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Uschi van der Rosten visits MV HQ

September 6, 2014, 1:37 am
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Hello Jungle,

some days ago we had a special guest visiting Massive Voodoo's Headquarter in Augsburg, Germany.
His name is Alex and he is the man behind "Uschi van der Rosten".




Well, first things first. 
By chance we heard about a top notch Scale Modeller in the same town as the MV HQ, travelling the world for Scale Modelling and producing really cool products for Scale Modellers. Really funny how small the world sometimes can be and even we are noobs when it comes to Scale Modelling Massive Voodoo contacted Alex and we went for some time well spent on our first meeting - also with Manni, a good friend of Alex - drinking a cold beer and enjoying tasteful food.

 We shared much experiences and talked til late at night about stories sorrounding these two different - yet somehow similar - worlds - Plane Scale Modelling and Miniature Painting. Similar because if you find passion in one of it your heart just follows and you always stay a kid with dreams and bright eyes.

The week after our initial meeting we invited Alex to our Studio and he came over. Man, he just lives close by. Small world indeed. He was really prepared to show us some of his cool products and gave us - Sanne, Roman and Raffa -  a complete workshop on how to use them properly.


If you take into consideration that Roman started with his granddad with scale modelling planes back when he was a kid, but nowadays he is not being able to create a proper paper plane the stuff Alex showed to us was really amazing. We learnt so much by just following his guide and we really had a lot of fun.


Uschi van der Rosten is producing high quality decals that you can use for planes or other scale modelling topics, really cool stuff if you know how to use them. We were granted with introductions by the master himself, lucky us. Here are some of the example pieces Alex brought with him to show us in the studio:



These marble patterns are decals. This is so crazy if you see it in real. So unbelievable crazy stuff.

Also the wood structure, the weathering on the tank or the grafiti signatures. Really cool stuff and even more impressive in real.

There is a lot of stuff going on with these decals we think could be also very cool for miniature painters and also wargamers. Just imagine placing a quick decal of weathering to your airbrushed tank in some seconds. How cool would that be?


Monkey brains are already exploding with new ideas.

Alex took his time to explain each steps to us on how he works his decals and wohoooww we really learnt a lot, even for miniature painting. These two worlds are not so far from eachother we think, they are overlapping in many points and it was interesting to see how he proceeds with his models.

We learnt how to use masking tape like a god - well, at least we saw a true master doing his ultra precise work:



 Yet more fantastic examples ...

The process of wood texture to a plane's wing:

PVC glue + water drops ...


Cutting the decal in the right shape:


Placing the already prepared perfect sized decal:
 Making it all plain:

After a little oil wash with "Blitz dry" (a brilliant product that let's your oil colour dry in about 1 hour) Alex added some varnish to it:




... before we headed for some work on the metals, with use of metal pigments. We still learned and learned. Man this looks so ACE, really. Already on the photo it looks beautiful but no match for if you see it in real.


After those hours together in the MV-HQ we already know that we will see Alex again, as this is not only about decals or planes. He is a really nice guy with the right attitude and approach of sharing new ideas together.

Participants of Roman's second basing class this September will already have the oppourtunity to test the "Grafiti decals" on their bases. Thanks to Uschi!

We will definatly run more tests on these products to see where the cutting points of plane modelling and miniature painting are, actually we are right in the middle of it.

Stay tuned for more and be sure to check out the cool stuff offered by Uschi van der Rosten:

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quote of today

September 6, 2014, 10:23 pm
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"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
                                                                                                Henry David Thoreau


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Anglo-Norman Crusader finished

September 7, 2014, 5:00 am
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Hey guys & gals,

finally I found the time to took some pictures of my lastest finished bust: the Anglo-Norman Crusader from Heros & Villains Miniatures.

I started the bust at a painting class with Fernando Ruiz in July. A very interesting bust, cast in high quality. At the beginning I was not sure what to think of this quite small bust (compared to Raffa´s huge and awesome Ram Tribe Warrior). But after the first brush strokes I fell in love with him. Sadly it took me some time to finish him. This was because I tried some new techniques I learnt from Fernando and because of the choice of colors. Especially while painting the bright coat I realized I had chosen the wrong color combination. So motivation went down and I had to force myself to continue working on him.

But finally I did it and here you can see the results:






I hope you like him. Feel free to vote on Putty and Paint: CLICK!

Cheers,
Peter

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Forged Hope Contest - Winners

September 7, 2014, 11:29 pm
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Hello Ladies and Gentlemen,


welcome to the prize ceremony of the Forged Hope contest.

http://massivevoodoo.blogspot.de/2014/04/contest-forged-hope.html

We really hope everyone enjoyed the contest as much as we did.
If you didn't see all the entries, you can do so by following this link to the complete gallery.

You can also check out the winners of the random prize pool here. All adresses are confirmed by now, thanks to everyone. Shipping is estimated this week now. To the winners of the top three: If we did not yet have your adress, please write an email to Roman, providing us with your adress via:
jarhead---at---massivevoodoo---dot---com

We had some really tough decisions to make to find the three winners of the contest as there were many cool entries and stories to read. There were so many robots with so many different tasks, we were really amazed by the level of creativity in this contest.

Believe us when we say it was such a hard task to judge this contest as everyone entered such a good entry, with a lot of heart and personality in it, plus cool conversions and if you did not win, please don't be angry with us. Judging is really a though job and we tried to do our best. In fact in our view you are all winners by picking up your screw driver and helping the Forgefather. You all are part of the Forged Hope Program and everyone of you now has a unique project to call your own.

We put our heads together and tried to find the three entries that impressed us the most.
Ok... enough talk, let's start with the interesting part :)

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First Place

O.O.S.U.
by Oliver Posvek
The O2 Operating Special Unit – The O.O.S.U.
Joe, Dan, Garry, Dean, Robin, Johnny, Tom, Brad, George, David and Quentin

The guys sitting here are the toughest and most fearless robots on this planet. They are the only ones who can do the job and they do it bloody well! They dare climbing on the highest buildings on earth and by doing so these guys guarantee the survival of the community. It´s their responsibility to suck out the oxygen of the poisoned atmosphere and carry it down to mankind.


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Second Place

Arthur
by Matthew DiPietro
He has crossed the shimmering plain and down to where ruins tumble to eternal deep. And through verdant reaches made new and strange his brush finds a lonely beauty.

The forge father speaks of Arthur in shades of sadness and love.  For he says in that frame lies the fractured spirit of man. In his work the people glimpse themselves and find hope amongst all that was squandered.


