Hussar 2013 - 19.10.2013, Warsaw

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Re: Hussar 2013 - 19.10.2013, Warsaw

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So here's my report, I just copied it from our blog and cut out the links stuff:

Well, well, well folks,

last weekend I've traveled the first time in my life to Poland, to be more specific to Warsaw. For what reason? For the 4th Edition of the Hussar, of cause! Well if you haven't heard about this great contest, you should definitely read on. And if you have heard about it, go on reading as well!

I arrived on Friday around midnight, and on my taxi ride from the station to my hotel, I could already see it's definitely a town more then worth visiting. I checked in at my five star hotel, which was cheaper but more luxurious then a lot of three star hotels I've been to. So the start of my weekend was already under good stars. At the lobby I met my friend and president Zaphod Beeblebrox aka Michael Bartels. I carried my stuff up into my room and then we went for a walk. Warsaw at night, what a sight! At 2 am after a longer chat i went to bed, already with a thrill of anticipation on how the next day will be.

I went up at 9 am, prepared myself, went to the lobby and waited there for the president. We took a taxi and after a 10 minutes ride we arrived at the Community Centre Rakowiec .
We went in and came into the exhibition room with already some people in there. With the aura of the president next to me, people started to turn to us and welcome us. I felt welcome from the first second I entered the room. We also met Stefan Johnsson who accompanied us the whole day. When I started unpacking my eight entries (4 for the unjudged category called "showcase", the rest for 4 of 6 categories), people were coming to me and asking if they could have a look. They seemed to like my work which made me proud, as it came from some of Polands pro painters I knew from the big mind-cluster called internet... I entered my miniatures in "single model - fantasy", "single model - SF", "Large Model" and "diorama". Only in "war machine" and "unit" I didn't enter. So the kind of categories they've got, are quiet a solid standard choice. Also the prize system was solid standard, meaning one gold, one silver and one bronze per category. But the real cool thing I got surprised by during the award ceremony was that all finalists got an honorable mention and are here fore called up onto the stage. So even if you haven't made it for a placing you could get your moment of fame on the stage of winners!
Ah well back to the events during the day. We ran around the exhibition room looking at miniatures, taking photos and most of the time talking to the amazing people all around us. Also I had a look or two at the miniatures sold in the shopping area upstairs and in the exhibition room. As always before a event I said to myself I wouldn't buy a miniature. Well this time a Luke Skywalker from Knight Models and a cool girl called Morgenstern from Mauser Earth made it into my shopping bag...
In the room where the award ceremony would be later on, there was a 90 min or so painting demonstration with the famous painter Karol Rudyk from Poland about the kind of freehand he had painted on his albino orc on wyvern called "The Hunting". After that we went for the second round of speed painting as we didn't join the first round. After 30 minutes of flying brushes and flowing paint, we had again some time for some chatting an to have a look at the rest of the miniatures that were entered into the contest that we hadn't seen yet (entering models ended at 1 pm). Wow! All the miniatures I saw in the cabinets entered into the exhibition were just top notch work! I mean for real, there were nearly no beginner entries and if so they were mostly by the painting community youth starting at age 6. Those miniatures were also looking awesome from the point of view that they've been painted by young ones! I was overwhelmed by the top notch works, the scenes, their light situations, color choices, blendings, freehands, created moods, in total just mind blowing.
So it was a reaaaaalllly high painting standard, definitely comparable to my favorite event in Germany "the duke of Bavaria". The number of entries if I heard and remember it correctly was around 100, which I think for such a young event (4th Edition) is really good.
After the second session of jibber jabber and photographing miniatures, we went upstairs to another painting demonstration with no different then painting legend Julio Cabos! He painted skin on an Andrea pinup model and metallics on a knight. Ah btw both painting demonstrations were in english and polish, the one with Karol has been translated to english and the one with Julio to polish. The presentation was filmed and shown on a big screen and as the quality of the camera was that good there was no need to stand up and have a look over the shoulder of the painter, which means not you weren't able to do that. Asking questions was allowed and even wanted.
After the presentation there was still time left before the award ceremony to talk more, have another look at the miniatures, buy something or grab something to eat. In the building there was a small shop to buy some food and drinks, if you needed some more fancy food I heard there was a pizzeria or so nearby. Well I didn't make it there as I was kind of satisfied with the portion of scrambled eggs and pancakes in the morning and later on some fries from the in-house shop.
Then it came, the award ceremony. We all went up into the hall where the painting demonstrations had been, eagerly waiting for the results. After Michal Pisarski's friends made some jokes about him and his company logo in the shape of the Facebook thump up pointing downwards in silver, it started.
After some introduction and thanks to all the people at the event, they started with the real award ceremony. At the beginning Julio Cabos gave a special award to his best of show toooo...Karol Rudyk for his albino orc on wyvern! Congrats! Then the first category fantasy single, first name...MINE! I was like woooot??? I went up ready to receive a trophy, but instead I got a diploma and a miniature. Confused as I always am, I nearly went off the stage but was told to stay on stage at the side (during the introduction of the ceremony we were told this but as confused as I've been at that moment, I had forgotten about it). When I arrived at my destination on the side of the stage , I had a look at the diploma. It said "Honourable mention", ahhhh, that's why no trophy for me. But how cool is that, finalists get attention too, not only the winners! Great idea!
So the ceremony went on, all the finalists and winners got their well deserved moments of acknowledgement, then in one of the last categories, I already was in the mode of just being happy for everyone else, I heard my name again for a first place and again I was like WOOOOOOT??? So happy I made gold in diorama with my nurgle swamp.
Ceremony continued and went to the best of show. Then it happened, the miniature that was shown on the screen was by Stefan Johnsson, the dude I spent the whole day with besides to our president. I could see in his face that this time he was like WooOOOOoooOOooottTTttTT???? Congrats again dude.
Funny thing, just before the ceremony Stefan, the president and me were standing together chatting as the president said "Concerning the niveau of the contest, I would look quiet like a pro painter if you both don't place". Well after the ceremony he just said with a single tear in his eyes " How do I look now...".
After the contest there was an after-show-party in the room next to the small in-house shop. Chatting, beer, more chatting, more beer and so on. After that we split up and some of us went to Bogusz Bohun Stupnicki and his wifes place to partey on. But this is a another Story.
All I can say for now is that I was told my president and me arrived at our hotel around 5 am. Concerning the hangover I still had on Sunday 1 pm, that might have been right. I somehow managed to crawl out of the hotel into the train to ride home...

