Last weekend I drove up to the small town of Langenfeld, where the guys from Wardogs organized a new event for the first time: CONflict Rheinland. I have to say that I am glad I didn’t go to RPC in Cologne instead as this was truly a beautiful, little gem event which has A LOT […]
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Meet the Heroes: Soviet Sergeant Yakov Fedotovich Pavlov
Yakov Fedotovich Pavlov was a Soviet Red Army soldier who became a Hero of the Soviet Union for his role in defending “Pavlov’s House” during the Battle of Stalingrad. On September 27, 1942, Pavlov’s platoon recaptured a four-story building, seized by the German Army and defended it against continual attack by the Germans until relieved […]
Meet the Heroes: German Hauptmann Friedrich Konrad Winkler
Hauptmann Friedrich Konrad Winkler was the Kompanieführer (Company Commander) of the 6. Kompanie / Grenadier-Regiment 577 during the battles at Barrikady Gun Factory in Stalingrad. In January 1943, his regiment was destroyed. Winkler was captured in February and he died shortly after his capture, at the age of 34 in POW camp Beketowka. In the […]
Szenario Con 2017 – the perfect way to start the year
Last weekend was the official hobby start of 2017 for me with a small convention that I went to for the 3rd time now: Szenario Con at the Bonnheimer Hof: I would definately call Szenario an insider tip in terms of tabletop events in Germany because there are a few things that make it very […]
Lots of updates and new stuff (Crisis, new logo, new miniatures, new resellers and lot of other things)
Right, let’s see. The last update on my blog happened about 4 weeks ago and it’s not like nothing happened in the meantime. If you follow my page on Facebook, you have already seen a lot of what has happened in the past month. I don’t want to discriminate the non-Facebook internet users, so let’s […]
Stoessi’s US Airborne army @ Scale Model Challenge
This was my entry for the “Armies on display” competition at Scale Model Challenge. Finished the display board really last minute and had less then a week to get from zero to done.Really happy that I took a bronze medal home for my little army. One more interesting fact of my trip to Eindhoven was […]
Duke of Bavaria 2015 – Boy, what an awesome event
This year’s Duke of Bavaria miniature painting event in Ingolstadt, the south of Germany, took place over the weekend. The Duke is an event that has gone through an evolution of being a pure historical miniature painting event to welcoming Fantasy and Sci-Fi painters over the years. As a result you get a really cool and […]
The biggest brother ready for Duke of Bavaria
While I haven’t posted for a while, that doesn’t mean that I haven’t been painting. In fact, I have finished a few paintjobs and today is the big cleaning day: Even before I put my airbrush into the bath, tons of paint residue came out – especially my needle canal looked pretty bad. I guess […]