Sunday, July 27, 2008

Saturday Night results

did up a couple of old Grenadier dogs and a Reaper townfolk. He's been modded a bit, he was originally holding a sythe.

 

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Bloodshadows... FOR SALE

As some have heard by now, WEG is for sale, and he’s piecing it out. I seriously considered picking up Bloodshadows even though I really don’t like the Masterbook system. I have print shop experience, layout and design experience, retail experience, I have a few friends that would be willing to help do some writing for it & I have a few extra dollars laying around that I could afford to purchase it.

Fortunately reality sunk in. What would I do with it? I would have to re-write the system, and, from what I understood, a lot of the original text, images and/or images are far from being readily available.
 
Truth is, it’s a dead product, and the only thing I would achieve by purchasing it would be sinking over $2000 into the right to say “I own the rights to Bloodshadows”.

 

Monday, July 21, 2008

Kickin' it old school (new pics)

Old models, "new" casts from MegaMinis.com

originally produced by Hobby Products out of Germany.   The sculptor was probably Josef Ochmann. Werner Klocke also got his start at that company.



 

Sunday, July 20, 2008

New reaper paints

This is the first batch of minis I have finished painting using the new Reaper Pro Paints and using the techniques I learned while at ReaperCon 2008. The first three are Reaper minis, the last is an old Grenadier.

EDIT: and has it really been almost 2 years since I painted a miniature?!?


 

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Almost done...

with the exception of some plain hallways and some accessories, the dungeon is ready to use!









Thursday, July 03, 2008

A bridge over...

As I mentioned earlier, I swapped molds with a friend of mine, here is the finished result from the second mold


Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Complete Metropolis!

 

HAMBURG, Germany, July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is a press
pre-release of DIE ZEIT No. 28 first on sale on Thursday, 03 July 2008


For 80 years the original version of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" has been
considered lost. The ZEITmagazin shows details from the missing scenes of the
1927 masterpiece for the first time in its Thursday edition, and reports
exclusively on how the film was tracked down in the archive of the Museo del
Cine (Cinema Museum) in Buenos Aires.


Through this new discovery, key scenes from the silent film become more
intelligible, minor characters now have leading parts.


Rainer Rother, Artistic Director of the Deutsche Kinemathek Museum in
Berlin and the series of "Retrospectives" at the Berlinale, examined the
footage for ZEITmagazin and comes to the following conclusion: "Metropolis,
Fritz Lang's most famous film, can be seen through new eyes." For him the
find represents a "sensational discovery".


Prof. Martin Koerber, the restorer of the most recent version of
"Metropolis", who also examined the footage, confirms like Rainer Rother the
authenticity of the material. He adds: "No matter how bad the condition of
the material may be, the original intention of the film, including all of its
minor characters and subplots, is now once again tangible for the normal
viewer. The rhythm of the film has been restored."


Enno Patalas, the film historian and former director of the Munich Film
Museum, who has been working on the reconstruction of the film since the
1970s, and was responsible along with Martin Koerber for producing the 2001
version of "Metropolis" current until today, talks of the "most authentic
material that we know" after viewing the scenes.


Helmut Possmann, director of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Foundation, the
holder of the rights to "Metropolis", said to ZEITmagazin: "The material
believed to be lost leads to a new understanding of the Fritz Lang
masterpiece." Following the discovery, the Murnau Foundation sees itself as
"responsible, along with the archive in Buenos Aires and our partners for
making the material available to the public."

Select screen images at:
http://www.zeit.de/online/2008/27/bg-metropolis-en

We would be glad to send you the complete DIE ZEIT text of the following
report for quotations. If you have any further queries, please contact Elke
Bunse
, DIE ZEIT Press and Public Relations Department, Tel.: +49-40-3280-217,
Fax: +49-40-3280-558, email: elke.bunse@zeit.de


Contact: We would be glad to send you the complete DIE ZEIT text of the
following report for quotations. If you have any further queries, please
contact Elke Bunse, DIE ZEIT Press and Public Relations Department, Tel.:
+49-40-3280-217, Fax: +49-40-3280-558, email: elke.bunse@zeit.de



SOURCE Die Zeit Gerd Bucerius GmbH & Co.