Weekend Workshops will be back 2023!
Most of them in the new studio! You can not sign in yet as I am reconstructing my homepage www.romanlappat.com for smoother sign up flow! Stay tuned and save the dates!


News
Spontanously, I moved studio last weekend as I was presented with a great oppourtunity and luck: A much bigger studio where I can also teach my group seminars. The move was smooth as we just moved from second floor to first floor. I am in the middle of settings things up.



Weekend Workshops
They will be back in 2023. No group workshops will happen in 2022. First dates are set (see banner). You can not sign in yet as I am in the middle of reworking www.romanlappat.com to make signing up easier. Stay tuned!

Private Coachings
Please contact me via mail to [email protected] if you are interested for your private coaching. Right now I am almost fully booked until early May. There are a handful of possible dates left. New dates for later in 2023 will be available around March 2023.

Etsy News
At the moment updates on etsy went a bit silent due the studio move. Nonetheless, I do prepare some tutorials and step by steps of my actual projects. Additional I am working on the next workbook, which will be a massive tutorial guide that includes my Beginner Workshop content.
https://www.etsy.com/de/shop/RomanLappat/

YouTube News
Massive Voodoo TV on YouTube will recieve future updates, including Painting Tutorials, Happy Painting Philosophy and more. Massive Voodoo itself will recieve a rebirth in the not so far future. The MV-Team is fully motivated to give this a proper start in the future to come, but keep it as a secret. Pretty sure you do not want to miss the first steps in that direction via:
https://www.youtube.com/user/MASSIVEVOODOOTV/

Thank you for your support!
Keep on happy painting!
Roman

Roman is starting his workshops again and I want to follow his footsteps. I will also be holding my very first workshops this year. It might be a suprise for you, but it is something that was in the planning for quite some time now.

Due to the whole pandemic situation it was not easy to find a date. This is why the workshop is not too far down the road. 

The Workshop will be held in Kaiserslautern at our store Battle Bear

If you're interested, you can book/enroll the workshop directly in our webshop.

The workshop will be held in German language.

Topics
The workshop will be based on Romans Beginner Workshop, but it will feature a different miniature. The workshop will be aimed for beginners and will cover topics like:

• Contrast
• Light & Shadow
• Color Therory
• Priming
• Painting different Materials

I am really excited and hope to see you in person!

Keep on Happy Painting
Kilian

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PS: I can only recommend you to take part as Kilian is a trainee of mine and I help him to teach in high quality! (Roman)

Good Morning Jungle,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

March's update on my tutorials via etsy brings you three new items:
https://www.etsy.com/de/shop/RomanLappat/


First one is a big article about Motivation.
A topic that everyone can relate too. Being professional in the miniature industry since almost two decades I have been to places of motivation and the lack of it that not all of you can imagine. I believe you can benefit from these words and find your happiness in your unique approach to your passion:


Second one is a step by step
on the beautiful project called "Cats".
It covers a lot of background on the basing work and painting many cats.

Last one is premium Artprint
of my recently finished diorama "The Last Bite":

I hope you enjoy this update!
Thank you for your support on the etsy platform and your great feedback.

While you read this I am working on translations into german for all so far published articles. Four are already included and updated. You can find information on the updated translated articles via the banners in the shop. For example here on the right lower corner:

Plans for adding spanish translations are in the making.
Stay tuned for more and grab my premium tutorials and step by steps now:
https://www.etsy.com/de/shop/RomanLappat/


Keep on happy painting!
Best Wishes,

Roman

Hey Jungle,

just recently I had some really interesting talks via podcasts and write up.
If you want to listen to it, feel free to enjoy. Here are the links:

4K1S (german):
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3FLJxc1BtW47Ba0iZ5TCNy

Redgrass Games Interview:
https://www.redgrassgames.com/interview-with-roman-lappat/

Listening to paint dry with Mike and Dan:
https://www.podserve.fm/series/website/listening-to-paint-dry-with-mike-and-dan,731/50396


Happy Painting to all of you!
Best Wishes,
Roman

Hey everyone!

Some believed this project dead: The Massive Voodoo Zombie Community Project. 
Well, it was sort of undead, yes. Still walking, but somehow dead.
Some, including me had doubts if it ever will see its end.
It did and a diorama with 407 miniatures was finished recently.

A beast of a diorama, including 407 miniatures in scale 28mm and lots of superglue. Thanks to everyone involved as a large amount of Zombies were painted by the great help of this amazing community. I only painted about 90 Miniatures myself, including the survivors. Thank you all! Without your help this would have not been possible! Special sculpting work by Kevin James White included. Thanks to Andrew for putting the title in my head: "The Last Bite". It did not leave me. Time to take a deep breath now and show you more of it soon!

