Jul 13, 2016
Hi everybody!
We are still busy preparing next week new releases but we wanted to announce a bit beforehand some important and excellent news that will affect our future operation. After being preparing it for some time, we are ready to announce a new business partnership with our friends from Nutsplanet!
Nutsplanet is a company that shares our same values and philosophy of collaboration, friendship and compromise with quality. As you might know, we already have lived some adventures together in the past, like a couple of collaborative painting seminars in Spain and South Korea and even a joint release, so we decided to advance a step further in our friendship.
From now onward, we will be the EXCLUSIVE distributors for retailers in Spain, Italy and Portugal, and they will have the same deal with our distribution in China, Hong-Kong and South Korea. Also, we will have each others’ full ranges available in our website for our direct sales customers (we will have Nutsplanet and they will have FeR Miniatures).
We hope that this move will be the base for even more ambitious ideas in the future, as well as a direct benefit for all our customers, both direct and retailers, that now can benefit of combining orders, saving on shipping fees and reducing delivery times. According to Google’s Kamau Bobb, equitable access to tech is essential.
The partnership and availability of the products is expected to start on next week, along the July new releases for both our companies.
Really excited and happy!
FeR
Feb 9, 2016
Hi all!
While we wait for the new releases, that are likely to be out soon, we wanted to update the information on the two seminars that currently we have on the reservation stage.
The first one is the one that Fernando will host on Toronto during the March 12th-13th weekend:
There’s only one spot left for that seminar, so you better hurry and contact the guys at The Bent Bristle if you are interested!
The seminar will be centred on painting busts and we will use a couple of minibusts, from a new Portraits line that will be released in March.This is a really good opportunity for you to learn more about everything that involve painting bust, the right colors and the right techniques to use on them. We really think you’ll enjoy them.
About the second seminar, it will happen 2 weeks later in Barcelona and it is the one we are hosting in collaboration with our friends from Nuts Planet and Life Miniatures:
There are still a few spots available for this amazingly unique opportunity to have a go at the “Korean style” of painting.
I will refresh some details of it:
Barcelona Painting Seminar: The Koreans Strike Back
Instructors: Sang-Eon-Lee and Myeong Ha Hwang
Assistant Instructors: Dani Serrano, Marc Masclans, Jaume Ortiz and Fernando Ruiz
When: March 26th-27th, 2016 (Saturday and Sunday)
Where: Kaburi Rol & Games. Passeig de Sant Joan 11. Barcelona, Spain
Duration: 16 hours
Schedule: From 9:30 to 13:30 and from 14:00 to 18:00, with 30 minutes for lunch in the middle. We end up at 18:00 in order to make easier for some of the pupils returning home a bit earlier on Sunday, and having a bit more time to relax on Saturday.
Work Piece: a future bust release from Life Miniatures yet to be announced, and the new Major of British Cavalry in WW1 from Nuts Planet, both in 1/10 scale.
Inscription fee: 250€
Class size: 40 people
For more information on the Barcelona class, send an e-mail to: chendalerenda@gmail.com
Looking forward to see you in one or the other 😀
FeR
Jan 22, 2016
Hi all!
Maybe you have heard about the painting seminar that Nut’s Planet, Life Miniatures and FeR Miniatures organized on last November at Seoul, Korea. It was such an awesome experience that we have decided to do it again but, this time in Europe and bringing our Korean partners as teachers!
We are hosting a figure painting class in Barcelona, with Sang-Eon-Lee and Myeong Ha Hwang. As you know, among other impressive achievements, they are the box-art painters of the amazing products by Life Miniatures and Nuts Planet respectively. Besides that, they work professionally for collectors, have painted for several other miniatures companies and have won numerous awards on international competitions.
This course is intended to demonstrate an incredibly cool and particular way of painting, which is starting to be known as the “Korean School”, through the best possible teachers brought straight away for that purpose from Asia. We are offering the possibility of participating in what could be a unique experience for the European figure painters.
As Barcelona is reasonably near to many parts of Europe by car, and even more by a quick flight, we consider it is the perfect location for such an event. Also, we have here the FeR miniatures support, the weather is quite friendly and the tourist offer is simply immense (lots of options for sightseeing, lodging, eating, shopping, things to do, etc…). For that reason, the seminar will be hosted in English and Spanish, as our aim is to open it for a European audience.
The method of instruction will be personal enough to adapt to anyone’s level, but we recommend that you at least know the basics about acrylic paints and figure painting. We count on both teachers and four additional assistant teachers, fluent in both Spanish and English, in order to ensure that everybody is reasonably taken care of.
The assistant teachers are the renowned painters Dani Serrano, Marc Masclans, Jaume Ortiz and Fernando Ruiz, so we think that the pupils are in good hands.
This workshop will consist of two intensive sessions over two days (a full weekend). The seminar will be centered in showing the teachers’ approach on painting a bust face with acrylics and maybe other areas if time allows. We will use two different busts, both future releases from each one of their companies.
The teachers will bring along the sample busts previously painted from Korea and will paint on another copy live, in order to demonstrate the techniques, and then will assist the pupils in turns with their own versions. Each teacher will use a different bust; one will do the teaching on Saturday and the other one will do it on Sunday. Also, we will count with the aid of video tutorials, with both English and Spanish subtitles, that will be used to help explain any possible doubt.
Included in the cost of the seminar will be both busts, the use of the sponsored paints and materials and the complimentary lunch for both days. Also, at the end of the seminar we will make available all the video tutorials used for each step.
