Tweaking photos, lighting

Those pics of the tanks I last took? They suck. Really. I follow a mantra in miniature photography that there can never be too much light. And in those pictures, this is plainly evident as some colors come out more than others as I use the last non-baby requisitioned lamp I had available. This last lamp I use for painting and is incredibly bright. I saturates EVERYTHING.

It doesn't really do the job and is something I have to remediate.
I also want to redo some of the colors. The boxes look to much like mohagony or some other wood you'd never use as an ammo box.
The mud effects vary as well and I need to bring them into uniform.
And lastly, the highlighting I think leaves something subtle to be desired.

Until then, I fooled around in Gimp to get the effect of this photo,


onto this miniature pic.


It kinda works.