Together with my most recent order to Gripping Beast - figures for the Early Saxon Hearthguard - I also ordered the final outstanding pack of Early Saxon Characters. While two figures from the pack have joined the finished unit of Hearthguard, which are still awaiting shield transfers from LBMS/Victrix, this third figure will function as a Champion or as a minor Warband command base. Again, like the recent 1st Corps Young Warriors, the pose is very static considering the context, though the actual sculpting is fine. It's obviously an aged figure, I can't help but think a contemporary version would have far more motion/life in its composition. I have tried to suggest a dragon/serpent tattoo on his face, not very successfully really. Here he is anyway, make of him what you will ~
For now at least the Age of Arthur project has reached a natural pause, in that I have no more figures in the Lead Pimple for further additions. In this instance going forward to dice with the Brush of Doom will be some figures for my small Darkest Africa collection in the shape of five female archers {from Copplestone Castings via North Star} destined to join the Maiden Guard of King Bykalaizii m'Tuubi, erstwhile ruler of the P'Doki, an almost mythical fierce warrior tribe inhabiting the little known, and now forgotten even by stamp collectors, British Colony of South Central East Africa.
Jolly fine! The addition of the tattoo makes him look more fearsome than his pose suggests.
ReplyDeleteThanks Phil! You are right about the pose too!
DeleteNice work David , I rather like the older GB figures
ReplyDeleteThey paint up well enough but are of their era for details and animation.
DeleteNicely done, he has turned out really well.
ReplyDeleteThanks Donnie. He will have to do anyhow.
DeleteA useful addition. Whether or not you buy more figures for this period emptying the pile of unpainted figures for a period is oddly satisfying. Enjoy the pause even if later you plunge back in. For me, I'm closing in on the halfway point of a side project which will see one side completed. I probably should then plunge straight in to painting the otherside but may branch off to paint a few unrelated figures giving me a brief pause too.
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Best of luck Stephen whichever way the muse takes you. It's Natives and Ruga-Ruga for Darkest Africa here now, at least until Partizan is done with.
DeleteWhilst he may not be dynamic pose wise compared to today's sculpts, he still looks good. The stamp collector reference made me chuckle!
ReplyDeleteThank you SteveJ, pleased to have raised a chuckle!
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