Crisis 2014 Antwerp

Well it was very quite on my little blog for the past few weeks. To be honest I did not paint to much over the last week as work and familiy prohibts.
But I did find time to go to the Crisis show in Antwerp last weekend together with my friend Andy from Hagen Miniatures. We had a great time selling models and chatting to friends and customers and yes spend to much money on new shiney bits and bobs..
Here are the pics.

Back from Holidays

Well friends it has benn a while since I last posted something.
I was quite busy at work till end of August. And from 27 of August I was away for two weeks to Mallorca Spain. To cut  a long story short.....it was hot there, well very hot with temperatures ranging up to 34C.
Anyway it was good to relax a bit. Read a Bernard Cornwell book ( The Pagan King - buy it!!!) had lots of cider in an English pub ( yep English pub !!! ) and lots of food ( never ever take an All-In hotel otherwise you want to ruin your perfectly shaped body ;-> ).

At the moment theplanning goes to the final stages for making the nex bunch of Mexican Bandits for my Coal Ridge Models range. This time it will be 8 mounted ones. So expect more Hollywood / Italo Spagheti Western mean looking never-do-wells.....after that I am thinking of making some Banditas / Soldaderas (female mexican fighters) and of course the mexican Gun team is taking shape.

Cheerio my friends

Mad Markus needs some Magners Berry

Legends of the Old West

Back for business....
It is my first day of my holidays and just a few days before I hit the road to Spain. So until then I have some time to post the latest pics of the models I painted up during the last couple of weeks. As some may know I am a big fan of Wild West movies and also the Legends of the Old West rules from Warhammer Historical. Sadly out of print and only available through Ebay for some hefty sums or through some really conspicious sites from the dark side of the Internet.
But enough of that here are the pics. Have fun...

The models are all from Black Scorpion and Artizan. The Indian vignette is from Old Glory packed inside their big packs of Woodland Indians.
I must find some proper lighting to take my pictures as they are a bit darker than the models are in reality.

Sign of Life

It has been a long time since I last found time to publish something here in my humble little blog.
So what did I do over the last 2 months.
Actually I found the time to paint some Cowboys and Mexican bandits for my Legends of the Old West games. And tataaa i finally found the last missing book on Ebay. All I need is some more models from 4ground. For those who do not know. 4ground makes lasercut houses for various things. The great thing is that they are prepainted so the only thing to do is fix them with some blobs of woodglue. I have 2 of them and am urgently looking for some more. maybe at the crisis show in Antwerp this year.
At the moment I am counting the last days towards my holiday trip to Mallorca Spain.
Ohhh and before I forget expect some more mexican Bandits for my litle figure range Coal Ridge Models. At the moment I am collecting poses for some mounted bandits. So like my last series the will be more Hollywood style but can also be used for the war of Pancho Villar in Mexico, and of course they will be 20mm.
As out sculptor is very busy at the moment sculpting models for our shop Hagen Miniatures I expect them to be ready for Christmas.

FIGZ 2014

Here are some pics from the FIGZ show in Arnhem Netherlands. FIGZ is more like a big club meeting.
This year there were three traders. Miniatuurwereld from the Netherlands selling mostly plastic figure sets, then Fredericus Rex. He is specialised in everything to liven up the gamestables. from lasercut houses, to plants, gravel.... you know what I mean. Last but not least Andy and I were there with our Hagen Miniatures stand selling heavy metal for the miniatures collectors.
FIGZ is great when you want a show just to chat a bit about painting techniques and other to and fro.

Our little shop and some from our minis. All are 1/72 scale....

Lake Town from The Hobbit movie. All is scrath build. This was really an eye catcher. The chaps were right next to our table so much time to marvel at all the bridges and platforms.

28mm Pegasus bridge game. I think they played using Bolt Action but did not know for sure

20mm WWII action. This was are really big table. Some Arnhem action, well FIGZ happens to be in Arnhem....rules used were Rapid Fire.

Black Powder ACW game with lots of Perry Plastics....
I wonder where the cornstalks are from.....have to ask....

Some pictures from the painters desks. There was one room full of painters showing their stuff.

Various look arounds of the show....