Agram Arena Summer 2014 Report

Marko Paunović, 21nd July 2014

July in Zagreb is always time for wargaming extravaganza. UMS "Agram" has been organizing an annual event called Agram Arena Summer for twelve years running. This year, we organized this event to stretch over two weekends.

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On July 12th and 13th as the first part of Agram Arena Summer, UMS "Agram" organized two parallel competitions, an international Warhammer 40.000 tournament and Black Queen Hobby and Miniature Painting competition. Players and painters from Croatia and many neighbouring and not-so-neighbouring countries like Slovenia, Serbia, Austria, Germany, UK and Poland attended this year's competition.

 

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Frederic "Athenys" Eysell from Germany and one of the main 40k referees on the upcoming European Team Championship (ETC 2014):

At Agram Arena Summer everyone is a winner! The amount and quality of prizes is astonishing and the fact, that this is a free tournament makes it almost unbelievable… Honestly, if someone would ask you: „Would you like to go to a free tournament? The Top 3 prizes and best painted army AND best overall have a combined worth of about 400(?)€, oh yeah…there are gonna be prizes for ALL participants as well….and free catering as well… for both days!“ This person must have a damn good reason to say no. I was happy to see a nicely mixed crowd on AAS, too. Slovenians, Serbians, Austrians, a German and Croatians in a ratio of about 50:50…really nice!

Final Results of the 40k tournament:

  • 1. Domagoj Mitrović, CRO
  • 2. Igor Uzelac, SRB
  • 3. Frederic Eysell, GER
  • Best Painted Army: Frederic Eysell, GER
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    While the battle in the 41st millenium raged in one part of the hall, the other was reserved for the more quiet part of the event - the painting competition. It was judged by our pannel of judges over several categories, and as usual, all of our visitors and participants could decide one of the prestigious awards - the People's Choice Award.

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    Final Results of the Black Queen Hobby and Miniature Painting Competition:

    Single Miniature:

  • 1. Wojciech Tekielski, POL
  • 2. Domagoj Mitrović, CRO
  • 3. Vilim Pokupec, AUT
  • Large/Mounted Miniature:

  • 1. Domagoj Mitrović, CRO
  • 2. Wojciech Tekielski, POL
  • 3. Ana Polanšćak, CRO
  • Unit/Squad:

  • 1. Wojciech Tekielski, POL
  • 2. Mario Ogrizek-Tomaš, CRO
  • 3. Ana Polanšćak, CRO
  • Flames of War

  • 1. Igor Cvjetić, SRB
  • 2. Matija Prekslavec, CRO
  • 3. Marko Paunović, CRO
  • Open

  • 1. Ana Polanšćak, CRO
  • 2. Marko Paunović, CRO
  • 3. Boris Kunilo, SLO
  • Diorama/Duel

  • 1. Marko Paunović, CRO
  • 2. Ana Polanšćak, CRO
  • 3. Marinko Brkić-Tot, CRO
  • Best of Wyrd

  • 1. Adam Parkhouse, UK
  • People's Choice

  • 1. Marko Paunović, CRO
  • Masterclass

  • 1. Adam Parkhouse, UK
  • 2. Wojciech Tekielski, POL
  • 3. Mario Ogrizek-Tomaš, CRO
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    Wojciech Tekielski, Poland, better known as Viruk from the Independent Painters site, who participated in the Black Queen Hobby and Miniature Painting Competition:

    STATEMENT PENDING

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    A week later, on July 19th and 20th, a third annual international Malifaux tournament took place. Parallel to this event, loads of demos of various tabletop wargames (like Flames of War, Warmachine/Hordes, Infinity, Warhammer 40.000) were presented as well as all of our programmes with special emphasys on our Library where visitors and competitiors could leaf through or read any and all of the books UMS "Agram" has. Also, one of the fun features this year was an "open" training of the Croatian National Team for the upcoming ETC Warhammer Fantasy Battles event.

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    The Malifaux tournament consisted of three 40SS and three 55SS games upon which all the scoring was summed up along with the sportsmanship and painting results. The top two players got to play in the Grand Finale on a ruined monastery board for the win of the tournament and the rest fought it out for the rest of the placings in multiplayer game with 4 players per board.