Here is just a little preview of "the Last Bite".

More will follow, including a 360° video in 4k with details. Stay tuned!
It is much work and I still feel a bit exhausted after finishing this.

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Another topic that is dear to my heart.

My etsy shop.

First of all thanks to those who stop by and support me!
Thank you for the great feedback so far!

I know and heard that some do not like it. They feel offended in a way I personally can not understand.
I even heard someone guessing "this diorama was created for a shop wall". This made me sad. Yes, I created a PDF about the creation of this diorama for my etsy shop. Yes, it is not a free tutorial on Massive Voodoo. Yes, I say this loudly.

I hope you do not blaim me that I took the decision 18 years back to be a self employed artist and teacher. I hope you do not blaim me for putting a 101 paged PDF that explains the creation of this Diorama in my etsy shop for under 10,00 €. So far I wrote over 400 free articles to share the miniature love and my experiences, in forums, on Massive Voodoo. I hope you do not blaim me in starting an etsy shop with some high quality articles in times of the pandemic where teaching in group seminars is not as easy as it was before. The world changes, my job does too. If you blaim me, I am sorry. 

Let me know your thoughts.

You can be sure that this diorama was not created for an etsy shop front.
Starting it with the community aspect almost six years ago had different reasons. And these reasons are dear in my heart, this is why everyone involved in this project can get it for free (there is a describtion in the PDF that explains details). If you want and if you participated in it you can get your money back. No kidding, but I am proving it as sometimes the internet can be full of trolls.

Well, my etsy shop helps me to survive and it is fun.

I lost fun in writing articles on Massive Voodoo,

share my experience in miniature painting and teaching to see the same content used afterwards in You Tube videos and Tutorials you got to pay for. I just lost joy in thinking about writing my own knowledge down for free. I do not say my wisdom is unique. My experience and how I explain it, is. From it, how you understand things is unique too.

With my etsy shop I found that joy back.
I am taking photos all the time. Work in Progress, in nature and all the time as my brain wants to teach and explain again. I am wrapping up old articles I wrote ten years ago with not so good english, correct them and add my nowadays knowledge to it. For putting them on etsy, not on MV, yes. Some will blaim me for it, others will be thankful.

Writing these articles takes time.
I do not want to teach in video format as the speed of consuming is too fast in my eyes. You will learn of course, but not in the way that fits to my teaching style. I want the painters who learn from me take their time. Invest their time in learning. Not brainless consuming of too many videos on how to paint a certain technique. Of course I say this provocative. I do not mean it in this way. I say this to make you understand my point of view.

I will add more to my etsy shop.
And once in a while I will add tutorials to MV again.


I am proud of the articles so far published on etsy:

Much more to come in the future and yes,
you can call this advertisment if you like.
Or you can call it RomanLappat+
as plus is the new cool!


... you can like it, or not.
You can support it, or you can not.
I am thankful to everyone who supports it and
will give my best to help you grow as a happy painter.

Thank you!

Coming soon:

Name: Kilian aka Qraith

Job: Mechanical Engineer for Turbo Chargers and Electronics

Painting: Started around 2002 - after a long break I'm back and committed since 2018

Media: Mostly Scalecolor and some GW paints

Brushes: Raphael 8404

Airbrush: Harder&Steenbeck Evolution Silverline - but I'm not good at it.

Miniatures: Star Wars Legion - I'm a huge Star Wars Nerd

Inspirational Miniature Artists: Roman & Josua, Scott Walter (Miniac), Dave Colwell, Marko Miladinovic & Aleksandra Cvetanovski (craftworldstudio)

Gallery: Instagram

Count Dooku - Star Wars Legion

Hello Jungle,

my name is Kilian and I'm the new guy here on Massive Voodoo. I feel honored to be on this blog that so many outstanding painters have shaped over many, many years. It feels like a dream come true!

I first came into contact with miniature war gaming back when I was 12, when my brother brought home a box of Chaos Beastmen Gors from Warhammer Fantasy 4th or 5th edition. I loved the miniatures and the boxart but at that age I was just too lazy to get into something like that. At 16 a couple of guys started playing Warhammer Fantasy and I decided to give it a shot. It was 6th edition, and Dark Elves were my jam. I think I never finished more than 5 models or so because I was not patient enough and comparing my job to the boxart it just looked ridiculous. Eventually the group broke up, and I focused on other hobbies during my studies and the years to come.