So in total this was an awesome event, the niveau was high, the people nice, the organization great and the vodka wet. I'm planning to go next year again, this time i'll take some days off to be able to walk through the streets of Warsaw. Hope you people out there reading this will come as well, it will be heaps of fun!

I will now post the whole blogpost via copy/paste to the forums I know so that hopefully more people get attracted to this great event!

Cheers
Klaus
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Re: Hussar 2013 - 19.10.2013, Warsaw

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As always before a event I said to myself I wouldn't buy a miniature.
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Re: Hussar 2013 - 19.10.2013, Warsaw

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HUSSAR 2013 (report by Dark Tower, short EN version)

See the full slovak version on my blog: http://dtsmodelling.blogspot.sk/2013/11 ... -2013.html

See also full gallery of HUSSAR 2013 entries: https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/1073 ... 0308660097

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On October 19th we joined big miniature event held in Warsaw, Poland - HUSSAR 2013. Last two years we were trying to assemble slovak expedition to come there and get our asses kicked by all those polish master miniature painters. This year we succeeded, even with some troubles (Dakan and Torsion have refused few days before the event).

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Beautifull rainbow on the sky over Martin (SVK)

We had pretty hard times during our travel, polish routes are not in good condition and all those crossroads with traffic lights every few kilometers were killing me. I thought we will enter the motorroad in Bielsko-Biala and without any interruption will drive all the way in Warsaw. Didn't happen. Bad dream, believe me... As in friday afternoon we caught all the traffic possible and we got into Warsaw two hours later. The good thing was new, clean and great accessible B&B Hotel. And cheap, did I mention that?

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B&B Hotel parking lounge, 21.00 CET

After arrival, we all took little trip on-foot from B&B Hotel to Dom kultury Rakowiec, here the next day HUSSAR 2013 Competition will take place. We enjoyed all those citylights, night life and pretty cold weather. When walking around Rakowiec, we missed organizers leaving the place after last preparations before the event. So we exchanged few text messages with Janusz and Slawol and were having fun on our hotel rooms with some Metaxa.

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Dom kultury Rakowiec, night before event

On saturday morning we left the hotel heading to Dom kultury Rakowiec, found some parking place for my beloved green Clio and registered our models for competition. After Ingolstadt we couldn't compete with most latest minis, as the HUSSAR rules don't allow to register miniature that already won anything. So my only competing entries were three scibor's 'specialist' for Imperial Guards in Unit category and bust of 13. Century Knight in Large Model category. All other were taken just for Showcase purposes.

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Imperial Guard Special Forces in UNIT Category

Main room was full of glass cabinets with lightings, so all the models were great visible, no bad light issue appeared (as known on most local Slovak competitions). Judges (Slawol, Nameless and my personal painting god Bohun) were able to take every model from back side of cabinets for judging.

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First contact with polish painters - and how beautiful!!!

