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007 Travelers Interview: Annelis Stähli-von Allmen / Hotel Eiger Mürren

007 Travelers visited Hotel Eiger Mürren, and met Mrs. Annelis Stähli-von Allmen.
We asked her about her hotel, about James Bond and traveling and of course
filming 007 movie "On Her Majesty´s Secret Service" (1969), starring George Lazenby.

Annelis Stähli - von Allmen *

Who: Annelis Stähli-von Allmen (former Hotel Manager)
Where: Cocktail party of Hotel Eiger Mürren, Switzerland
When: 17 July 2014
007 Connection: George Lazenby has stayed here in 2013 during opening of BOND WORLD 007.

Also while filming "On Her Majesty´s Secret Service" (1969) part of the filming crew stayed here and they together with George Lazenby celebrated in Hotel Eiger´s Tächi Bar.

He also played poker in Hotel Eiger for so long against Telly Savalas (Ernst Stavro Blofeld) and lost, so producer Harry Saltzman later asked Savalas to return the money to George Lazenby.

1. How long did you work in Hotel Eiger Mürren?

I grew up in the Hotel Eiger, I started working here full time for the Winter Season 1959/60, from the beginning of December 1959, then my father had a heart problem in January 1960 and I run the hotel with my mother, married in 1964 to Walter Stähli from Brienz and together we run the place till he passed away very suddenly at the age of 62 in 1997, my mother followed the same year being 89, I retired when my son Adrian married Susanna in 2007, I will be 77 at the end of October!

2. Tell us about George Lazenby, filming of "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969) and anything that comes to your mind when the cast and crew of OHMSS stayed in Mürren?

George Lazenby stayed at the Palace Hotel, he used to come to the Tächi Bar for dinner on several occasions and I found him a very nice person. As the crew was always busy until about 5 pm, when they were free they needed some dinner, and as our barman Paul Köster, who was actually the barman in the film, was always with the crew on Schilthorn, they very often came to have dinner at the Eiger. The producers Mr. Broccoli and Mr. Saltzman and the director Peter Hunt, often also the Canadian investor of the Schilthornbahn, Bart Morgan were eating in the Tächi Bar which had been turned into a à la carte Restaurant with high quality of food. When the bosses were there, the stuntmen might sit on the table next to them and they were always anxious that they got served just the same! We had two super buffet dinners, one was for the crew to cheer them up, the other was a wedding party and I brought Sandra, my daughter, then aged 6 months, down to introduce her and Diana Rigg offered her some champagne which she seemed to enjoy :) I think this is why her taste of wine is so excellent and she became a wine expert! I have nothing but good memories of the time of the film.

George Lazenby came back to Mürren for the celebration of the 45^th anniversary of the film OHMSS and he stayed with us at the Eiger. It was really nice seeing him again and talking of the film.

3. Who is your favourite James Bond actor? (leading male role)

Maybe Sean Connery – or Roger Moore. I have not seen all the Bond Movies but it’s hard to make a choice between the two.

4. The best Bond movie?

I think OHMSS – as it was filmed in reality, not computer animation – there are so many lovely outdoor scenes. Just blowing up Piz Gloria was filmed in Pinewood studios, Bart Morgan had been invited to witness this – he said it was spectacular.

5. Which is the best place where you have traveled so far?

The best place for me is Hawaii.

6. Which is the place where you would like to visit but have not yet been?

I would like to visit New Zealand one day.

* Photos from Annelis Stähli-von Allmen's album. Photos taken during filming of "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969). Published with permission of Annelis Stähli-von Allmen.

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007 Vehicle: Hispano-Suiza / Moonraker (1979)

Bond vehicle: Hispano-Suiza

Bond movie: Moonraker (1979)

Many supervillains like to have the newest luxury cars, but Hugo Drax wanted to show his better taste and sophistication, when he owned top elegant Hispano Suiza from 1930s.
Hispano's classic elegance suits perfectly to traditional aristocracy lifestyle, that Drax has adopted in his magnificent Californian chateau.

Engine: 9424 cm3, V12
Top speed: Approx. 160 km/h
Acceleration 0-100 km/h: Approx. 12,0 seconds
Length: 4877 mm (depending on body style)
Width: 1803 mm
Weight: 2275 - 2950 kg
Price 1935/2008: $ 12 500 / $ 750 000 - $ 2 000 000

Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC

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Trenchworx Kickstarter - Final Push - WWI Resin Tanks in 28mm (1/56th Scale)

The Trenchworx Kickstarter will be ending at 11:59PM today (8/31/2014). I'm still in for the French Squadron of FT-17s and I'm figuring out what else I want to add before it comes to a close. They have hit the $15,000 mark to produce the CA-1 Schneider and have lowered the goal for the British Mk IV to $20,000. I tempted to buy into the a couple of the British Mk Vs but my Marines were only supported (rarely) by the FT-17. Maybe a truck or two would be interesting.

