Wednesday 26 September 2012

Medieval Travellers, Wanderers, Pilgrims

As the titel says, these are medieval travellers.
The whole set together,,,except that there´s a dog that comes with them, but he, Beisser, has been used as a companion to Klynt von Osterholz
Vladimir to the left and Estragon to the right (from the "Waiting for Godot" post) and an "overheated" priest.
A member of the Bennos forum, Suso. The dog, beisser, is a copy of his own dog and the pair should really belong together..maybe Klynt will decide he works better alone at some point so master and hound can be re-united.
The child is an addition from the children at play set with his father
Three weighed down travellers. The one in the middle would make a  trader taking his wares to market, the one to the right is definately a mercenary type, he carries a sword, shield, helmet and crossbow.

The mercenary. I`ve experimented a bit by giving him a bit of a long term not shaved look.

As ever with Alex´s sculpts, the detail is exemplary. Suso carries not only a bow and quiver, but some rope, two knives and an axe handel..and  details, like on the rucksack  are recreated in such perfection it makes painting these bods a joy.

18 comments:

  1. Fantastic work as always, Paul. Great seeing these unique characters. Best, Dean

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  2. Nothing to say, just fantastic! These characters live bravo.

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  3. YES! It took some time, but it was definitely worth the wait! Great work on me and my companions! :-D

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    1. He does remind me of someone...now who could that possibly be??? :-D

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  4. Quite beautiful work and figures, I feel their tiredness!

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  5. nice work paul, I must be dreaming because did you just say that Benno's forum members are getting painted in miniature! WOW. lets see 1/72 scale paul.

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    1. Here is my version of Paul! :-D
      http://gataskog.blogspot.se/2012/08/party-in-woods-finished.html

      And another pic (and one of me and my dog too, but not as good as Paul's!)
      http://gataskog.blogspot.se/2012/03/magic-lutes-dancing-troupe-and-little.html

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    2. I remember those.
      @Gowan...as far as I know, three Bennos people have been made into sculpts, Me, Gunnar and Michel. I still haven´t painted the Michel bod up yet.

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    3. But is Michel for sale? I thought that those renaissance fellows only were sculpted.

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  6. Fun stuff! the kid wearing the helmet is a nice touch

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  7. These are absolutely exquisite Paul, the detail is just amazing.

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  8. Great stuff, full of character. I love the bases, they look like cut from peat, which makes me imagine the travellers wandering through a swamp on a hot summer day. And Cheers :) !

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  9. Some great poses in this collection.

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  10. You've gone and done it again! Very very nice. 1st time though that I've seen figures based on goose pate!

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    1. Thanks Jay.
      The goose Pate is good...if they loose they get eaten!

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  11. Lovely work Paul. I wonder if they are telling stories to each other along the way, like in Chaucer?

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