posted by Oli, Honour.Guard, silver leaf

Kulmbach 2011

Crazy Start
My day started at 5.20.. I set in my car and turned my navi on.. and I saw that the arrival time is 10.49. And I had just had time to 11a clock to enter my miniatures in the competition. Finally I had no idea, where it is in Kulmbach :D

4 hours later, I was in Kulmbach at 10.20 and tried to drive to the castle, because my dad said me the expo is on the castle.. but no. In the city was much trouble and I parked my car somewhere beside the street, and packed my stuff and walked in direction to the castle..^^
I wanted to walk up the hill to the castle.. but a woman said me that the competition is in the big tent 100 meters away from me.. and I didn't see it.. what a luck.. ^^
After I was at the tent, I saw my friends, Thomas and Thomas, they showed me where I could enter my stuff.. thanks mates :) Overall a very crazy drive and I wondered why I didn't drive on any highway, but when I came home.. my father checked the navi, and the Highways where turned off.. What the fuck.. who turns this off, that the machine find me a route without highways..? But so I see a little bit more about the beautiful landscape :)

The Expo itself was very affected from historical and especially flat figures, what did really wonder me, because in all competitions I visited before, they weren't many flats enterd.
I bought myself some flat miniatures because I was really impressed by some artworks I saw in the big tent. The cool is, the miniatures are very cheap, 1 Mini - 1 euro and I think it is a good train in painting freehands :P
Also my friend Thomas showed me the Valdemar miniatures some really great sculpts in 1/72 scale. I have to show you some painted versions of these in the next days.. I paint every day and don't take me time for making photos or writing anything on our blog.. In all this trouble I forget my camera.. but my other friend Darkknight sended me some good pictures from the weekend.
Overall I enjoyed this weekend, meeting some friends, looking miniatures.. and winning something inthe competition :P



I would like to say that this miniatures are painted from me, but they aren't.





Diorama from Thomas with 1/72 miniatures, I really like the scene, good job mate ;)



So far.. good night.. damn after a week of non-plus ultra Painting I have to go to work tomorrow once again.

Best regards Oli

posted by roman, jarhead, kong


Big Red Box Games ugly Swamp Troll now ready to fight in your army - he goes to ebay with a fair starting price and i hope he finds a good new home. He is removable from his socket and you can use him with his WHF Monster Base to make him charge your enemys during your wargames ...

Happy Bidding!

posted by roman, jarhead, kong



Enjoy :)

posted by Peter, Baphomet

Finally good weather has arrived in Germany and the monkey-crew is enjoying it a lot. No more rain, just sun and good mood! Big Kong has finally returned from Austria, visiting our brother Robert and taking his well-deserved free time. But I think he will tell you about this soon :) Ignoring the heat, Raffa is painting like crazy and his projects are growing and growing... this will be awesome stuff... It´s a pleasure to sit next to him and watch him doing little voodoo with his brushes. It´s really inspiring and suddenly there is new energy for your own projects ;)

At the moment I´m working on this beautiful Murmillo (made by Pegaso). First I was afraid of its dimensions, but after priming it and painting the basics I was suprised about the joy I felt while holding him in my hands. This is how it should be! So, until now I spent about 6-8 hours and slowly he get´s a special character ;) I´m really curious how he will look in the end because I still have a bundle of very nice ideas for him... I especially look foreward to the freehand for the scutum... ;)


But there are also some other ideas growing for this little nice guy... I won´t tell you now about them, but you should see about whom I´m talking:






So you see there is a lot to do for the summertime and the next big happy event will be this week as some of our Australian friends are coming to Augsburg and visit the monkey crew... so stay tuned!

Some music for the summer!

By the way: I know this is unusual by why shouldn´t I try it this way? As you guys know I have studied history and polics with a specialisation on the Middle East (religion, politics, etc.). In May I tried to get a scholarship for my PhD-thesis, but I was not successful... I´m not angry about the commission´s decicion, as it gave me the time to think about myself and my future. After some weeks of meditation and thinking I´m now looking for a new job and I just wanted to ask, if probably somebody of you work for an NGO, political foundation or think-tank with a focal point on the Middle East... if they´re looking for new colleagues I would be happy, if you would give me a hint and send me an email ;)

Now back to the balcony and enjoying the sun ;)

Best wishes,
Peter

posted by roman, jarhead, kong

“Home, the spot of earth supremely blest; A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest”

Posted by Raffa, Picster, Capuchin,...

Still rockiiiiin ooooon! I just hate freehand work, i have to concentrate like a madman to get a fine line... maybe it's just my eyes.... :(

Here is my result after around 6 hours of work.
It's still not final, but at the moment i leave it like that and concentrate on other areas :)




Cheers,
Raffa

posted by Raffa, Picster, Capuchin,...

Hey everyone,

normally i really try to avoid this... selling my miniatures, it always hurts the heart a little bit but sometimes i can't avoid it.

So if you like one of these, just drop me a mail at
PICSTER (AT) MASSIVEVOODOO (DOT) COM

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