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Third Place

Runner
by Oliver Späth
A damaged world, wild and full of dangers. Not many humans are left, just one little city, or not a city at all, more some kind of a hidden place with a big wall and some weapons.
Their resources are limited. Not much water, food, nearly no electricity and no machines or any electrical equipment. So they started building robots for the help to hunt, to collect fruits, electrical parts, tools and machines of the old world.
We don’t know if there are any other survivors out there, in the deserts and jungles, the nature takes back all the human cities and roads. After all this atomic tests and wars in the past the complete environment changed in a really bad way, mutated plants and animals and even more dangers, which we don’t know about. Some survivors travelled out to find answers before, but they never returned. So we started building the robots. We have already build heavy robots with big guns and armour, to defend us. But they are too slow and need too much energy when they go outside for exploration. So we built this new series, fast and light robots, which collect information about the environment and got messages if they find any other survivors or tribes. So he is out there, running, and making hundreds of kilometers, collecting information and searching for other humans...

And some words about the different elements and to my thoughts on this project:

I wanted to catch a scene of a running robot (running is another big hobby from me). He has a GPS-watch and an oil drink in the hand. And some letters are pinned on his metal body, this messages are for other survivors. On the base you can see different elements for example a human skull, a destroyed road and a gun, this elements stand for the wars of the humans. This has been some years before, you can recognize that, because all the elements were grow over with plants. Beside that you can see a the head of a destroyed robot, this shows the actual dangers in the world, the head doesn’t lie there for a long time. The rabbits were just out there and enjoying their lives, while they get scared away of the running robot. With the jumping rabbit and the robot, I wanted to catch a very dynamic and sudden scene.

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The third place was hardest for us to find as many entries were really close to be ona same level. A great idea, well executed, a cool story to help the Forged Hope Program and beautiful painted and based. We decided to tell you about the entries who were pretty close in making it to the top three.
 
Highly recommended:

Farmbot by Serafin
RS-001a - Robot Shepherd by Kurt Knittelfelder
The Reproduction Bots by Klaus Dorn
Gollum by Tuskar


We hope you enjoyed this contest as much as we did. So many cool entries, so many cool ideas, so much power behind your robot creations. Definatly a contest to stay in good memory.

 
Congratulations and thank you for your amazing entries. 
Your Massive Voodoo Team
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Musica

September 9, 2014, 1:36 am
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This tuesday's wake up music - check this flava in ya ear from da old school days when hip hop was used to be hip hop or are we gettin' old?

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MV-Team: Raffa

September 9, 2014, 1:38 am
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Name: Raffaele Picca

Nickname:“Picster” or just Raffa

Job: Phew, hard question actually. Full time miniature nerd? Being Co-Funder of Massive Voodoo I'm pulling a lot of strings in the background of Massive Voodoo, I give some classes (but not enough :D), I'm the founder and head behind Forged Monkey where I try to give my sculpts a way to reach other painters.

Years of Painting: I started painting when I was 14 years old but then paused again after a year or so.
Restarted painting in 2009... so 5 years of painting

Media: Mostly acrylics, sometimes oil, water color, pigments ...

Brushes: Windsor & Newton Series 7 - Mostly size 1 with long bristles.

Airbrush: I love the airbrush, it's a mighty tool!

Miniatures: Mostly Fantasy and SciFi the most but from time to time I also paint historical minis.

Scales: I prefer busts and large scale stuff, but I also paint smaller scales.

Speed: pfff... ranging from very fast to "normal" depending on the project and what I am aiming for.

Average Painting Hours per day: It used to be 8+ hours but at the moment I am mostly sculpting.

Sculpting: I learn to love it at the moment. It gives me much more freedom and possibilities in expressing my ideas and thoughts.




 


My name is Raffaele aka Raffa or Picster. I live in the lovely Augsburg in Germany.

I moved here in 2006 to start working as an Art Director for computer games and quickly fell in love with this town. In this town, some years ago I started miniature painting again and visited a painters meeting that was organized in a German painting forum.

There were a lot of nice people there and I quickly realized how much you can do with these small "canvases". Roman and Peter introduced me to showcase painting which made things even better, having cool people around to show you some tricks, hang out and have a great time.
Today, Roman and I share a friendship, a studio and we oftentimes work together on projects.

I really learned to enjoy miniature painting, the people around this hobby and the challenge to get better and better.

Today, 5 years later, a lot of things changed. I quit my old job and now I am working as a self employed miniature painter and sculpter which is a real passion.

Sha'un - Ram Tribe Warrior - Sculpted and painted by myself.


Giu's Robot Repairs

I think I learned a lot about life and myself with this hobby.
Accepting and mastering challenges, chewing through hard tasks and also accepting failure.
This sounds very tough but I think I am a person that needs constant challenge and hard tasks to grow and learn. I love to experiment with different media and ideas, this form of expression is great because of the freedom you have.

 Shadow of Nether photograped under UV-light.

And I love to have a task that looks impossible at first. I can really bite into such a problem like a crocodile and find a solution to transport my idea.


 Visions of Hatred

And the best part of the hobby are the people. There are SO many nice and great people and friends I met with this shared passion. Open minded, friendly, funny and unique persons. It's so more than just painting miniatures and going to competitions.

You will know what I am talking about if you are a miniature painter ;-)

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Sanne's green Gorilla

September 9, 2014, 8:52 am
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Hey Jungle people,

by now all of our readers should knowSanne,
good friend and trainee of Massive Voodoo.

Sanne is a canvas painter by heart and with a lot of passion and when she started the internship with us she really struggled to get used to the small canvases of miniatures. The first model she ever painted was a Zombie and after that she got herself in sculpting Jason, before she started with her first gaming table comission ever for Frank.

Well, in between these experiences the big monkeys thought it would be a good thing to let such a talented artist loose on a bigger scaled model, no guidelines for her, just the sentence by us: "Use your Oil colours as you do on canvas and have fun! Take whatever colours you like, do as you like, if there are questions we are there!"

So Sanne did on a bust Roman provided to her. It is a beautiful sculpt of a Gorilla by Markus "DarkSpawn" Zimmerman, a sculptor from Germany. Roman bought a cast from him and thought about painting him on its own but quickly decided that he wanted to see Sanne's happy painting approach on this ape.

And a pleasure it was to see her second figure (!) be painted, even the Gorilla turned out to be green.
In fact that is exactly what makes him so special.

Gorilla
sculpt by Markus "DarkSpawn" Zimmermann, 1/10
painted by Sanne in Oil colours



 




Hope you like him as much as we do?

We are so much looking forward to see some of Sanne's new projects drop into the jungle as they are really getting cooler and cooler. Stay tuned! You can believe us when we say that in this Gorilla we really see Sanne's canvas painting style. Here is a ninja-like-done photo by Roman of her actual Work in Progress in her canvas painting area, which is a part of the MV-studio:

Cool, eh?
You want so see more of Sanne's Canvas Paintings, check her facebook page about it.