Find their Kickstarter here: Trenchworx

Fotos: Sam Claflin en el detrás de escenas de "The Riot Club"

Les traemos las fotos del detrás de escenas de Sam Claflin en su nueva película The Riot Club...

Fuente: The Telegraph

Un vistazo único a la aplicación de The Hunger Games para dispositivos Samsung Galaxy

La cuenta de Twitter oficial de The Hunger Games publicó este genial vídeo donde los suertudos poseedores de algún dispositivo Samsung Galaxy puede disfrutar de esta genial aplicación que incluye trailers, imágenes, fragmentos de guiones y demás de toda la experiencia fílmica de la trilogía hasta el momento...

Fuente: @TheHungerGames

Love, Rosie: Q&A de Sam Claflin y Lily Collins en Total Film UK

Les traemos un scan con un pequeño Q&A de nuestro Sam Claflin y su co-estrella Lily Collins en el que hablan de su nueva película "Love Rosie"en la edición de octubre de Total Film UK.

Romance triste

Love, Rosie. Sam Claflin y Lily Collins hace equipo para un drama que abarca una década con muchos corazones.

Ambos están en sus Veintes, tienen Hollywood a sus pies y saben una cosa o dos sobre estar en películas épicas de grandes presupuestos, pero con Love, Rosie Sam Claflin y Lily Collins se vuelven más intimos como los mejores amigos desventurados Alex y Rosie.

¿Cuando se conocieron ustedes dos?

Lily Collins: Cristian (Ditter, el director) nos juntó en Soho hace más de un año y nos tuvo sentados en una habitación mirándonos el uno al otro. Fue un poco extraño.

Sam Claflin: Fue realmente intenso. Para un primer encuentro con alguien fue muy extraño.

LC: Muy discordante.

SC: Nos sentamos muy cerca del otro.

LC: Pero fue tan increíble porque enseguida tuvimos esta intensa experiencia compartida. Ya habíamos invadido el espacio personal del otro, así que las cosas no podían ponerse...

SC: ...más extrañas. Fue la lectura de química más intensa que tuve en mi vida.

¿Cuánto se relacionan con sus personajes en Love, Rosie?

SC: Creo que soy Alex

LC: Creo que soy Rosie!

SC: ¡Es una locura! Dudo de haber interpretado a alguien que sea tan como yo. No sabía donde terminaba yo y donde empezaba Alex.

LC: Nunca sentí como si estuviera interpretando a alguien. Solo sucedía.

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¿Cuál fue el momento más incómodo durante la filmación?

LC: Oh Dios. Mira esa escena cuando el condón se pierde. O la escena del espejo. Eso fue en el baño más pequeño de la historia con cinco hombres y yo agazapados sobre un espejo. Eso fue en la segunda semana de filmación. Eso fue muy incómodo.

SC: ¡Si!

LC: Tengo que decir que luché por mantener eso adentro.

SC: ¿De verdad?

LC: Solo pensé que fue un momento tan divertido e incómodo... el más incómodo de todos.

¿Cómo se encontraron trabajando con bebés?

SC: Tuve un solo día y fue una pesadilla.

LC: ¡A la bebé no le gustabas para nada! Oh Dios mio, la segunda vez que ella vino...

SC: Me encantan los niños, entonces yo estaba como "Voy a decirle Hola"

LC: ...ella comenzó a llorar como descocida.

SC: ¡Cada vez que entraba a la habitación la bebé empezaba a llorar!

¿Qué es lo que viene a continuación para ustedes?

LC: No puedo hablar mucho de eso solo porque es una situación clave y muy cerrada. Pero recién terminé de filmar con Warren Beaty. Es de la represión sexual de Hollywood de los años 50... fue increíble. Un reparto increíble de personas que respeto, una generación de acores mayores. Algunos de ellos solo trabajan en tipos específicos de películas y aprendí más en los últimos cinco meses que en en la escuela de cine.

SC: ¿Qué puedo decir de The Riot Club? Recuerdo haberle mandado un mensaje a Lily con una foto...

LC: ¡Estabas sangriento y repugnante!

