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About Us

Nordlys Miniatures is a small Scandinavian miniature company, producing high quality miniatures for painters, modellers and collectors. Our general aim is to deliver sculpts and inspirational paintjobs that give you options and are fun to paint. And are also inspiring and inviting you to create your own version and story.

We generally work with Scandinavian sculptors and have our sculpts cast by the best in the industry. All our sculpts will have a painted BoxArt and something we call BizArt, which is an alternative version made with full freedom, including conversions. We think of ourselves as not ‘just another miniature company’, but rather as a part of a community of painters and sculptures, with whom we hope to engage, enrich and support.

Our vision statement

Painting is creating

We would like to stimulate creative play. You don’t have to paint outside the lines, but if you fancy so, the models we make should be a fitting canvas to do whatever you see fit.

We work locally

We prefer to work with artists from Scandinavia, but will not do so exclusively. As there is so much talent in the north, it is interesting to see that unfold on a common platform

We give what we can

Starting a business is up-hill. And lots of chances are taken. When the ball is rolling and Nordlys is a success we plan to give back to the community in the form of support for clubs, events and the likes.

Rookies are welcome

We believe everyone starts somewhere. So, if a quality sculpt is done by a fellow artist who is a newcomer, then we would rather produce a low number of casts and still give him or her the chance to have a sculpt released.

LIMITED, BUT NOT STRICTLY

None of our sculpts will be strictly limited. However, there is no guarantee more will be made once they are gone. So shop wisely. We do a low number of casts, with no fixed number. All casts will be numbered and have cast series marked as well.

Same same, but different

We aim to produce models that feels a little different and provide something new to our hobby.

Our Team & Collaborators

Jakob Skovgaard Villien

Co-Founder & Painter

Jakob Villien is co-creator of Nordlys and hails from Denmark. He is a decent painter and a shitty sculptor, but enjoys both. His style is messy and impulsive. Jakob’s main contribution to Nordlys is bringing lots of energy into it, and having lots of fun with it. And reminding us that painting is supposed to be play and all about fun. He insists that BizArt for Nordlys is just as important as BoxArt, and hopes you will agree with him.

Mads Jespersen

Co-founder & painter

Mads Seit Jespersen is co-creator of Nordlys and paints and builds miniatures in the neatest and tidiest mancave basement known in our hobby. The organized mind of Mads is oddly contrasted by his impulsive colouring and brushstrokes, where the expression is bold and the image is striking. Thanks to Mads, Nordlys has its striking design, website, instragram and all things making it unique, special and dear to us.
(Photo by Roman Lappat / taleofthebananawhale)

Magnus Fagerberg

Sculptor & Painter

Magnus Fagerberg is a legend in our hobby, and bridges both historical and fantasy painting. And now embraces sculpting masterfully too. We could not be more proud to have Magnus on board and have the style and grace in his miniatures define Nordlys too. Magnus leaves a little bit of him in all models, and he is one of those rare painters that, when you see his new miniature, you instantly know he did it, even though it is new and fresh.

Patric Putte Sand

Painter

Patric Putte Sand is our great Swedish partner hailing from Stockholm. When told about Nordlys Patric said two things: ‘That’s awesome. How can I help?’ We simply love him at Nordlys, and his amazing positive drive and energy. Patric’s painting style is known as clean and crisp, with bold colours and great definition. However, do not be surprised to see him throw in some monkey business when projects allow him to play free. Patric will be our Swedish ambassador and also gift us with awesome paintjobs.