Final Prep For Girona!

This past weekend, The M Workshop was abuzz with latent excitement as final preparations were made for the Girona trip. The world expo is a prestigious event held there, and many of the who's who in the modeling fraternity are expected to attend. Standards of competition and judging are high, as well they should be.

Besides Bernard, the others going are Calvin Tan, Alan Yong (a talented figure painter from Malaysia and past Euro-Militaire medal winner) and Paul Quek (Dogtag Miniatures) will be attending. There are definitely 2 clear things on the agenda, besides the obvious catching up with friends, oogling at models and establishing trading partners.

The first would be to study the workings of the Girona show, and look for areas of expertise that could be incorporated into preparations for our own local M Con. Measuring against such international standards might seem a trifle over-optimistic, but it would certainly give the M Con organizers here an opportunity to raise local shows standards a notch or two;

Second would be the opportunity to showcase some of our local talent to the world. There ar so many good modelers out there in Singapore! Veteran Calvin already has several stand alone figures and vignettes to enter, and The M Workshop will be showcasing the work of two of its artists, Chef Lim and John Tham (JT Models). Calvin Tan popped by on Saturday the 28th to see how the guys were doing.

John was putting the finishing touches to his 1/48 Tamiya T-34/76

The Chef was doing likewise with his SdKfz 140 Flakpanzer 38(t) from Dragon. He incorporated foilage using the method Calvin taught in a workshop 2 weeks ago.

Calvin runs through some final tips and suggestions with Chef to make sure that the finished product will hold its own against international competition.

Next Calvin sat with John, offering suggestions with weathering issues, incorporating 'halo of light' visualization techniques often used by artists. It was very interesting! Junior artist Ming Kang gets to sit in and benefit from the lesson. Its always a learning curve at the M!

Of course, all this constructive activity gets Bernard all excited and happy, so...

....when one of Bernard's students comes in with some modeling challenges he needs help with, Bernie gets down to it as well!

When all the work is done, Bernard brings the process to completion with a photo-taking session, keeping a permanent record of the artistry and hard work that goes on behind the scenes here.

If you'd like to take a look at some of the photos Bernard took of the Chef's Flakpanzer, just go to these URLs:
http://www.themworkshop.com/mstudio/img_cheflim2008_gepard_002.jpg
http://www.themworkshop.com/mstudio/img_cheflim2008_gepard_003.jpg

We really had a blast last weekend! Thanks for looking, and hope you enjoyed the visit too!