Exhibition of Miniatures and Tabletop Scenery Agram 2024
The exhibition of miniatures and tabletop scenery "Agram 2024" was held this year from 22.2. until 10.03. 2024. The installation of the exhibition was held on Wednesday, February 21. in the afternoon and was attended by a large number of members and friends of the Association who exhibited their works.
The opening of the Exhibition took place on Thursday, February 22, 2024. starting at 18:00. The exhibition was organized on the occasion of our twenty-first birthday.
As always, the Exhibition presented a cross-section of the work of the Association, its members, participants of its courses and workshops, and members of the FB group Miniature Painters Croatia. In a large number of showcases, there are numerous miniatures for tabletop strategy games, board games, and an entire showcase is dedicated to award-winning exhibits from previous miniature competitions. Several showcases were dedicated to projects that the Association has been implementing for 21 years, such as the UMS “Agram“ Library and Reading Room, the Workshop for Making Spatial Models and the Miniature Painting Workshop.
This year we hosted a special exhibitor Gardens of Hecate. A craft from Zagreb that makes and paints miniatures and terrain for tabletop strategy games.
During the first weekend of the Exhibition, February 24-25, we held the 18th annual Black Queen Hobby and Miniature Painting Competition!
As contestants arrived and registered for the competition, our dedicated staff photographed all the exhibits before sorting them into categories and carefully placing them in glass cases.
At noon, all the showcases were full and the competition could officially begin.
WARGAMING DEMOS
This year, for the first time, we organized demonstrations of the board strategy games Forbidden Psalm and The Doomed. During both days, a handful of games were played on beautiful courts!
SELLER'S COURT
During the weekend we hosted our sponsors with their sales stands: The Bigbear Miniatures, The Zone Miniatures and Carta Magica.
DEMO PAINTING WORKSHOPS
The space of Vladimir Horvat's gallery makes it possible to hold workshops during the weekend. Therefore, we organized three sample workshops during the weekend. This year, the workshops were held in the cinema hall. The lecturer's work was recorded with a camera and projected on the projection screen in the hall.
BACK TO BASICS WORKSHOPS FOR THE YOUNGEST
Throughout the weekend, we held our new workshops for the youngest, in which our youngest participants painted their first miniatures.
SPEED PAINTING CONTEST
On Sunday afternoon, a competition in quick coloring of miniatures was held. Participants had 90 minutes to color one miniature. Thanks to ourš sponsor Hobby Chest, who provided us with a large donation of coloring materials from AK Interactive, we organized a quick miniature coloring contest according to the following rules:
- contestants have 90 minutes to color the miniature
- all contestants paint the same (same type) miniature
- we provided colors from AK Interactive
- we provided brushes from AK Interactive.
With that, we came to the very end of this wonderful weekend and all that remained was the distribution of prizes and awards to the winners.
During the next two weeks, our volunteers held miniature painting workshops on weekdays from 16:00 to 20:00. Miniature coloring workstations were set up where our visitors could color the miniatures we prepared (or their own if they brought them) using our materials and tools.
During the second weekend of the Exhibition, March 2-3, we organized a MINIATURE PAINTING WORKSHOP – Frostgrave.
The workshop will be held over two days (the whole weekend) and participants will color five different figures for the Frostgrave game, which can also be used for your DND sessions. The focus of these lectures will be coloring several miniatures at once, but the knowledge from the workshop is equally applicable to coloring armies for boardgames and a collection of figures for pen&paper rpgs. Each participant will receive 1 wizard (male/female), 3 warriors (2 male and 1 female or 2 female and 1 male) and 1 male barbarian. The workshop will present colors and accessories, preparation of figures, several techniques for coloring miniatures from basic to more advanced, and techniques and tricks for quickly and efficiently coloring large quantities of figures at once. As part of the workshop, water-based acrylic paints will be used. The lectures will be adapted so that the presenters will devote equal time to all participants and will be able to adapt to all categories of miniaturists (from beginners to slightly advanced).
On Wednesday 06.03.2024. the annual session of the Assembly was held, where we determined the guidelines for work in 2024.
On Sunday, March 10, 2024 the exhibition was over, our exhibits were safely stored, and the Gallery was cleaned.
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