SC: Tuve extensiones en el cabello cubiertas de sangre. Estaba como "Hey! Este soy yo!" Vi la película recientemente y es muy muy oscura. Mi esposa y mi publicista que habían visto The Riot Club me odiaron. Y después miraron Love, Rosie al día siguiente y estaban como "¡Te amamos!"

LC. Eso es genial

SC: Así que tengo esto, después The Riot Club y Los Juegos del Hambre: Sinsajo... es un tiempo ocupado.

LC: Sí! él no es para nada popoular!

Fuente Sam Claflin Fans

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Game Auction Tacticon 2014

One of my favorite parts of any game convention is the auction. My philosophy is to keep it moving as fast as possible to keep everyone's attention focused on the auction itself. Its not easy and it requires that Mark and I stay on our toes and keep things moving right along, once you have the momentum going you don't want to lose it. While the audience certainly wants to get stuff as cheap as possible I have always felt that its my job to get as much as possible for the seller and that's really what I focus on. That requires that the auctioneers be invested in the auction, we don't sit down while selling and we don't stand behind a podium or a table, we are right out there in the middle of it. I'm pretty sure that our approach to the auction is fairly unique and I know there are some auctions that have "borrowed" some of the things we do for their own auctions. Everything is manual, while computerizing it would be a good thing we have never come up with a way that is faster than our manual intake. We also don't have to pause for computer glitches or errors, the slips may pile up but my crew will catch up and we just keep selling without pause.

I think that's why I'm pretty critical of other game auctions. I despise the massive auction at GenCon, in general it is far to slow and lacks energy and I don't think that the majority of the sellers really take away what they should. The lack of energy is certainly a disadvantage but running 12 hours a day for four days means that there are times when the auction hall is almost empty of people and stuff is going way to cheap. I have found this true when I worked the Origins auction as well and I find both of these auctions very frustrating because of that. The LA auctions where a lot of fun when I was helping with those, the auction crews have styles closer to mine. We go fast, we work in jokes and we engage the audience and when you engage the audience that's when the money really starts to flow and the energy from the crowd helps keep you going.

I just finished up the Tacticon 2014 auction this evening. We spent 4 hours selling stuff and had everyone checked out by 11pm. That's our earliest finish in years. I have been told that there is no way that we can sell as much as we do in the period of time we have. I tracked the number of lots sold through the first hour of the auction tonight and at the end of 60 minutes we had sold 72 different "lots". By the end of the four hours we should have sold 288 lots so we were selling a lot every 50 seconds or so. I'll see if I can get an exact count on the lots tomorrow. Fifty seconds seems to long to me, but then there is quite a bit of difference speed wise between Mark and I. While Mark is really good, he's not as fast as I am, while I'm certainly not a professional I have a pretty good cadence and it doesn't take me long to finish off an item an get a good price for it.

So here are a few pictures from tonight's affair

The check-in begins

The tables and floor is starting to fill up as sellers' bring their stuff in to be "recycled"

And a shot from the other side. Those big boxes under the tables are 3d boards for Space Hulk.

A better shot with no one in the way. To the left of the picture you can see the edge of another table that is full of games

The back table is filling up as well

The money side of the operation

Mark in full auctioneering mode

The paperwork processing begins. First stage is taking money for cash sales during the auction (which we encourage, saves time later). The blue sheets are buyer sheets, for those running a tab. The white sheets are the seller sheets. Both sheets need information from the yellow tag that comes off each item as its sold. The white tag stays with the item and is stored on tables at the back of the room.

007 Travelers news: 007 Travelers and UNICEF walk

As you know Sir Roger Moore is also a Goodwill Ambassador. 007 Travelers participated UNICEF Walk in Järvenpää, Finland on 30 August 2014.
The funds: For schools in Asia.

You can also support UNICEF by participating James Bond weekend 19-21 September 2014 in Stockholm, Sweden, organized by From Sweden with Love.

Pirita / 007 Travelers

New events: Sir Roger Moore signing his new book

Do you want to have Sir Roger Moore's signing to his new book "Last Man Standing: Tales from Tinseltown"?

If you are in England, you could try these places, where Sir Roger is signing his book:

4 September 2014, 1pm: Hatchards St Pancras
5 September 2014, 5pm: The Cinema Store
7 September 2014, 2.30pm: Guildford Books
11 September 2014, 1.30pm: Harrods
13 September 2014, 1pm: Waterstones Kingston

And don't forget his Afternoons / evenings with Sir Roger Moore 2014 tour. More info here

[Actualizado] Sinsajo Parte 1, Julianne Moore y Sam Claflin en la edición de invierno de Empire Magazine

Empire Maganize nos da una guía esencial sobre las películas que dominaran el invierno y por supuesto Sinsajo Parte 1 forma parte de ella. En esta edición Sam Claflin habla del legado de los Juegos del Hambre. A su vez, hay un artículo de Julianne Moore y otro de The Riot Club, la nueva película de Sam.