I was very happy to see such ammount of great models of my favorite polish painters. We spent hours wathing them, studying them and finally chatting with fellow painters.

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Camelson's showcase

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DarkTower with Camelson

We also enjoyed the Speedpainting Contest, an fun competition with th emain goal of painting simple miniature with limited number of colours, limited time and not-so-good brushes :))))

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My special secret agent painting tool

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Majo during Speedpainting Contest, Loler on the background...

Another great part of the event was Workshop Time. There were three planned workshops - with Karol Rudyk, Julio Cabos and Adam 'Loler' Halon. Unfortunatelly Loler broke his arm, so we could enjoy Karol Rudyk's amazing freehand step-by-step tutorial and Julio Cabos painting Andrea Pinup Girl with airbrush (featuring Andrea Flesh set) and painting metallics (featuring Real Metals set). Both so eye-catching, so I refused lunch invitation and was pretty hungry all the day :) Must say thanx to organizers for that big cinema hall, with lots of chairs, camera and big screen. Absolutely comfortable and pleasure to watch.

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Karol Rudyk during his freehand workshop

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Julio Cabos workshop

Lots of visitors, some sellers mostly with GW, Andrea, Nocturna ans Scale 75 products, made this event full made this contest even better. About 19.00 CET Prize giving ceremony started. We were pretty surprised but happy, when our miniatures were awarded - BRONZE for my Imperial Guards Special Forces in Unit and Bronze for Majo's Knightmare in Single Fantasy. Majo also got few Honorable Mentions. In such strong competition, full of my painter idols, I was very happy.

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All winners

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Two comic figures...

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... and some resin figures :)

After the ceremony we went to small bar just in the same building, where we started new friendships (Majo after few brandys started to speak and understand polish language and become Grog Translator :))). I think everyone will remeber that...

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So here we would like to say thanx to the organizers and people around HUSSAR (Janusz, Slawol, Nameless, Camelson, Sea.man and many more for this beautiful event. We hope to see all you on some next events!

On sunday we also visited shopping centre Zlote Terasy and walked the streets of Warsaw about an hour. Travelling home we didn't experience any traffic and got home in time.

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Re: Hussar 2013 - 19.10.2013, Warsaw

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Thanks again for coming and great fun!
Le6n wrote:When walking around Rakowiec, we missed organizers leaving the place after last preparations before the event. So we exchanged few text messages with Slawol and Nameless and were having fun on our hotel rooms with some Metaxa.
Hahaha, that was great! But it was Janusz (jon), not Nameless :) And me of course.

Some time after missing you in Rakowiec - dialog in Janusz's car during driving:

Janusz: Hey, Slawol, I'm just wondering... Did you see these guys in Rakowiec?
Slawol: yeah, but I don't know them... Maybe some friends on night walk or something...
J: Maybe it was Dark Tower and his company?
S: <fuck> No shit...
J: LOL
S: LOL <facepalm>

We were laughing during messages exchange :D
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Re: Hussar 2013 - 19.10.2013, Warsaw

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Yeah, but maybe it was just hand of fate. Maybe if we spent the evening together, you won't be able to walk, speak and so. Majo had his Metaxa and great lust for the drink :)
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Hehe, next time remember Janusz's car, of course if he won't sell it before next event :D
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Re: Hussar 2013 - 19.10.2013, Warsaw

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Slawol wrote:Hehe, next time remember Janusz's car, of course if he won't sell it before next event :D
Sure we will and maybe we may be not so shy :) I hope we can coma to Warsaw again next year (and maybe my report will draw attention of more slovak and czech painters). For me event of this year (the only problem are the categories, as we talked before - maybe there should be separate category for historic minis, not mix them into Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Large models). But you are the organizers and the decision is completelly up to you.
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Sure, but it's not so simple... We have discussion about categories and rules every year. After each Hussar we have conclusions, brainstorms about future editions etc.

You're right, SF and Historical is hard to judge together. This year we had more historical models (finally!), but so far our event was small and most with Polish painters with fantasy works.

Maybe in future we will change some things, but now it's only theory. Janusz is the main organizer :)
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Re: Hussar 2013 - 19.10.2013, Warsaw

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Hey everyone!

Just wanted to share my blog report of Hussar 2013 with you guys!

It was an awesome event - maybe the best one among many we visted this year! Thanks to everyone involved for making it a perfect weekend!

Here's my blog entry: http://masterminis.blogspot.de/2013/11/ ... story.html

SHARE & ENJOY!

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Re: Hussar 2013 - 19.10.2013, Warsaw

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one president, one word. that was last year.
cause this year I've heard a whole sentence...

"German Team will come next year in a hired bus"

one president, one sentence. see you all next year!

oh, and thanks for the report :)
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