Benno's Figures Forum

Posted by **Dad's Army** on 19 Jan 2010, 09:39

Well guys, I must say Lingen was fun to be.
There where not much figs, saw a few dio's 1/35 and a lot of trains, cars and trucks.
I want to make pictures for you guys, only forgot to put my SD card back in the camera :oops:

but I have seen Hans, Andreas and Benno making pictures, so this is a job for them to do! :mrgreen:

Hans had his Waterloo dio and his WW1 work in progress.
I must say its amazing how nice he makes this, learned a lot this weekend :thumbup:

Benno painted some 6mm figs, this was fun when I spoke to the people,
first show them Hans his dio with more than 2500 figs,
than the painters and their work, and end at 6mm... you should see those faces :-D

Andreas brought his entry's for the BF Competitions, must say I am impressed.
Always better to see it in real life than a picture, good work Andreas :thumbup:

now you only have to learn dutch ;-)

So that was Lingen....

Hopefuly the pics wont take lang

Posted by **Martin** on 19 Jan 2010, 22:11

Yep,
It was very nice with you guys in Lingen. :thumbup:

For Hans and me it was the fourth time in Lingen.
I can say we haven't had so much fun before. :cheers:

Also in the evening in the bar. :occasion:

There wasn't much modeling going on but the railtracks offered a nice view, specially the scenery of those tracks.
One man was builing a large tree out of copper wire.
We had a lot of viewers, small and large, young and old.
I suspect one of the fought in WW1 :mrgreen:

If not, then at least in WW2. :oldman:

At some time one of the Grenadiers a Cheval de la Garde rode on to the stand of the neighbours opposit of ours. :horse:

The man from that stand brought him and his horse back to us.

A member of the Royal Horseguarde deserted too.
Later we found him swimming in a pool on a railtrack next to us.
He was punished :spank:

by glueing him on his horse!!

Benno, where are the :camera:

I took only one during the build up.
I was too occupied painting french infantry and doing a guided battlefield tour.
We certainly apply for next year's fair in Lingen and hope to be invited again.

Posted by **Old Wolf** on 19 Jan 2010, 23:49

Hi guys ,
it was a great pleasure for me to be there in Lingen with you.
What a wonderfull weekend for a painter, nearly 9 hours a day undisturbed time with paints and figures :-D

. And a couple of very nice guys around with same interests

Here are the pics with some comments.

the 4 Dutchmen Benno, Remco, Hans and Martin

a magnet for all visitors "Waterloo 1815" dio made by Hans

great work in 1/35 :oops:

Dutch-German friendship

first sections of the Cambrai dio made by Hans

Tiny town in paper

french in a field

i don t know that man. He was allways visiting our stand, speaking strange words in a language i couldn t really understand.
But he was nice and friendly after getting some cake. :mrgreen:

a 1/35 "NAM" dio

enjoy

Andreas

Posted by **Maurice** on 19 Jan 2010, 23:56

Nice photos, looks like you had a fun time

Posted by **Susofrick** on 20 Jan 2010, 08:48

Can only agree! Very nice photos! And great fun to see them. Thanks! :thumbup:

Posted by **Dad's Army** on 20 Jan 2010, 10:19

Old Wolf wrote:i don t know that man. He was allways visiting our stand, speaking strange words in a language i couldn t really understand.
But he was nice and friendly after getting some cake.

I know the man, nice fellow :thumbup:

...and what kind of cake :kiss:

Now let's see what kind of pictures Hans and Benno did make :roll:

Posted by **Peter** on 22 Jan 2010, 22:55

Dad's Army wrote:
Old Wolf wrote:i don t know that man. He was allways visiting our stand, speaking strange words in a language i couldn t really understand.
But he was nice and friendly after getting some cake.

I know the man, nice fellow
...and what kind of cake

Now let's see what kind of pictures Hans and Benno did make

Thanks for sharing the pictures :thumbup:

Oh and about that man with the cake, it's completely normal you didn't understand him! When you always have cake , pie or "vlaai" in your mouth, it 's difficult to speak :mrgreen:

I know him :lol:

Posted by **Tom Russell** on 26 Jan 2010, 20:36

Well, it looks like you always have a nice time when you guys have a get together. I think I may have to impose myself on one of these occasions, especially if you are talking about 'overnight'!

When's the next one?

Posted by **Waterloo** on 27 Jan 2010, 05:23

@ Martin

The picture of the French Infantry in the rye field is of your figures are they not.
Is it just me or do a few of the figs have "green" shako covers.
I didn't think French had shako covers in green, or am I mistaken?

Colin

Posted by **Paul** on 27 Jan 2010, 08:50

Old Wolf wrote:i don t know that man. He was allways visiting our stand, speaking strange words in a language i couldn t really understand.
But he was nice and friendly after getting some cake.

I Don´t understand :scratch:

I wasn´t there :scratch:

Looks like it was fun :thumbup:

Posted by **Martin** on 28 Jan 2010, 22:35

Waterloo wrote:@ Martin

The picture of the French Infantry in the rye field is of your figures are they not.
Is it just me or do a few of the figs have "green" shako covers.
I didn't think French had shako covers in green, or am I mistaken?

Colin

Yep, they are mine.
I have a book with paintings of Bernard Coppens (a Belgian) who painted a lot of uniforms of the troops at Waterloo.
It is in French.
Now I don't understand all, but somewhere it is mentioned that the french troops lacked a lot of things.
Some French were even wearing their civilian clothes under their greatcoats.
Other French took a civilian cover to put that over their shakos.
Brown ones and even green ones.

Posted by **Hans** on 31 Jan 2010, 15:22

Hello,a bit late,here some pictures of Lingen.
There were problems with my PC . I hope it shows that we had a very good time!

OEPS!

Next time put some paint on your brush,Remco ;-)

My favourite,by Andreas ",Robin Hood". :thumbup:

Greetings,Hans.

Posted by **Peter** on 31 Jan 2010, 17:49

Thanks for the pictures Hans :thumbup:

Seems to me you had a big space over there. How big is that meeting in Lingen anyway?

Posted by **Waterloo** on 31 Jan 2010, 18:09

Does anyone else find it funny that in Hans's final picture of the British in Hougoumont, that there is a WW1 tank parked in the barn.

LOL!! Funny

Colin

Posted by **monty** on 31 Jan 2010, 18:12

colin its alternative steam punk ending of waterloo were wellington sends his newest troop the life steam guards to save the belergured british at hougomont :lol:

looks like you had a good time and thanks for the pics

Posted by **Waterloo** on 31 Jan 2010, 18:13

Hahaha,

I like it!

Posted by **Peter** on 31 Jan 2010, 18:26

Waterloo wrote:Hahaha,
I like it!

These are deserters, Colin! :shock:

They run off that other dio that Hans is making. They considered that it will be a very bloody affair on that one. They're much safer in that barn ;-)