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[DarrylWestley]

http://www.monstercollecting.com

I welcome other user participation to fill any gaps.
Work in progress so expect more sections in the future.

Thumbnails are sized 107px x 80px but larger files may
later be used to for an enlarging function. Please see
attached example of photograph close up here:
http://www.littlerub...mp;#entry259498

I would prefer entries to be of a similar style.

Thanks all

Edited by jkaris, 27 February 2010 - 09:02 AM.

[Soupie]

Beautiful! I LOVE it! Well done!

[Strontium Dog]

I love it - except white text on a light grey background is barely legible... maybe darken that grey up somewhat?

And less important, but right now there's no distinction made between figures for which there is no photo yet, and figures which don't exist, perhaps this can be addressed too.

[DarrylWestley]

Interesting as someone else is just making comment about the white text!
I have received one compliment and two complaints on it's choice at the
moment. Here is my rational for choosing white.

1. It ties in with the colour bar at the top, which has to accommodate a lot
of different coloured backgrounds. I didn't want to have to change the colour
of the font several times on this bar. Although I am aware it will become
problematic for the Peru: White!

2.The labels I purposely wanted to be muted because I felt the visual impact
of the thumbnails would be compromised. I was relying on the common knowledge
of people knowing these figures. In addition there may be a more legible list of
the monsters for each release on each series homepage.

I take on board your suggestion and tweak the colour of the grey slightly to
improve matters for legibility.

Regarding missing Monsters... I would prefer the website to be an open source
at the moment. Contributions revealing which Monsters exist. As we have seen
recently with the unearthing a Pink Jotun Troll, if I had created this a few months
back I may have indicated it didn't exist!

Thanks for the comments.

I have just made alterations - only 7 of the labels are darker at the moment.
I think there is a marked improvement. I shall do the others when I have
more time.

[DarrylWestley]

Thanks to Federico for his recent photograph submissions. He has been trying
to get a similar style to fit in with the existing images.

www.monstercollecting.com/1-premium.html

His are the Pine Green and Blue Griffins.

[jack cambrian]

Utterly brilliant Darryl. Love your work. (And boy have you got the neon yellow figures covered!)

I don't have many figures not already photographed, but I could fill in the gaps of a few of them. I'll will endevour to have some photos in the email soon.

[DarrylWestley]

Yes I think the pattern certainly highlights my favorite Matchbox colour!

Thanks Jack, any gap fillers would be much appreciated.
Also thanks to Federico who has now provided a wealth of images for the
Premium section.

[Nyarlathotep]

My personal opinion is that you should always arrange colors according to the color spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple.
You obviously have the right to arrange them however you want, but your system is arbitrary to the point of being illogical.

P.S. You also posted the wrong photo-example link in your first post of this thread.

Lots of ways to look at color. For example his premium section is almost completely ordered by ascending Luminosity, which for some viewers makes more sense visually.

[jack cambrian]

I think the colour order works fine. In reality, any order put on the Matchbox colours would be entirely arbitrary. Although I think that it's neatest and most appropriate to have [Original colours in what ever order] then [Neon equivalents in the same order] which Darryl has done (and which would not be concordant with a colour spectrum).

[DarrylWestley]

After hearing the comment from Brojo regarding figures ordered according
to the colour spectrum, I reassessed the Mexico section.

But the others I choose to order according to personal harmony on my eye.
Thanks Jack for highlighting my logical pattern in the Matchbox section and
Nyarlathotep for also making the claim for personal colour perception.

I didn't realize I couldn't upload files in this section so have some alternative
links here instead

1.
Here is what the Matchbox colours would look like according to Brojo's colour
theory: http://www.monsterco...om/spectrum.jpg
Personally I am not a fan, I prefer the contrasts of colours next to each other
in my current example. Plus at this stage we are talking a lot of work
rearranging HTML to make such a change.

2.
Photo example: http://www.monsterco...oto-example.jpg

PS - I want to see a photograph of your fruit bowl Brojo

Edited by DarrylWestley, 11 March 2010 - 07:04 AM.

