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Miniatures Adventure => Pikes, Muskets and Flouncy Shirts => Topic started by: M.P. on April 26, 2019, 11:24:08 PM
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Hi,
this time I'd like to present you my current project in 1/72 scale - early XVIIth century swashbucklers. I plan to use them in playtesting my fantasy Prague campaign as well as in Frostgrave.
First my own sculpt based on previously sculpted dolly.
(https://i.imgur.com/BDUyRTx.jpg)
Some of my conversions of Mars miniatures (w.i.p.):
(https://i.imgur.com/DAlscfT.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/CkEngvY.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/PjtMzqp.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/3HDUCIu.jpg)
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Very nifty! :-*
Positively Shakespearean :)
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They look great!
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They are getting nicer and nicer!
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Marvellous
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Thank you 😊. I'm trying to do my best 😊.
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More w.i.p., this time city guards/militia
(http://imgurl.pl/img/img201904282115025_5cc60049774e3.jpg)
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Small update
(https://i.ibb.co/9sM8htN/IMG-20190503-002458-7.jpg)
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They look gorgeous! Absolutely amazed how good 1/72 can look.
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Thank you :).
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W.i.p. of a swashbuckler based on the Witcher.
(https://i.ibb.co/prmLqnB/IMG-20190505-035257-1.jpg)
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Here's finished witcher in 17th c. attire.
(https://i.imgur.com/B8Pcptor.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/6rP3Oi2r.jpg)
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This time I'd like to show you w.i.p of my arquebusers.
(https://i.imgur.com/NuBnFnJr.jpg)
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Some great little characters there 8)
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Fantastic, I can't wait to see more.
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remarkably well done.
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Thank you very much Captain Blood. Sunjester and Bloggard :)
Here's a small update :)
(https://i.imgur.com/V3Ize1gr.jpg)
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These are really very nifty :)
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Thank you :). Small update after a brief hiatus.
(https://i.postimg.cc/bwQvhjDZ/IMG-20190616-013421.jpg)
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I’m still stunned when I look at your great sculpts. The „Witcher“ is a particularl favorite of mine. Takes the character into a new setting, but still keeps him believable and recognizable.
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You are doing an amazing job here!
I mark this thread to be watching your progress with great interest!
Cheers!
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Brilliantly well done. Out of interest, what type of plastic are Mars figures made from?
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I’m still stunned when I look at your great sculpts. The „Witcher“ is a particularl favorite of mine. Takes the character into a new setting, but still keeps him believable and recognizable.
Thank you, I'm currently working on the not-Dandelion mini :)
You are doing an amazing job here!
I mark this thread to be watching your progress with great interest!
Cheers!
Thank you, I hope you'll enjoy upcoming stuff :).
Brilliantly well done. Out of interest, what type of plastic are Mars figures made from?
Thank you, I'm flattered :). The plastic that Mars is using is quite bendy but with a thin coat of elmer's glue as a primer will protect paint from chiping.
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Another update
When you take a closer look in to de Gheyn's engravings depicting arquebusers you'll see alot of small details like passemanterie details on power flasks or a bag containing balls and holding the larger power flask or different methods of fastening stockings to pludernhose. While those details are really fun to spot, sculpting them is a rather tedius work.
(https://i.postimg.cc/zzXrrDyD/IMG-20190622-115627.jpg)
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Here are my three musketeers minis from Ultima Ratio slightly converted (changed blades, repaired surfaces after cleaning mold lines etc.). Still they need a lot of work paint-wise.
(https://i.postimg.cc/W3HFCrQd/IMG-20190623-164416.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/wM4VW7k2/IMG-20190623-164652.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/fb6kvZXd/IMG-20190623-164623.jpg)
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Excellent - surely the ultimate bucklers of swash ;)
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These are looking really good!
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Thank you :).
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I've finally finished my arquebusiers :)
(https://i.postimg.cc/445xqkvd/IMG-20190706-222328.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/wTCZk3ts/IMG-20190706-222304.jpg)
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They came out with style!
Eager to see them painted!
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These are awesome! You should make a mould and cast a smal series. I would love to have such awesome minis in my collection!
Brilliant!
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I'm afraid there would be IP issues over casting converted figures and selling them. The IP rights in the original figures would belong to Mars, and the converted figures would rely on these original figures.
