Gladiators Diorama 54mm + Gladiator 75mm

[Prof.Witchheimer]

found again some eye candy on diorama.ru  

Stunning painting work by Ruslan Vorobyev.

more pics - http://www.diorama.ru/gallery/dioramas/1716/

[OSHIROmodels]

Wow, those shields are a bit good 

The difference between wargaming figures and diorama figures always intrigues me (painting style in paticular) 

cheers

James

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Me too. I have a hell of respect for the guys making such fine stuff, I never brought myself to do something like this though actually it’s something I’d like to do. No idea, for some reason the idea of spending such lot of time for 2-3 figures goes against my grain while I know that in the same time I could paint two dozens of 28mm stuff.

[carlos marighela]

Incredible. The shields alone are miniature works of art.

Bet you his wife will be cross when she looks through the bedside drawers and realises where he got the obelisk from.

[Plynkes]

Naughty Carlos! Go to your room.  


Those shields are amazing. Less immediately spectacular, but still damn impressive in a subtle kind of way is the flesh and the metal, I think.

[Paul]

 
Incredible!!! I really like everything about this but that shiled is 

[Prof.Witchheimer]

More from Ruslan:

75mm Gladiator

[Paul]

 
That is artwork!!! if this was blended into a background it would be near impossible to tell that it´s not a real person

[Ray Rivers]

Fantastic work, all around!

Glad I'm not that good a painter... 

[Blue in vt]

Bet you his wife will be cross when she looks through the bedside drawers and realises where he got the obelisk from.

    Thats Awesome...thanks for brightening my morning.

Something about the Diorama rubs me wrong...the shields are AMAZING...but something leaves me flat...maybe its the skin tone? not sure.

The 75mm piece on the other hand is mind-blowingly-awesome....really looks like a live person.  Awesome....did I say that already? 

Cheers,

Blue

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Something about the Diorama rubs me wrong...the shields are AMAZING...but something leaves me flat...maybe its the skin tone? not sure.

Absence of decent backdrop (arena, spectators) maybe? I don't like that blue wool-whatever backdrop.

[Mad Doc Morris]

Not to take away from these masterpieces (admired them before somewhere else), but if you are at that level of painting 3D models it's quite easy to do 2D painting on flat surfaces. After all, model painting techniques are just imitations of the old masters. The designs here are - for the most part - taken from actual Roman pictures, so no creativity issue as well.

That said, mastery lies in the painter's dedication to subject and models alike. They are just spectacular to look at (if the photos are not that good).

Final note: The column is just wrong. Such things were turning markers in the circus - even if Ridley Scott envisioned them as part of the Colosseum.

[OSHIROmodels]

Something about the Diorama rubs me wrong...the shields are AMAZING...but something leaves me flat...maybe its the skin tone? not sure.

No blood 

cheers

James

[Prof.Witchheimer]

if you are at that level of painting 3D models it's quite easy to do 2D painting on flat surfaces.

Not quite agree. Maybe it's just a matter of loads of patience and time but that sort of painting on such small sufraces is in my experience still very hard. Either you've got talent for free hand painting/drawing or not. I never managed to paint something like that. Though surely I'm not at that level of painting at all.

Final note: The column is just wrong. Such things were turning markers in the circus - even if Ridley Scott envisoned them as part of the Colosseum.

Just realised, I was so busy drooling over the gladiators and completely missed to get a conscious view of the column Looks ridiculous, indeed.

Anyway, a nice show.

[Ray Rivers]

Have no idea whether the column is based in history, but having just watched (yet again) the movie "Gladiator," I can say they were fixed features in the Colosseum of Rome as depicted in that movie.

Great movie...