Early in the morning...

The wargames room is still empty

Zinnfiguren Schilling are building their stand

One night and FIGZ starts!

While I'm writing this FIGZ is only a few hours away. It looks like it's going to be a great day. Yesterday Hans Slaager prepared his Cambrai diorama and Martin Ederveen his shop (Miniatuurwereld.com). Later this evening Jörg and Ulrike Schilling from Zinnfiguren Schilling showed up. They are sleeping in their van outside now haha. Me and my dad also hung up all the roadsigns this evening. If you drive to Goor you can't miss them!

You can also download the floor plans:

Dutch language floor plan

German language floor plan

English language floor plan

Adress:

Café-Restaurant Jachtlust

Markeloseweg 80

7471JG Goor, Nederland 

Open from 10:00h until 17:00h.

Entrance and parking is free!

Food and beverages are available at FIGZ.

I hope to see you all at FIGZ today! :-D

Hans, Martin and my dad preparing the Cambrai diorama

FIGZ roadsigns

My dad hanging one of the roadsigns

FIGZ: only one week left!

Part of one of the three rooms

Only seven days left until FIGZ 2011! I'm very excited, what about you? :-D

Last week I prepared one of the three rooms and realized it's really going to be big! Definitely the largest 1/72 scale and smaller event ever organized in the Netherlands!

Yesterday the eight wargame demo was confirmed. Bert van Hal and Henri Anemaat from wargame club Militia Brabantia (link) will play a 15mm American Cival war demo using the Fire & Fury ruleset. An impressive wargame of 2.40x1.80 metres!

Maurice Bos (link) and Johan van Ooij (link) have been added to the Bring & Show list. Both will bring some of their work to show at FIGZ.



Here's the full list of activities so far:

Traders

Miniatuurwereld.com (link)

Toys & More by Winterkamp (link)

Fredericus Rex (link)

Zinnfiguren Schilling (link)

Karwansaray Publishers - publisher of the following magazines: Wargames Soldiers & Strategy (link), Ancient Warfare (link) and Medieval Warfare (link)

Wargames

Alde Garde (link) - 1760: a fictitious battle in India 

Wargaming Club Niederrhein - Cap'n Chaos and the curse of the Vlaaiing Dutchman

Wargaming Club Niederrhein - Wild West Shoot Out

Wargaming Club Niederrhein - Napoleonic battle

De Achterhoede (link) - Italian-Turkish war in Libia (1912)

Rene van den Assem & Erik Stekelenburg - The Great War

Murphy's Heroes (link) - Pike & Shot

Militia Brabantia (link) - Fire & Fury

Bring & Show

Paul Hedges (link)
Peter Bonami (link)
Dirk Scherlatzik (link)
Jan Marschner (link)
Florian Ludloff (link 1) (link 2)
Tom Russell
Konrad Schlangen
Maurice Bos (link)
Johan van Ooij (link)

Dioramas
Battle of Cambrai 1917 (link)
Waterloo Grande Batterie (link)
D-Day (link)
Brecourt (link)

Workshops
Building terrain
Casting figures
Making moulds
Painting figures

Painting try-out & Project Airfix

Painting competition


Read more about each activity here: http://www.figz.nl/en/activities/

Cheers,
Benno

Five more wargames at FIGZ!

Wild West Shoot Out

Five more wargames have been added to our list of activities, making a total of seven wargames that are present at FIGZ! These wargames are new:

Wargaming Club Niederrhein - Wild West Shoot Out
An impressive 1/72 scale wargame with a complete Wild West town!

Wargaming Club Niederrhein - Napoleonic battle
A Napoleonic wargame with over more than 1500 1/72 scale figures!

De Achterhoede - Italian-Turkish war in Libia (1912)
Wargame club "de Achterhoede" plays a fictive skirmish in the 1912 Italian-Turkish war in Libia. The figures are 15mm and the rules are homebrew (baded on Fire & Fury).