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I'm afraid there would be IP issues over casting converted figures and selling them. The IP rights in the original figures would belong to Mars, and the converted figures would rely on these original figures.
That’s understandable, but doesn’t lessen your effort in this wonderful work.
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I must say that this is completely different from my attempts to convert Airfix figures when I was a boy - putting the figures into boiling water, bending the limbs to the position I wanted and holding them in that position under a stream of cold water. These conversions are just marvellous.
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DintheDin
Thank you :).
DivisMal
I'm flattered :),
Unfortunately I can't cast them because the IP-thing :(.
Paul Richardson
Thank you :).
The whole legal thing from what I know is more complicated - you can use other producers' mini parts in your sculpts as long as they do not constitute more than 30% of the surface of your miniature. But it's a controversial thing which I won't do.
I've converted those minis just for playtesting a supplement for my game (which might turn into its own thing). If there will be interest in it I may sculpt minis for it (using only wire dollies and putty).
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From what you have shown us, you really have the talent to make your owns sculpts, you prove that you have both the historical knowledge and the skill to produce convincing minis of this so interesting period!
I will continue to be following this thread with great interest! Cheers!
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Am quite enjoying the progress on this thread. You display real talent, and your figures certainly have the look and feel of the period.
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DintheDin, Metternich
Thank you for your kind words :). I'm always trying to keep my sculpts/conversion as close to the source material as possible, so your words are a cery special compliment for me :).
Here's next batch of finished conversion.
(https://i.postimg.cc/VLV8wdYs/IMG-20190708-224859.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/Fsf6jG4m/IMG-20190708-225240.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/h4CF8fQ8/IMG-20190708-225102.jpg)
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Amazing. You should be so proud of these.
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Thank you :).
Here is my long term w. i. p. - zaporozhian cossacks. I've based them on some contemporary engravings depicting cossacks and peasants from the time of the Khmelnitsky's Rebellion as well as archeological findings found at the site of the battle of Beresteczko.
(https://i.postimg.cc/4ytmz46b/IMG-20190709-234118.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/3rpRfRG2/IMG-20190709-234250.jpg)
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Great work! Really like the look of these.
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Thank you, I'm trying to do my best:).
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Woah! Those little dudes are just awesome! Excellent conversions, every one.
-Michael
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Love them! The westerners are neat, but your Cossacks are always a special treat.
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Conversions very well done and action poses! Eager to see them painted!
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Mweaver
Thank you :).
Thaddeu
Thank you :), the westerners are just a break after sculpting over 50 eastern minis for my hopefully commercial project. As for the Cossacks, those are just conversions - in a month or so I'll show my sculpts (cossacks as well) :).
DintheDin
Thank you :), unfortunately they are in a long painting queue :(.
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Here's another w.i.p. - this time of captain of city militia :)
(https://i.postimg.cc/RFvTJ1n3/IMG-20190717-021743.jpg)
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Imposing posture! :-*
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He will be holding a sword :).
(https://i.postimg.cc/fbzV2rZp/IMG-20190719-092827.jpg)
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That's a lovely figure.
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Thank you Metternich, I've changed my mind a bit - he'll be holding a polearm and a sword or a pistol :).
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Small update:
(https://i.postimg.cc/GbgxGcVN/IMG-20190721-221723.jpg)
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Coming out very nice!
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Thank you:), next in the pipeline are the Jewish Kabbalists :), based on the most awesome contemporary iconography by Roelandt Savery and Paulus van Vianen :).
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Looks pretty good to me.
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Thanks DivisMal :).
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Yet another small update :)
(https://i.postimg.cc/281Pff0n/IMG-20190725-031523.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/q74bgfxb/IMG-20190725-031410.jpg)
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W.i.p of my Prague table
(https://i.postimg.cc/DwhqwWWK/IMG-20190725-213834.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/26t6bt2Z/IMG-20190725-213852.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/pLSTGTwF/IMG-20190725-225422.jpg)
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Wow! You are preparing something really BIG! :o
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It's not that big considering that the board is roughly 50cmx80cm ;).
Next 10 or so buildings are waiting at my friend's home. Then probably some barricades and of to go for some Passauer kriegsvolk skirmish. Or maybe Pragueheim, or Praguegrave or something else that strikes our fancy ;).
