobinson]

April 17, 2008

Yes we are asking again whether you would you like to see your figures depicted in future Army Lists Companion books of Field of Glory

We are looking for some top quality paint jobs to include in future editions

The composition can be single figures or groups, or if you are feeling a bit more ambitious you might try a complete battle scene, but this would need a backdrop and very good terrain.

You will also have to be able to supply photography to print standard of at least 300DPI. Really all this means is that you need to set your camera to a fine or high setting, and the pictures should be taken in natural day light.

If this is of interest to you, the next book we are working on is the Dark Ages Lists Companion and of course you will be fully credited for your work.

Contact jdm@slitherine.co.uk if you are interested.

The armies below will be featured in this book and of course we will inform you of future plans

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Post-Roman British
Early Welsh
Later Scots-Irish
Merovingian Frankish
Later Pictish
Early Slavic
Middle Anglo-Saxon
Feudal Spanish
Andalusian
Early Navarrese
Carolingian Frankish
Viking
Magyar
Slav
Early Scots
Rus
Norse-Irish
Early Medieval French
Early Medieval German
Norman
Early Polish
Anglo-Danish

[paulrobinson]

We still are open for photos for the Army List companion Decline and Fall - Byzantium at War


The composition can be single figures or groups, or if you are feeling a bit more ambitious you might try a complete battle scene, but this would need a backdrop and very good terrain.


You will also have to be able to supply photography to print standard of at least 300DPI. Really all this means is that you need to set your camera to a fine or high setting, and the pictures should be taken in natural day light.

Of course you will be fully credited for your work.

Contact jdm@slitherine.co.uk if you are interested.

The armies below will be featured this Companion


EARLY BYZANTINE
LATER MOORISH
LATER MOORISH ALLIES
LATER VISIGOTHIC
LATER VISIGOTHIC ALLIES
AFRICAN VANDAL
ITALIAN OSTROGOTHIC
EARLY SOUTH SLAV
EARLY SOUTH SLAV ALLIES
LOMBARD
MAURIKIAN BYZANTINE
MAURIKIAN BYZANTINE ALLIES
CHRISTIAN NUBIAN
AVAR
AVAR ALLIES
WESTERN TURKISH
WESTERN TURKISH ALLIES
ARAB CONQUEST
EARLY BULGAR
EARLY BULGAR ALLIES
THEMATIC BYZANTINE
THEMATIC BYZANTINE ALLIES
UMAYYAD ARAB
ABBASID ARAB
ABBASID ARAB ALLIES
EARLY NORTH AFRICAN DYNASTIES
EARLY NORTH AFRICAN DYNASTIES ALLIES
KHURASANIAN DYNASTIES
KHURASANIAN DYNASTIES ALLIES
BEDOUIN DYNASTIES
BEDOUIN DYNASTIES ALLIES
DAILAMI DYNASTIES
DAILAMI DYNASTIES ALLIES
KURDISH ALLIES
BAGRATID ARMENIAN ALLIES
PECHENEG
PECHENEG ALLIES
GHAZNAVID
NIKEPHORIAN BYZANTINE

[expendablecinc]

25mm only? Theres no 15mm in the other boks that I can tell.

Anthony

[paulrobinson]

No 15mm is OK - just needs to be a good picture conforming to the 300DPI requirement.

There is at least one 15mm picture in the Rule Book (page 124 - Two Dragons Vikings I think) and on page 62 of Rise of Rome are some 15mm Essex figures.

So 15mm is GREAT - send ASAP though

[flameberge]

What do I do if my camera doesn't shoot in 300dpi. I've got an 8 megapixel camera that shoots in "superfine" mode but no matter what settings I use the dpi doesn't change. Is 300PPIX300PPI the same thing? Here is a quote I read from a photography sight on the net: "

What Print Shops Really Mean by DPI
Okay - your print shop/graphics designer/magazine has asked for a digital photo at 300 DPI. What do they really mean by this?

What they are really asking for is a photo that will print at a certain paper dimension in inches at 300 pixels per inch (PPI). If you remember from the Myth of DPI, the term DPI is a holdover from when this setting in a digital photo would set the paper output quality (resolution) of a printed image (number of printer dots per inch). This is no longer the case, but people still confuse DPI with PPI.

Back to our print shop - if they are looking for a digital photo to print at 10 inches by 8 inches, at 300 PPI, then they are really looking for a digital image with a resolution of 3000 pixels by 2400 pixels (regardless of the DPI setting of that image).

What Print Shops Really Need
The concept that 300 PPI = photographic quality is also a holdover from the quality of printing equipment a decade ago. Present day printers will output a good quality digital photo, with "photographic quality" at 200 PPI - so the requirements for a 10 inch by 8 inch paper photo become a good quality digital image with pixel dimensions of 2000 pixels by 1600 pixels.

A good quality digital photo is one:
taken with a good quality digital camera (good optics and digital sensor)
a photo that has not been enlarged either in post-processing or by in-camera digital zoom (never (ever) use digital zoom).
a photo that has been properly shot (good lighting, no blur)
a photo shot within the camera's ideal ISO range (usually a low ISO such as ISO 100)
a photo that has been stored in either a lossless format (i.e. TIF) or a very low compressed JPEG (highest camera JPEG quality setting).
Such a photo will reproduce on paper at photographic quality (assuming current printing technology) at 200 PPI.

A Note to Print Shops and Graphics DesignersI keep getting emails from poor folk who say that their print shop or graphics designer keep asking for digital phots at ___DPI (usually 300 DPI). Please STOP DOING THIS to your poor clients - ask for what you really need, ____ pixels in your prefered format (i.e. low compressed JPG or a TIF). If your need is for a digital photo that can be printed at high quality at a width of 6 inches, and you think that 300 ppi is what is required to do this (based on your equipment), then you need a digital photo that is 1800 pixels in width (regardless of its DPI setting since it's a meaningless figure). So, ask for a digital photo that is at least 1800 pixels in width. Tell your client not to resize the photo. If the photo is less 1800 pixels, ask them to send it along anyway (so that you can test it) and that if it is larger than 1800 pixels it's also okay (don't have them resize a larger photo down to your "at least" pixel figure). If you are running older equipment/software that needs a particular DPI setting, then set it in the photo after you have received it."

[IainMcNeil]

Good point - it's partly to do with the size its used at though. Large background photos will be maybe 5x3 inches (~1500x900). Smaller peronality shots or single figures will probably be 1x2 inches (300x600). So it depends what sort of image you're talking about sending. The higher the resolution the better though as we can always scale it down.

[flameberge]

JDM wanted to use some of my pics but they weren't in 300dpi but I sent the first pictures in 1600X1200 pixels which I would think would be plenty good so I then sent them again in 3264X2228 so I really hope I can still gets these pics included in the Byzantine book.