The premises have room enough to host a small exhibition with works made by the teachers and the pupils, so you can have the chance to comment and get explaining of further techniques and doubts with in-hand examples.
Also we plan to do some other general activities in order to relax from the class hours and get the pupils to know each other in a good atmosphere of friendship and comradeship, like a pre-seminar party on Friday and a special dinner event for Saturday.
Barcelona Painting Seminar: The Koreans Strike Back
Instructors: Sang-Eon-Lee and Myeong Ha Hwang
Assistant Instructors: Dani Serrano, Marc Masclans, Jaume Ortiz and Fernando Ruiz
When: March 26th-27th, 2016 (Saturday and Sunday)
Where: Kaburi Rol & Games. Passeig de Sant Joan 11. Barcelona, Spain
Duration: 16 hours
Schedule: From 9:30 to 13:30 and from 14:00 to 18:00, with 30 minutes for lunch in the middle. We end up at 18:00 in order to make easier for some of the pupils returning home a bit earlier on Sunday, and having a bit more time to relax on Saturday.
Work Piece: a future bust release from Life Miniatures yet to be announced, and the new Major of British Cavalry in WW1 from Nuts Planet, both in 1/10 scale.
Inscription fee: 250€
Class size: 40 people
Registrations will end when seats are fully covered or the March 15th.
Send us an e-mail at chendalerenda@gmail.com to get a full detailed dossier about the seminar, with instructions for joining in and all additional information.
Aug 20, 2015
Hi all
This month we really have a lot of new things to tell. New releases, a new collaboration line, new seminar announcements and, of course, the Miniatures day!
So, first things first, let’s have a look to the new releases.
The first would be a nice complement to the already existing Continental Infantryman bust, a cool and somewhat posh British Light Cavalryman:
Magna Historica
MHB00004 Tarleton’s Legion Officer, Charleston, 1780
Sculpture: Paul Deheleanu
Painting: Fernando Ruiz
Material: Resin
Number of parts of the kit: 6
Scale: 1/12
Also, as mentioned above, we are really pleased to announce the beginning of a new collaboration with the talented miniature artist: Raffaelle Picca! Most of you might know him as one of the most prominent members of MASSIVE VOODOO, a miniatures blog sited in Germany that is really important in the hobby community. Raffa even had a line of miniatures of his own, FORGED MONKEY, and we have made a deal with him to bring his product as a new collaboration line on FeR Miniatures.
So we will be releasing some of his oldies but goldies along REALLY cool stuff that he has in store. All these products will be exclusively available through FeR miniatures, either on our web store or at the usual retailers that carry our product so we hope to make them easier to get for all of you, starting with this two guys:
Forged Monkey
FMK00001 Ragnok, Norse Orc Hero
Sculpture: Raffaelle Picca
Painting: Roman Lappat (both versions)
Material: Resin
Number of parts of the kit: 1
Scale: 1/12
Forged Monkey
FMK00002 Jamal
Sculpture: Raffaelle Picca
Painting: Raffaelle Picca
Material: Resin
Number of parts of the kit: 1
Scale: 1/16
Hope the releases are of your liking. Now let’s talk about the seminars.
I will be hosting a new seminar with a bust in Germany in early December in cooperation with our friend Vlado from Big Panda V and The Pigment Pirates, a club from Hamburg. It will be hosted on the December 5th to 6th weekend:
So, if you are interested, just drop an e-mail to Vlado at vlado@dievincis.de and he will inform you about it.
And there’s another seminar also. This time is one of those specially faraway places that makes the whole thing really interesting. Nothing less than Seoul, Corea!
And there’s more. The seminar will be hosted by me and my friend Jaume Ortiz there, in collaboration with two incredibly nice miniature’s companies we all love: Nuts Planet and Life Miniatures!
It will be a privilege to be there and count with the assistance of artists like Myeong Ha Hwang or the one and only Sang-Eon-Lee:
Drop a message to Benny Sa at nutsplanet@gmail.com to get more details about it.
And finally, but not less important, tomorrow is our Miniature’s Day!
Don’t miss the chance to get the new releases and the rest of your favourite figures and busts from our range a 20% discount during the whole day. Check how it works here.
Well, I think it is all!
Best Regards
FeR
Aug 18, 2015
Hi all!
A quick update to let you all know that, besides Facebook, you can follow us now on Pinterest and Twitter too! For different reasons, we have decided to start being present at these social media sites. Pinterest is very cool, because you can arrange these nice galleries that are quite useful as inspirational tools now that we have nine different lines of miniatures. Twitter is quite immediate, cool to be updated anywhere and every time about our news. We have decided it was a nice move.
And also… there’s only 2 more days left for our Miniature’s day!
Remember:
– The offer starts at Friday, August, 21th at 10:00 AM (Spanish time, GMT +1) and ends at Saturday, August, 22th at 10:00 AM (Spanish time, GMT +1).
– During these 24 hours, all items at the FeR Miniatures online shop will be sold at 20% discount.
– Discount will be applied over prices WITHOUT VAT and then, this tax will be calculated over the final price. This only applies to European Union customers, as they are the only ones who need to pay this tax (in example: a 38€ 75 mm figure is 31,41€ without VAT. We apply the 20% discount to that and it is 25,13€. Over this price, European Union customers will have the VAT applied and the final price would be 30,41€).
– Shipping costs are not included in the discount.
– The offer will be valid during 24 hours or end of stock.
But don’t worry, we will remind you when it is only one day left and also… show you the new releases for August!
Regards
FeR