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Splendid conversions 8)
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Splendid conversions 8)
Thank you :)
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I've finally finished my captain of city militia:).
(https://i.postimg.cc/C534gPMY/IMG-20190731-020001.jpg)
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Board ready for some terrain features
(https://i.postimg.cc/sxjg5T7p/IMG-20190731-231616.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/fyqDmDwN/IMG-20190731-223811.jpg)
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After some changes:
(https://i.postimg.cc/CMJZqxwW/IMG-20190804-111248.jpg)
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Some work done on my city guards :)
(https://i.postimg.cc/C1GGM36s/IMG-20190807-020122.jpg)
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Wow! They really look the part!
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Thank you :).
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Finished city militiaman :).
(https://i.postimg.cc/vTG5fddf/IMG-20190812-113130.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/hv47hb90/IMG-20190812-113106.jpg)
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These are just so good. Next you'll have to have a go at The Night Watch.
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Thank you:). You mean that one by Rembrandt?
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Yes, indeed. And there are some life-sized statues in Amsterdam based upon the figures which appear in the painting.
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It's an awesome painting but painted in 1643, while my project aims at the first decade of the century :).
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Most people dont realise how difficult it is to sculpt 1/1 in this scale and manage to put so much detail and character. Great work!
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Thank you :), indeed it's quite hard, that's why I'm doing more heroic style proportions :).
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The watch is almost finished:
(https://i.postimg.cc/mkLxL0r9/IMG-20190831-024250.jpg)
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Bravo. A lovely group of figures.
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Good job! I like them!
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Thank you Metternich and DintheDin :), next are the Jews of Prague :) (including the famous Maharal - the creator of Golem)
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Wonderful - a little paint and they look ready to patrol the streets of Prague
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Thank you Metternich :), they still need some work though (faces, "wings" on the doublets etc.), but having a newborn son makes things hobby-wise a tiny bit harder ;).
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Thank you Metternich :), they still need some work though (faces, "wings" on the doublets etc.), but having a newborn son makes things hobby-wise a tiny bit harder ;).
This is the most wonderful toy life could give you!
Best wishes to you and your family and all the best for the newborn son!
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having a newborn son makes things hobby-wise a tiny bit harder ;).
Congratulations!
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Excellent
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Congratulations on the family additioni ! I suppose you are building your own future gaming opponent ! To this day, my soon-to-be (tomorrow, in fact) 25 yrs-old son still paints figures and wargames.
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This is the most wonderful toy life could give you!
Best wishes to you and your family and all the best for the newborn son!
Thank you :).
Congratulations!
Thank you :)
Excellent
Thank you :).
Congratulations on the family additioni ! I suppose you are building your own future gaming opponent ! To this day, my soon-to-be (tomorrow, in fact) 25 yrs-old son still paints figures and wargames.
Thank you :), I hope so :) (I even bought some schleich dinosaurs to start some pulp gaming early on ;)).
I've finally manged to finish my city watch.
(https://i.postimg.cc/NfdN28fr/IMG-20191101-122135.jpg)
I'm not satisfied with them, maybe later some paint will change it.
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W.i.p. of Hungarians and Jews, next will be Poles (with famous Sendigovius)
(https://i.postimg.cc/D239xLdW/IMG-20191103-002032.jpg)
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First Jewish townsman almost finished :).
(https://i.postimg.cc/tgG7RXyg/IMG-20191114-011459.jpg)
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Ooh! He looks the part! Bravo!
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:o Astonishing!
Congratulations.
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Thank you DintheDin :).
Thank you Patrice, games you host are one of my primary inspiration :).
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Excellent work, full of character and true to the period costuming.
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I only just saw this excellent thread and read through your progress until now. The city guards are great and full of character as others have already mentioned! I'm definitely looking forward to seeing how you continue to progress with this project.
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@Metternich
Thank you :), it takes a lot of time to find enough period iconography for certain groups to know how to sculpt accurately period dress (in case of central european Jews it took me like 3 years and yet still there are few things, which I know for certain), but the research is a part od the fun as much as scultping. Now I'm researching spanish and italian fashion from the first quarter of the XVIIth century.
@Cahrn
Thank you for your kind words :) , this is just first part of the project (fantasy part is the other one).
