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That is a couple of really cool characters. Love the photo.

Cool characters and beautiful lighting.
Is it a repainted Villa head?

Cool project! I am looking forward to your fallout diorama. I have loved the video game series from its very beginning in the 90s. Furthermore, I guess soon a head sculpt of Ella Purnell (Lucy in the Amazon Prime series) will be published.

Seems like You've been busy with the cyberpunk world, as someone that's spent 515 hours in that game I can almost hear the ads playing in the back of my head, specially the Orgiatic one and Nicola one. Great work on their looks too and also great job on that fallout terminal, now you just need to have it set to the max security setting on it and hide a journal entry about some dude being angry another office worker drank his nuka cola or something.

Visisonor wrote:Cool characters and beautiful lighting.
Is it a repainted Villa head?

Thanks! It's a Pop Costume head with moveable eyes. I just combined two of their recent heads to get this one.

ElBundy wrote:Cool project! I am looking forward to your fallout diorama. I have loved the video game series from its very beginning in the 90s. Furthermore, I guess soon a head sculpt of Ella Purnell (Lucy in the Amazon Prime series) will be published.

Thanks, Oliver!
I started with Fallout 2 and have since played all of them I would love to get an Ella Purnell head, though I mostly like her voice-acting (Jinx in Arcane!).

I just finished another prop for the diorama...

The next "Fallout" prop ... Scientific instruments by Randam Hajile, auf Flickr

Theboo-bomb wrote:Seems like You've been busy with the cyberpunk world, as someone that's spent 515 hours in that game I can almost hear the ads playing in the back of my head, specially the Orgiatic one and Nicola one. Great work on their looks too and also great job on that fallout terminal, now you just need to have it set to the max security setting on it and hide a journal entry about some dude being angry another office worker drank his nuka cola or something.    

Thank you so much! I think we share the same passion about Cyberpunk worlds! I love your cyberpunk characters and dioramas.

Dark Knight and Brianna, check! Thank you! Amazing combination. I've rarely seen a head I liked more, if ever. Seriously. You got great taste.  

AAAAnd another great photo. Great prop, and great posing of the Russian model.

Very nicely painted prop!

Superb Ralf. One of my faves of yours! really impressed!

Your figurine really has a pretty face. Besides, I bought this head thanks to your photos

French wrote:Your figurine really has a pretty face. Besides, I bought this head thanks to your photos

Funny isn't it, how we all end up influencing, and inspiring each other in one way or another .

BAMComix wrote:

French wrote:Your figurine really has a pretty face. Besides, I bought this head thanks to your photos

 Funny isn't it, how we all end up influencing, and inspiring each other in one way or another .

Yes, see what everyone does and others give ideas.
What body did you use for your figurine?

What a cool accessory for your Fallout dio. She’s so pretty, too. As always, excellent photo.

The 3D-printed "server rack" came out great!
The vault dweller looks awesome too.

Excellent new diorama piece and another beautiful look at your lady.

Thanks for the kind comments!

I recently got the PopToys Aries Ariel-Figure and took her to the woods for some outdoor shooting.

Poptoys Ariel by Randam Hajile, auf Flickr

Poptoys Ariel by Randam Hajile, auf Flickr

PopToys Ariel by Randam Hajile, auf Flickr

Poptoys Ariel by Randam Hajile, auf Flickr

Thanks for looking at my pics!
-Ralf

She is pretty. She has a pretty face

Wonderful pictures again, Ralf. She looks so young. What magnificent armor. I imagine her as a young warrior from Greek mythology. Thanks for the beautiful outdoor pictures.


That in the first picture is an additional blunt weapon ?

Oh wow!!! She looks fantastic! And your photos of course are gorgeous!

I have both of them on PO with KG, so... again... I'll have to wait a little longer to get mine. But I'm really looking forward to getting them. They'll definitely stay in my collection.

Amazing pics Ralf, and such a pretty sculpt too!

That armor's pretty cool!

Beautiful outdoors photos, Ralf, well done!

