tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71638018456451874102024-02-06T21:12:45.442-08:00Markus minaturesMarkushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615796108028949876noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163801845645187410.post-57356171340003642132013-09-08T10:01:00.001-07:002013-09-08T10:01:43.437-07:00The good guys..Hi!<br />
Much time has past since I last posted something new on my blog so I thought it was time for an update.<br />
Here are my latest diorama called "The good guys" It depicts a scene with Us soldiers wich are ambushed in a street somewere in Iraq. A nasty surprise awaits them on the roof of the building in the form of a boy with an Ak47.<br />
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I hope that you like it.<br />
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<br />Markushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615796108028949876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163801845645187410.post-32085657671055914752013-01-01T08:53:00.001-08:002013-01-02T11:36:08.512-08:0075mm HospitalierHi!<br />
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First I <span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">want to wish you all a <span style="font-size: x-small;">Happy new year<span style="font-size: x-small;">! This 75mm knight from <span style="font-size: x-small;">Romeo Models</span> is one of the figures I have worked on lately. It was a really challenge for me to try my hands at painting a worn out red color on his tunic. Red is a <span style="font-size: x-small;">very dramatic <span style="font-size: x-small;">color <span style="font-size: x-small;">for any figure but <span style="font-size: x-small;">I felt that it was very difficult to get the result <span style="font-size: x-small;">I wanted<span style="font-size: x-small;">. It is nearly finished by now but the shield and <span style="font-size: x-small;">s</span>ome touchup<span style="font-size: x-small;">´s are still required.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<br />Markushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615796108028949876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163801845645187410.post-76138431182903354032012-10-07T12:22:00.002-07:002012-10-07T12:22:56.300-07:00The Undertaker.Hi! Finally this little bust is almost finished and as always there are some details that could be improved but I will wait a couple of weeks and take a closer look at it then. I´ve decided to go with the undertaker theme on this kit as I found it to be the most suitable for this model. This must definitly be my fastest painted figure ever I. It was finished in a week wich is very fast by my ordinary standard. I hope that you appriciate the finished figure.<br />
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<br />Markushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615796108028949876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163801845645187410.post-31535545460573215072012-09-30T11:28:00.001-07:002012-09-30T11:32:01.456-07:00Hi again! Last weekend I was attending the great modelling show Euromilitaire and it was a great experience as always meeting new and old friends. I recived a higly commended in the bust class and a comended in the class for comercial figures over 65mm. I also bought alot of new figures and this figure was one of them. It is from the producer Robert Chaudon and the scale is 1/8. I really like the characther in his face so I just had to start this wonderful figure. There are no explanation to what characther the figure portrays. But I consider to paint him as a undertaker during the western era or maybe a freaky circus manager of some kind. I started painting this figure today (Sunday) and this is how far I have reached by now.<br />
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<br />Markushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615796108028949876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163801845645187410.post-56810107559967128462012-09-16T01:15:00.000-07:002012-09-16T01:19:15.294-07:00Swedish peasant soldier 16th-century Hi! I thought it was time for an update on this blog because a lot of time has gone since I presented something new here.<br />
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I´ve got this figure at the last World expo in Montreux last year. It is a limited edition from Pegaso sculpted by the talented Andrea Jula. The orginal figure portrays the famous story of Wilhelm Tell and his son after he has shoot an apple on his son´s head. I decided to convert the kit to represent a rebellian peasant soldier wich is welcomned by his son while he is coming home. The scene takes place in the southern part of Sweden during the uprisal against the king Gustav Wasa in the 16th-century when a peasant army fought against german Lanskecht´s wich had been hired by the swedish king. Those mercinaries suffered big losses because they were illsuited for this kind of warfare.<br />
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<br />Markushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615796108028949876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163801845645187410.post-46198750036684688982011-12-28T00:39:00.000-08:002011-12-28T00:39:01.538-08:0090 mm Templar horseSome time has past since I posted something new on this blog due to other commitments. So here are the last update on this blog for the year of 2011.<br />
