Agram Arena Winter 2013 Report
This december saw the eleventh edition of Agram Arena Winter tournament in Zagreb, Croatia. The main event was the biggest Warhammer tournament in this part of Europe (apart from ETC) with a couple of side events like Malifaux Doubles tournament (first ever in Croatia) and various demo sessions of other tabletop wargames like Warhammer 40.000, Lord of the Rings/Hobbit Strategy Battle Game, Flames of War and Infinity.
As usual the tournament is free for all the participants (no entry fee) with soft drinks and refreshing beverages served throughout the event. Also, first time comers get a one night accommodation free as a part of our "try-once-see-if-you-like" policy and the lunch is provided for 10 Euros for both days. This all is possible due to the fact that the Agram Arenas (both Summer and Winter) are co-financed by Zagreb's City Office for social welfare as well as Zagreb's Community of Technical Culture as a part of their efforts in preventing unwanted behaviour of minors and youths.
The AAW 2013 event gathered a great number of players and hobbyists from Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia and Italy most of whom like to return to UMS "Agram" events, be it in winter for the Warhammer or be it in summer for 40k or Malifaux tournaments. The main event (Warhammer Fantasy Battles tournament) consisted of five rounds spread over two days of gaming. On Saturday there were three battles played and in the evening the Tournament Organizers organized a visit to a local pub for some food and drinks. Alhough the players had so much fun they stayed until early hours of the morning, the first round (fourth overall) on Sunday wasn't started late....
The Malifaux doubles tournament was held on Saturday and featured games played on great looking tables with great looking Wild West buildings that were the spotlight of the event, apart from the 20% of Malifaux competitors being female :) . All the players agreed that the doubles format was great fun, took a lot of the stress away from the gaming as long as the games lasted a bit longer. The Tournament Organizer obliged the players and prolonged the games enabling all to finish.
At the end of the event but before the closing ceremony, as AAW is the focal point of Zagreb's gaming, all the annual awards were handed out, like various league trophies for Warhammer 40.000, Malifaux and of course Warhammer Fantasy Battles. Closing ceremony consisted of a couple of words from the Tournament Organizers and the roll call of all the winners of the main event, the Warhammer tournamet:
1st place: Roko Nikolić
2nd place: Rok Martinc
3rd place: Filip Berecka
Best Painted Army: Mario Ogrizek-Tomaš
Best Sportsmanship: Mislav Gorupec
Here's a short statement form Mario Ogrizek-Tomaš, the Best Painted Army award winner:
"It took about two months to paint my Khemri army. I went for a striking red-green-gold color scheme, which I am really satisfied with. While the skeletons are over ten years old, the army looks magnificent. I also used pigments and crackle effect extensively on the bases. My two favorite pieces are certainly the prancing sphinx and the tomb king carried by his guard (symbolising a casket of souls). I would like to thank "UMS Agram" for organizing this annual event! I really enjoyed it and hope to attend next years as well!"
MORE PICS SOON TO FOLLOW!!!
Sponsors of Agram Arena Winter 2013 were: Carta Magica, Micro Art Studio, Kabuki Models, Art Zumbur, Kerr & King, Ravnice Youth Hostel, Croatian Ministry of Defense and Zagreb Community of Technical Culture. UMS "Agram" would like to thank all the sponsors of this event, most notably Kabuki Models who were kind enough to provide us with the main prize for the Best Painted Army Award at the Warhammer tournament. With all the best from UMS "Agram" for the new year!
See you in 2014!
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Science behind Acrylic Paints
- Binders (eng. resin) – form a film – in our case probably pure acrylates, I suspect they are styrene acrylates.
- Fillers – in addition to adding volume to the paint, they also affect the viscosity, coverage and appearance of the dry film
- Pigments – the main division is into organic pigments and inorganic pigments. Inorganic ones are more covering but have less vivid shades, while organic ones are often quite poorly covering (yellow for example) but their shades are vivid and bright
Additives:
- Anti-foam
- Rheological modifiers – affect the behavior of wet paint on the substrate (e.g. spillage) and the behavior of the paint when a force is applied to it (brush, roller, spray, airbrush). Rheological modifiers also include thickeners that affect the viscosity of the paint.
