About an Octopus and a coconut

About an Octopus and a coconut

by | Jun 21, 2021 | Gallery additions, Margot's Gallery

Contest just for the fun

Some time ago I was invited by Gianpaolo di Silvestro from Scientific Models to join a fun painting challenge with four other painters.

Gianpaolo had released an octopus figure and thought it would be a nice idea to bring some friends together online during this Covid period in an informal and just-for-fun contest. While the contest hasn’t finished yet, I have finished my version of the octopus.

It’s really been a fun ride with some great online laughs with the others who joined this challenge: Robert del Cima, Paolo di Poce, Lorenzo Evangelista and Antonio Pirri.

And mind you,  it’s not all just for fun, the winners gets a coconut. Who can resist an award like that?  🙂

Do you want to paint your octopus or one of Scientic Models’ other great figures? Check out the Scientic Models website

And more images of my finished fun-project “Octopussy” can, of course, be found in my gallery

New figure added: the Mad Hatter

New figure added: the Mad Hatter

by | May 17, 2021 | Gallery additions, Margot's Gallery | 0 comments

And here he is.. the Mad Hatter! 

I am happy to say that I have finished this wonderful figure from Creepy Tables. It was a very long trip, but a fun one, I enjoyed it and learned a lot. It’s a large piece, perhaps the largest I have painted so far, and it required a different approach to painting at times, compared to other projects.

I have combined acrylics and oils, something that works fine for me. 

More images of this project, and many other projects, can be found, as always, in my gallery.

 

 

New diorama added: Stake Out

New diorama added: Stake Out

by | Feb 10, 2021 | Gallery additions, Robert's Gallery

I have added images of my latest diorama to my gallery, entitled Stake Out!

You can find the images of the finished dio in my gallery

In due time I will add a blog post with some in progress shots and tell you a bit about how you can turn an initial idea around and still come up with something pretty decent 🙂

Untill then I need keep my  promise and add some additional info on another diorama, My Worst Nightmare.

Enjoy viewing Stories in Miniature!

Robert

A new mini finished

A new mini finished

by | Nov 9, 2014 | Gallery additions, Robert's Gallery

I finished this nice little mini the other day. A true mini as the figure measures 38mm. It’s a mini by Vesper-On Games from their Carnevale game, catalogue number C-0042.  It’s a white metal figure called White Dove and although it’s the smallest figure  I ever painted it has been a nice ride. I constructed the base from pieces of glass, silicon glue and a dried flower that Margot found this summer. The snow I used came from Hudson & Allen and I also used small glass beads to add a bit more bling to the snow here and there.
Everything was painted in acrylics.  My main mission for this venture was to obtain a good colour harmony, and I think it worked out rather well.

The snow was another thing as I have something of a larger size coming up that requires snow, and lots of it. My last project involving snow dates back many years and when I look back at that one, there’s room for improvement, to put it politely.

For lack of a better title I named it Witch of the North for the time being.

Check out my gallery for more images.

 

A new figure, The Ronin

A new figure, The Ronin

by | Aug 26, 2014 | Gallery additions, Robert's Gallery

At SMC 2011 I received a gift from Raffaele Picca from Massive Voodoo, a 54mm figure of a Ronin, sculpted by him for his Forged Monkey brand.

It took me while before I got to paint it as I didn’t feel comfortable enough to do it justice. But recently I was invited , together with my wife and some friends by Goetz Siepmann and Nicole Siepmann-Eppinger, to come to their home in Essen, Germany for a weekend full of figure frenzy: painting, making bases and especially talk about figures….and most of all to have a good time. This weekend inspired me to do the base as it came out the way you can see it in the pictures. I painted everything in acrylics.

You can more images in my gallery

Hope you like it.

Roninbirdseyeroof

 

 

 

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