Aloa Jungle Painters,

the last weeks kept us pretty busy and we totally forgot about
Massive Voodoo's Birthday.

September 17th 2015 was the date, when the MV blog turned six years old.
Six years of daily miniature painting inspiration, tutorials, reviews, event reports, painting classes and happy painting spirits. Six years and we forget about it. This year we do not find proper time to celebrate the jungle's birthday.

For last years 5th birthday we presented you the BANANALICIOUS CONTEST 2 as our birthday gift to our readers and to fullfil this gift we took almost a year. This year we have nothing for you. Just plain nothing, BUT we have some future changes ahead concerning the Massive Voodoo Team.
Stay tuned for more updates!

 
Now it is up to you!
You know nice words about the work we do always make us feel more happy and keep us motivated.
We ask you to write down your own Massive Voodoo experience via comment to this post.




Now what is your Massive Voodoo experience?
Your story connected to Massive Voodoo?
Since when do you read Massive Voodoo?
What did you learn from Massive Voodoo's way of teaching miniature painting?
What made you really happy in the last years when you look back at you, your painting table and the experiences you made there connected to MV?

Why do we need your motivation right now?
Well, we told you we were busy and we still are. After Roman and Raffa returned from their trip to the US the directly dived into their studio renovation.

We are about to strip our studio bare naked and clean, paint and improve EVERYTHING!
Right now we are in the middle of process and it is more or less a professional miniature painter's mess ...




















We will keep you updated about the next days progress and our plans.
We also hope to have the updated studio back in quite a short time as everyone of us wants to paint and sculpt and work on projects.

Well, not right now!
First this has to be done!

More soon and well ... happy birthday Massive Voodoo Jungle!
Keep on happy painting everyone!
Your  MV-Team

 

 Good Morning Jungle Painters,

it's been a while and it took as a while to finally bring you the review of a cool private coaching we had in early 2015 with Sebastian. Why it took us so long? Well, we can not say and in the end it doesn't matter as here it is :D

Find more private coaching reviews here!

Sebastian is well known to the jungle teachers, as he took part in several of Jar's Beginners classes, a BÄM class and Jar's Basing class. He is such a learning force that Roman always tells him how proud he is as a teacher. Sebastian improved so much in the last two years and even helped Roman as a co-teacher during one of his seminars. Now Sebastian wanted to take the extra step forward and sit together with Raffa and Roman in a private coaching.

Sebastian will talk about his experience he made while taking his two day private coaching in Augsburg, in the MV HQ. We want to thank Sebastian for his kind words and the time he took to write down his experiences.

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Sebastian says:
"Arriving in the Massive Voodoo headquarters I was welcomed by Raffa and Roman as we haven’t seen in five years. 

After I made comfortable at my working spot we spoke and repeated the topics we wanted to tackle in the coaching that were important to me. And those were quite a lot. So we decided to treat some topics a bit less as the time just won’t be enough. And there was another important rule I had to follow while being in the studio: “feel like you’re home”.

Then we started right away. Raffa showed me how different a color can look by just changing the colors next to it. At this point I realized how well the two prepared for my coaching. After this first lesson we started by base coating the mini. Right after that we started painting … with desaturated colors. 

 
Here Roman took over again and explained it with his mini (Both painted their own projects that were matched with my topics). It was a little bit like in the beginner class. Just that there weren’t spirit-lifting and motivated words waiting for me but carrot and stick. This really gave me a lot of motivation to go on and keep improving. In the twinkling of an eye we continued with the next topic: fur. Now it was Raffas turn again. He explained the topic to me in a very easy understandable, experienced and confident way. In between there were always some miniatures to look at for demonstration purposes. It felt like the fur topic was covered very quickly, but this was just my feeling as the first day was already slowly drawing to a close. 

