Ok I've put up my first stab at a weekly sci-fi & fantasy metal miniatures review show up on YouTube.
I know a few of you here like your GW minis etc so you may be interested to take a look (you also get to hear me mumbling).
Making this damn thing took an age & overcoming inumerable techie problems, but it still manages to look distinclty amateur & mucks up in parts. I just hope I'm on a learning curve!
Link: Colonel Marbles Miniatures Review Vidcast #01
That's really good.
I got a real seventies BBC 2 feel to your broadcasting and enthusiasm for the figures which, of course are nothing short of sculpture.
Keep it up Colonal. Nothing to stop you now!
I wanna be in the that wild west game, right enough, Colonel, sah!
I presume it's horribly difficult to do - but you've achieved by accident what Chumley-Warner does on purpose with your choppy SFX - it would look clever if the screen glitched in time with it.
(Not the intention, I know.)
I was entertained by it. It's a few years since I painted a miniature, and there were some quite impressive ones on display there.
Well done marbles, it's good to see this sort of thing going on, and a great use of Youtube. I hope you continue with it!
Not at all bad. I like the format, and the editing is generally well done - audio glitches aside.
My only criticism would be that I think I'd prefer to see miniatures that you own, or that you've been able to see in person. Apart from the obvious benefit of being able to show off the figures in higher quality pics, and from any angle, I always think these review/preview shows carry more weight - and are often more entertaining & informative - when the reviewer has actually had hands-on experience with what they're reviewing.
Perhaps it just isn't practical, and if not I'd certainly still be happy to see more of these shows. I may not have the time or inclination to get back into miniatures/modelling in any major way, but I always enjoy seeing what's new in the field.
Well, Marbles could always contact companies once he's been going a bit and get them to send free samples for review!
Aye, right enough. I didn't mean that post above to sound too harsh - I really did enjoy the show!
I wasn't really saying you were being harsh.
Marbles, have you considered using video footage? My digital camera has a video feature, and it's getting easier and cheaper these days to do this stuff. Might be worth thinking about.
Cheers
Paul
It's alright - I was actually re-reading my post when I was replying to yours & I started worrying that what I'd written came across a bit harsh :-)
BTW - I've just Googled MSB Toys, and there's some bloody amazing stuff on there. I'm particularly taken by Captain Crayfish and the Rhine Demon Hunter. Very cool (and expensive!) figures.
I really rather enjoyed that and I'd normally not give a toss about figures (far to close to the dreaded gonks for comfort...) and your obvious enthusiam carried you over the gliches. (I'd love to see 'whole lotta love' dubbed into the background...)
Yeh MSB Toys do have an incredible range. I have to work with online pics unless i get preview sample sent to me & I need a track record for that.
The audio glitches are really iritating because sometimes they happen when basically as far as I can see there is nothing wrong with the audio file or the compiling program. Grrr.
Anyway thanks for the kind words. I think YouTube is an amazing resource - I'm sure there it could be used by 2K fandom somehow.