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New backdrop books are coming!
The miniature shown here is a the fabulous Lady MacBeth figure from the sublime Bad Squiddo. Will we unlock the winter book? Who knows?!!?!
You’ll soon be able to sign up for the week long quickstarter.
If you missed Part One you can catch up with it here.
And you can now download the whole walkthrough as a free PDF here on our webstore.
We’re starting part two with our full dry plinth and the modelling is all done. It’s now finishing time, and we’ll see this unlikely potato transformed into a useful and naturalistic looking plinth! Keep the faith!
Tools for Part Two
For the final steps we’ll need:
Jon got a box. what’s in it? Stuff that might be of interest to fans of Jon Hodgson Backdrop Books and Miniatures! That’s what!
(You can now download the whole walkthrough as a free PDF here on our webstore!)
In the Jon Hodgson Backdrops books we mention that there’s a guide to making a scenic plinth to use with your backdrops on our website. And here it is!
In all of our own shots we boost up the model on a small piece of scenery to more easily cut the bottom of the book out of shot. There’s a guide to setting up your shots here, which includes the use of just such a plinth.
In this article we’ll run through the initial steps of hand-making a plinth. We should say in advance there are many, many ways to make such a thing. This isn’t necessarily the very best, or quickest way – it’s just how we do it. And you are of course to alter any of these steps, replacing any you see fit, or doing things in a different order. We find this way works well for beginners and is quite inexpensive. It also makes a great project to try with younger gamers/modellers. It’s a very forgiving technique.
Continue reading “Making a plinth for use with your Backdrops Book: Part One”
Following last month’s Episode Zero, we bring you Episode One of History in Games, Games in History. Following Malcolm and Jon’s successful talks at UK Games Expo and Liverpool John Moores University, we decided to bring the same themes to a more widely-accessible format, and make it a series.
In this Fourteenth Digital Pack of bonus content for BEOWULF: Age of Heroes, we bring you an Old Ways special!:
Let’s take a look at some tips for how to make good use of the Jon Hodgson Backdrops books.
It’s actually amazingly convenient and easy to take some really good shots of your miniatures with these books. And once you have your set up in place, it’s simplicity itself to grab the book, turn a few pages and select a different backdrop!
So for this walkthrough we’re shooting outside. We’re using a digital SLR, but if you’re using a phone camera nothing changes – the principles remain the same. You might like to find something to lean your camera on to keep it as steady as possible. Here we shot hand-held because there was plenty of sunlight. Remember, the gloomier it is, the longer it will take for your camera to gather the necessary light, so you’re more likely to get shakey shots.
Here’s the equipment we need for maximum convenience. Technical stuff!
If you’ve picked up the codebook PDF recently, we hope you’re enjoying a|state second edition!
We have a range of additional PDFs on DrivethruRPG to expand your play experience, and we thought it might be helpful to lay them out here:
We’re in the process of remaking all the art for our tabletop roleplaying game Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland. Jon takes delivery of a box of new things to be used in the new artwork. Hilarity ensues: