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October 24, 2021 at 10:02 am #1688661

blinky465

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I really wish there was better light in my flat/basement/hole, but for now I’m stuck where I am

Get yourself one of these (or something similar):

I paint in what we grandly call my wife’s “studio”. It’s an extension we put on the back of the house for when her mother came to live with us, but it’s south-facing and gets sunlight. I thought this would be awesome for painting minis but what it means is, unless I sit in the window (where my paints dry out super-fast) everywhere I sit, something is casting a shadow!

I tried all kinds of different lights – overhead, desklamps, freestanding lamps with bendy necks… this thing was a game-changer. It was the best twenty quid I’d spent on hobby in a very long time! I hear your protestations of student poverty. This one costs £20 and you can change the “warmth” of the light and has about five different brightness levels – all the functionality of a “pro” lamp, at the cost of a super-budget one 😉