Foldio 2 and (A LOT OF) High Quality Blood Angels Pictures

So I recently got my Foldio 2. For those that don't know, a Foldio is a portable studio light box. It is pretty nifty.

FOLDIO2 by Orangemonkie

The Foldio2

I am enjoying using it so far. here is a quick break down
PROS-
-Easy to use, fast assembly with magnets
-Easily interchangeable back drops (once again using magnets). It comes with 4 (white, grey, black and green for green screening)
-2 Bright, high quality light, LED strips, with a dimmer on each
- Large. It fit my entire Fire Raptor in it the other day.
-Super light. It is really easy to take anywhere, though it won't fit in your back pack.
-Collapsible. Short on storage space. This is PERFECT.

CONS-
- Expensive. You could certainty make your own light box for less, and with some ingenuity, make one as portable. Some of the materials also seem a little cheap for the price paid IMO. Not that they are cheap materials, but it makes me wonder a little. Then there is the fact it is shipped DHL from Korea, so that adds on a bit.
- The backdrops. While the colours are fine, the material they are made of easy wrinkles and damages. I will be getting some cloth photography backgrounds myself at some point to replace them.

All in all I am really happy with the product though. The backdrops I have are more than adequate for now. I will say if you have the space and the ability, I might suggest still making your own. I have done it before, it was just too big for my last move. But if you are looking for something ready out of the box, good quality. and portable, you can't do better.

Here are some photos I was able to do in just a few minutes. It honestly took me more time to take out the minis (let alone put away) than do the entire photo session.

I went with a white background for most of these, but grey on some. I think I am going to stick to grey from now on. The grey ones seems to pick out the vibrancy of the model better IMO.

Freehand Blood Angels Banner.

Blood Angel's Emperor's Champion

Port Call 2: Pictures

Here are some old photo's of my fleet. Not everything I listed is in it yet and they are not very good images. The second picture is the Terra Class Battleship Jutland (the first Terra to exist as far as I know).

The Terra was made from a Retirbution Class Hull. I added the old Master of the Ravenwing pit to the prow after cutting off the eagle. As well I took the bridge off the Retirbution's superstructure and put on a plastic chaos cruiser bridge. To make it a Terra Class, you just do 2 WB sets and one lance set.

The colour scheme is an attempt to look older and worn, with the blue and white markings being the newest paint jobs, the rest of the ship being rather bare. They started out as just the reddish look with the white and blue, but one day I spilled my boltgun metal, so instead of letting it go to waste I put it on my fleet at the time (6 cruisers and a Battleship) and it looked decent enough that I stuck with it. All were painted when drybrushing was the thing to do rather than highlighting or layering.

Port Call

So in themed with my last post a few minutes ago, I thought I'd let you know about one of my forces I have (and my most complete at the moment).

Battleships:
Emperor Class Conqueror (Converted from Ret. Class)
Retribution Class Champion of Order
Terra Class Jutland (Converted from Ret. Class, I did the original concept submition)
Invincible Class Count Moriathas (Converted from 2 plastic cruisers and 1 dauntless)

Non IN cruisers:
Punisher Strike Cruiser Audacious (Converted from dauntless and plastic cruiser along with Invincible battleship, maybe I will do 1 more of each with a hobby article)
Blood Angels Strike Cruiser Crour Angelus

Imperial Cruisers:
Lunar Class Retribution
Lunar Class Lord Daros (NC variant)
Gothic Class Relentless
Gothic Class Usurper
Dictator Class Uragal Hammer
Dictator Class Archduke Tymalt
Tyrant Class Zealous (45 cm WB)
Tyrant Class Dominion (45 cm WB)
Dominator Class Jade Dynasty

Battlecruisers:
Mars Class Imperious (Lft Col Shift)
Armageddon Class Gethsemane
Overlord Class Cypra Probati

Escorts:
Red Squadron Firestorms; Hannibal, Marauder, Prophet
Anvil Squadron Firestorms; Leviathan, Kraken, Behemoth
Alpha Squadron Firestorms; Cardinal Domingo, Constellation, Renown
Bronze Squadron Falcions; Nunc Agh Semper, Governor Hiatious, Ebon Hawk
White Squadron Falcions; Vossian Pride, Graf Spee, Miracle
Zulu Squadron Falcions; Hatchet, Hindenburg, Incandescent 
Saber Squadron Swords; Macedon, Boeotia, Thermopylae
Viper Squadron Cobras; Count Malaflour, Martyr, Revelation
Escort Carrier Squadron; Ticonderoga, Wasp, Oriskany

So this is based off Battlefleet Armageddon. My personal name for my fleet is Battlefleet Divinity.

Pictures will appear later.

Hobby: What I am up to

POLL RELATED POST:

So I thought I'd let you guys know what I am working on between school work and actually playing:

Aeronautica Imperialis
Unpainted: 1 & ½ thunderbolts, 2 Vultures

Battlefleet Gothic:
Unpainted: 6 falcions, 3 firestorms, 1 & ½ escort carriers

Blood Bowl:
Unpainted: 3 ogres built and primed
Unprimed: 1 ogre built
Required: 1 ogre, Snotlings (guardsmen double for them right now)

40K:
Armoured Company:
Unpainted: Baneblade, Vanquisher, Conqueror, Battletank
Unbuilt: Marcharius Vanquisher
Uncompleted: 2 Conqueror, 1 Vanquisher, 3 Demolishers, 2 Battletanks
Needed to be stripped and repainted: Thunderbolt Flyer

Blood Angels: These guys were stripped last fall to be completely redone
Unpainted: 59 marines, 5 Terminators, 1 Furioso Dreadnought
To be touched up: Librarian, Rhino, Moriar the Chosen, 1 Baal Predator
To be repainted: 1 Assault Marine, 1 Rhino, 1 Vindicator, 1 Land Raider, 1 Landspeeder
Unbuilt: Terminator Captain conversion, 4 marine conversions (all from Marneus Calgar and Honour guard)

Imperial Guard
Unpainted: Chimera, Armageddon Pattern Basilisk, 51 Guardsmen (including stormtroopers and other metal models), 5 heavy weapon bases, 5 Grey Knight Terminators

Brettonians
Unpainted: 16 peasant bowmen, 4 defensive stakes, 2 damsels, 1 trebuchet and crew, 2 pegasus knights, 9 knights errant, 5 knights, 5 questing knights, 2 hero knights
To repaint: Lord on Hippogryph

Misc:
2 Orks, 1 Dwarf slayer

PROJECTS:
Knight Scratch Build
Blood Angels Revamp
Snotling conversions
Terminator Captain Conversion
Creed Commissar Conversion

So yeah, thats alot to do. Wish me luck.

WHERE WOULD YOU START? Poll over there --->

Aeronautica Imperialis 0 (0%)
Battlefleet Gothic 2 (11%)
Blood Bowl 2 (11%)
Armoured Company 1 (5%)
Blood Angels 4 (23%)
Imperial Guard 2 (11%)
Brettonians 0 (0%)
Painting anything 1 (5%)
Conversions 2 (11%)
Repainting 1 (5%)
Superheavies 2 (11%)
Touching up things 0 (0%)