Agram Arena Winter 2016 Report
The biggest regional wargaming tournament in Croatia, the Agram Arena Winter 2016, was held on Saturday and Sunday, Dec.3th and 4th. The event took place in Gallery Zvonimir, MORH (Croatia's Department of Defense), Bauerova 33, Zagreb. This year the main event had 62 players with numerous participants in other events such as Malifaux December Horrors VI tournament, and demo games of various wargaming systems like Star Wars X-wing and historical Saga and we even saw some board gaming action. This year Arena featured competitiors from Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Italy and Bulgaria. Even one player came from Brasil!
Two days of gaming in an extremely friendly atmosphere saw the competitors battle it out in five matches.
"Everything ran smoothly, the e-mail communication prior to the event was excellent. Being from out of Croatia, the fact that we could rely on the organisers to arrange our stay in the Hostel was a big help. Also, as this was my first time here so the guys of UMS "Agram" providing me with free Saturday night accommodation and both lunches during the event, makes this one of the best value for money tournaments around.
What I like most about the event, though, is the friendly natured opponents and the "after" tournament activities organised by the locals. Even though the guys spent most of the friday afternoon setting up the tournament, they still took time to take us out to dinner afterwards and the same thing happened on Saturday night as well. I can honestly say, I will come back again!"
On saturday, the December Horrors VI Malifaux tournament took place on beautiful tables that were one of the highlights of the whole competition.
Final Results - MALIFAUX Tournament:
1. place - Vinko Zgaga
2. place - Ana Polanščak
3. place - Georgi Manoilov (BG)
4. place - Filip Grozdanović
5. place - Luka Kveštak
6. place - Miran Kramar
7. place - Tomislav Petrović
8. place - Mario Ogrizek-Tomaš
9. place - Matija Prekslavec
10. place - Matija Manđurov
11. place - Josip Lendarić
12. place - Kruno Hrvatinić
13. place - Anton Radačić
15. place - Zeljko Torbica
16. place - Andrija Jurišić
On Sunday, there were numerous demo games being played for all the visitors and onlookers. Games on offer were: Malifaux, Warmachine, Warhammer 40.000 and historical Saga. Apart from demos, the final games of Malifaux Autumn League were played and the final scores were added and one big awards ceremony ensued.
Final Results - MALIFAUX Autumn League:
1. place - Ana Polanšćak
2. place - Matija Prekslavec
3. place - Miran Kramar
4. place - Tomislav Rac
5. place - Marko Paunović - non scoring henchman
6. place - Ivan Polanšćak
7. place - Mario Ogrizek-Tomaš
8. place - Filip Grozdanović
9. place - Andrija Jurišić
10. place - Tomislav Petrović
11. place - Kruno Hrvatinić
12. place - Josip Lendarić
13. place - Matija Manđurov
14. place - Petr Rimenov
15. place - Dejan Pavlović
16. place - Zeljko Torbica
17. place - Anton Radačić
The side event on sunday was the first Star Wars X-Wing tournament that attracted quite a crowd.
Final Results - STAR WARS X-Wing Tournament:
1. place - Filip Grozdanović
2. place - Matija Mandžurov
3. place - Marko Brković
4. place - Raul Jereb
5. place - Damjan Kovačić
6. place - Vladimir Bralić
7. place - Kaj Jereb
8. place - Dejan Pavlović
9. place - Nikola Crnković
10. place - Davor Filipan
11. place - Thiago Gosarić Barros, BRA
12. place - David Turković
13. place - Ivan Mužar
14. place - Miran Kramar
Boris Samec and Dean Konti ran demos of Saga with their beautifully painted armies on an equally impressive table throughout both days of the event.
Sunday saw the painting highlight of the whole event, the Best Painted Army competition. Two judges, Figure Painter Magazine's own Ana Polanscak and Marko Paunovic, decided that the Award should in the end go to Italy's Mathias Perzi's and his beautifully painted Dark Elf army.
"There were better painted models in some of the other armies but this one had a really, really high standard of painting throughout the army. The fact that impressed us the most is that the same ammount of time and effort was put in in all the models. Even models in the back ranks of units or to the back of the display base were painted with as much attention to details as the lords in the forefront. Almost all the models had some kind of battle damage and the freehand on the banners was executed cleanly and precisely."
List of the winners:
1. place - Vedran Žuanić
2. place - Vid Veić Sukreški
3. place - Ante Majić
Best General - Vedran Žuanić
Best Sporstmanship - Ante Majić
Best Painted Army - Mathias Perzi, I
People's Choice Award - Josip Ivani
Worst General - Matej Bahor, SLO
Congratulations to the winners and a big thank you to all the competitors and all who participated in the organisation of the fourteenth annual Agram Arena Winter. A big thank you to all the sponsors: MORH, ZZTK, Carta Magica, Figure Painter Magazine, Bureau Hostel Zagreb, Microart Studio).
See you in 2017!
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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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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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