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Dear Friends, My latest project- as usual Romeo Models doesnt dissapoint, I especially love their 90mm range - It is definitely worth a rather high price tag. Oils on acrylic base, metallic enamels. Cheers, Piotr

Dear Friends, I have always been fascinated by Conan and his timeless popularity -He is one of the few fantasy heroes that appeal to many even after all these years.. The warrior, traveler, and yet not just barbarian brute , but surprisingly intelligent Cimmerian proved to be a really good...

Dear Friends, Just started on this tiny project(or more of an experiment to see if its worth the time to maybe start a bigger battle diorama) ,after dusting off my ooold Zvezda sets - their Mongols are the best 1/72 set I ever encountered. I have ran out of primer during spraying, hence not...

Dear Friends, In one of other threads I have touched upon this topic a little bit, but I think it deserves its own thread. After all, its (very possibly) a great hope to us all. Its actually rather simple (dont wanna write a book here, and anyone curious in details can google the rest) -3D...

Dear Friends, Paintings can be great inspiration for a manufacturer , or a talented sculptor, or a miniature painter. This is an old classic from Henryk Siemiradzki ,painted in 1883. Would be so great to see a diorama like this one day ..or just a figure or a little scene produced ..(sigh)...

Dear Friends, This is one of my older projects, although this figure is quiet an old production, I still consider it to be one of the more exciting pieces from that company.Quite an imposing pose, always seemed to me like that guy's pose is saying "Im all pumped up and ready for more"..Great...

Dear Friends, Sometimes by sheer accident , you can find surprisigly nice toys for so-called "funny money"..While I was shopping for a gift for my niece I came across some figurines of warriors and knights from the company called Blue Box (sometimes also Mac Toys).It is a line of plastic...

Dear Friends, For looong time now Im having problems with taking properly lighted quality pics. Seems like Ive tried everything..followed all tutorials like this one for example http://massivevoodoo.blogspot.cz/2013/09/miniature-photography.html (basically D600 (105mm, f14, 1/3s) and other...

Dear Friends, My latest project finished is this lovely figure- it personifies all the right reasons why Pegaso is such a perfect manufacturer -the quality and richness of details , above all , is superior in this figure..it was such a pleasure to work on it..Oils on acrylic base,metallics...

Dear Friends, Few months ago, I have read a book titled "Julian" by Gore Vidal. It is a novel about life of Emperor Julian and especially his efforts to unite and streghten Paganism/Neo-Platonism and other religions as Mithraism, Sol Invictus etc to gradually eradicate Christianity (but...

Hi Friends, Painting by Pavel Ryzhenko "Kalka". Great inspiration ,good armor and standards references ,and simply a great rich story. One of the most traumatic events in history of Rus that altered for long time course of Russian history. Alaways thought this could be great project to sculpt...

Hi all, Recently I came across an excellent album called Warrior:Visual History of Fighting Man. It is very extnsive, milions of photos , nice glossy paper, hardcover available. Great buy! Cheers, Peter

Dear Friends, Lagertha Lodbrok already primed and ready (hopefully) to come alive.Recently,I a lso found interesting figure for Bjorn Ironsides conversion -will post pics soon. Important:This is my personal interpretation of Lagertha given an "artistic freedom" and not in any way based on a TV...

200mm MCF figure - very huge ,but fun to convert .Articulation points done away with putty ,some armor changes .But the biggest conversion will be hopefully painting it with oils and acrylics. Still not decided on theme for base -was thinking about an ocean of skulls ,but it has been done to...

Dear Friends, This is very old piece from the very first Conan McFarlane series - fantasy piece that could be easily converted into someone historical.This guy really reminded me of a brave Gaul, and after some conversions I was pretty satisfied with results My first ever conversion of action...

Hi all, Living in Prague, CR , love to find old out-of-production toys (McFarlane being favorite)) and make them come to life with oils and acrylics. When burned out on doing action figures, switching to regular white metal ones is a nice break..Great site you have here:)

Dear Friends, This is another fun action figure conversion from old McFarlane figure. Oils on acrylic base.