Ciao,
It is slowly coming to the end , just the last touches and for my taste it will be ok. painted with oils . 90 mm .

little historical introduction : the Cimbri were with the Teutones a mix of german and celtic people from northern Europe who suddenly in the 112 B.C. migrated trough the Gaul and after several victories over the romans they were finally defeated by Marius at Aquae Sextiae in 101 B.C. Plutarch in his " Fall of the roman republic " describes Cimbrian cavarly at Vercellae as wearing helmets like the gape -jawed heads of terrible beasts.. the helmet of the figure is from the burial of Ciumesti in Romania it has a raven crest with mobile wings that would flap when the warrior is in violent motion, we can see this type of helmets also in the Gundestrup cauldron .
Not far from my town near Asiago village and in the Cansiglio there are still the Cimbri ..( the great-great-grandson obviously ) probably some of them after the defeat of Aquae Sextiae settled in these pacific hills and nowadays they are called Cimbri and their own dialect has a lot of very ancient germanic words .


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sorry for the terrible pics as usual they really destroy the figure but with my gear i can't do better ..

any comments welcome and thank you for looking

stefano

Bro that is awesome!!! THe horse looks like it has real hair!! Great effect!

Stefano, my man my man. I have been wondering what was going on with this project and now you spring this beauty on us. What a fab piece of painting you have done. I really love the horse he is fantastic. The guy is really great also not to mention the details on the sheild. In this setting your ferns work perfectly. I give you a sincere compliment that this is awesome.

Hi! stefano.
Your work is Great work.
The facial expression and the design of the clothes are also very wonderful.
I liked reproduction of hair of a horse very much in particular.

Mitsutaka

Hi Stefano,

I think this is beautful. You've done a tremendous job on the horse and rider, and the horse hair looks very nice, although the hair on the horses neck should run with the shape of the neck, rather than straight up and down. The shield and metallics are outstanding

Beautifull work, i especially like the horse!

Mark

Hi Stefano,

absoluting fantastic
Everything are fabulous, but the horse is incredible

Looks very nice,I like the painting of the horse.What is the scale?

Bravo!!!!!


Davide

Stefano, Superb painting, great choice of colours for the shield and pants and what more can be said about the horse...amazing.

Cheers Ken

Superb old friend.Thanks for posting.

Wonderful piece and great horse.
Cheers
John

Well done Stefano.

Oh Stephano:

Oh my yes, I do remember this equestrian figure you were working on. I had
commented about how much I like the horizontal greenish stripes on his
"pants".

What you have done here is just remarkable. You have a very interesting
palette, your choice of colours and shades, tones, are slightly different
than what we usually see here on PF. And I see that as a big positive. It is
like this kind of colouration is your signature, that when people see one of
your presentations, they immediately realize it is YOUR WORK.

I also see that as a positive. A very distinctive way of painting. I just love
it. That horse and the way you delineated it is wonderful. Congratulations
on a superb presentation. Wow. . . .

Jayhawker

Excellent paintwork on the horse and the rider.

Marc

JASON * MIKE * MITSUTAKA * MARK * PEDRO * CARL * KEN * ROB * JOHN * CHRISTOS * MARC * thank you very very mutch my friends for your nice words , i really appreciate your feedbacks and for me is a stimulus for this great hobby ( hobby .. ? i think is a reduction is more than a hobby is a passion ) of painting figures

cheers to all

stefano

Hey Tony, thank you very mutch for your comment, i am glad you like my job.
When i was painting each hair of the horse neck i was thinking that something didn't work.. your point about it suddenly discovered what i didn't realize but i have as a inkling
now i will correct the hair in the more right direction spending a lot of hours ...sigh . So thank you for your attention my friend

cheers

stefano

Hi Christos thank you for your kind words , the figure is in 90 mm , it is a very old kit from Decima successivelly distributed from Il Feudo

cheers

stefano

Thank you Davide, i'm proud you like my job beeing you one of the best horse figures painter for my opinion

cheers

stefano