My New Light Box and a few Afghans and SIkhs

So Mrs C the finance deartment bought me a nice lightbox for Christmas to help with the taking of pcitures. Not entirely sure about it yet, I wonder if its bright enough, but here is a trial run with a bunch of figues painted over the Christmas break.

The box itself comes flatpacked in a simple bag and folds out into a box quite easily, it comes with a umber of coloured backgrounds, so far I have only tried the white.

This right hand Afghan horseman is new and I like the washed out buff and blue colours.

The horse is a Perry Afghan horse and the rider an old Foundry one, it matches perfectly with the Perry Afghan behind on the same base.

This chap is another of the 5 Foundry Afghans I have in the same pose different colour schemes to distinguish him. 

The next couple I used a pallette with pale blue, orange and Green for the most part, works well for the Sikhs I feel.

The softer lighting has its limitiations but is a bit kinder on the close ups.

Thats same pallette again, I particularly like how this Sikh lancer has come out. Foundry again.

This armoured sowar has again the same basic Pallette, the horse is however a Foundry Polish horse, it fits quite nicely I feel.

My assumption here is that I need some natural light to augment the LED's in the box and bring the colours out a little more so I am trying that next. 

It started snowing so I thought I would get one of my Perry retreat from Moscow Cossacks out and paint him, came out quite nice.

You can see that with the added natural light it is slightly brigher but also casts a slight shadow.

I took another one with a lot ore natural light, this didnt really work any better and casts more shadow, so I am thinking that it may need a little help from an external LED light. One to try next time perhaps.

This last one ts a British Carlist Wars General I am using for Sikh Wars, added some natural light and also played around with phone settings slightly better?

Not quite the resounding success I was hoping for but these last two shots of Baluchi's I actually rather like, using the natural light and then tidying the picture up on the phone before loading..

So whilst I will probably use the little vignette and the free standing LED lights approach for displaying the latest figures to jump off the workbench this does give me a nice option for displaying individual figures. I will certainly get some use out of this nice present.

Thanks Mrs C.