posted by roman, jarhead, kong

posted by roman, jarhead, kong


Aloa,

again it is time for some BANANALICIOUS Painting Contest Update.

First I want to thank another sponsor dropping in. CrazyWenky brings another special price for the best display in the whole contest (a cool figure transport box) and some cool additions to the random prize pool! Many thanks for that!!




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IMPORTANT Addition to the rules:

 - You'll have more time. The Contest ends February 15th 2013. 
One additional month for you to work on all your entries. We thought this fair as we feel that Christmas will bring enough hectic to all of us.

- Judging Information added to the rules.

- Additional photo rule:
When you enter we need one photo showing this follow up banner with the figure/s in one seperate photo. Save it, print it, write your name and date on it, if you are not able to take this one, just write on your own paper the same information:




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Be with us, wear your best shoes and prepare yourself!

Posted by Raffaele "Picster" Picca...

Hey everyone,

as there is a new blog popping up lately I thought it would be interesting for everyone to get a little bit more background information about this blog.

Hello Alfonso!
Would you please introduce yourself to our readers.
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Currently you are about to establish a new blog, "The Visual Flies".
Can you introduce the people behind this blog to us?
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Why did you and your team create this new blog and what is your goal?
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Is the blog all about miniatures or will there also be other content in the future?
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Is the blog planned to be on spain language or will you also introduce translations of content on the long run?
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Do you think the painting world is going through some change? If yes, which kind of direction is the hobby going?
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Thanks for your time!

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Yesterday evening Raffa and I spent the time after we have been invited to an event by the chamber of commerce and industry of Swabia (IHK), here in Ausgburg. The reason for this event was to bring politicians and the local small business sector together with creative artists and groups from the area. It was a kick-off event, the first one with these subjects.

Organised by the IHK Swabia and the team of KuPa (Kulturpark - West) where our studio is located.




We for sure brought some of our miniatures but we did not expect much somehow. C'mon, how could a local brewery for example benefit from our offer to paint figures? We don't know the answer yet, that is why Raffa and I try to bring figure painting more and more into the public world at such events. What we know for sure is that most of the people don't even know about figure painting and when they see it in real they are all amazed. That is why we try to take every chance to spread the word. Thanks to the crew of Kupa for giving us these chances.


In the end it was a very informative evening with a lot of talk, discussion and even music. In the end we both felt that there was maybe not enough time to really get connected with the visitors because of a) a lot of informative talk and b) limited time.

We are looking forward to another chance in the future ...

Spread the word about miniature painting -
 it is for sure a passion that is worth it and we all can be proud of!

Keep on happy layouting ... uhm, painting!
Best Wishes
Roman

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Again - as time is limited - just some short quick views on our workbenches. Beside finishing the Artbooks we can arrange to be in the studio for some hours twice a week. This change is so healthy for us as the time we spent with layout work or Raffa sitting in the dark the whole day to work with calibrated colors makes of kind of crazy ... some say we already haven been before :)

Some Work in Progress teasers ...

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All german painters interested in entering the one and only bananalicious painting contest can now be happy as the german rules are updated now too!

Go check them here!

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posted by roman, jarhead, kong


Hello Jungle friends,

this news is about our Figure Art Artbook campaign that recently passed.

Massive thanks to everyone who supported us there. Really we are overwhelmed by all your help, nice comments and for sure by this success we did not expect.

We want to keep you all updated as daily there are questions dropping in about the further process, for example like this one:

"Is the book already shipped?" 

Right now after the campaign is over and we got final numbers of books we have to print we are working hard on getting the printing files of the books finished these days. We expect this week and maybe some days of the next week for this. After this is done we will give the order for the print in early december. Then we have to wait until everything is printed and delivered, followed by us signing all the books and making your parcels ready. The last step will be shipping them. As it looks like we will manage this before Christmas, at least we work and hope for it.

Another questions that was asked several times:

"I was too late for the campaign and want to buy a book now, please?"