Rene van den Assem & Erik Stekelenburg - The Great War
A WW1 wargame with 1/72 figures.

Murphy's Heroes - Pike & Shot
Thirty Years war and Eighty Years war in 10mm.


Click here to see our full list of activities.

Nappie in Paris

Nappie went on a small holiday to Paris last week and me and my girlfriend were lucky enough to go with him! We had a great week with good weather. :-) Here are some photos we made of Nappie in Paris:

At the Arc d'Triomphe!

View from Tour Montparnasse

With the Paris Meridian at the Louvre

Hôtel des Invalides (French Army museum)

They heard Nappie was visiting so they quickly
assembled a welcoming committee

He looks familiar!

Clothes worn by Napoleon

Ain't they gangstah?

Nappie was hiding in a gun barrel

Me with Nappie!

Where to go next?

A blurry pic with the Eifel Tower

 Now I'm back I'll get busy with FIGZ again (in between work, school and my girlfriend). ;-P

Cheers for looking!

Magazines, miniatures & workshops!

Hi all!

I'm going on vacation to Paris again this week but before I'm going I wanted to share some more updates on the FIGZ event!

The following three magazines will be available from Karwansaray Publishers at FIGZ:
- Ancient Warfare
- Medieval Warfare
- Wargames Soldiers & Strategy
These are high quality magazines so be sure to check these out!


Wargames Soldiers & Strategy



Konrad Schlangen and Florian from Wikingpaintworks (website | blog) will show some of their work. Beside showing his figures, Florian will also show you how he paints his miniatures.

Schilling Zinnfiguren will give a workshop casting figures and making your own silicon moulds with a new method where the silicon mould is vulcanized under pressure and heat. Definitely interesting for those who want to cast their own figures! :-D

If this isn't enough... there will be another workshop by Sven. In his workshop he'll show people how he builds terrain.

All these updates will appear on the FIGZ website next weekend. :-)

Cheers,
Benno

German translations

Markus Schenk was so kind to correct all German translations on the German language website! It seems the texts provided by Google Translator weren't that good... :-P All German texts on the website have been corrected.

Thanks Markus!

Bad news & good news

First the bad news... I haven't been able to finish the newsletter yet... Got home a day later from Paris last week because of car trouble and got stuck with work and other stuff since. I hope to finish it in the next couple of days now I've got some more time again!

Now the good news! Since I left for Paris a couple of new people have descided to participate with the FIGZ event!

• Marcel Steenbrink will be showing not one but two of his WW2 dioramas! One of the beach landings in Normandy and one of the Brécourt Manor Assault. 
• A new trader is added: Schilling Figuren. They will be offering their beautiful Napoleonic 1/72 figures and also give a casting workshop!
• Last but not least: Jan Marschner, Dirk Scherlatzik and Tom Russell bring some of their work (6mm and 20mm) with them to the Bring & Show.

For a full list of our activities click here.

Want to participate as well? Contact us at info@figz.nl!

Leaving for Paris

Hi all,

Tonight I'm leaving for Paris for a couple of days. Just so you know I'm not ignoring you when I don't write back! ;-) I'll bring "Nappie" with me and make some pics of him in Paris...

Expect the pictures upcoming Tuesday!

Benno

Newsletter

For those who have registered for our newsletter: we'll send the first one next week!

I haven't managed to prepare one and I'm leaving for Paris this evening (short vacation with friends) so I won't be able to prepare one this weekend.

Website translations

I made some changes to the English language website today. I noticed the translations were terrible... My German is really bad so if any German reader wants to help with a better translation that would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance! :-D

Euro Model Expo Heiden

Last Saturday me and my dad went to the Euro Model Expo in Heiden in our FIGZ promotion shirts. This was the second day we visited this event. We spent the day browsing the fair, talking to old and new friends and of course promoting FIGZ! :-D

Heiden was a great event. We'll definitely be going there again next year!

You can find more photos by clicking here.

The FIGZ blog

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