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Small update on my Hungarians and Jews :)
(https://i.postimg.cc/tX9rqcmx/IMG-20191230-003247.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/cJjYf676/IMG-20191230-003715.jpg)
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Really wonderful to see such attention paid to an under represented segment of figures.
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Really wonderful to see such attention paid to an under represented segment of figures.
I fully agree! And you do a well-studied job! Cheers!
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Thank you :). I think those minis are the last humans I'm converting for this project. Now I will focus on reworking my buildings in PCV. Then I'll proceed to the fantasy part of the project.
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Hungarian magnate is ready :)
(https://i.postimg.cc/5t3dvMYB/IMG-20200104-233643.jpg)
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Imposing posture and one of your best works, I think!
Eager to see your collection painted! Cheers!
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Thank you :), I think I'll Star painting them in June. I've based my sculpt on the portrait of Kekes Istvan.
(https://i.postimg.cc/j2ywSqvb/kakas-istvan.jpg)
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Very well done! Good luck to the continuation of your project!
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Thank you :).
The Hungarians are ready for painting :)
(https://i.postimg.cc/JzKtgVgV/IMG-20200115-110314.jpg)
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You made nice characterful figures! Eager to see them painted! Cheers!
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Thank you :), now I need to finish the Jews for the Kabbalah warband :).
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First of the Jewish Kabbalists is ready :). Sorry for the poor quality pic, I'll try to take a better one tomorrow.
(https://i.postimg.cc/zD6j63sL/received-220551055646209-2.jpg)
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One more nice job of yours! He looks the part! Keep them coming!
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Thank you :), three more left to convert :)
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Short break between converting - windows and doors which later I'll cast and glue onto my buildings :)
(https://i.postimg.cc/0yxvgW8q/IMG-20200313-011653.jpg)
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They look good, I like the wood grain!
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Thanks :).
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Really smart idea Mr.P; very handy when you start banging out buildings.
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Thank you Codsticker - I'll be using them for city buildings.
In the meanwhile I've bought nice lasercut village.
(https://i.postimg.cc/ncGVdKJS/IMG-20200328-015718.jpg)
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Nice looking village, looking forward to seeing how this develops.
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Nice looking village, looking forward to seeing how this develops.
+1 ! Cheers!
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Thank you:), doing central european stuff is very refreshing after more than 7 years of doing exclusively stuff for my eastern european project.
The village is nów fully assembler. I even found minis, which I'll convert to look like Xviith century Czech peasants and farmstock.
(https://i.postimg.cc/XnS95n7H/IMG-20200329-003421.jpg)
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Some progress in converting my Jewish Warband :)
(https://i.postimg.cc/csfRwgRf/IMG-20200403-210647.jpg)
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Lovely work, but for a warband they don't look particularly warlike :D
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Thank you :). Well, they don't look partucularily warlike, but who need to, when they are powerful Kabbalists with the Golem at their side ;).
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They look the part for Jewish and this is what I like! Very successful conversions! Cheers!
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Thank you :), they are based on contemporary sletches by Savery ca. - 1606.
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Working now on some Czech peasants - doing a project in 1/72 makes it a lot easier when it comes to making civilian minis - there is such an abundance of them. Still need to sculpt some historically accurate clothes on them.
(https://i.postimg.cc/9QRxqZRy/IMG-20200405-125059.jpg)
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Another Jewish kabbalist is ready :)
(https://i.postimg.cc/tC779ncG/IMG-20200414-012556.jpg)
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One more nice conversion! Cheers!
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Thank you, now I'm finishing the last one :).
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I've finally finished my kabbalist warband :)
They are all based on contemporary sketches of the Jews from Prague by Roelandt Savery ca. 1606. The one next to the Golem is based on a sketch, which according to historians depicts the great Maharal - rabbi Loewe the chief rabbi of the bohemian crown, and according to the legend - creator of the Golem.
(https://i.postimg.cc/XjvK6L3C/IMG-20200415-231638.jpg)
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These I think are the best and most historically accurate conversions you have made! :-*
Keep up the good job! Cheers!
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Thank you :), now I'm researching bohemian peasant dress to accurately convert my minis :).
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This is wonderful. The conversion really feels special, and the research you did is just icing on the cake.