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    Here's an account of the Malifaux tournament by Luka Kveštak, the youngest participant at fourteen year of age and the second place winner of the tournament:

    This was my first Malifaux tournament and I loved it, mainly because I was playing with people who were really tolerant and helping me out with the rules. I also appreciated all the "hanging out" throughout the weekend with the guys, for the morning coffees, lunches and evening drinks! I managed to win 4 out of 6 games so I ended up in the Grand Finale. The player I was playing against in grand finale was afraid that he would lose against a total noob and that everyone would be mocking him but that still didn't stop him from reminding me to turn on my triggers or that when I forgot to do something. He really was the best opponent I could get and in the end a deserved winner of the event. I really liked the organisation of the event and I look forward to getting my own crew (one of the players lent me his crew) from the voucher code from Wyrd online store I received as my prize!

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    Final Results of the Malifaux tournament:

  • 1. Ivan Polanšćak, CRO
  • 2. Luka Kveštak, CRO
  • 3. Tomislav Rac, CRO
  • Best Painted Crew: Wojciech Tekielski, POL 
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    In the end, UMS "Agram" would like to thank the sponsors of this event for all the help and providing the prizes: City of Zagreb, Zagreb's Association of Technical Culture, Ravnice Youth Hostel, Carta Magica, Micro Art Studio, Secret Weapon Miniatures, Battlefield Berlin, MDP, Figone, Escenorama, Terrible Kids Stuff, Infamy Miniatures, Phlegyas Art, Hangar 18 Miniatures, Art Zumbur, Wamp, Mr Black Publications and, of course, Figure Painter Magazine for providing media coverage of this event!

    See you next year!!

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    • CSSR 1986 Diorama part 7
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      From the clear plastic that I also used to make the fence, I cut out the shape of the window for the substation.

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      Na redu su završni detalji, koji nisu nužno povezani jedni sa drugima, niti su odrađeni u vremenskom slijedu kako izlaze ovi članci. Jednostavno, nisu bili povezani sa ostatkom priče po člancima pa su svi skupa zaslužili svoj miš-maš članak. Prvo, priprema trafostanice za bojanje na način da je unutrašnjost posprejana u crno. Tako da kroz otvore na vratima i prozorima unutra bude mrak. Jednom kad se fiksira trafostanica na bazu, to će biti nemoguće napraviti.

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      Od prozirne plastike od koje sam napravio i ogradu, izrezao sam oblik prozora za trafostanicu.

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      U kutiji sa bitsima našao sam i bačvu u dobrom mjerilu pa sam i nju sastavio.

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      Za kraj je ostala korozija na vratima. Prvo sam rupe u pločama na kapiji stanjio koristeći bušilicu.

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      Onda sam dodao i šarke na vrata i kapiju. Njih sam napravio od spajalice.

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      Dodao sam i lampu iznad ulaza u trafostanicu. S obzirom na tanku šipku o kojoj visi, izbušio sam rupu u zidu trafostanice te na taj način pinirao lampu.

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      Time završava rad na ovoj diorami. Sad je na redu bojanje i vegetacija.

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    • CSSR 1986 Diorama part 6
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      I made a mold of thin strips (2 x 2 mm cross-section) on plastic foil. I made a grid for the panels. This way, the panels will all be the same thickness and shape.

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      I then poured some sand into the mold – to simulate the pebbles in the composite concrete slab.

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      Then I mixed the plaster with water until I had a pasty mixture and then poured it into the mold.

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      In the meantime, the plaster in the mold had dried and I was able to remove it. The more flexible the foil, the easier the job will be. .

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      We checked again to make sure everything fit and when we were sure everything went according to plan, we could glue the parts together.

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      We coat the base with PVA glue (do not thin it too much) and place the concrete slabs in their place, making sure to leave some space between the slabs for texture and later vegetation.

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      Polagano dolazimo prema kraju izrade ove diorame. Osim par još sitnica, glavni posao koji je ostao je izrada betonskih dijelova. Prvo ćemo napraviti betonske ploče za pješake. Da bismo to napravili, najjednostavnija metoda jest lijevanje iz gipsa. Stoga prvo idemo napraviti kalup.

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      Na plastičnoj foliji sam izradio kalup od tankih letvica (2 x 2 mm poprečnog presjeka). Napravio sam raster za ploče. Na taj način, ploče će sve biti jednake debljine i jednakih oblika.

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      U kalup sam zatim nasipao malo pijeska – kako bi simulirao kamenčiće u kompozitnoj betonskoj ploči.

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      Zatim sam zamiješao gips sa vodom dok nisam dobio pastastu smjesu te ju potom ulio u kalup.

