Intro

Hi!

My name is Tom and I live in the southwest of Germany.

Recently I started an new hobby: Painting historical wargames miniatures in 28 and 40mm.

Coming from the model train hobby, figures were never really a priority, getting a very basic paintjob.

My interest in those little wargaming figures was sparked when I saw some beautiful dioramas at a local modelling exhibtion. By no means am I at all interested in playing table top games. It's just painting those little figures and using them to build little dioramas and vignettes for displaying them.

Having no experience in painting figures the way it's usually done in the hobby (3-layer technique, washing, drybrushing, etc.), there is a lot I have to learn. And since there is nobody around here who could teach me, I teach myself by trial and error... .

Coming from an educational profession, which involves extensive brainwork, I find all kinds of arts and crafts, including painting, very relaxing. It gives me the possibility to put my mind at ease.

In this blog, I want to present my work to show the progress I'm (hopefully) making over the time.
Another way to help increasing my painting skills is to use already painted figures as examples. Therefore, I frequently buy painted figures from others, which I will also present here, when they are worth it.

One more thing. I do not specialize in any particular era, anything from ancient armys up to armys of the early 19th century is what I like. The more colorful, the better. WW I and II, as well as other conflicts of recent history are not my interest at all (and will never be...).

Having said that, I can only invite everyone interested to visit my blog once in a while to see what's new.

Tom