Yes, the armor is realistic (i.e. not a chainmail bikini).
Beautiful headsculpt, and great outdoors shots!

Randam Hajile wrote:
I actually only use basic lighting techniques. There is a method called 3-point lighting, wherein you use two lamps to illuminate your object in front and one for the background. If you position the lamps correctly, the object will really "pop" out of the image. There are tons of tutorials on this on Youtube. I found that it really pays off to have two dedicated LED lights (with color control) to establish the lighting of the object in front. Mostly, my background light comes from the TV screen, on which a background picture is shown. It is actually pretty simple.

THIS makes me hopeful I can finally take good pictures! Thank you! If any of my pictures have looked good, it'd been a total fluke and I could never reproduce it, so it's been frustrating. I will try method this soon!

Thanks, folks! I'm happy that you like Ariel!

Ephiane wrote:
Wonderful pictures again, Ralf. She looks so young. What magnificent armor. I imagine her as a young warrior from Greek mythology. Thanks for the beautiful outdoor pictures.


That in the first picture is an additional blunt weapon ?

Thanks, Ephiane! This new series of figures from PopCostume is tied to the zodiac signs, with Ariel representing Aries. I especially like that the figure wears tough armor that looks adequate for a ancient Greek warrior. I really want to stage her in a fight with the TBleague Medusa now. Too bad that the Medusa is too fragile for outdoor shots...

The weapon in the first picture is a heavy metal mace with an Aries head.

Diana wrote:Oh wow!!! She looks fantastic! And your photos of course are gorgeous!

I have both of them on PO with KG, so... again... I'll have to wait a little longer to get mine. But I'm really looking forward to getting them. They'll definitely stay in my collection.

I really like the head with the moveable eyes, but for some strange reasons, PopToys went with pale skin color here, which makes it appear somewhat flat in photos. To make things worse, the body is a suntan S23B.

I hope that you receive your copy of the figure soon, as it is an outstanding figure despite these minor flaws. The metal armor is really great.  

JulietD wrote:

Randam Hajile wrote:
I actually only use basic lighting techniques. There is a method called 3-point lighting, wherein you use two lamps to illuminate your object in front and one for the background. If you position the lamps correctly, the object will really "pop" out of the image. There are tons of tutorials on this on Youtube. I found that it really pays off to have two dedicated LED lights (with color control) to establish the lighting of the object in front. Mostly, my background light comes from the TV screen, on which a background picture is shown. It is actually pretty simple.

THIS makes me hopeful I can finally take good pictures! Thank you! If any of my pictures have looked good, it'd been a total fluke and I could never reproduce it, so it's been frustrating. I will try method this soon!

3-point lighting is a really nice starting point to improve the placing of light sources. It can make a huge difference on how much depth a photo can convey. There is still a lot of trial-and-error in finding the right lamp spots and intensities, so please don't get too frustrated, if the improvement is incremental.

Beautiful figure, and the photos are great. Nice work, Ralf.

Thanks, Mark!


This might not be of general interest, but could be informative for other Fallout fans. I've continued my work on my Fallout vault diorama. A fellow collector inspired me to print a Mr. Handy robot. There are some nice, poseable models available, but there is always no clear information on the scale...

I went with this free model...
https://www.printables.com/en/model/21227-mr-handy-with-guts-fallout-4

So here are two WIP shots. The first shows the almost complete robot which turns out to be 1:5 scale. It's partly sanded and not painted, yet.

Working on Mr. Handy by Randam Hajile, on Flickr

I rescaled it with a factor of 0.85, which looks much more in scale now (judging from the already printed parts)...

Working on Mr. Handy... by Randam Hajile, on Flickr

Chloe really wants to finish her work on Mr. Handy, but some parts are still printing.

Nice work, and impressive attention to detail/accuracy. I'm sure the final result will be just right. But Chloe steals the show.

Pretty cool, Ralf. Resizing it really helped. Chloe looks good as a Vault Dweller.

Really great work Ralf. I wish I had your skills to create such amazing props. Keep up the great work!