Can't wait to see more of your work.
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Thank you :), I hope I'll be able to show something new by thursday :).
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I'd like to show you a wip of a bohemian peasant :).
(https://i.postimg.cc/HxdGywWv/IMG-20200516-155424.jpg)
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Great sculpt. Will that be a cudgel in his upraised right hand ?
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Thank you :).
I've based this conversion on an image of bohemian peasant from ca. 1620 map
(https://scontent.fwaw3-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/s960x960/38071680_260752101390530_615521220707745792_o.jpg?_nc_cat=103&_nc_sid=e007fa&_nc_ohc=WNXXBWWrOxEAX_XQY6c&_nc_ht=scontent.fwaw3-2.fna&_nc_tp=7&oh=449be05629b80c3ab84750dc68d5420a&oe=5EE62944)
His right hand will hold the so called "nasiekaniec", which is a cudgel sort of made of a young oak spiked with flint shards.
(https://scontent.fwaw3-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/37994138_260709704728103_4684984553071181824_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&_nc_sid=e007fa&_nc_ohc=2zd635FOS-IAX9XiYfF&_nc_ht=scontent.fwaw3-2.fna&oh=0ad714c6325003d43657f5c8a3d71c71&oe=5EE789FB)
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Oh and my Jewish warband is based on those:
(https://scontent.fwaw3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/38085760_260839088048498_258001760667303936_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&_nc_sid=e007fa&_nc_ohc=s3HUeqTLCy8AX9lVHjO&_nc_ht=scontent.fwaw3-1.fna&oh=f09497e2295bd3ddb25d63241887e67f&oe=5EE6D67A)
(https://scontent.fwaw3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/53506271_390330308432708_3092817653635481600_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&_nc_sid=0be424&_nc_ohc=_MDNDl2-JRwAX_lgbfx&_nc_ht=scontent.fwaw3-1.fna&oh=358be4e7259d91bc18ab2d1a8020559b&oe=5EE6F80C)
(https://scontent.fwaw3-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/38118948_260840954714978_3559398393589530624_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&_nc_sid=e007fa&_nc_ohc=VOvEDj6LLqgAX8n-UE6&_nc_ht=scontent.fwaw3-2.fna&oh=c4afbaaff63265ec6b2a2852c9e58c19&oe=5EE7121F)
They are all from the first decade of the XVIIth century - the first and the last one are by Roelandt Savery (court painter of emperor Rudolph II), the middle one by Paulus van Vianen (court jeweler and engraver of emperor Rudolf II).
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I stands in awe for your deep historical research!
And your figures I see are better and better! Cheers!
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Thank you :), I simply love researching such stuff :).
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My peasants are slowly taking shape :).
(https://i.postimg.cc/pPqFqBbC/IMG-20200520-031206.jpg)
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The peasant women is ready and the rest still needs some work. Unfortunately scultping "nasiekaniec" was beyond my skill so I'm scultping a simple hatchet as in the image few post ago.
(https://i.postimg.cc/ydw4DB1F/IMG-20200526-003817.jpg)
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The czech peasant women is based on this:
(https://scontent.fwaw3-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/38016494_260752468057160_5379622503050117120_o.jpg?_nc_cat=101&_nc_sid=e007fa&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&_nc_ohc=fFVQJW0V4sEAX9TIo-8&_nc_ht=scontent.fwaw3-2.fna&_nc_tp=14&oh=2ca170f98da2a01b5afb0f2b1fa1373f&oe=5EF281CE)
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I admire your research! Very convincing conversion!!!
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Thank you for your kind words :).
My next peasant is slowly taking shape :).
(https://i.postimg.cc/fLS3bTS9/IMG-20200601-
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Another update :)
(https://i.postimg.cc/Pqx3Qn3Q/IMG-20200608-015736.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/D28P66f6/IMG-20200608-020323.jpg)
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Very good :-*
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Thank you :). I've finally finished something.
(https://i.postimg.cc/JhW7mczc/IMG-20200616-012411.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/L5h2vxxR/IMG-20200616-012530.jpg)
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Another update :), I hope to finish them all before the end of this month.
(https://i.postimg.cc/nL1hS2Yd/IMG-20200618-013524.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/nc6rXCh1/IMG-20200618-013627.jpg)
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Finally I've finished minis for this project, time to paint :).
