IPMS Scale Model World Show 2010
This weekend (13th & 14th November) was the premier show for the International Plastic Modellers Society (IPMS) although this show is open to the general public only members of the IPMS may enter the competition. The show takes place at the International Centre in Telford UK and is spread over the Saturday and Sunday as a two day event and is billed as the UK’s largest annual model show and competition. Despite its title and the fact that there would be a ...
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Games Day UK 2010 & Golden Demon
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Games Day UK 2010 & Golden Demon
Games Day UK 2010 & Golden DemonSunday 26th September saw the crowds gathering at the NEC Birmingham from all over the UK and a few regulars from Europe ready to gain entry into what is billed as the ultimate in the Games Workshop event Calendar “Games Day UK” (GDUK) with the Golden Demon painting contest said to be the best in the world of all the GW contests and if you haven’t won a Demon at GDUK then you haven’t really won a Demon... Although GW use their GD events across the worl... -
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Euro Militaire 2010
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Euro Militaire 2010
Over the last 10 or so years the world of painting toy soldiers has changed quite dramatically and this has been seen to great effects across the world at the larger shows as well as some of the smaller ones, the rigorous historical and uniform research required by the historic modellers has started to combine with the artistic side of the hobby bringing the production standards of miniatures to a level inconceivable in previous years and the barriers between the Fantasy/Sci-Fi modeller and the... -
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Interview With Joe Lidster
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Interview With Joe Lidster
We take a bit of a departure from our usual subjects in the Hotseat this time. We turn our attention to joe Lidster, a proffessional writer and old school buddy of mine. Joe is best known for his work writing for Dr Who and Torchwood.
(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lidster for more details)
Tell us about yourself?
My name’s Joe and I’m a writer. I’ve written prose and for audio, radio and television.
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Figureworld show report
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Figureworld show report
Figureworld is a UK based show put on by The Basement forum. A site geared towards figure painting and historicals. The show was held at Maelstrom Games in Mansfield on Staurday 10th July 2010. Mealstroms venue is a recent development and is still under construction but has handy facilities and and will im sure hold many more of these types of shows in the future. Though display rules were aimed at the more historical larger scale figures a wide variety of people turned up with strong contingents... -
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Interview with Chern Ann Ng
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Interview with Chern Ann Ng
The next person to sit in the hotseat sits atop one of the most well known Miniature painting sites in the world; Chern Ann the King of Coolmini.
Tell us a little about yourself
I was an avid miniature collector when I was in school and still love the little metal men. I’m also a serial entrepreneur, one of my projects which I’m quite proud of is Razer! where we make various gaming peripherals. I’m currently working on lots of cool stuff on CoolMiniOrNot... -
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Interview with Ben Jarvis
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Interview with Ben Jarvis
Next in the hotseat we have Ben Jarvis - recently Ben won the coveted Slayer Sword at Golden Demon Uk 2009 with
'The Clockmaker', he is also one of the founders of Platoon brittanica. Online he goes by the name Rocketandroll.
What was your inspiration for the Clockmaker?
I actually get a lot of my inspiration from generic fantasy and sci-fi artwork books, from films, computer games and all over the place. The Clockmaker did I guess partly come from the great... -
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Interview with Anders Eklund
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Interview with Anders Eklund
Our next interview subject is Anders Eklund, better know as Ritual. Anders is a studio painter for Wyrd and his style is well known . He is 34 years old and hails from Sweden. He works full time with digital books for disabled people. He is a gold medal winner at The World Expo and is also the first of our 'paint masters'.
Heres what Anders had to say First of all, I'd like to say that I'm honoured that you guys are interested in my thoughts and opinions about this hobby of ours. I never see... -
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Interview with Sebastian Archer
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Interview with Sebastian Archer
The next person in the Hotseat is Sebastian Archer, also known as Automaton. He is probably one of the best known painters around widely respected in the community and multi award winner. Here he answers some questions for us:
I'll go ahead and begin with a brief bio. Well my name is Sebastian, of course! I'm 25, I'm an aussie and I live in Sydney. I've got a uni degree in social science but at the moment, I'm having a go at making a living painting and sculpting fantasy... -
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Interview with jim Gilstrap
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Interview with jim Gilstrap
For something a little different to our usual interviews we put our questions to Jim Gilstrap better known as Supervike - the man of a million posts. Jim is a moderator on both Wyrd and coolminiornot and is the man behind the infamous Iron Painter challenge. Jim hails from Iowa , U.s.a. and has a penchant for all things zombie or cake related.
As a moderator on cmon you must have seen literally thousands of mini's over the years - have you noticed a big change in the hobby? Changing... -
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