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Miniatures Adventure => Age of the Big Battalions => Topic started by: Annie on 06 February 2016, 12:29:24 PM

Title: Catherine the Great - coming soon.
Post by: Annie on 06 February 2016, 12:29:24 PM: I thought I'd deviate from my usual shieldmaidens and celts with "Something completely different". So amongst my growing ranges of female figures, I am occasionally dropping in the odd "Historical Female Characters", as a treat really. So this was my Christmas present to myself (and available for you to buy from next week!), Catherine the Great herself.

I can't wait to see her painted up.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cah_qa8XIAEqC-4.jpg)

Cheers
Annie
The Dice Bag Lady
Bad Squiddo Games
Title: Re: Catherine the Great - coming soon.
Post by: Bindonblood on 06 February 2016, 01:00:34 PM: Very nice. I think I'll try and pick her up.

Oh, that doesn't sound quite how I meant it to... ::)
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Post by: commissarmoody on 06 February 2016, 02:56:19 PM: Pretty cool, looking forward to seeing her painted up.
Title: Re: Catherine the Great - coming soon.
Post by: OSHIROmodels on 06 February 2016, 03:14:25 PM: Lovely sculpt :)

cheers

James
Title: Re: Catherine the Great - coming soon.
Post by: General Lee on 06 February 2016, 04:07:42 PM: Very cool Annie. What about pocahontas? ::)
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Post by: Emir of Askaristan on 06 February 2016, 04:18:04 PM: An excellent figure and a somewhat different choice too!

I'll be having one !
Title: Re: Catherine the Great - coming soon.
Post by: MaleGriffin on 06 February 2016, 08:24:16 PM: SWEET! :-* :o ;D

Who made the sculpt?

I don't even have Russians from the period and I'm gonna get her!
Title: Re: Catherine the Great - coming soon.
Post by: von Lucky on 06 February 2016, 10:28:28 PM: Alan really has a great sculpting style for this period.
Title: Re: Catherine the Great - coming soon.
Post by: Annie on 08 February 2016, 10:15:37 AM: Thanks all, the sculptor is Alan Marsh, he's brilliant. I used him for this as he seemed the perfect guy for the job, and was so impressed he's gone straight onto my regular team of sculptors with a big long list of models to work on :D He's also sculpted a new shieldmaiden champion, and is working on 23 sculpts for my Salute release (still a secret!)

Thanks for the kind words, I was a bit petrified posting in "these parts" as I haven't been here before ;) so really glad you like her! I had the inked master cast at Vapnartak yesterday and she got a load of attention too!

Annie
Title: Re: Catherine the Great - coming soon.
Post by: carlos marighela on 08 February 2016, 12:32:33 PM: Very nice Alan is a brilliant sculptor. Would love to see a Maria Quitéria figure.
Title: Re: Catherine the Great - coming soon.
Post by: Grimjack on 08 February 2016, 01:35:38 PM: I think that's a great miniature, someone should write an article about her for the world's foremost tabletop gaming magazine....
Title: Re: Catherine the Great - coming soon.
Post by: Michi on 08 February 2016, 01:50:47 PM: Quote from: Annie on 06 February 2016, 12:29:24 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cah_qa8XIAEqC-4.jpg)

Very matching sculpt! I´d buy her...
(http://www.billerantik.de/gallery2/main.php/d/83614-1/138_R.jpg)
Title: Re: Catherine the Great - coming soon.
Post by: commissarmoody on 09 February 2016, 01:46:04 AM: Quote from: carlos marighela on 08 February 2016, 12:32:33 PM
Very nice Alan is a brilliant sculptor. Would love to see a Maria Quitéria figure.
I have never heard about her, I will have to look her up.
Title: Re: Catherine the Great - coming soon.
Post by: WillieB on 09 February 2016, 09:12:12 AM: Great looking figure again Annie!

Possible additions to your growing range of (warrior) ladies:
Queen Zenobia of Palmyra
and especially Queen Dahlia /Khamina of the Berbers.

Scatach, Cuchulain's mentor and perhaps Aife, his lover, too.

Meabh, Queen of Ulster,

Muirisc Irish pirate 'queen" of the 6th C.
Title: Re: Catherine the Great - coming soon.
Post by: Adam on 09 February 2016, 12:48:03 PM: There's also Emilia Plater if you're after horse and musket era heroines

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Emila_Plater_conducting_Polish_scythemen_in_1831.jpg)
Title: Re: Catherine the Great - coming soon.
Post by: FierceKitty on 10 February 2016, 08:56:14 AM: Impressive woman; I'd have liked to know her myself (biblically and otherwise).
Title: Re: Catherine the Great - coming soon.
Post by: Annie on 27 February 2016, 05:53:18 PM: She's available now

http://thedicebaglady.net/bad-squiddo-games-catherine-the-great-mounted/

John at Mystic Spirals is currently toiling away on a cracking paint job for her too :)

Cheers!
Annie
Title: Re: Catherine the Great - coming soon.
Post by: julesav on 28 February 2016, 12:48:36 PM: Ok I just have to mention the ever so slightly Freudian title of this thread although it is allegedly apt given the lady in question! Sorry! I'll get my coat now!
Title: Re: Catherine the Great - coming soon.
Post by: FierceKitty on 28 February 2016, 01:22:43 PM: Lakshmibai, Mother Ross, Cleopatra, the Trung sisters, and Tomoe Gozen all leap to my mind.
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Post by: armchairgeneral on 28 February 2016, 03:42:55 PM: Sichelgaita would be an interesting subject for a sculp. She fought side by side with her husband the Norman Duke Robert Guiscard, saving the day at the battle of Durazzo against the Byzantines.

She would make an interesting Saga Warlady :)