(https://i.postimg.cc/GhTVXqCH/IMG-20200623-014622.jpg)
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Time to paint, yeah! Eager to see them painted! Cheers!
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I've primed them with diluted elmer's glue and white paint. I'm also working on some terrain features.
(https://i.postimg.cc/fRWJXHsk/IMG-20200622-152209.jpg)
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More forest stuff.
(https://i.postimg.cc/vB1wKQDx/IMG-20200626-012536.jpg)
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Wip of my upcoming ottoman-egyptians :-).
(https://i.postimg.cc/hPHJWxvn/123046391-1774755482674091-6637568806507158548-n.jpg)
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I admire your sculpting skills! Keep them coming!
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Thank you :).
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So first two minis for my ottoman-egyptian warband are ready 8).
(https://i.postimg.cc/QNkqNV0m/IMG-20201108-030951.jpg?fbclid=IwAR1dc8lTa4lanI1J19lD9bnaaoLTqlOivBzBbqD4nNHzUnuRbSPE-zs90Hs)
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This time an Afro-Spanish gentleman :). Inspired by the painting by IRC Diego Velazquez.
(https://i.postimg.cc/MKq0krZx/IMG-20201116-225838.jpg?fbclid=IwAR3F9hK4wjwqfVAEA_aOJf8wtZ7tyIg0epBvQ0LPpYv75LvUYKJzq277LzM)
(https://i.postimg.cc/KcNkTcFS/IMG-20201116-225924.jpg?fbclid=IwAR33By7GiFC-jqpd4guiN_deR2h4TF3HYH3rIgZEvMrKo44bLAv8L7QQjDc)
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More very good jobs! Congrats!!!
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Thank you :).
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A splendid little character :)
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Thank you Captain :).
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This time I'd like to show you a sipahi from Cairo, based on the image from Claes Ralamb's collection of ottoman fashion (https://i.postimg.cc/jj1rMJ4n/IMG-20201123-104552.jpg).
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This time janissary aga :)
(https://i.postimg.cc/XNGJ3jMq/IMG-20201205-112129.jpg)
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Fantastic :-* :-* and I have only seen the last two pages so far :o
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Thank you :). Now I'm working on Egyptian janissaries and Mameluke warband.
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Your sculpting skill is enviable! Eager to see your new creations! Cheers!
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Thank you :), apart from the janissaries I'm working on some movie characters but in XVIIth century dress (Djinn Djardin is in my other thread) - here's Henry Jones a treasure hunter from England ;p
(https://i.postimg.cc/hv5qrZDD/129070959-997303260758264-220916415366884819-n.jpg)
He's dress is based on the engraving by Villamena ca. 1608.
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Tremendous work.
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Thank you :).
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You capture such period attitude in your little sculptures. Bravo.
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Thank you :).
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Oh and here is the aformentioned engraving:
(https://i.postimg.cc/qqrTGNs5/933030697030491cdbed39d9336f5f56.jpg)
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You have a keen eye for detail! Congrats!
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Thank you :), my baroque Indiana Jones is taking shape:
(https://i.postimg.cc/2jhwyXNv/indiana-jones-baroque.jpg)
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He's great!
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Thank you :), my Mandalorian in 17th century attire/armour is taking shape as well :
(https://i.postimg.cc/13p7q65z/mandalorianin-kolejny-wip.jpg)
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W.I.P. of my egyptian janissaries warband:
(https://i.postimg.cc/hcpqBPK2/egyptian-janissaries.jpg)
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Wow! You start creating an army! Nice they are!
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Thank you :). No, not an army just this band for some skirmishing in Cairo :).
(https://i.postimg.cc/Df4X1y7F/46508309-2726577984047712-2149142699377164288-o.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/L6zg0Cqb/ralamb-69-janissary-of-egypt.jpg)
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I've finally fonished my renaissance Indiana Jones :-)
(https://i.postimg.cc/vm2r6dC4/IMG-20201214-224340.jpg)
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Another finished warband :).
(https://i.postimg.cc/vMrDYSD3/egipscy-janczarzy.jpg)
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Here's my Mameluke emir based on Melhior Lorck's engraving.