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      Koristeći ostatak letvice, izravnao sam ploče unutar kalupa.

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      Dok se gips sušio u kalupu, dodao sam malo vode u preostalu smjesu i kistom prešao preko betonskih dijelova diorame. Pločnik te betonski dio ograde.

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      U međuvremenu se osušio gips u kalupu te sam ga mogao izvaditi. Što je folija fleksibilnija, posao će biti lakši. .

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      Opet smo napravili provjeru da li sve paše i kad smo se uvjerili da je sve prošlo po planu, možemo zalijepiti dijelove.

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      Premažemo podlogu PVA ljepilom (nemojte razrijeđivati previse) te postavimo betonske ploče na njihovo mjesto pri čemu pazimo da ostane malo mjesta između ploča za teksturu i kasnije vegetaciju.

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      Još je ostalo samo dodati nešto detalja na bazu diorame i ovaj proces je gotov.

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    • CSSR 1986 Diorama part 5
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      After the gate, it's time to tackle the rest of the fence. First, we'll make a post that will hold the closed part of the gate on one side and the open pedestrian door on the other. We'll make the shape of the post (and the rest of the fence) from linden slats with a cross section of 5 x 5 mm.

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      To fix this part of the fence properly, I decided to pin the batten to the base. I drilled a hole with a drill and put a staple in it. I glued it with superglue, and the fence post with PVA glue to the base. (NOTE: be careful not to use superglue on Styrofoam or Styrodur, as the glue will eat through it.)

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      Once the post was glued, I added both doors also with superglue.

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      For the second part of the fence, I decided to make part concrete and part steel. The concrete base, like the post, will be made of slats with a cross section of 5 x 5 mm.

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      I drilled holes in the fence posts at the same heights so that we could thread thicker plastic rods (2 mm) through them.

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      Then I glued the wooden parts together and threaded the horizontal bars through them. This made the structure very sturdy.

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      I then started making the cross bars in the fence from the thinner bar (1.5 mm). I glued everything together with superglue (although we could have done these with plastic glue as well).

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      The next step was to glue the fence to the base. I did this using PVA glue.

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      Finally, I added the second part of the gate and glued it together with superglue.

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      This concludes the construction of the fence and gate. Next time we will tackle the plaster and the construction of the concrete slabs.

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      U ovoj seriji članaka pratit ćemo moj rad na novoj diorami, još jednoj u nizu serijala 1986. Ovoga puta, vodimo vas iza željezne zavjese u Čehoslovačku.

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      Nakon kapije, vrijeme je da se bacimo na ostatak ograde. Prvo ćemo napraviti stup koji će držati zatvoreni dio kapije s jedne i otvorena vrata za pješake s druge strane. Oblik stupa (i ostatka ograde) ćemo izraditi od lipovih letvica 5 x 5 mm poprečnog presjeka.

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      Da bismo dobro fiksirali taj dio ograde, odlučio sam pinirati letvicu u bazu. Izbušio sam bušilicom rupu i u nju stavio spajalicu. Zaljepio sam ju superljepilom, a stup ograde PVA ljepilom na bazu. (NAPOMENA: pazite da superljepilom ne idete po stiroporu ili stiroduru jer će ga to ljepilo nagristi.)

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      Kad se stup zaljepio, dodao sam oba vrata također superljepilom.

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      Za drugi dio ograde sam odlučio da bude dio betonski, a dio čelični. Betonsku bazu ćemo kao i sa stupom napraviti od letvica 5 x 5 mm poprečnog presjeka. .

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      Stupove na ogradi sam bušilicom probušio na istim visinama kako bismo kroz njih mogli provući deblje plastične šipke (2 mm).

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      Potom sam zalijepio drvene dijelove i kroz njih provukao horizontalne šipke. To je učinilo konstrukciju jako čvrstom.

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      Od tanje šipke (1,5 mm) sam onda počeo raditi poprečne šipke u ogradi. Lijepio sam sve superljepilom (iako bismo ove mogli i sa ljepilom za plastiku).

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      Sljedeći korak bio je ljepljenje ograde za bazu. To sam učinio pomoću PVA ljepila.

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      Za kraj, dodao sam i drugi dio kapije i zalijepio ga supreljepilom.

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      Time završava izrada ograde i kapije. Sljedeći put bacamo se na gips i izradu betonskih ploča.

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      Marko Paunović, 10th April 2025

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