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Posted by **dutchboyinohio** on 31 Aug 2009, 21:24

Nice figures, way to make an entry here! :thumbup:

My favorites are probably your Dutch ones.

Posted by **Dad's Army** on 31 Aug 2009, 21:47

dutchboyinohio wrote:My favorites are probably your Dutch ones.

you mean the Dutch members :think:

Posted by **dutchboyinohio** on 01 Sep 2009, 03:43

Dad's Army wrote:
dutchboyinohio wrote:My favorites are probably your Dutch ones.

you mean the Dutch members

Sorry, I meant the figures from the 80 Years War.

Posted by **voukerous** on 01 Sep 2009, 09:12

Hello my new friends !
I am a modeller from Athens - Greece and i just get register in your's forum. I have to say that there are many interestings and well done works here and i am very glad about that!

The last 2-3 years i left from the 1/35 scale and i start painting 1/72 figures and armor vehicles.

Very nice work Pat...!!!

Hope to be in contact and i wish to have a nice new month all of you my friends !! :-D

Posted by **Pat** on 01 Sep 2009, 10:45

Hi Voukerous,

Welcome to this great forum. I found it a couple of days ago, and already feel very at home here. Hope you like it too. I don't know the ins and outs of this site fully yet, but I think either Benno or a veteran member will be happy to guide you around.

Posted by **Peter** on 01 Sep 2009, 21:28

Pat wrote:Hi Voukerous,

Welcome to this great forum. I found it a couple of days ago, and already feel very at home here. Hope you like it too. I don't know the ins and outs of this site fully yet, but I think either Benno or a veteran member will be happy to guide you around.

You're right about that Pat! It's not only a friendly, but also a very helpfull forum :thumbup:

Benno, the moderators and other members will always try to give a decent answer on your questions.

I had a question about your paint cans stocked in the way you do it. Don't you have problems taking them out of that wood, They look if they stick very deep in it. And what books do you use, like the ones you're showing on the picture.

PS: clean up your working space a little bit, that works much better :mrgreen:

Greetings Peter

Posted by **Pat** on 02 Sep 2009, 13:47

The paint cans have to stickin that deep. because the planks are drawers. I got all my paint in a selfmade cabinet. It's not really space efficient, but this way i can group colors to the project i am working on.

The books on the table are "Warfare in the classical world" by John Warry and 'historiche uniformen' by fred and liliane funcken.

This actually a cleaned up desk. You should see the rest of my studio...

Posted by **Peter** on 02 Sep 2009, 18:00

That's a good idea Pat :thumbup:

And I thought I saw a Funcken book on the right side. Sometimes I get them at the library to search some good examples to paint my figures.

BTW is this known by someone, but the Funckens have drawn also comic books!

About your studio, spare us the "horror" please ;-)

Greetings Peter

Posted by **Fenton** on 03 Sep 2009, 00:00

I was reading somewhere else that Funcken stuff is being rubbished now for being inaccurate, not sure how true this is, maybe if it is the prices will go down and aI can afford to buy some

Posted by **je_touche** on 03 Sep 2009, 12:16

The quality of the Funcken books varies. Some information is totally unreliable or obsolete. They tend to be better on French topics. Their best book imo is the one on the French revolutionary armies, published in French only. It is long OOP, but it's been put online somewhere, I would have to find the link again.

Posted by **Fenton** on 03 Sep 2009, 12:47

Thanks for reminding me they were online

http://www.darnault-mil.com/Galerie/index_galerie.htm

Posted by **montecristo** on 04 Sep 2009, 08:56

Really nice figures :thumbup:

Posted by **Paul** on 04 Sep 2009, 14:09

Fenton wrote:Thanks for reminding me they were online

http://www.darnault-mil.com/Galerie/index_galerie.htm

Nice looking books. Strange though looking at a book like that, the sound of the page being turned etc. Are these E- books like that?

Posted by **Pat** on 04 Sep 2009, 14:47

Hi allhere some pictures of the diorama i want to make with my dutch revolt troops. It's supposed to depict an excercise. The strength of the Dutch army of those days lied in the endless excercices Prince Maurits made his troops do.

Tell me what you think about it

Posted by **Paul** on 04 Sep 2009, 14:52

Very good,:thumbup: I´m going to have to start collecting this period, the mixture of pikes and guns (as in your dio) very appealing

Posted by **Benno** on 04 Sep 2009, 15:02

Love the subtle colors.

Posted by **Pat** on 04 Sep 2009, 15:06

You mean the subtile greys?

Posted by **Benno** on 04 Sep 2009, 15:08

You know what I meant, smart ass. :mrgreen:

Posted by **je_touche** on 04 Sep 2009, 15:19

Very clever layout. Combines best view on single figures with a still convincing formation. Maybe one more row for the pikemen?

Posted by **Pat** on 04 Sep 2009, 15:38

Extra pikemen can work. It's a very small group (19 fig) but could depict a colonel getting some of his troops battle ready by letting them excercise under drillmasters
i didn't glue them yet, so i still can change the composition

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