ENGLISH LONGBOWMAN, 1415.

PREVIEW EUROMILITAIRE' 014

75mm
Sulpture: Richard Galicek
Box Art: Alexandre Cortina

This is it~! LOVE IT~!

Nice one!

Great piece,..a must have for me.

Very nice.

Fantastic looking figure. Will defiantly be having a close look at this at Euro this weekend especially as I am reading a book about Crecy at the moment.

Well done.

Peter.

Very nice, but sadly enough wrong position of the arrow which should be on the left side of the bow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mediaeval_archery_reenactment.jpg). Could be fixed easily though.

Jhan

Don't follow the box art completely folks the arrows are on the wrong side of the bow they will fly at best 45 degrees to the right if loosed like that.
Worse than a paper cut on the thumb too
But nice sculpting
I like

Really love this figure! The thing that really catches my eye in this figure is a great atmosphere!!!!! I think this kit offers great opportunities for painters...snow and rain effects should look amazing!!!!! Can't wait to Euro militaire!

I like this one.
Pete

Johan and Peedee are quite right, the arrow is in the wrong position. Also ,I would take issue with the type of bow-- it's well re-curved, and would have been better as a more straight limbed yew bow. One could straighten the limbs quite easily,however, to give the bow a more correct "compass". Nice to see our lad is drawing right back to the ear. A lovely sculpt,nontheless, and one for the 600th Anniversary next year.
If you check out The English Warbow Society on Youtube, you will find some interesting shots of heavy warbows being loosed.

Cheers, Alan

Now that is very very nice, I like it a lot , on my must have list
Cheers
Al

Whoops! Just noticed the arrow---flights should be the equivalent of 6-7"inches, and have a longer warhead, more a bodkin. At the moment,it's more a hunting head, effective enough against bare horseflesh, not against an armoured knight. But then, I'm being picky, and there's loads of discussion available on the whys and wherefores of Medieval Archery on the old Internet.

Cheers,again, Alan

The position of the head and arms don't work for me. I am no archer but they just don't look right.....I think it's his head and gaze. I would expect him to be sighting along the arrow rather than looking skyward for heavenly inspiration. Maybe it's the photo or the painting of the eyes....or most likely just me

Nice for those into Agincourt to have a decent scale piece available.

Colin

Great figure, love the recurve longbow, and it is possible with a yew stave, but I've got to say, the arrow is on the wrong side of the bow - an old bugbear of mine.
Best wishes, Gary.

Colin, over on youtube there are a whole lot of sites dealing with all forms of archery, particularly longbow archery. Just key in the name Mike Loades and you'll find all sorts of fascinating stuff about these and all other types of medieval weapons. Anyway the drawweight of those bows was about 180 pounds, that sort of weight , you need some divine inspiration.
Best wishes, Gary.
PS I once tried drawing a mate's 100 pounder longbow, and for all the impression I made on it, the damn thing might as well have been made of cast iron.

He's laying his upper torso into the bow, Gary, known as" shooting in the bow", a technique that modern archers shooting modern archery equipment don't need to do,as the bow draw weights aren't as heavy as the average warbow. Draw weights then were commonly anything from 100lbs to 150/60, something that English Warbow Society archers do on a regular basis. Recurve longbows came in during the Renaissance,as with lighter weights,a recurve could produce almost as much power as a much heavier longbow. That's not to say there weren't any recurves prior to this--witness the Italian Condottiere,who used them to good effect.

Cheers, Alan

Interesting. I actually checked a bunch of photos of archers before I commented, but obviously not the correct bow type. So once again I learn something fom this great site

Colin

Oh, yes, Gary, it's not easy,mate,is it? I've largely given up now, and sold on my bows--both were around 100lb draw weight,and as much as my old bod could manage. The younger guys in the EWBS are absolutely brilliant at what they do,and emulating their forebears proudly. Osteo-arthritis a spondylosis have taken their toll of me,I'm afraid.
Cheers, Alan