Los Juegos del Hambre: Sinsajo Parte 1.

"No lo había pensado así hasta que lo mencionaste y ahora me siento algo ansioso" Empire habló con Sam Claflin (una de las nuevas estrellas de En Llamas como el sexy problemático Finnick) de que Los Juegos del Hambre esta a un salto de convertirse no solo en una de las franquicias mas exitosas sino también icónica, una serie de películas que definirá el mundo del cine por generaciones. "Me alegro de que nadie piense eso mientras grabamos, pero creo que tienes razón" dice Claflin. "Solo estamos tratando de vivir estas ultimas dos. Si pensamos sobre el legado que dejaremos nos hundiríamos bajo la presión".

Sinsajo es donde la trilogía se pone mas intensa. Sí, mas intensa que el asesinato de niños y la presión del gobierno. Nuestros héroes están como dice Claflin "en un lugar muy gris" El director Francis Lawrence lo llama "la historia de las consecuencias de la guerra. No terminar solo con golpes al final es lo mas importante. El final no es el desenlace perfectamente limpio que la gente espera de los libros para jóvenes-adultos.

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Julianne Moore

Julianne Moore llegó recientemente al punto de partida después de filmar un papel destacado en las últimas entregas de Los Juegos del Hambre - las dos Mockingjay - donde trabajó por última vez con el difunto Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Moore quién se presenta como la Presidente Alma Coin, es otra de las co-estrellas de alto perfil de Jennifer Lawrence. "Hice la mayor parte de mi trabajo en la película con Phil", dice ella, en voz baja. Hoffman era su amigo y co-estrella de Boogie Nights, The Big Lebowski y Magnolia. "Él había completado prácticamente el rodaje, por lo que ya había hecho todo mi trabajo con él ..." Su voz se apaga, una señal para Empire para seguir adelante.

Indagamos si también debe de haber disfrutado de volver a trabajar en equipo con uno de los pilares de Los Juegos del Hambre, Woody Harrelson, (los dos trabajaron juntos en The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio y la imagen de TV Game Change, donde Moore interpretó Sarah Palin) "Oh, sí," ella arrulla. "Fue muy divertido estar con Woody y algunas veces se te olvidaba que estabas en esta fantasía distópica. Entonces alguien pasa caminando con la mitad de su cabeza rapada y hay cosas raras que salen detrás de ellos y yo estaba como, 'Oh sí, esta es una película de fantasía! '"

La ruta de Moore en Los juegos del hambre llegó, de alguna manera predecible, a través de sus dos hijos. Tomó una copia de su hija del primer libro de la serie durante las vacaciones, cuando sus hijos estaban jugando tenis de mesa. "Pensé que era genial y a mis hijos le encantan estos libros, por lo que para ellos es muy emocionante que yo esté en la franquicia. Generalmente, hago películas que no pueden ver! Y ambos les encanta Jennifer Lawrence. Ella es muy , muy fácil de amar ".

The Riot Club con Sam Claflin

Fuente: Empire Vía: Panem Propaganda

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Freight Cars for Calamity - Step by Step Weathering - Wrapping it Up

Up to this point all the previous steps have really just been prep to get to the fun part. Especially in the case of the gondola since I had to cut apart my decals to get them to fit between the stake pockets. The reality is that the weathering process itself doesn't take very long, it gets stretched out trying to take pictures (or remembering to take pictures).

The next step for the gondola is to get some paint on the boards on the interior sides and floor. What I want to do here is show paint worn away by heavy use. The normal load for these gondolas was probably coal since the C&N had its own fleet of drop bottom hoppers for ore. However, I'm sure that they were pressed into service to carry various ores as needed. Boulder County is mostly mined for gold ore and tungsten although there were silver mines as well but none that were actually served by the railroad. I drybrushed some of the upper edges of the outside with a greyish brown paint and gave a heavy coating on the inside, leaving more of the original red in the corners and edges where the sides come together with the floor.

I then followed up with a burnt umber wash made from Liquitex Ink and distilled water. Colorado water is a little on the hard side and I try to keep the minerals out of my paints as much as I can by using distilled water.