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Tutorial: Visual Studying - Learning to see and paint

September 10, 2014, 6:48 am
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Welcome Jungle Painters,

due your votes via the last Tutorial Voting you decided to put Roman in front of a big task.

His article about Visual Studying - Learning to see and paint is a monster in its content and size. At least it felt like for him - he believed the article was well prepared during the last months, but while he sat down, drank too much coffee and racked his brain he doug deeper into the write up: He had to learn how delicate and all-embracing this topic really is. If you want to say thanks for the write up in form of support feel free to check this link!

Massive Voodoo's year of the painter is proud to present you a deep insight in Roman's brain, but we are not sure if this will do any good, haha. Please be aware of that these thoughts are Roman's, which means what he says does not mean to be your own truth. It is meant as a little help or inspiration and we hope you enjoy what you find in and beyond these words.

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Visual Studying - Learning to see and paint

1. Foreword
2. Visualize your daily life
3. Transfer to Miniature Painting
4. Closure

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1. FOREWORD
Allright. Well, were to start without confusing everybody right from the start?
Let me start with a term called "Principles of Painting", which in this case does not give you any clue what I want to tell you with it. Fair enough, more words needed :)

Painting is not only applying colour in different steps. Painting is much more in general, irrespective of what canvas you are working on (Miniatures, Digital Artwork, Traditional Canvas, Paper, Skin, etc.). The "Principles of Painting" means a huge package full of different topics that come together to understand the act of painting better. Right now I try to go the way of explanation that I have learned while I became a teacher of Art and Art history, trying to find the gateway into miniature painting.

First of all I can not explain all Principles of painting to you right now in one article as the different topics and how they are connected in your brain just would take the rest of my life. Those of you who follow Massive Voodoo for the last years might have recognised already a change in their own way of painting and their own way they reflect on different aspects of painting. At least that is the feedback we often recieve, thanks to you. Everybody of us is on the journey of his way of the Miniature Painter, if he sticks to active painting.


Don't fear what I am trying to explain here, even the upper picture might lead to raised eyebrows already. While I was preparing for this article I felt like that and did made a small mind map to help me guide you all through this read, always seeking connection to our beloved miniature painting. It looks like this:


As you can see there are a lot of terms in it. These Terms mean "Visualising" for me if I think about it in connection to miniature painting and I might have missed some.

Some are yellow, those are the casual ones from my perspective. The ones which we sorrounds what we do without being present all the time. The orange ones are the ones were a lot of painters I know fail in using them properly. "Colours" are the only pink as they are very important in the practical way of painting. "Paint" is the only tourqoise as the act of painting is what does connect everything in your brain, let's you keep track with what you already know and let's you strive forward. Only due active painting you learn. The rest is bonus.

This goes all hand in hand. All the time.
Often I find myself sad to see people walking through their daily life without being aware of the gifts daily life presents if you want to become a better painter. That is why I want to talk about visualizing now. I think I will still only be able to cover the tip of the iceberg here as my brain really feels heavy on the task. In hope you might be able to follow me, I start with a gentle slide to ...

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2. VISUALIZE your daily life

Visualizing means to me:

- to see something in real life
- to question it or just enjoy it
- to understand it
- to transfer it
- to remember it
- to make it a part of my skillset

Visualizing does not only happen in front of you. Sometimes it happens just in your brain without you noticing it. Sometimes it happens just straight in your face. Sometimes it needs more time in one aspect than in another and sometimes we are all blind to visualize something in front of our eyes as there might be more important stuff going on in our minds. Sounds logic, eh.

I am not the one who can tell you how you can learn the way of Visualizing yourself. I can only be a person who shows you a direction and the walk is on your own. Slowly we are raising the bar now and dive deeper into the topic. I want to talk with you about what aspects you can observe in reality before I tell you how you can transfer them to your miniature projects.

The following list shows you main topics,which are the essence and basic for everything else and provides you with sub-topics that show you a more detailed look on subjects. Please know that these are inspirational thoughts for painting and basing likewise if you put the following into connection to miniature painting.


Main: Colours
Nature and Life provides us with a great collection of colours. We see them everyday, nothing special at all, just daily life, but these colours are essential if you want to learn from your sorroundings. There are way too many to understand them at once, but if you train your memory and start a wise collection for your own you will see what help in your colour choices the real thing provides. It is you who has to see this on your own and not passing by without noticing it. It is you who will gain from it, some examples:




Main: Light/Shadow
Often in miniature painting you read about zenithal light and how to achieve to paint light situations by using dark tones for shadows and bright tones for highlights. All good, but if you open your eyes and start to see this in real life you will grow from it. You will see beyond it and understand reasons why to paint some areas brighter and some areas darker.
 
It is outthere for all of us to observe and study. It is not necessary to just paint a highlight on a miniature because somebody else said it should be there. You are able to find your own rules for it if you see, understand and paint it, some examples:





Main: Material
Your world is full with different materials presenting their wide variety of charecteristics to you everyday. They are presenting their colour, their way they react to light influance, their textures and their specific unique properties. Some examples:







Sub: Texture
When it comes to painting taking these characteristics in to your brush-game is a great goal. Textures are visible everywhere, some appear due extreme usage on a specific material others are the reason why you can say the difference between one and the other material. Some examples:


  
Sub: Weathering
This term means a material is influanced by weather, it is really old and aged or damaged by its constant use. Texture is a big point influancing this sub-topic. There might be rust, verdigris, darker areas, brighter areas, damage and more. It happens just before your nose and if you start to observe you will learn how to use it. Some Examples:




 
Sub: Composition
Nature and also urban reality provides us with a lot of natural composition. Some beautiful in their randomness, some reasonable due their natural arrangements. Look close, see and understand why things are happening in front of your eyes. Put yourself to question these observations to gain the most from it. Some Examples:



 
Sub-Sub: Extreme Situations
You might have recognised that all these points are visible in all examples. Everything goes hand in hand all the time. Always - you can not run from that - but sometimes you encounter extreme light situations, or a complete different look of a material due daytime switch or simply crazy colour combinations.




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Well, this was pretty much I'd say and still the tip of the iceberg in fact.

At least, I can tell my head is already burning from the inside. If you made it this far: Well done! Enjoy a little break and relax to a cup of tea, maybe give the upper part another read, this time taking a little more time looking at the provided examples and already start to question some things for yourself. Why is something particular happening where it is happening? Maybe go for a walk with your dog or take a family member by the hand and go outside, just right now in this moment, just for half an hour or so. Just to breathe and have a look on your sorroundings. Just now. Just do it.


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3. Transfer to Miniature Painting

Ok, I first fell asleep because of the relaxing music and then took a little walk to clear my mind to be able to tell you where this all tries to aim at.

