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Offline Blue in vt

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Re: Wilhelm von Tell and his crossbowmen
« Reply #30 on: 14 March 2012, 05:08:07 PM »
Man I love them all...but the Sergeant is truly mind blowing...well done!

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Offline Laflin and Rand

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Re: Wilhelm von Tell and his crossbowmen
« Reply #31 on: 14 March 2012, 05:38:37 PM »
Sweet Jeebus! Those are awesome!

Offline Admiral Benbow

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Re: Wilhelm von Tell and his crossbowmen
« Reply #32 on: 14 March 2012, 06:24:45 PM »
Beautiful, you are the Durer of sculpting ;)

There is nothing more to say.
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Offline Hendrid

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Re: Wilhelm von Tell and his crossbowmen
« Reply #33 on: 14 March 2012, 06:31:46 PM »
Second all the previous comments, best work to date. Nice!

Offline Ratnik

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Re: Wilhelm von Tell and his crossbowmen
« Reply #34 on: 14 March 2012, 07:30:50 PM »
I just wish someone would do something similar for an 'Italian' style setting for the same era.
any ideas? :)

Offline mweaver

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Re: Wilhelm von Tell and his crossbowmen
« Reply #35 on: 14 March 2012, 09:21:37 PM »
Those figures are absolutely gorgeous.

Offline Arlequín

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Re: Wilhelm von Tell and his crossbowmen
« Reply #36 on: 14 March 2012, 10:03:31 PM »
any ideas? :)

Well I will try not to bombard you with them but....

They would need to match in to the vague time period of the other Bruegelburg figures, so 1490 - 1520 time period. In my head I'm seeing a town the opposite of Bruegelburg, a place where art and science have taken precedence over religion and magic. The clothing is less 'German' and tighter fitting. Match that with the character you put into your sculpts and they should be awesome.



Fashionably dressed young duellists as in Romeo, Tybalt, Mercutio et al from Romeo and Juliet.





The Borgia family perhaps?





or the Tudors



Street performers, prostitutes, assassins, thieves and Street thugs. The Assassins Creed II and AC Brotherhood computer games are packed with inspiration too.

In essence, all that you've done with the Bruegelburg range, but different.  ;)

You could call it Città da Vinci, or Castello Michaelangelo, or something...  :?

Offline elysium64

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Re: Wilhelm von Tell and his crossbowmen
« Reply #37 on: 15 March 2012, 03:33:17 AM »
Absolutely love these figures, Love all the Bruegelburg figures, but still working my way through Igor's STALKER figures, so haven't got around to getting any of these yet, but with each new release it gets harder to resist and more expensive to start collecting lol

Offline airbornegrove26

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Re: Wilhelm von Tell and his crossbowmen
« Reply #38 on: 15 March 2012, 12:58:16 PM »
All I know is that at some point we need some rough hard looking knights.

Offline Blue in vt

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Re: Wilhelm von Tell and his crossbowmen
« Reply #39 on: 15 March 2012, 01:31:30 PM »
SSshhh...quiet you guys...don't distract him from the task at hand...more puff and slash goodness...we still need hand gunners and pikemen, at least,  before I'm ready to move on.

Blue

Offline white knight

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Re: Wilhelm von Tell and his crossbowmen
« Reply #40 on: 15 March 2012, 04:54:43 PM »
Sheer brilliance. I know it doesn't add anything to what has been said before, but it's true.

Offline Arlequín

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Re: Wilhelm von Tell and his crossbowmen
« Reply #41 on: 15 March 2012, 05:01:24 PM »
SSshhh...quiet you guys...don't distract him from the task at hand...more puff and slash goodness...we still need hand gunners and pikemen, at least,  before I'm ready to move on.

Blue

They'd stand in for exceptionally well dressed Bruegelburgers... someone has to pay their wages after all. However we do need this 'Ratniked':


Offline Ratnik

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Re: Wilhelm von Tell and his crossbowmen
« Reply #42 on: 15 March 2012, 05:20:22 PM »
be patient...

Offline fastolfrus

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Re: Wilhelm von Tell and his crossbowmen
« Reply #43 on: 15 March 2012, 08:46:58 PM »
Some of these are skinny, but actually by Bruegel:

Massacre of the Innocents (lots of troops)
Census at Bethlehem (only a few pikemen in the centre background)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder


But if you are going Italian, I'd look at the Borgias, but probably not the recent version, the 1981 version was heavily criticised but I thought Adolfo Celi made a great pope:
http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/borgias2.jpg

« Last Edit: 15 March 2012, 08:51:09 PM by fastolfrus »
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Offline meninobesta

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Re: Wilhelm von Tell and his crossbowmen
« Reply #44 on: 15 March 2012, 09:02:50 PM »
However we do need this 'Ratniked':



and his 2 friends.... specially his 2 friends :)
Cheers,
Pedro

 

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