[DarrylWestley]

1. Indeed, it is difficult to please everyone

2. This is interesting as you quote "GormTransMonsters". It was in fact through
recent exchange with him that I came up with the Series 3 classification. As I
don't own any of the sculpts, advise was essential...

For me I have tried to rely on general use of terms as much as possible. We
actually determined the correct 'Blue' for Nabisco as 'Dodger Blue' but decided
against it in the classification. We browsed many charts like the one you
linked to, many were inconsistent. It came down to swings and roundabouts.

Your stipulation of "Purple", or possibly "Byzantium" ties in with your link and
this one we browsed a lot: http://en.wikipedia..../List_of_colors
I will leave this to the owners of Series 3 to fight out.

Note: I call my Series 1 Matchbox figure: Purple. When compared to Mexican
Dark Purple it really does not seem so 'dark'. I am aware some people refer to
it as this. I have been trying to balance the sections with as simple terms as
possible. Other suggestions are always welcome. Is it important the
section correlate?

3. Thank you, I am glad it meets the Brojo seal of a approval I look forward
to 'voluntary' contributions, especially in the Mexico, Peru and Argentina sections.

[BaltanII]

Literally the only problem I see at all right now is the "neon magenta" moniker for Series 2 and 3. I cannot test it at the moment, but does it pass the actual test for magenta or is this a misnomer? I had thought that the Series 1 neon color was more like magenta than them. If that's the case, "neon magenta" should be either neon pink or simply pink.

[DarrylWestley]

Thanks Boaconda for highlighting Neon Magenta for discussion. My initial labeling for the
Premium section was:

Pine Green, Series 2 Blue, Series 2 Orange, Series 2 Pink, Series 2 Green

I then made this alteration with the intention of the Series 2 section matching:

Pine Green, Neon Blue, Neon Orange, Neon Pink, Neon Green (clash with Series 1 colour)

The current labeling was again through some discussion and Magenta being a reference
that has been used for sometime.

The process magenta here is pretty similar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magenta

But I am happy to change this back to Neon Pink, if everyone is agreeable.

[BaltanII]

I think the change should be made only once it's confirmed it's magenta or not.

As seen here, and previously mentioned somewhere on the site.

http://www.biotele.com/magenta.html

A consensus on the colors, like they are in M.U.S.C.L.E., really needs to happen.

Edited by Boaconda, 12 March 2010 - 08:20 AM.

[Nyarlathotep]

The difference between magenta and pink in general is only in naming I believe. Primary magenta specifically is made up of only red and blue, so I believe it does not quite fit based on the images on your site. Checking them I've detected some green in all of them, which is hardly exact (due to variations inherent in all photography). Among other named colors, some are called pink, and some are called magenta (and some both, see Pale Magenta/Light Fuchsia Pink and Light Magenta/Fuchsia Pink) The most exact way would to measure the color as reliably as possible and find the closest named color.

Edited by Nyarlathotep, 12 March 2010 - 01:34 PM.

[DarrylWestley]

Thank you for those who have made recent contributions.
Updates on pages: Series 1 Mexico, Series 1 Premium, Series 3 Nintendo

For those that have a lot of images to send and are concerned about
files sizes/sending many emails. To prevent clogging up both of our
email addresses. I can recommend this website:

http://free.mailbigf...php?referer=www

If you zip all your files together (each named accordingly). Then use
this free service. I will be notified via email and can just download
the file.

[DarrylWestley]

Series 1 - Matchbox is now complete

http://www.monsterco...1-matchbox.html

Thanks to trumanshower for his contributions.
Credits now appearing at the footer of each page.

[jack cambrian]

Matchbox section complete = awesome. Now, where'd you get the photo of the magenta Jotun Troll?

[DarrylWestley]

jroc79 - Unfortunately not another example

[Soupie]

Wow. Looks beautiful, mate! Keep up the great work everybody!

[BaltanII]

You've single-handedly put to shame the older MIMP figure archives that I've relied on until now, with that complete Matchbox set. Owning most of them yourself certainly doesn't hurt.

Congrats! Still room to grow with the premiums etc.