(https://i.postimg.cc/63ZgJ6s6/IMG-20201223-004156.jpg)
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Marvelous little figures ! The very "spirit of the Age." (or, given the Janissaries, is that spirit of the Agha ! ?)
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There’s so much diligence and love in this ongoing project that it’s a real joy o read about your progress.
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Thank you :). This entire project set in the early XVIIth century is a great joy to work on I must say. Now I'm finishing a noble from Cairo based on Sloan's costumebook from 1620s and theb I'll return to researching XVIIth century urban architecture ;p.
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My Ottoman-Egyptian warband is ready for painting :).
(https://i.postimg.cc/V1X6yCFb/IMG-20210108-001737.jpg)
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They look really great! Nicely sculpted figures, full of character! Congrats!
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Thank you :). I've found information about bohemian burghers' dress from early XVIIth century - they wore hungarian dress, so I'll sculpt or convert a few;p. But I'll need to do a bit more research.
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What you're doing is really tremendous, and, I imagine, totally unique.
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Thank you :).
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W.i.p of my Venetians based on Giacomo Franco's engravings :)
(https://i.postimg.cc/s3V2wvww/IMG-20210113-012406.jpg)
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Well done! Congrats!
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Thank you :), I think (hope) that this is my last warband for the Prague project, still have to finish Dalmatian mercenary for them as well as work on the burghers in hungarian attire.
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You need extra congratulations for the rare historical information you are gathering and for your efforts to sculpt figures as accurate as possible!
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Thank you :), I'm lucky that during XVIth-XVIIth century was the period of extensive publishing of costume books, so those informations are not as rare as they seem :).
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Here's the aformentioned Franco's engraving ca. 1605
(https://i.postimg.cc/zfPxwj0Y/dae-11238466.jpg)
And another by anonymous from late XVIth century
(https://i.postimg.cc/CKKvftC4/5d4e0e82d2f46674f8850f767b058bd8.jpg)
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My Venetian warband is ready :).
(https://i.postimg.cc/8z8VrLXn/IMG-20210116-023140.jpg)
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I am just blown away by your sculpting, Mr. P!
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I am just blown away by your sculpting, Mr. P!
Thank you :). Most of the minis from this project will be used in playtesting your game :), I just need a few more monks for my Prague Uprising of 1611.
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Beggars
(https://i.postimg.cc/xjJCLn0t/IMG-20210124-015414.jpg)
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Very good job on them! Congrats!
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Thank you :), they are based on Jacques Callot's engravings :).
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Next batch of swashbucklers :)
(https://i.postimg.cc/m45s6Ctm/IMG-20210126-225737.jpg)
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Next batch of swashbucklers :)
(https://i.postimg.cc/m45s6Ctm/IMG-20210126-225737.jpg)
Looking good!
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Thank you :).
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You go from strength to strength. Your Prague even has beggars !
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Thank you :), more civilians to come (including burghers, sex workers and priests).
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I'm always following with extreme interest!
With your sculpts you shed light on a somehow unknown period and I congratulate you as you try hard your works here to be historical and well-documented!
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Thank you :), I'm flattered :).
Burghers are ready :).
(https://i.postimg.cc/8zvkf1NW/IMG-20210201-002258.jpg)
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You get so much character on such a small "canvas." Love the burghers' faces.
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Simply wonderful!
Would happily buy all of those if released as a range.
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You get so much character on such a small "canvas." Love the burghers' faces.
Thank you :), I've sculpted face of the one on the right, on the left I've just added pointed beard :).
Simply wonderful!
Would happily buy all of those if released as a range.
Thank you :), these are mostly just very extensive conversions, so I can't sell them. But I'm working on eastern European minis (mostly civilians), which I'll hope to mould in a year or so.
Here're another swashbucklers
(https://i.postimg.cc/B6cgzLjy/kolejni.jpg)
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This time Švejk from "The Good Soldier Švejk" by Jaroslav Hašek in early XVIIth century attire. Montero cap might be a bit of a strech for my project's period, which is set in the first decade of the XVIIth century, while proofs for monteros are from late 1620s, but It suits Svejk well :).
(https://i.postimg.cc/Q83zrP5p/szwejk.jpg)
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Your sculpting quality is upgrading gear! Congrats!
