Medieval beggars

[Vladimir Raukov]

Ah! You're thinking of ultramarine blue -- made by crushing dark blue lapis lazuli gemstones.

The egyptians worked out how to make a cheaper version using crushed blue glass, but apparently that recipe was lost and people went back to the gems.

Ah! That's what I was thinking of. Thanks for clearing that up.

Wasn't woad being used for blue dye in the medieval period ?

Yep, we covered that earlier via the links.

[Paul]

Fantastic paint job! They're fantastically dirty and well suited for their job.

Just one minor complaint (and I kind of feel like a jerk pointing out something that you've probably already been told) but blue was an incredibly expensive colour to make for clothes, so only the wealthy could afford it. The beggar on the left must have done something fantastic to earn or hold onto such a piece. Maybe he just stole it. Other than that, they're fantastic.

No Problem Vladimir 
I had a similar question about a choice of colour used about 2 years ago(in fact, the 25th of jan 2012  )
That time it was light purple on a lower orders fig, a maid.  Before I used it I checked up as much as I could (I remembered that the romans found making purple highly expensive so only well off People had it)  and found that the common folk in medieval times wore some quite bright colours, well, until the dyes faded and they would get a lot of "hand-me-down" clothes from thier more well off Counterparts. So the maid could have been a favourite of her employer and got the faded Dress as a "hand-me-down" (that´s my excuse    and I like the idea he could have stolen it as well )

[Bloggard]

brilliantly well done, and the figures, as others have commentated are superb in themselves.

also, re: blue, I'm one that always wants to keep the 'toy' aspect uppermost in this 'gaming' hobby of ours, and really wouldn't worry about 'correct' shades of blue, in this context certainly, let alone others.