Kulmbach 2024

[Brian]

Nope! not that I know off


 

[Hannibal]

Any table BFFS at Sèvres this year ??  next week

[Hannibal]

yes, a bit a pity, also opportunity to see the whole serie.  I don't have pictures of the BFFS stand to post in the gallery, still in process (I've started the 'standards', then beginners, then compet tables, then vendors'tent to finish (and to start when looking at the gallery).  So during next week or after...


(sorry I have a malfunction of the "t" key....)

[Brian]

The last Arthur figure is a good figures, just on one knows about it as not advertised   


 

[Jean_Paul]

Why start a new project when the previous ones have not yet been presented. Kulmbach was the best opportunity

[Brian]

A commercial group,  I'm sure this is not the case, just the opportunity was there and they took it.
Eric was stopped selling his figures from the table and had to pay for his own table so maybe that's the way to go for them in the future.


I with 2D don't sell at Kulmbach, figures are ordered and delivered over the weekend yes but that's it, well okay maybe I'm just as bad !!








   

[Hannibal]

Surprising Brian, if BFFS is becoming a commercial group,no longer a social and hobby attraction?


I have never sold any of my paintings, results of a hobby and many lovely hours of passion.


No, only offering to real passionnates, ... or exchanging some pieces with another painter during which we both value our passion for the other piece of work.


But our XXIth century is so much focused on money, profit, I ignored that love was for sales !! and not a free act.   So sad!!


Have status changed for this move? Does the club take some 'royalties' for the advertising table and brand, to post your 'works' ?  Perhaps explaining the silence ever since Kulmbach from the staff ...


I wonder also whether a new BFFS from the saga of King Arthur shall be proposed this year, for 2025? (for painting) ... You've Brian be a link and a promotor for them, primarly with Nick the main motor of this project, and Benedikt more recently for the casting and dispatching .....


Recent new technologies are using more and more electronic resin printing with a raising success.  A bit sad as it shortcuts the artistic talent of engravers and a personnality given to the character to paint... Is this phenomenon raising also in the UK? as it is on the continent? (like Centurion Miniatures).

[PJDeluhery]

Great report, Brian. Thanks.

[Brian]

This years Kulmbach was once again one to remember, Christine and myself got there on the Thursday and after booking into the hotel took a wander down to the town.  I must be beer o'clock as turning into the square at the bar was our guys and Benedick with his crew, well it would have be bad to just walk past so a beer or two was had.
Into the main tent to see the BFFS table, my god what have they done!  only a small area 4 tables yes but back to back so no room at all, Good job I did not have any figures to display.


Most of the weekend was spent talking, drinking and buying a figure or two
Did not see much of the BFFS guys as they had plans that did not include us so spent most of our social time with Benedict and his guys and other traders great laugh.


Again this is the place to be if you love flats, okay a lot more round figures are getting in but that's okay. The standard of painting gets better each year and our guys made a bundle of money selling their painted flats from the BFFS table, no longer a club but a trade table now.


A great weekend and already looking forward to the next one, but this time I'll have loads of painted figs to sell