Taking Pictures

Taking photo of your minis is always a problem. The light is never how it should be, and getting the camera's settings just right is quite a burden. The internet is full of do-it-yourself-cardboard-box-photo-studios, but I simply can't store a gigantic, empty box in my apartment.

But today the solution has arrived in the form of a very flat parcel, which unfolds to make a tiny photo studio, hence its name: Foldio. It is lightened by a strip of LED powered by a simple 9-volt battery.

This little wonder was launched not so long ago thanks to a Kickstarter campaign. It is made by California-based Orange Monkey, even though the product itself is produced in Korea (the parcel arrived directly from the country of the quiet morning).

Honestly, I have been quite amazed by the quality of its material and assembly, but above all by its ingenuity. The thing has really been carefully thought through and through. The guys from Orange Monkey repeatedly stated so during their Kickstarter campaign, but the real thing really is "quality".

 Now what about the photos?
Well my first guinea pig will be a spectre. That's a 1999 Warhammer figure that my old friend Frédéric  (yes, older than 1999) gave me (again).

Here it is, photographed "the old way" (veteran hobbyists may notice the "hawk turquoise" with which the mini was painted):

And here is the Foldio treatment, a shot taken in my kitchen, long after dark:

You be the judge.