The answer I found is pretty simple: It aims at you!
You and how intent you react with your world. If you start looking closer on it - with simple steps, one by one - I garantue you that you and your way of painting will gain from it.

Transfering your future observations to miniature painting is on the deal's other hand. I will now try to cover the same order of main- and sub-topics and tell my mind on the transfer aspect.

Main: Colours
A good example on your colour choice for a particular area is something I often encounter in my painting classes: A stone has to be painted grey is a common mistake. Go outside, look at stones, collect some, study them and you quickly will see that there might be a little grey to every stone but there is much more.

This happens to a lot of different materials and you will see that you can change your painting when you transfer your real life observations to your painting game by already making some proper thoughts on your colour choices.

Just some simple stone variations here:


Main: Light/Shadow
Now let's stick with the stone example here: Think about the light situation you want to paint to your scene. Is it zenithal light or another angle of light hitting your stone ground? If the angle is low, does this change the hue of the stones? Why do I paint strong edge highlights? Well, light arrives in rays and they break at sharp edges. Take a look you will find out on all materials:

Have a look at the damage in the mid-section of the wall:

Which daytime is it?
Has the light/shadow influancing your scene a specific colour?
How does a night scene look different to a scene in daylight?


Main: Material
Light works different on the character of different material. For example plastic and metal reflect very strong compared to fabrics or leather. Question what you see and also question what you do. This is a big topic to study and I think the journey never ends to try to paint different material and its texture on a smaller scale.

A good example how different materials can work out awesome is shown by my friend Robertaka muhani on his project called "Frutti di Mare". You have wet slimy material going on, wet and dry wood, dusty fabrics, different light and shadow intensity on different materials.



Different material reflects different to light - check this example from the article"How to paint the colour black":





Sub: Texture
Go study and understand textures. Do experiments with old brushes or different tools to try to rework your observations on the topic texture. Try to paint them often and you will understand much more. You will find your way on how you achieve them. What about some marble?

A great example of different textures on different materials comes from Oli aka HonourGuard,
check the leather, fabrics and wood, bone, metals, etc.:




Sub: Weathering
As we are creating small worlds with our bases and miniatures we should not push it over the top when it comes to aging effects. Observe how stuff takes rust in real, observe where colour chips and find out why? I know I am giving you too much homework to do by your own, but you will see if you do - just a small start - you will gain from it big time.

Think about why something takes damage and make it reasonable for yourself, if you are unsure check it in real. If damage or weathering appears with with the right reason it will appear in the right spots and will look not out of place.

Is there someone not able to aim with a key?

















A beautiful example on different, detailed weathering effects can be found at Raffa's Giu's Robot Repairs - maybe you can already transfer back to real life while observing all those little weathering details here (rust, dirt, dust, etc.):




Sub: Composition
How often to you find something on the ground? Maybe after this article more often now. Have a look on the "why" things are on the ground/floor. Is it reasonable that they are going in the place you place them at your base?

Let's take the mushroom example: Do not place just three mushrooms on your base, at least if it is not meant to be in the forest of the only three magic mushrooms. Place mushrooms of all sort in small families, find your inspiration and ideas in nature with open eyes, but not only with mushrooms please, check for leaves, dirt, garbage, stuff, stuff and even more stuff.


Sub-Sub: Extreme Situations
Well, I leave this too your own imagination now, as my brain is slowly going offline after hours of writing this article and thinking about it. There is much more homework for your brain and future miniature projects hidden in this article as you might believe me right now.


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4. Closure
Oh well, me is exhausted right now and I hope those of you who read through the article feel the same. Yeah really I hope so as this means your brian worked during the read and believe me when I say it will do even further if you hit the streets or the forest.

If you want to keep track with my personal photo collection where I took the inspirational photos for this article from, please visit: tale-of-the-banana-whale, my personal hobby photo blog.

Going back to the "Principles of Painting" I want to encourage you in digging deeper in your own brain about the "why" on doing something in your figure projects. Observe, learn, study, paint.
If you do you will soon find out that it all belongs together and forms a unit of painting wisdom. Important in my eyes is that you build it up on your ownas you will see the knowledge becoming one in your brain. Big and small fireworks will hit your heart, brain and soul while painting and achiving another personal step in your painting skills, like this synphony over here.

Always remember: It takes time that you invest in the act of painting and what we learned today in observing your world too! The journey never ends :)

Have fun and keep on happy painting!
Best Wishes,
Roman
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Tutorial Voting: A Jungle box!

September 10, 2014, 10:36 pm
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Heyho Jungle Painters,

it's Thursday and we hope you can dig what is up again, eh?
Right, Tutorial Voting is on again and this time you can put your vote via comment until Monday next week for one of these two choices:

#01
Some projects need their own transport box and Roman's "Last Light" is definatly one of that kind due its pure size. Find out how Roman build a truely sturdy transport box for this diorama and learn about the material and the steps you need to find and take.

For this article vote"Carry Box" in your comment!


 
#02
This article brings you a step by step guide through Roman's project called"Her name is Hope", mainly a look at the paintwork done on Col.Straken from Games Workshop.

For this article vote "Catachan" in your comment!



Your choice now! Choose wisely and pick one of this double C tutorial voting :)
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Musica

September 11, 2014, 10:44 am
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Mu 58 - Nuts Planet, The Aquila, Roman Legionary

September 11, 2014, 10:10 pm
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Hello Miniature Painters, 

time again for another Miniatures Unpacked of a really cool bust.
This time for Massive Voodoo's friends from Nuts Planet,"the Aquila, Roman Legionary". 

Roman is having this guy on his Want!-list since he saw him for the first time. He is still reading novels about ancient Rome like a madman and sometimes he is in need to let his impressions of those books loose on a figure. This sculpt - who tells the story of one of the retrieved legion eagles the Romans lost during several wars - is just too great to be not painted.

The Model arrives in a super safe box by NutsPlanet with the very cool promotional paintjob on the box. You have one big picture of it and three small ones that let you have a good view on all the models angles. Pretty cool, but that blue of that box is just nuts!



Unpacking, you'll find foam to keep everything safe inside and nine parts, including the main body, the helmet under the cloak hat, the eagle, wrapped in fabric, the pommel of the gladius, the face, the tiny straps to keep both of the helmet cheek pieces in place. Last but not least a piece of resin where you can place the bust on top if you want.


Ok, lets have a look on the quality of the sculpt and cast, which is splendid. Let's start with the most important part of the bust: The Legion's Eagle, at least this is why this guy went through barbarian hell and back to retrieve it and bring back honour to Rome.

Wonderful, looks really packed well for a hard journey ...


 Now that is a face that speaks volumes, 
with rightoues purpose on his way home...