- Dispersants – envelop pigment and filler particles and prevent their agglomeration during standing. Good dispersion of pigment and filler affects the coverage and uniform appearance of the dry film. There are a bunch more but I won't go into too much detail
- Solvent – in this case water.
Contrast paints and speed paints – high pigment content, but not so much that it causes high coverage. They are formulated to spread, not to stay where you put them. The result of spreading is that the paint collects in the recesses, where a thicker film of paint remains than on the protruding parts of the miniature. Where the film of paint is thicker (the recesses), the shade of the contrast paint is more pronounced, unlike on the protruding parts where the film is thinner, which is why the shade is then influenced by the color of the substrate.
Composition:
- Binders
- Pigments
- Additives – all listed above + surfactants that reduce the surface tension of the wet paint film, which is why it flows
- solvent
- I would say they do not contain fillers, or contain very, very little of them
Washes – similar in formulation and behavior to contrast agents, only they have a much lower proportion of pigments, certainly no fillers, a higher proportion of surfactants, lower viscosity, and probably less binders.
If we want to greatly dilute acrylic paint or contrast, it is better to use a product intended for this purpose from the manufacturer of that paint rather than water, because it contains all the necessary amount of binders and additives for that paint to retain its properties.
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U ovom članku, naša Dunja nam otkriva znanost iza akrilnih boja.
Akrilne boje – visoki udio pigmenta i dobra pokrivnost. Ako su dobro formulirane ostaju tamo gdje ih naneseš, ne ostavljaju „brush marks“ i suše se dovoljno sporo da stigneš napravit što želiš na minijaturi a opet dovoljno brzo.
Sastav:
- Veziva (eng. resin) – formiraju film – u našem slučaju vjerojatno čisti akrilati, sumnjam da su stiren akrilati.
- Punila – osim što dodaju volumen boji utječu i na viskoznost, pokrivnost i izgled suhog filma
- Pigmenti – glavna podjela je na organske pigmente i anorganske pigmente. Anorganski su više pokrivni ali manje živih nijansi, dok su organski često dosta loše pokrivni (žuti npr) ali zato su im nijanse žive i jarke
Aditivi:
- Protiv pjene
- Reološki modifikatori – utječu na ponašanje mokre boje na podlozi (npr razlijevanje) i na ponašanje boje dok na nju djeluje sila (kist, valjak, sprej, airbrush). Pod reološke modifikatore spadaju i ugušćivači koji utječu na viskozitet boje.
- Dispergatori – obavijaju čestice pigmenata i punila i sprječavaju aglomeraciju istih stajanjem. Dobra dispergiranost pigmenta i punila utječe na pokrivnost i ujednačen izgled suhog filma.
- Ima ih još hrpa ali neću toliko u detalje
- Otapalo – u ovom slučaju voda.
Kontrastice i speed paints – visoki udio pigmenta, ali ne toliki da uzrokuje visoku pokrivnost. Formulirane su da se razlijevaju, a ne da ostaju tamo gdje ih staviš. Posljedica razlijevanja je skupljanje boje u udubine gdje onda ostane deblji film boje nego na isturenim dijelovima minijature. Tamo gdje je film boje deblji (udubine) nijansa kontrastice izraženija, za razliku od isturenih dijelova na kojima je film tanji zbog čega na nijansu onda utječe boja podloge.
Sastav:
- Veziva
- Pigmenti
- Aditivi – svi nabrojani gore +
- surfakanti koji smanjuju površinsku napetost mokrog filma boje zbog čega i dolazi do razlijevanja
- otapalo
- rekla bih da ne sadrže punila, ili ih sadrže vrlo vrlo malo
Washevi – po principu formuliranja i ponašanju slični kontrasticama, samo imaju puno manji udio pigmenata, sigurno ne sadrže punila, veći udio surfakanata, manji viskozitet i vjerojatno manje veziva.
Ako želimo jako razrijediti akrilnu boju ili kontrasticu bolje je koristiti za to predviđen proizvod od proizvođača te boje nego vodu, jer sadrži svu potrebnu količinu veziva i aditiva kako bi ta boja zadržala svoja svojstva.
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