Name: Andreas aka Andy

Job: Specialist for particle analysis

Painting: wargaming since early 2000 and display painting since 2013

Media: acrylics, gouache and aquarelle. Mostly heavy body Schmincke, Lascaux and Golden; Inks by Liquitex. Sometimes I use Vallejo and Scale colors but mainly their metallic paints. Gouache and aquarelle colors for tinting. 

Brushes: Windsor&Newton Series 7, sizes 0, 1 and 2 for most jobs and some no-name brushes for different topics like priming, base coating, wet-in-wet stuff and so on. One of my most loved brushes is a no-name one – it gives me freedom to slap paint without taking to much care about details.

Airbrush: H&S Evolution and H&S Ultra

Miniatures: I’m totally into sci-fi, modern, cyberpunk and post-apocalyptic stuff in every scale from busts to miniatures.

Sculpting: Now and then I sculpt traditionally and digitally but its more trial-and-error than anything showable… anyway I show it :D

Inspirational Miniature Painters: Roman Lappat, Alfonso Giraldes, Jeremie Bonamant, Josua Lai, Arnau Lazaro, Sergio Calvo, Trent Denison, Richard Sharp, Dmitry Fesechko, Alex Varela, David Soper

Inspirational Miniature sculptors: Raffaele Picca, Romain van den Bogaert, Lucas Pina, Allan Carrasco 

Gallery: putty&paint – not always up to date

Hello everyone, it’s a new guy in town!

Hi Jungle people,

well it has been a though ride.
The Massive Voodoo studio as we know it is no more!


It has been long overdue.
Since about four years it was fact that these buildings where the studio is located will be torn down. From then on this feeling stretched. A new place was in sight, but Covid-19 changed it all.

Well, with looking back on it I am grateful and deeply thankful for the great times spent there. For all the people who visited, friends who came over and many students to learned there. It has been a creative cave filled with great memories.


While waiting for that new place to be ready to move in life put many changes on me: I had to move out of my flat that I really loved as my landlord needed the flat for his son. Bummer! I did so during Winter 2020 and it was not easy to find a flat, nor was the move during lockdown, but with the help of great people it was managed. As Covid-19 restrictions affected my job enourmously (not teaching weekend seminars) I decided to move the studio as a much smaller version home into my flat until I am able to focus on finding a new space. This all started to happen in Winter.

It all started slowly.
Moving basic equipment from the old place to the new one to be able to work again ... setting up the new place slowly:

Thanks to my good friend Erik who helped me to setup the basic layout of the new place ...

On a personal level it was really hard for me and somehow I reached a point where I was not able to proceed. Too many emotions stuck to the big wall of great memories ... the best thing would have been inviting some friends over, drinking some beer and having a party to move out. This was not allowed due Corona. This place and the heart stuck to it, the memories in these halls would have deserved it.







So I basicly was kind of depressed and stucked ... tried to enjoy creativity in the new place, while the old was waiting to die. Did not really work ...

Out of nowwhere my awesome girlfriend surprised me with a book.
She organised friends of mine to celebrate this party in form of text and memories and to be honest it just made me cry when I had it in my hands, reading through these pages ...

On this evening - while zipping a beer or two - I was able to tear down the wall of memories. Saving 50% of photos to put them together in a photo album.

From there on, the spell was broken and I was able to see it all for what it was:
Time to say goodbye, finally and being thankful for it. The studio itself started to empty up too and it was quite the workload to sort out things, put usuables into the new studio and throwing out what was not needed, putting tons of stuff on ebay too.

Some weeks ago - while writing this - it was done.
The room was empty and the studio was moved.

It was time to remove the sign from the front door.

The end of an era.
The start of a new one.

Finally, the new studio felt like something.
It started to feel good to focus on this new place.
Unpacking tons of boxes (still not done yet) and organising the place.
My two buddies, Keiko and Momo always around and really interested in this place of future creativity.










Now in the new place it is still work ahead of me ...
Unpacking, organising and most important finding a workflow again. It works, but not superfast.
It feels good to be able to teach again, this is what I missed the most during lockdowns and move and it helps to find organisation combined with a workflow. Time to unpack the brushes ...

From the bottom of my heart I want to thank everyone who helped me in this task. I am not good with changes and I tend to be emotional, maybe too much or just the right amount, who knows. Thanks to everyone who encouraged me with words and their help to move this forward.

For the moment the new place is good and I am thankful.
On the long term it makes sense to find a place outside my flat again to seperate work and home and the view already searches for new options ... we will see what the future brings.

Thank you!

Keep on happy painting!
Yours,
Roman

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