Mjam, mjam ... the detail is really cool.

The detail stuff, little cutting preparation needed here and there, but overall this turned out easy. Take care of the thin leather stripes for the helmet as they might break easily, but only if you do not take care ;)


Now we have a look on the work that awaits the modeller while preparing this resin bust for painting.
The cast quality is flawless and you only will have minor work to do while removing some small casting mould lines. On the main body, head and eagle you have some resin bricks to remove via calliper and blade. That's it.


After removing a thin resin skin from the lower part of the cload the head fits in pretty good, unfortanetly for this photo the resin block was not yet removed, that is why he looks a little off balance, but yet cool.


 

Now the resin skin is removed and the check for accuracy fit starts. Turns out to be really cool. Still some remains of the resin skin have to be removed in the back of the cloak.


The Eagle fits perfectly in the shape on the main body. Thumbs up, Nuts Planet!

Roman's can't hold back to paint Romans so here you already can see an early WIP of the bust under  Roman's brush.

Really a cool bust - this is Massive Voodoo's second review on a sculpt by Nuts Planet and we got say: Thumbs up! High quality pieces there and a joy for every painter. If you are interested in more, check Nuts Planets' facebook page and I heard rumors that they are also started selling via retailers worldwide.

Hope you enjoyed this review!
Find more reviews here via Massive Voodoo's Miniatures Unpacked Overview.

Best Wishes,
Your MV-Team


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Ultimate Paint Rack - Pledge Manager, Pre-order reminder!

September 13, 2014, 12:37 am
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Hello Ladies and Gentlemen,

this post is a little reminder :)

We are thankful that 87 % percent of our campaign backers already confirmed their pledge with the help of BackerKit. We are also thankful to those, who did missed the campaign and take the chance to already pre-order their Ultimate Paint Rack.


While we work in the background to make you get your rewards as fast as possible, you can help us now by giving us all the details and fill out the surveys we are sending right now, if you have not yet done so. If you got any questions concerning the pledge manager we kindly ask you to get in contact with the team of BackerKit as they provide all help with technical questions. For sure you can also ask us, but we might point you back to the BackerKit-Team.






Pledge Manager - BackerKit
We decided to work together with the professional team of BackerKit to give you a smooth and comfortable way of dealing with all the details.

With the invite code our backers received via mail (check your mails!), you can edit your shipping adress, choose the shirt size you want (if you got a shirt), edit which goodies you want to have for your pledged amount and - most important for us, give us details about the shipping.
You will see it is very easy and self-explanatory.

The faster you fill out the survey, the better for everyone.
We will get exact numbers of how many items we need and we can start getting everything to our storage and send it to you!
If you are experiencing problems, feel free to contact us or the BackerKit-Team anytime!


Pre-orders
We also opened Pre-orders in BackerKit, so if you missed the campaign, you may now pre-order your Ultimate Paint Rack here
https://paint-rack.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders

Be aware that the Stretch Goals from the campaign are not included in the Pre-order version of the Ultimate Paint Rack - those were included only for our Backers to show our biiiig gratitude!

If you pledged for the campaign, we would be happy to see the Pre-Order link shared on Facebook or other media - Maybe you have a friend or two who missed the campaign here on Indiegogo.

We will keep you updated about the status of BackerKit and any further progress of the campaign!
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September 13, 2014, 9:23 am
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Inuit Fisherman

September 14, 2014, 10:23 pm
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Hi jungle people,

maybe some of you have seen this finished bust already, but it was not yet shown on MV.

It is a real beautiful sculpt by Romain van den Bogeart which is not available at a miniature company, but directly by asking him, the sculptor himself, via his blog or his facebook page. A true big bust as it is about adult male fist size. Well, this is not an accurate describtion I know but maybe you get a better hint of its size by the size comparision photo in the end.

What I can say is that it was fun to paint and learn about its theme.
I was not aware of much history of these natives, but glued myself into some proper read, starting with Wikipedia. I went deeper and read to novels concerning these people and had some very interesting talk with a canadian friend about them, which made me dig even deeper in their today's life. And there I met sadness, these people are struggling with the global warming, facing radiation in their fish due recent nuclear power plant disasters and try to survive in this modern world with their old traditions and habits.

I tried to paint this model with the emotions I found during my research and wanted to catch the sculptors emotion in my paintjob, as I did feel Romain's power in it in every inch.

There will be an upcoming step by step of this bust and the work I have done on it via Massive Voodoo's year of the painter sooner or later, but preparing such articles with all the photos and the texts always takes a little longer than you might think. I am looking forward to write this article in the future, I hope you do too :)


Inuit Fisherman
sculpt by Romain van den Bogeart








If you want to see more photos of this painted version of this bust, please visit my gallery on Putty&Paint.

I told you about the size comparision, well here it is, even it looks a little strange from the light situation as it was made with lightning by the camera and the yellow cabinet lamp:

 Following you can see a little preview to the step by step article on this bust: The early journey's start and the final black painting of the plinth. In between a lot happened and will be explained to you in the future of Massive Voodoo's year of the painter.



Let me know what you think, like, dislike, etc. of this bust 
and keep on happy painting!
Best Wishes, 
Roman
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Voodoo Jungle News

September 15, 2014, 8:14 am
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Hi ladies and gentleman,
time once again for a little newsflash.
What is going on in the jungle? This might be of interest for you:
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The Ultimate Paint Rack Campaign
At the moment we are in the middle of bringing all your orders together via BackerKit. Meanwhile 94% of all our backers have completed their survey of their order. That is good and we thank you for your reliability, but...

We noticed that many of our backers that already finished the survey on BackerKit using the link they received via mail forgot to add the shipping Add-On.

Without "shipping" added in BackerKit's survey as an Add-On we cannot send you your goods! It is very important to select the correct shipping option!

Please double check if you already added the shipping item in your cart in BackerKit by using the link we sent you via mail.

Another important note: even if you will pickup your goods in Augsburg or you have free shipping (stickers ...) please select the pick up or free shipping option in the Add-On and add it to the cart!

If you got any questions concerning the use of BackerKit please feel free to ask first the Team of BackerKit and if they can not provide you the help you search feel free to contact us.
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We finally have a big update about this item.

You can support the jungle and the jungle supports you!

You can now place your advertisement here on MASSIVE VOODOO!

We feature:
- Daily Updates about Happy Painting
- around 1500 subscribers to the blog, steadily growing
- around 4000~6000 page impressions to the mainsite daily, around 2000 daily visitors to the article section - all interested in our Hobby from all over the globe.
- Huge amount of content with one of the best Article/Tutorial sections related to the hobby of miniature painting in the web.
Banner Advertisement?
We accept banners for all subjects that are related to our hobby, may it be your shop, a special product, simply your company/brand or your crowdfunding campaign.
We reserve the right to reject advertisements that don't fit to these subjects
or may harm or risk our readers, for example explicit adult material.
How can I place my ad in the jungle and what does it cost me?
If you are intrested in placing your advertisement on Massive Voodoo write an email to
jarhead---at---massivevoodoo---dot---com 
to get provided with all the information you need, via PDF.