Now all of that ink needs to dry before I can start applying pigments to it. Otherwise you can create quite a mess when dry pigment meets wet ink. Its not pretty, but it can be cleaned up when it happens.
With the gondola drying its time to turn to the boxcar. I want to try a different technique on this one involving Isopropyl Alcohol (rubbing alcohol you can get it at the grocery store or your local drugstore. I buy the 99% pure stuff) and dry pigments. I'll create a wash with this and see how that goes. Remember weathering is all about experimenting and thinking outside the lines a bit. Although its probably smarter to try something new on a cheap test car first!

For this one I used MiG pigments, their Cargo Dust and Black Smoke. The Black Smoke is to strong by itself so I tried to lighten up a bit with the Cargo Dust.

To this mixture I added the Isopropyl Alcohol. You want a wash so keep adding till you get something that just rolls right back to the bottom when you swipe your brush against the side. Keep in mind you are using alcohol and it evaporates fast (especially if you are in a high dry climate like mine)! I started on one side and proceeded to work my way around the boxcar.

Still much darker than I anticipated

I loaded up a brush with clean alcohol and proceeded to swab down the sides again. Wiping off the brush every few strokes to get rid of the excess.

That looks better

Roof is a bit uneven at this point but some additional steps latter on will help smooth it out.

In a couple of spots the alcohol started to penetrate the layer of dullcote and wiped away some of the lettering, mostly on the capacity and wt numbers on the left. It actually looks good so I didn't worry about but be aware that this can happen and go slowly least you wipe away all your decal or dry transfer work.

The problem with this particular technique is I really lost the faded look that I had started with. Maybe a thinner more directed wash would have helped maintain that effect or the two techniques just shouldn't be used on the same car. This also has to dry but you can come back with more alcohol later and continue to clean it up if you feel the need to. This is one way to set pigments, the resulting finish won't rub off without some serious effort.

Now its time to apply some straight up dry pigments. I'm using my Pan Pastels along with one another one from MiG (because, once again I put my Bragdon pigments in a safe place). While the best way to apply MiG pigments is still with a brush the best way to apply the Pan Pastels is with a very sponge. When I bought my set from Stoney Creek he included a couple of handles and variety of sponges to fit on the ends along with a couple of the big sponges for large areas. While you can brush the Pan Pastels on I have found that the sponges are definitely more effective. I was quite happy to find the Caboose Hobbies had a full kit of the brushes for the handles so I have a bunch. They come in different shapes so you can adjust to the surface you are working on.

Much like painting I like to start with the darkest pigment at the bottom edges of the car in this case I decided to use Burnt Sienna Extra Dark. On the gondola I kept it on the bottom frame, on the boxcar I went up a little bit on the sides (and its not easy to see in the pictures).

This really doesn't take very long and you don't have to wait for it to set so you can go straight to the next pigment. Next up was straight Raw Umber. I applied it starting at the top edge of the previous color to soften that line a bit and took it up a bit higher on the side.

The last application was with a brush using the MiG Pigment Gulf War Sand, which is a nice dusty color

Now the roof of the boxcar needs a little attention. It needs a lighter layer of soot which should even out the surface a bit. For this I'm using Neutral Grey Extra Dark.

Its really hard to see in the photos but I followed all of this up with a Burnt Sienna Prismacolor pencil run across the top of all the metal components to rust them up a bit. And that about wraps it up. I put the trucks back on and these are ready to hit the rails.

The gondola could probably use a bit more work, there is a lot of grain visible in the side boards and I really didn't bring them out very well and I'm not completely happy with the interior drybrushing or the final coat of dust on the outside. On the other hand sometimes they just have to look good enough and this one definitely falls into that category.

I'm quite pleased with the boxcar although I'm disappointed that my grimy wash really killed the faded look I wanted. I'm not going to go back and do anything about it but I will keep it in mind for future projects and there are certainly a number of those coming up.

I'm happy enough with my custom decals that I'll go ahead and bring out the passenger cars and get started on those which should be a pretty quick job. I'm still working on trying to perfect the Switzerland Trail of America logo for the C&N boxcars though. The C&N boxcars are going to get a little extra work as well. I thought that the ladder on the right side was molded on it looked like to much work to just try and shave off. However, I discovered that its actually a separate piece and can be pulled off without to much effort. I have some new grab irons ordered and I'll be installing those on C&N boxcars as the next step there.

So more work on those and of course there is a railroad station to get finished up as well. September should be another productive month as I continue work on the different parts of Calamity.

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