Sorry for the moment. The high priority Raffa and I are working for is getting all supporters of the campaign happy in time. So the official normal sale of the books is definatly not starting before the campaign is fully done and finished. The campaign will be finished when everybody of you who supported us there has recieved his order.

So, before writing more I am back at layouting :)
Keep on happy painting!
Best Wishes
Roman

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posted by roman, jarhead, kong

posted by roman, jarhead, kong



Hello jungle explorers,

another time, another post - this time again a Miniature Unpacked.

This time we are taking a closer look at a pretty young, dynamic and cool miniature company from Italy. Young but for sure not boring. Sergeant Blackart himself gave me the order to show you all one of their cool and unique figures and do this Miniature Unpacked. What is the thing a good recruit is best in? Yes, following orders. So let's get it on ...




 Now what I can say from my first impression - these figures are truely unique from their style. Never seen such ideas before and I am really fascinated by the unique ideas of the italian minds behind those sculpts.

What I can say is that I already was impressed by just the cardbox in which the figure arrives. Very cool design, a lot of fun while unpacking and again ... very unique. I have to say sorry for the first photo as I already unpacked the figure and the left cardboard stripe was brought back on the box with a big fail - upside down und not so nice - that was my fault ...yeah, I know.



After opening I already was kind of confused. Now what is this - the white paper sheet. Strange, never seen something like that before. If you look close there is a threedimensional watermark of Terrible Kids Stuff on the paper and it is "classified". Ok, my confusion grew but I took a deep breath and opened it up:


... which brought me to some stickers and the Artwork of Roosevelt. Pretty nice and again pretty unique style. I was even more corious now to see the sculpt and removed the first layer of foam. And again unique perfection:


I was counting the pieces as the Sergeant told me to do and counted 11. I said to the Sergeant "Sir, there are only eleven pieces, Sir! Not my fault, Sir!" but the Sergeant just replied in a grim tone "Dumb ass recruit, dig deeper!" ... So I did and found a bag of plastic beneath the second layer of foam. And the Sergeant said "Recruit! That pin is yours now!"




Sixteen pieces? Oh dear I can't tell the Sergeant. He is expecting seventeen. So I have to take a closer look on the pieces now which arrived in white metal. The figure is pretty complex with so much pieces but is easy to handle as the parts are fitting together very well. There are some mouldlines here and there which are pretty normal and can be removed easily with careful use of your hobby knife. As far as I have seen the mouldlines do not affect very important areas like the face. They are placed with sense, not randomly and that is nice to see.





CLOSING WORDS
What I can say is that the sculpting work is truely outstanding. As said in the beginning the figure has a lot of parts and a very unique charme and theme. I think the figure can be a healthy change from the 100st zombie or space marine to paint and for sure a lot of fun. I am already beginning some ideas on what I will do with the figure and ...

"RECRUIT!!! Stand still and shut up! Why are there only 16 pieces!!! I hope for your mothers butt that you did not lose one piece!!"

"Sir, I counted while I was in the Studio and now I am at home writing this Miniature Unpacked, Sir! I can't have a look right now where I did los ..."

"You dumb clown of your own! Did I allow you to talk, Recruit? You are not a recruit of mine ... go searching again, and search well! Maybe check this one piece with the cross hair if there is another piece hiding and if not I will make you clean that dirty ground of your studio by using your toothbrush!!!!" 

"Sir, yes, Sir, Sir!" 

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posted by roman, jarhead, kong



Good Morning Jungle visitors,

another Miniatures Unpacked rolling in.
This time it is more a "Material Unpacked" but let's have a look together.
Today I will have a closer look on

Tables for Painting 

by the polish company Hobby Zone.


I was pretty corious on what arrived at the studio, a big but not heavy box which included two small and one big box again.

Professional Paint Station

Size: 60 cm x 40 cm x 8 cm Professional three row table for painting miniatures and models, can also be used as a modeling position. Dimensions: 60 cm