Please contact MV via email for a quote and further information.

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Today all Random Prizes and Prizes of the Winners have been shipped. 
Except to Oli aka Honour Guard as we will meet him soon on the SMC and to Matt diPietro as he did not yet provide us with his shipping adress.

Thanks to everyone who supported the jungle with a donation to get this big load of parcels on the road!

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MV's Jar's Basing Class II
Right now Roman is preparing for his upcoming basing class in the end of September. Preparing means for him getting all that material ready and installing ideas in the schedule from the great  feedback he recieved during his first round of this class in August by the students. We'll soon find out how round two worked.


MV's Jar's Beginners class
The class in Munich, Germany in mid October is filling up. If you are interested in taking part, check the link and you might get a seat as long as they last.

The class in Sprang-Chapelle, Netherlands in December is already fully booked, but you might have chance to be a part of it if you place your name on the follow-up-list.


Private Coaching
After our little summer vacation in private coaching this autumn season brings back a full list until the end of the year. Many students doing future private coaching with interesting personal topics with us and we are looking forward to tell you about it. The last months of 2014 are fully booked and early 2015 will be planned with the Private Coaching from our Ultimate Paint Rack Campaign.


BÄM² class
We didn't do a BÄM² class this year so far and as it looks like we won't do one until the year passed us. Several reasons behind this, but the biggest one is that the whole class gets a little restructure, based on a brand new class sculpt.

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Massive Voodoo Painted Miniatures Boutique 
There is also a bigger update in the Miniatures for Sale area. Oli aka HonourGuard threw in some of his beautiful pieces. Go have a look and maybe you find something you want to add to your collection or use as a birthday gift to a friend.

You can also support the painters of Massive Voodoo by checking the Boutique of lovely handpainted models that are on sale - click the banner to get directed:
 
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And ... last but not least: Massive Voodoo's birthday approaches in big steps!
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Tutorial: Col. Straken

September 15, 2014, 10:53 pm
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Good Morning Jungle Painters,

via last weeks tutorial voting you decided to see the article about Col.Straken by Games Workshop up to your jungle blog.A true Catachan Jungle Warrior, placed in a postapocalyptic story.

This project was a exchange model Roman has done to his buddy Kyle from MR Lee's Painting Emporium and you already can find some articles that are connected to this project:

Wasteland Display base
Roman explains his thoughts on a Fallout/Wasteland base.

Creating Newspapers
Article that explains you how to add worn newspapers to your bases. 

Now this upcoming article is about some thoughts on the painting process of the model itself. Let's have a look what Roman has to tell, eh?

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Foreword
This model was planned as a fun project as an exchange model to my friend Kyle. I did it beside comission works, during painting classes and other important stuff that sorround my daily work schedule, so I had to do it rather quick to be not too distracted from my daily work. It is not a bad thing to decide a project to be done fast as if you do it from the heart it will look good and you can feel the heart in it, especially if it is a gift to a person you like to make a present to.

This article is not a true step by step - rather it will take you on the colourful journey that made this miniature saw until it was done and looked like this:


The Painting Process
I started with priming the miniature black only.



After the black priming I decided to use a colour I recently enjoy to start skintones from: Vallejo Model Cork Brown. Using the Airbrush to spray a first gentle layer on top of the black primer, mainly from above the model to have a first sketch of zenithal light to the model. In this stage I do not care if every area recieves some of the skins basic tone.



Quickly I decided to give the clothing its basic tone and went there with some glazes of - now guess what - catachan green but added a tiny drop of black to it as my plan was to work from a dark green to some small highlights on it.


As you can see I did paint the model not directly on its base as the basework was a little rough in the middle of the process and I did not want to harm the model with too much rust and dirt stuff ...


Next step was a very important one for me. First, all metal parts have been painted black and have been painted with Black Metal from Scale75 on top of the black.

The greens got some more layers to make it more opaque, adding a tiny drop of VMC sky grey into the last layer to prepare gentle lights on the trouser and and bandana.

I like to close into a quick paintjob by adding all basic tones in this stage, so beside the metals I also used some brown for the weapon and sketched the bone parts. Dark Brown/Black shoes, reds on the ammo shells and a sand tone for his necklace.

Sketching first highlights on the bone parts and skinpart. Same procedure like I did with the greens. Looks rough at the moment, but that is not a problem, at least for me. The overall picture is now available to me.


Now we arrive at an essential point of this article. I want to talk with you about saturated and deaturated colours. I want to talk with you how you can use the saturation of a colour to already produce first lights. It is not about mixing in a white to another colour to increase your contrast.

Check for the face in the upper photo, yeah, the rough face sketch there. Check for his nose, cheekbones, chin, these prominent spots in a human face. There you already find more saturation compared to the areas where you only can find the cork brown as a basic colour. That is why I like the cork brown a lot as a skintone. It helps me to start from a desaturated colour and increase contrast by just adding more saturated, more powerful tones to it. There are many other colours that are desaturated and work like that, you don't have to use cork brown for the rest of your life when it comes to painting skin.

What makes a colour desaturated?
A drop of grey in it. Or a drop of a coloured grey in it (for example green grey). Or a tiny drop of black. Or a drop of coloured black in it, coloured black?? Check:

Painting the colour "black"
A big guide that shows you how to conquer your blacks.
Or when you mix in your basic tone its complementary colour, as the result you will get will be a desaturated greyish tone fitting very well to your basic colour as a first or second shadow.  Now we will have a look on his left arm, still rough, not cleaned up yet but worth a look when it comes to talk about saturation.  


After a little clean up on the skin parts I decided to add smaller details and highlights to the model. A little texture on the bandana and bone parts, a highlights to the leather and wood parts, focusing on some colour variations in his face, making him look a bit unshaved for some days.

Now if we look on that beard shadow it is again about saturation and desaturation. I used glazes mixed out of skintone and green grey and applied several of them on top of my so far painted skin to achieve this effect.


The camouflage on his trouser was painted pretty simple. Some brown and black pattern used here, but again the browns in the darker areas recieved already a small drop of black to it to keep them a little more desaturated. Some rough highlights to the black shoes appear here also, again you will see that this is a little cold black here if you did read the article about painting the colour black.


