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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: Ratnik on 14 September 2012, 08:20:55 PM
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(http://s59.radikal.ru/i166/1209/7e/da2762a17d8b.jpg)
(http://s018.radikal.ru/i516/1209/d0/36a0a1a97fc6.jpg)
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NICE! :D
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Lovely!!
You must drink a lot of soda!!! ;)
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Brilliant work, love 'em :-*
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Do you ever sleep? :P
Fantastic work, as always :)
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Do you ever sleep? :P
sometimes... :)
but if not - i'm making this:
(http://kromlech.eu/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/KRCB050Punk-Orcs21.jpg)
http://forums.warforge.ru/index.php?showtopic=139746 (http://forums.warforge.ru/index.php?showtopic=139746)
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I have no use for them game-wise...but I'd sure love to paint them! Beautiful sculpts! :)
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Love 'em! The puffy-slashy army looks to be progressing wonderfully!
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Have no earthly use for them but I want 'em nonetheless. Most excellent.
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NICE! :D
+1
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You are very talented man!
They look wonderful!
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You go from one triumph to another. Given what you've done with the artillery, I look forward to seeing what you'll do with the shields. More Renaissance marvel!
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oooooh :-* I was waiting for them.
Love 'em Ratnik! Really beautiful! My favourite is second from left: splendid pose! As said before, I really need them for my warband! Gotta catch 'em all! :P
I'm curious to see shields. Clever idea to separate them and figures. I hate painting with a shield covering details.
Are you planning some charachters, something like W Tell and Hugo the bull-eye? It would be FANTASTIC. :P
ps: very nice orcs heads too...but now: go back on the reinassance workbench! lol
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Yeaaaa! Keep it up, Mr. R!
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:-* :o :-* o_o
Blue
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Oh my! These are some of the best yet! :-*
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(http://s002.radikal.ru/i197/1209/ca/8e97c05ec772.jpg)
(http://s45.radikal.ru/i109/1209/88/467fc8f1101b.jpg)
(http://i056.radikal.ru/1209/05/195a40a6e918.jpg)
(http://s017.radikal.ru/i441/1209/84/0ff9897dff2d.jpg)
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:o please stop it I'm going bankrupt. :-* :-*
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Yeah, bucklers!! :-*
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Excellent work :-* My paintbrush wants to make love to these lol
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Excellent work :-* My paintbrush wants to make love to these lol
Eurgh... :-X
Great sculpting as usual.
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Yea! Very nice.
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impressive! So many of those, i would love to see them painted from some of the tops in LAF! ;)
(btw, some of the swords look quite like icecream sticks... or it's just me? :) )
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(btw, some of the swords look quite like icecream sticks... or it's just me? :) )
no, that's correct, some of them were looking like sticks indeed:
(http://www.schmiedeteufel.de/shop/artikel/katz3.jpg)
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They shure used to eat huge icicles!
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no, that's correct, some of them were looking like sticks indeed:
(http://www.schmiedeteufel.de/shop/artikel/katz3.jpg)
Would it be more likely to have a pointed end (I guess this is a replica) as otherwise it would only be any good as a slashing weapon rather than a stabbing weapon
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Would it be more likely to have a pointed end (I guess this is a replica) as otherwise it would only be any good as a slashing weapon rather than a stabbing weapon
Sure, it's a replica. Katzbalger (landsknecht short sword) was often rounded at the tip and it was best suited for hacking and slashing than stabbing.
(http://www.st-max.org/images/woodcuts/Fechtschule-Katzbalger.gif)
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Sure, it's a replica. Katzbalger (landsknecht short sword) was often rounded at the tip and it was best suited for hacking and slashing than stabbing.
(http://www.st-max.org/images/woodcuts/Fechtschule-Katzbalger.gif)
Interesting, I have only ever looked at sword and buckler men from a spanish perspective with toledo blades used much like a gladius :D
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These are fantastic sculpts and will be joining my mercenary band (along with the fantastic artillery) just as soon as payday rolls around :D
The Katzbalger, in battle, was used as a close in-fighting weapon secondary to the Landsknechts' main armament, i.e. Pike or arquebus. Particularly when it came to a pike push and the crush of the melee made the pikes useless.
I suspect most of the time the soldiers used them for personal protection and score-settling in the camp, durng a life that was often brutal and short.
It was deliberately modelled on the Gladius and was usually around 18" long
The swords on these marvellous models look a bit bigger to me(?) although clearly not a 'zweihaender' they seem to be carrying shields or bucklers.
The shield bearers in the triumph of Maximilian are carrying swords more like a cross between broadswords and rapiers, and carry slightly smaller bucklers.
You can see it all here:
http://www-classic.uni-graz.at/ubwww/sosa/druckschriften/triumphzug/ (http://www-classic.uni-graz.at/ubwww/sosa/druckschriften/triumphzug/)
In my version of this alternative Renaissance universe they will probably be part of a Generalissimo's bodyguard.
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