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Thank you :), next will be Franz Kafka :).
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next will be Franz Kafka :).
Well that's a twist I didn't see coming. Your work never ceases to impress!
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It will be a cockroach with a head of Franz (like in the Metamorphosis) ;p.
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If you go with a headless cockroach, you will cross out Kafka's "The Trial" with the very same miniature. ;)
Also, splendid miniatures as always.
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Thank you :). Well, that's a good idea :).
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Some reinforcements for my army of passau
(https://i.postimg.cc/fwQhsZCJ/arkebuzerzy.jpg)
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:o :-* ;D
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Here's almost ready army for 15XX game and my swashbuckling skirmish.
(https://i.postimg.cc/Pdcp4TyY/passau-arke.jpg)
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Small update on my targeteer :).
(https://i.postimg.cc/bzM55vyP/IMG-20210316-012531.jpg)
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Pikeman ready for casting. When I'll get them casted I'll sculpt different helmets (cabasets, morions maybe burgonets).
(https://i.postimg.cc/wqJX04Dw/pikinier.jpg)
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This time Švejk from "The Good Soldier Švejk" by Jaroslav Hašek in early XVIIth century attire. Montero cap might be a bit of a strech for my project's period, which is set in the first decade of the XVIIth century, while proofs for monteros are from late 1620s, but It suits Svejk well :).
(https://i.postimg.cc/Q83zrP5p/szwejk.jpg)
This may be your best sculpt yet! The face is so expressive!
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Thank you :).
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This time I'd like to show you a dolly, which I've just sent to the caster. As soon as I'll get them back I'll start making musketeers and dragoons.
(https://i.postimg.cc/xnqy5mFp/musketeer-dragoon.jpg)
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The Good Soldier Sveik figure is a hoot ! Looks just like a 17th century transformed figure of the WW 1 illustrations from the book ! Bravo !
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Thank you :).
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This one is for my future units of arquebusers, cuirassiers and schwarze reiterei.
(https://i.postimg.cc/TfHYt0Nc/180197693-909155729883494-3450845234458107510-n.jpg)
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amazing work and ideas throughout the thread :-*
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Beautiful work!
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Thank you :).
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Very good sculpt! Cheers!
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Thank you :).
Here's command for the Bishop's of Passau army that took part in the Passauer Kriegsvolk. All based on the contemporary engravings :).
(https://i.postimg.cc/BvcbJ1T9/command.jpg)
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You are making a prolific work, very original sculpts and it is worth of every respect that they are done after historical research!
Cheers!
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Thank you :-* - next: some more beggars and probably nuns.
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You put so much period detail into your tiny sculpts. Wonderful
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Thank you :). Now I'm waiting for the casts of my pikeman, musketeer, rider and horse dollies. Next - more beggars :).
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I hope we see more updates here soon.
I also wish you would update your blog. It is great to see your painted figures.
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Yes :), I'm finishing beggar and still waiting for the casts. In the meanwhile I'm finishing more fantasy stuff for this project.
As for the blog - I think I will make a new one just for wargaming in 1/72 scale.
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Great looking forward to seeing it.
I have always fancied the Red box cossacks. Makes me wonder about doing some vampire hunting but further East.
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Great idea :-*, you 've got vampires in the Orion's Vlad the Impaler set.
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Oh will look out for that!
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Very nifty! :-*
Positively Shakespearean :)
OO/HO Shakespearean, no less!
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My Army of Passau (and possibly Prague Militia) is expanding.
(https://i.postimg.cc/z8QqKhLm/passau-army.jpg)
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Arquebusers ready for some paint :)
(https://i.postimg.cc/RhJG9JJm/226252860-224878932867018-3371383417567595274-n.jpg)
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Staying tuned :)
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:)
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After a long break here's another beggar for my Prague project :).
(https://i.postimg.cc/8cgMhGMr/254159030-1032154507583615-5347806230003824557-n.jpg)
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He's marvellous. So much character.
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Thank you :). Next - sex workers.
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Enough of your private life. lol
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lol lol lol
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Group shot of my beggars with additional new one.
(https://i.postimg.cc/2rMC32Nk/zebracy.jpg)
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Wow, impressive progress!
Dan
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Great work
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The beggars are a wonderful period addition
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Very characterful! Congrats!