Next it was texture and saturation time. It is not a problem if - during your process - you stay a little less saturated in your paintjob. I am working like this these days very often and I use thin glazes of saturated tones to brink back saturation in different areas, for example the wood, leather, skin or green fabrics. This way I am able to control which areas I want to be more saturated in the end than others. If I would place only saturated colours in the beginning I might find it hard to implement the desaturation afterwards.

The metals recieved some tiny highlights with Scale75 Cobalt Alchemy (Steel Paint Set) to make them look more interesting, as this specific colour is a great highlight colour but with a gentle touch of blue in it. Such small things bring in cool effects if the paintjob is planned as a rather quick one and the dark start of the metals help me to recieve quick results here.



About losing saturation in your highlights again
If you only add white (or a very bright colour that has much white in it) to your colour mix to increase the colour contrast you will quickly desaturate your light area. This happens, it is normal. Use a more saturated glaze over it to avoid that, but be aware of that you have to redo some highlights again. Wax on, wax off, eh?

You can also avoid it when you are closing in to paint your highlights and you see that the colour gets more and more desaturated, mix in a tiny, a really tiny drop of for example yellow or orange to it before you try again with more white (or a colour that has a lot of white in it). Mmh, honestly. I should write a complete tutorial about that without making all your brains explode in what I am trying to tell here.


Closure
Whoha, I am just realising how weird the different photos of this article look. Sorry for that, this depends on daytime and light situation on my workspace and most of them are done with the small camera or mobile. Ai, ai, ai ...

Well, after some final clean ups of all areas it was time to see how the model looks on the base. This time with too much light, but the big camera.


Now for the finish it is time to add some colour pigments to his feet to make him integrated more into the dusty wasteland scenery.

Final photos of the project can be found on Putty&Paint.

I hope you enjoyed this little read about the journey on Col.Straken, well even it was more about Saturation and some colour theory.

This was one of the first models where I made some experiences with the Scale75 colours and recently some more tests have been made. There will be a bigger article on Massive Voodoo explaining plus and minus of these really cool colour sets and what you got to take care of when you work 'em.

This article feels a little weird to me and I guess to some of you too, but hopefully there are some  thoughts that might help one or the other of you outthere!

Keep on happy painting!
Best Wishes
Roman
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MV-Team: Bene

September 16, 2014, 8:35 am
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Name: Bene

Nickname: Benji

Years of Painting: Restarted painting in 2009 for wargaming, cabinet painting since the mid of 2011,
Sculpting since 2012

Media: Mainly acrylics, sometimes watercolors, for sculpting all kinds of clay and putty, but mainly Scuper Sculpey, Fimo, BeesPutty Plastic and Milliput

Brushes/Tools: Windsor&Newton Series 7, some cheap brushes for different purposes, for sculpting many dental tools, like the Zahle tool, some Studioworx/Bees tools and a bunch of selfmade tools and also my fingers and hands, for both, painting and sculpting :D

Airbrush: Harder and Steenbeck Evolution, very useful tool

Miniatures: Mainly Fantasy and Sci-Fi Scales: Mostly 28-32mm, but sometimes also 54mm or larger, and also busts

Speed: somewhat mediocre I would say, not really fast but also not slow

Average Painting Hours per day: Hmm, hard to say, sometimes the whole day, but there are also many days, where I don´t paint, in average I would say 1-2 hours.

Sculpting: Yes, and I really like it.

Favourite Painters: Ben Komets, Roman Lappat, Raffaele Picca, Francesco Farabi, Alfonso Giraldez

Favourite Sculptors: Allan Carrasco, Pedro Fernandez, Patrick Masson, Raffaele Picca, Simon Lee, Steve Party, Alfonso Giraldez




Hello, my name is Bene,

but on the web you´ll find me often with my nickname Benji.
These days I´m a student of Geography in Augsburg.

My first contact with miniatures is now 11 years ago, which is pretty much half my life these days. But in these days long time ago, my focus wasn´t on high quality miniature painting for cabinet, but more on playing tabletop games and getting color onto my figures. After three years playing tabletop games, I dropped the hobby because of other hobbies. Then around 5 years ago I found back to painting miniatures in the first time again for playing tabletop, but soon playing tabletop was less and less important and painting became more important, as this was also the time where I started to take a look into miniature forums and blogs and there were so many cool painted and converted miniatures which made me want to create cool models on my own. You can find some of my miniature work on Putty&Paint.



Funnily Massive Voodoo also played a big role at that time in bringing me into the painting and sculpting area of the big miniature hobby. Well so 5 years ago it was more or less a new start into the hobby. I guess it was the sumer of 2011 where I met Raffa and Roman at a workshop in Soest. Since then there grew a deep friendship between us, which I really don´t want to miss in my life. Beside only painting miniatures I was also always interested in sculpting, because I really like the opportunity you get with sculpting to create your own ideas starting from a blanc canvas, as you aren´t limited through miniatures you might need for a project (although there are tons of cool minis out there).



So my drop into sculpting was with a workshop held by Mati in 2012. Since then I started many sculpts were some are still unfinished, as finishing the miniatures is for me always the hardest part when sculpting. But I have much fun with sculpting and will spend many hours in the future to create my own sculpts. All that brought me also to drawing and painting (digital and traditional) as the miniature painting and sculpting stuff woke up my creative side. Somehow I like to create and design and to work on my skills to be able to visualize my ideas. I also enjoy taking my camera and doing photos to find the beauty of the world.





Another part I like about the hobby we share, is the community, as I met there so many new friends and nice people with which I love to hang around and have a good time. Unfortunately the chances to meet all the people are rare, as it is mainly at contests or conventions and sometimes at a painters meeting, but that makes these rare times even more special and funny. Beside the miniature hobby I have also many other interests, which are for example photography, pc gaming, biking, hiking, and so many more, basicly too many hobbies for too less time.

Well, I´m pretty sure I forgot to write so many things I could have wrote, but I hope, that this page gives you a little insight about me, how I came to the hobby and why I like it.

 Cheers Bene
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Happy 5th Birthday Massive Voodoo!!

September 17, 2014, 12:02 am
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Hello Massive Voodoo readers and Jungle Painters,

five years ago a little basket was washed against the shore of the big jungle island, a big gorilla who was searching the beach for shells for a new necklace found it and he brought it home, showed the content of the basket to the monkeys of the creative-totem-tribe living deep under the jungle canopy. 
Quickly the monkeys gathered around it and decided to raise what they found in the basket. The date was September 17th 2009 and what they found in that little basket was a baby blog. They named it Massive Voodoo.

Well, today - September 17th, 2014 - Massive Voodoo - your jungle blog of daily updates on miniature inspiration celebrates his 5th birthday. Five years passed until the blog was funded, five years that often changed the blog in its apperance, five years that made every miniature painter connected to it grow bigger in his painting skills, five years with a lot of content for its readers and the community sorrounding it, five years with a lot of laughter and sometimes tears, five years that saw improvement, change and left some proud scars here and there and the baby blog became an adult by now we'd say. To this date the blog was visited 6,495,686 times in the last five years. Truely massive it feels and we want to thank everybody who made the baby blog a place that is visited that often, because of you outthere MV became a grown up blog!