Sebastian brought some of his projects...
After a good night of sleep the second day was there. 
The first topic to cover was ‘metal’. I was already expecting a funny and exciting day. Roman took over again and we started with the day. The more we talked about metal and covered the topic the more my jaw hit the floor. I never could imagine that you can do so much when painting metals. Raffa did a painting demonstration on a dwarfen shield on how to paint freehanded three dimensional shapes by using metallic colors. From this I was at a point that I had the last time on a beginner workshop: rien ne va plus – end of the line. The shower with information was so enormous that my brain went into stand-by. 



Raffa and Roman quickly recognized this and continued a little slower. Raffa continued by explaining OSL effects on finished projects and we already arrived at the end of the second day. 

At the end of the private coaching we had a talk about how my experience was, what could be done better, etc. I can just advice on anyone thinking about a private class the following: choose no more than two topics. Everything else is too much! I just want to say that those topics were the most important ones, we covered much more. If I would write down all we did in those two days I need to write a book. I can just recommend the private coaching to anyone that wants to improve his painting skills. 

Not an easy bust for two days ...


Use the chance to strive forward! 
Both of them were really well prepared and quickly adjusted to my needs when needed. Both took care for my well-being as a grandma takes care when their grandchild comes for a visit … just milk and cookies were missing (comment by Raffa: we will work on this issue ;-) 

It was a great and very rewarding experience and I will return for sure! 

Best regards 
Sebastian

A wonderful movie -
I saw it on the plane to the US and was simply amazed.
If you got the chance see it!

Aloa Jungle Painters,
 
a newly finished bust from my table. Version 2 of this 1:12 bust.
Orc-halla awaits! Really cool subject. Just imagine Viking Orcs roaming the sea and ravaging the shores. Nothing more to say! Close your eyes or look at this bust and see Orc-halla arise!

The version 1 I've painted was more a colorful experiment, this version 2 is more the "normal" version in traditional look.

I am planning on writing a detailed Miniatures Unpacked and a step by step on this bust's two versions that I have painted. Well, not just right now as preparing all the photos and such is always a lot of work and my life is busy right now with some private things and we just returned from the states as we were at the Nova Open 2015.

All will take a little while, but I am looking forward to write these for you with all the patience it needs. So far, I hope you enjoy the model.
 

Ragnok, Norse Orc Hero
Comission Work
1/12 Bust by Fer Miniatures/Forged Monkey
Sculptor: Raffaele Picca
Painter: Roman Lappat


More photos via Putty&Paint!
Keep on happy painting!
Best Wishes
Roman

Hello Jungle Painters,

Raffa and Roman returned home from their US trip and fighting their own little battles to get rid of the jetlag.

After spending a great time at the Nova Open 2015 in Washington D.C. both went for some days of holidays to New York City. Now it is time to unwrap all their impressions and get your jungle blog rollin' again.

Let's start with a review on the great event that was Nova Open 2015.
To see more event reviews check this link!

Check Nova Open on facebook to recieve updates!


The Nova Open is a big event focusing on Tabletop Tournaments, including many different games and tons of great gaming tables. Many gamers made their way to D.C. to be part of it and the athmosphere there was just wonderful.

We want to thank Mike, Laurie, Dewey and Joanna for first inviting us to the show and second for their unconditional help and support in organisational matters. We felt so welcome from the first minute on and the time spent at the show was just too cool!







We also want to give a shout out to our british friends from GBHL Podcast with whom we meet up for a spontaneous beer in the hotel lobby bar. These guys are totally crazy when it comes to Lord of the Rings tabletop and sharing their hobby experience. It was our pleasure to meet up with you guys!
Check out their NOVA Journey's Vlogs - here is one with a spontaneous chat of Jamie and Roman:




We also want to thank everyone who took part in the raffle of our painted miniatures. Congratulations to the lucky winners! It was our pleasure to help the Nova Open Charitable Foundation raise money for charity!

Again back to CJ's great photos and her in action. Always behind the camera!





Crazy fellas!