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Dear friends,
Thank you for your comments and especially you Terry for your understanding of our position. Oil painters....I know we have less articles for oils every issue...But the market is going more and more to acrylics...and so my contributors. I promise to do something for oil painters soonDear John, I am very surprised that you did not like the Crusaders Theme Collection as it is one of my favorites and much appreciated from the people that did not buy our regular books. Anyway the contributors' name are very clear written on the cover. I did not have the intention to "cheat" the customers buying something who did not know what it is inside. Also in our website everyone can see the contents and the artists' name. As you can see I have put on the cover the unpainted bust of Young's Knight bust sculpted by Myouchin even if I had the painted high quality pictures (definitely will attract more to have the Kirill Kanaev box art on the cover) as you can see inside. The Ernesto articles in the book include a lot of different mixes, techniques and a SBS guide for mounted figures that I found extremely useful for all. The 75mm mounted knight article has some colour mixes that are unique and a lot of in progress photos can be found there. Ok 5 out of 9 articles have been written by Ernesto but in every one you will find interesting things to adopt and use. Have you consider how difficult it is to collect all these articles with high quality photos, make the layout...etc...Most of printed matters on historical themes closed. Why do you think that closed? If they were making enough do you think that will stop their production? Of course not. Perhaps the market for these high quality editions is shrinking or people they do not care about (to support their hobby as we used to do years ago). I used to buy most of the modelling magazines (subscription) even if there was not one single article for figures...or maybe just one...
Anyway we have a free market and no one will tell us how to spend our money. Maybe people spend more on recasting items than buying originals and some references? I can not say.
I can promise that I will continue to produce printed matters as far as my pocket will permit. And trying to improve each time.

All the best
Stelios

<blockquote data-quote="Stelios Demiras" data-source="post: 979958" data-attributes="member: 6854">Dear friends,Thank you for your comments and especially you Terry for your understanding of our position. Oil painters....I know we have less articles for oils every issue...But the market is going more and more to acrylics...and so my contributors. I promise to do something for oil painters soon<img src="/styles/default/xenforo/xenforo-smilies-sprite.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/xenforo-smilies-sprite.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" data-shortname=":)" />Dear John, I am very surprised that you did not like the Crusaders Theme Collection as it is one of my favorites and much appreciated from the people that did not buy our regular books. Anyway the contributors&#039; name are very clear written on the cover. I did not have the intention to &quot;cheat&quot; the customers buying something who did not know what it is inside. Also in our website everyone can see the contents and the artists&#039; name. As you can see I have put on the cover the unpainted bust of Young&#039;s Knight bust sculpted by Myouchin even if I had the painted high quality pictures (definitely will attract more to have the Kirill Kanaev box art on the cover) as you can see inside. The Ernesto articles in the book include a lot of different mixes, techniques and a SBS guide for mounted figures that I found extremely useful for all. The 75mm mounted knight article has some colour mixes that are unique and a lot of in progress photos can be found there. Ok 5 out of 9 articles have been written by Ernesto but in every one you will find interesting things to adopt and use. Have you consider how difficult it is to collect all these articles with high quality photos, make the layout...etc...Most of printed matters on historical themes closed. Why do you think that closed? If they were making enough do you think that will stop their production? Of course not. Perhaps the market for these high quality editions is shrinking or people they do not care about (to support their hobby as we used to do years ago). I used to buy most of the modelling magazines (subscription) even if there was not one single article for figures...or maybe just one...Anyway we have a free market and no one will tell us how to spend our money. Maybe people spend more on recasting items than buying originals and some references? I can not say.I can promise that I will continue to produce printed matters as far as my pocket will permit. And trying to improve each time.&nbsp;All the bestStelios</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stelios Demiras, post: 979958, member: 6854"] Dear friends, Thank you for your comments and especially you Terry for your understanding of our position. Oil painters....I know we have less articles for oils every issue...But the market is going more and more to acrylics...and so my contributors. I promise to do something for oil painters soon:):)Dear John, I am very surprised that you did not like the Crusaders Theme Collection as it is one of my favorites and much appreciated from the people that did not buy our regular books. Anyway the contributors' name are very clear written on the cover. I did not have the intention to "cheat" the customers buying something who did not know what it is inside. Also in our website everyone can see the contents and the artists' name. As you can see I have put on the cover the unpainted bust of Young's Knight bust sculpted by Myouchin even if I had the painted high quality pictures (definitely will attract more to have the Kirill Kanaev box art on the cover) as you can see inside. The Ernesto articles in the book include a lot of different mixes, techniques and a SBS guide for mounted figures that I found extremely useful for all. The 75mm mounted knight article has some colour mixes that are unique and a lot of in progress photos can be found there. Ok 5 out of 9 articles have been written by Ernesto but in every one you will find interesting things to adopt and use. Have you consider how difficult it is to collect all these articles with high quality photos, make the layout...etc...Most of printed matters on historical themes closed. Why do you think that closed? If they were making enough do you think that will stop their production? Of course not. Perhaps the market for these high quality editions is shrinking or people they do not care about (to support their hobby as we used to do years ago). I used to buy most of the modelling magazines (subscription) even if there was not one single article for figures...or maybe just one... Anyway we have a free market and no one will tell us how to spend our money. Maybe people spend more on recasting items than buying originals and some references? I can not say. I can promise that I will continue to produce printed matters as far as my pocket will permit. And trying to improve each time. All the best Stelios [/QUOTE]

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