As did the monkeys inhabiting it ... growing from babies to serious adults. Oh really? Well, no! :D
The monkeys behind your jungle blog still are little boys and girls that love to paint tiny nerdy miniatures, who call themself proud to be a nerd.

Well, today we want to celebrate this with you with a) a little task to all our readers and b) a little gift announced by your MV-Team. Which one shall we start with??

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Let's start with the gift we'd say: BANANALICIOUS II!


Many of you might remember the 1st MV BANANALICOUS Painting Contest, the biggest online contest which the world of miniature painting ever saw with tons of entries by painters and sculptors from all over the globe. A contest that roared the joy of happy painting out to the world and with every participant showing his pride and passion of what we all do by entering in it.

Massive Voodoo - Bananalicious Contest:
Bananalicious Painting Contest - Winners Banana!
Bananalicious Painting Contest - Winners Sculpting
Bananalicious Painting Contest - Winners Diorama
Bananalicious Painting Contest - Winners Historic Master
Bananalicious Painting Contest - Winners Historic Standard
Bananalicious Painting Contest - Winners Fantasy Master
Bananalicious Painting Contest - Winners Fantasy Standard
Bananalicious Painting Contest - Gallery of all entries
Bananalicious Painting Contest Announcement
 
For us the first issue of the Bananalicious Contest was hard work behind the curtains. Collecting, organising and judging 172 entries, not only with single projects but with displays (several models showcased together) was truely exhausting, but also rewarding as we felt the wave of fun everyone of you had with this contest.

Now we decided to bring you issue number two of this massive contest. MV's BANANALICIOUS CONTEST - ISSUE 2 will start on November 17th 2014 and until then we want you to know that you have to prepare yourself. We will provide you with all information you need and have some cool updates of the rules and categories. We are sure that this issue will shake the painting community to its core when all of us line up to top the number of entries of the first issue.

You want to be a sponsor?
You own a miniature company, a painter's forum, a miniature related blog or you are a single individual and you want to be a sponsor of the BANANALICIOUS CONTEST - ISSUE 2?
If so, please contact us via: mv---at---massivevoodoo---dot---com

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Now that we have presented you the gift we are preparing for you to celebrate MV's 5th we arrive at  the task we ask of you, the jungle painters and voodoo readers.

Sometimes a letter or an email, written by a Jungle Painter drops in the jungle and so did the one of Mattias from Denmark:

"Dear Roman, 
like many probably already did, or at least I hope so, I would like to thank you and your team for the Massive Voodoo experience! I very rarely sit down and write Emails like this, in which case this is one of those times where I won't stop myself from writing out to folks like you who deserves the recognition.

I thought I was a retired miniature painter, with too many interest in my hands. But I am only 24 at present time, so it felt wrong in many years, not to be swinging the brush. I actually had a break for 4 whole years. I was a part of the Danish Golden Demon team back in Copenhagen, but never got around finishing up my entry for UK, and after that it all just stopped. It was a nice experience to discover your painting, and the way you and your team interpret the miniature painting scene as a respectful art form, like it should be! This was what I had missed all these years, but couldn't find myself. The artform! 

I was born and bred on White Dwarf and Eavy Metal. And even though I still love this part of the miniature world, the discovery of a new painting scene was a fresh breath to me! I took this inspiration and found my painting joy back, and I walk around these days with a smile much bigger than before, cause besides the other fantastic things I do in my everyday life, the joy of painting just can't be replaced, and its a part of who I am, because i've been doing it since I was 7. It feels so great to be painting with new energies, and with a trial and error in focus, not being afraid to push my own limits and try something new. This is still a niche in the art society in Denmark, were you almost can count the pro painters in one hand. The social aspect of painting is so important for me and my motivation, so god bless the internet I guess..! Because it is also great to share with people who understand. 

So what I would actually like to say in short terms with this mail is, keep up the good work, thanks for the inspiration, great painting, and i'll hope to run into you folks some time in the near future! 
Kind regards, 
Mattias" 

Mattias words really gives us the heebie-jebbiesas his story is exactly what Massive Voodoo is aiming at. Thank you Mattias for your time to sit down to write such words!

Now what is your Massive Voodoo experience?
Your story connected to Massive Voodoo?
Since when do you read Massive Voodoo?

Let us know via comment on this birthday post, we would be thankful if you would find the time to write some words, thoughts or what is on your mind!

Happy 5th Birthday Massive Voodoo!
And Happy Birthday, Ben Komets!!
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Tutorial Voting: Special Birthday Edition!

September 18, 2014, 12:12 am
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Hello Jungle Painters,

yesterday we celebrated Massive Voodoo's 5th Birthday with a little gift and a task for you - so if you did not read it yet - here you go!

Today Massive Voodoo's year of the painter brings you a special editionof Tutorial Voting:
The Birthday Special Edition. Now what does that mean, eh?

In full force madness there are six articles you can choose from today, all a little special and it will be like in the Highlander series: There can only be one! One up next week - you decide which one via comment under this post!


#1
In this article Roman talks about the basework he has done on Northstar Models' Male Galaxy Defender. The article is strictly about the base, no talk about the models' paintjob included.

For this article vote "SciFi base" in your comment!

#2
This article goes back to the explanation on how Roman painted the Toadking in his project called
"Frogs X-ing". It is a deep look into the paintjob itself, no basing or other talk included.

For this article vote "Green Frog" in your comment!

#3
This article takes a look on the use of Scale75 Steel Tone Set and Inktensity Set and talks about the use of these cool colours. Explanation is done on Roman's latest painted "Vampire" guy from Sgt. Blackart and includes a little step by step through the process of the figure.

For this article vote "Scale75 Metals" in your comment!
 
#4
In this article Raffa is explaining to you with some cool tips and tricks on how you can sculpt a loincloth on a giant's butt from Games Workshop. It gives insight in tools and material.

For this article vote "Giant butt" in your comment!

#5
This article is about a step by step walkthrough on a female barbarian from the range of Ilyad Games. It gives insight in Roman's thoughts on the base and the paintjob.

For this article vote "Barbarian Girl" in your comment!
 
#6
A step by step on Roman's latest bust, the Inuit Fisherman. A colourful journey through a truely big bust. Talking about painting the fish, the skin, the leather and doing the snow.

 For this article vote "Inuit Fisherman" in your comment!
 
Now it is your turn to vote until Monday next week!
There can only be one! 
Happy voting!
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