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The figure are produced by Romeo models and was sculpted by Victor Konnov. This model was very complicated, both the assembly as well as the painting process. I have worked on this project on and of for merely two years and finally I begin to see the end of the painting of the horse. The model are painted using both oil colors and acrylics. The skull on the base comes from Andrea miniatures and his helmet are a sparepart from a Pegaso kit, I thought that the atmosphere would be more dramatic with this addition to the base. There will be more updates on this when I have come even further with the building and painting of the figure wich will sit on top of the horse. I hope that you like it!<br />
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I wish you all a happy new year!<br />
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I have started the painting process on the head so far and it feels like it's are nearly finished by now. I tried to paint some black camoflagepaint on his face this was a really scary process cause it feels like it could make or brake the whole figure if it didn't turn out good. Here are some pictures of the result.<br />
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After I came home from World expo I was really inspired to start a new figure. I saw an demonstration painting figures by the famous painter Diego Ruina wich got me really inspired to start painting a bust in a fast manner and still try to get a resonably great result. So I choosed this bust of an american native Apache indian that I bought at the World expo show as the subject for this experiment. I am quite satisfied with the result so far. This figure was started last tuesday and this is the result on Sunday evening. Normally I work on a project for like this for three month´s or more so this is something of a record for me. I hope that you like the result of the figure so far because it was an really exiciting experiment for me to try to paint a figure with good results in a more resonable time.<br />
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Markushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615796108028949876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163801845645187410.post-30522568532838818352011-08-23T00:34:00.000-07:002011-08-23T00:34:35.108-07:00The World Expo show in Montreux 2011Hi again!<br />
I have just came home from Switzerland from the World expo figure show. This was the second time that I competed with my figures at such a large international show. I recived a Pewter medal, wich is the highest valour you could take in the General class. I also competed in the Master class for painted figures and recived an highly commended wich feels really great. I took some pictures from the show of some of the great displays that were at display there. The World expo must be the world championship for figure modeller in my opinon. It was a great weekend the only bad thing was that it was so expensive to be there for an example an ordinary pizza costed 20 euros. Enjoy the pictures and I am really sorry that the quality of the pictures aren´t the best.<br />
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Markushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615796108028949876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163801845645187410.post-19250007988159626202011-08-07T03:34:00.000-07:002011-08-07T03:34:02.461-07:00Finally done!Well, I consider this one almost finished by now, of course there will be some minor things to touch up before I can call this one really finished. Since the last update I decided to paint some lighter highlights to make the wrinkles stand out even more. I had a thought that a jungle scene would make this outstanding figure stand out better. The leaves and fernes are photoetched and comes from the producer Eduard and I think those leaves are one of the best on the market. I hope that you like the finished result, thanks for watching. <br />
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Markushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615796108028949876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163801845645187410.post-30406125612216845892011-04-22T07:43:00.000-07:002011-04-22T07:43:00.907-07:00Some of my recent finished figures.Hi again! Because I haven´t any pictures of my latest project I am working at the moment. I thought that i take the opportunity to show some of my latest completed works. The first one is a Landsknecht sculpted by Yury Serbakov and the scale is 1/9. This sculpture is a magnicifent piece of art and was a real joy too paint.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i168/macke_01/DSC_0379.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i168/macke_01/DSC_0379.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Markushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615796108028949876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163801845645187410.post-84634735503953595792011-04-22T07:02:00.000-07:002011-04-22T07:02:12.086-07:00Hi and welcome to my blog.Hi I thought that it would be fun to create my own blog to show my modelling works<br />
both in the creating stages and the finished product. I have been building and painting<br />
military models for over twenty years. With this blog I intended to show mainly the figures<br />
Iam building and painting. I hope you like it in that case enjoy.<br />
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Best regards!<br />
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