Knights weren´t Born knowing how to fight and had to be trained in the finer arts of disabling an Opponent. A set of Trainees and Trainers sculpted by
Alex and produced by
Valdemar.
The whole set.
Young sirs practising. I painted the swords up as wooden ones.
The lower orders practised archery.
Sword master. Hs Sword appears a bit bent but that´s due to the Picture. The stick is for administering "correctional advice"
A featrure or modern medieval fairs, Knock your Opponent of the log. I reckon the Clubs are leather bags filled with sawdust.
With this lot, my medieval civilian collection has topped the 200 mark..203 to be exact.
112 Adult Males, from that 16 Monks/priests and one Bishop
53 Adult Females.
38 Children, from babes in arms to "Teens"
I could add another 80 plus, but 20 or so are based in dios or they are town guard types or taking part in the Military convoy so not strictly civilians.
Good job, the young people will become fierce fighters!
ReplyDeleteOutstanding modelling.
ReplyDeleteJust lovely Paul.
ReplyDeleteGreat work, Paul. You don't often think about the hours and hours of endurance training and muscle memory that would go into premodern weapons training, at least, I don't until I see this blog post, or read Game of Thrones. Bravo.
ReplyDeleteGreat set, museum quality! Excellent work from Alex and you Paul! Time for a big family picture!
ReplyDeleteGreetings
Peter
I might just make a "Family" pic....but getting all in one shot?
DeletePut them all together and then you go on a chair and make that picture! :-)
DeleteGreetings
Peter
agree with Peter ! a family picture, we want, all in one ring ... my precioussss....
ReplyDeleteGreat work, of course !
ReplyDelete203 bods? Next post should be a photo with the whole lot. Pleeease. .. terrific work Paul. :-)
ReplyDeleteHola
ReplyDeleteQue buenas
Sobre todo me gusta el del maestro con el alumno,una gran figura
un saludo
We used to do fighting on a log when I was a boy scout in the early 1960's. The weapons were quarter staffs with boxing gloves on the end.
ReplyDeleteThan there was quarter staff fighting without boxing gloves. Image that being allowed today!