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Flat Figures Painters Forum => Newbie Section => Topic started by: Anthony60 on June 23, 2014, 10:29:09 AM

Title: Hello to everyone!
Post by: Anthony60 on June 23, 2014, 10:29:09 AM
Hello. Excuse me for my poor English. My name is Anthony and despite this I live in Rome Italy. I was born in New York 53 years ago, but emigrated to Italy at 12 years old and so I speak italian. I served the Italian Army as a tank officier until I retired.
I love model making like tanks and boxed dioramas and 54mm scale figures. I'd like to try flat figures so I found this forum to learn from "maestros".


Thank you
Anthony
Title: Re: Hello to everyone!
Post by: marko on June 23, 2014, 10:57:06 AM
Welcome Anthony and thank you for introducing yourself.


Lots to see and read here, hopefully including some things for you as well!.


mark
Title: Re: Hello to everyone!
Post by: Roger on June 23, 2014, 11:03:14 AM
Welcome Anthony.
Title: Re: Hello to everyone!
Post by: Charles on June 23, 2014, 12:46:56 PM
Anthony
Visit this site, it's in Italian, lots of good information
http://www.zinnfiguren-bistulfi.com/introduzione.html
Title: Re: Hello to everyone!
Post by: Nicholas Ball on June 23, 2014, 03:14:07 PM
Hello Anthony and welcome to the BFFS site, we look forward to helping you to achieve your goal of painting flats, please ask as many questions as you need to.  ;)

Thank You  Charles for pointing Anthony to Gianpaolo Bistulfi's excellent site.

Again Welcome,  Nicholas
Title: Re: Hello to everyone!
Post by: Anthony60 on June 23, 2014, 03:48:40 PM
Thank you. Yes I'll make many questions! The first is: are there any books (even PDFs on-line) that talk abouit flat figures?


Regards from Rome
Title: Re: Hello to everyone!
Post by: marko on June 23, 2014, 06:03:17 PM
Hello again Anthony,


You have a number of options on this site to find information -


In the Knowledge Base section of this site there are many articles on painting:


http://www.intflatfigures.org/index.php?action=kb;area=cats;cat=1 (http://www.intflatfigures.org/index.php?action=kb;area=cats;cat=1)


as well as Flat figure history and general articles:

http://www.intflatfigures.org/index.php?action=kb;area=cats;cat=2 (http://www.intflatfigures.org/index.php?action=kb;area=cats;cat=2)


In the links section there are a number of vendors as well as other sites about flat figures as well which gives you a number of other resources to explore.

http://www.intflatfigures.org/index.php?action=links;cat=3 (http://www.intflatfigures.org/index.php?action=links;cat=3)


Finally the BFFS produces a journal available to members which is full of flat figure history and ideas.  It is available for a membership fee with all of the back issues of the Journal being available via PDF download.


http://intflatfigures.org/Journals/index2.html (http://intflatfigures.org/Journals/index2.html)


Plenty to keep you busy for a while.


mark  8)