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[YongA01]

Hi Gino,
If ever go to Belgium , sure lets catch up paint couple of sessions . Hope your health will gets better. Take care my friend

 

[Huw63]

Hi Chris,

Thank you very much for your warm words. Great to hear at least one person liked my articles; that's what I did it for. I fear writing articles won't be something for the (near) feature for two reasons. First, due to my illness I have very limited time I can be "active". I need to set up, and break up, my fotostand each time I need to take pictures. Keeping tracks of colours and writing the articles themself also demands a lot of me, much more than what I have at the moment. secondly the magazine I was writing for has travelled down an whole other path than that I support. With the change of editors figures are pushed almost completely out of the magazine, except those to go with AFV's and I don't like to work for something I don't completely support. But, should you have any questions regarding figure painting, please don't hesitate to ask and I'll answer to the best of my abillities. And I also hope to post more regular here on the site and the forum.

Best wishes,

Gino

Glad to see you back here. Funny but MM is not what it used to be in my opinion also. I've met many who've expressed comments similar to yours. Hope you can get better and produce more figures as they're a pleasure to see and enjoy.

Cheers

Huw

 

[sam b]

really great work

 

[Viking Bob]

I missed this one, excellent painting and ground work. I also left MM as figures were pushed aside. shame really.

 

[DaddyO]

Lovely piece of work - The eyes especially are tremendous

 

[gforceman]

Glad to see you back here. Funny but MM is not what it used to be in my opinion also. I've met many who've expressed comments similar to yours. Hope you can get better and produce more figures as they're a pleasure to see and enjoy.

Cheers

Huw

Hi Huw,

What I would like to know is if MM is selling more or less now with the new politcs? How I long for the good old days when there was an annual figure special. I had all issues from n°1, you know the smaller format, till the end of Ken Jones editorship. I kept buying them after the switch but after a couple of months it was clear there wasn't any romm for figures anymore, so I stopped buying. I kept checking them out iin the magazine store and their website, but I don't do even that anymore. It's sad how things can change. I do feel however there is a need for a good printed figure magazine in English. What do other members think of this?
I'm now up tp a couple of hours of painting each week, varying from week to week. Lately I'm more and more interested in fantasy figures though. But I'm cleaning up a 54mm figure of Captain D'Anjou I'm painting for a good mate of mine. And I must confess that the urge to paint a WWII figure is comming back too. So much idea's, so little energy...

Take care,

Gino

 

[gforceman]

Hi guys,

Thank you very, very much for your nice comments!

Hi daddy O,

For the eyes I use an old airbrush needle and some oilpaints. This way I have lots of time to place the paint, and the airbrush needle can rest on the back of my hand which I find very comfy to paint.

Cheers,

Gino

 

[Huw63]

Hi Huw,

What I would like to know is if MM is selling more or less now with the new politcs? How I long for the good old days when there was an annual figure special. I had all issues from n°1, you know the smaller format, till the end of Ken Jones editorship. I kept buying them after the switch but after a couple of months it was clear there wasn't any romm for figures anymore, so I stopped buying. I kept checking them out iin the magazine store and their website, but I don't do even that anymore. It's sad how things can change. I do feel however there is a need for a good printed figure magazine in English. What do other members think of this?
I'm now up tp a couple of hours of painting each week, varying from week to week. Lately I'm more and more interested in fantasy figures though. But I'm cleaning up a 54mm figure of Captain D'Anjou I'm painting for a good mate of mine. And I must confess that the urge to paint a WWII figure is comming back too. So much idea's, so little energy...

Take care,

Gino

Hello Gino

I had some 1974 and 1975 issues and all issues from January 1976 to June 2013 (which ironically had on the cover the heading "The end of the line") but like you found little on the figure side and in the past decade more armour magazines have appeared which are better in my view (I make some AFVs too).Occasionally they do have an interesting article to be fair but I only buy the iPAD version now.

I think a good English figure magazine be nice and is overdue. At present I subscribe to "Figurines" and also get Soldatini on my iPAD.

And finally but the most important one is the news that you're back slowly painting more. It's very pleasing to hear this one as in the past you wrote some inspirational articles.

Cheers

Huw