ALTORES Medieval Footman 1:10 scale

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Sven

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Dear Planeteers,
this is the current project on my workbench: the well-known Medieval Footman from ALTORES in 1:10 scale. There are many great versions of this bust out there. This is what I have so far. Face and helmet are not completely done yet but a start has been made!
Hope you like it and please feel free to comment and to make suggestions.
Happy benchtime from Germany
Sven
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Hi Sven

Nice to see you working on this and it's lookng good

Interesting the way you've done the helmet do share how ?

Look forward to more updates

Happy benchtime

Nap
 
Thank you much, guys.

The helmet was not complicated at all - and much faster to paint than the face. I started with a brownish base tone and then applied several layers of different metal colors from the SCALECOLOR steel series (lighter at the top and darker at the base). After that, a black and a light brown wash followed by some pure black details in the darkest shadows. Then the fun part: stippling with a tiny sponge in different rust tones. I finished with some metal details both with a sponge and the brush. I used acrylic and enamel paints.

Sven
 
Nice work. The helmet is great!

I would suggest to tune the eyes a bit, to make them look at something on ground level. He is now looking up and combined with the shouting mouth this suggests he stepped on something painful.
I think you can change the look by painting over the round bottom of the iris with iris colour. Perhaps not the clearest description ever...hope you know what I mean.

Adrian
 
Hi Ferris,
many thanks for your comments. I will continue to play a little with his face and the direction of his eyes, as you suggested. His left arm is slightly raised, pointing at something above him. Due to the cast and the size of the figure, however, the eyes are hardly visible without maginifcation glasses. I have a free weekend ahead of me and come back next week... :)
 
Great work on the hood it looks perfectly worn in, and the start of the pattern is looking very good.

Gary
 
Even more progress...
I have completed (more or less) the tunic and his chainmail. I should be about half way through by now and I have to say this is a fantastic bust. Such a clever composition of suberb quality. No wonder this bust is so popular.

Sven
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Hi Sven

I like that hood and the pattern design you've chosen

He is lookng great and as you said a great piece

Thanks for sharing

Happy benchtime

Nap
 
Great job so far Sven. Does the heraldry relate to anything specific? This is a great bust from Altores, lovely character in the face and great detail/texture in the moulding. Looking forward to seeing more.

Neal
 
Nice job.

Ref Neal's query:
Does the heraldry relate to anything specific?

Sven: I don't know whether you just came up with the scheme or found a reference?

It's not easy to see whether it's red chevrons (technically chevronells) on white (argent, three chevronells gules) or white on red (gules, three chevronells argent) but either way, I had a quick looksee at the minefield that is online genealogy and heraldry and came up with some interesting possibilities (and many highly dubious ones).

However, one must forget the idea that a particular blazon was unique to one family... or that all of a family wore the same arms (especially as the various branches multiplied). To illustrate this, here are some examples:

Amongst the best is the French de Plessis family (from a branch of ... as per today's South African rugby players)... this is Cardinal Richelieu's:
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The C14th Surrey/Willement Rolls offer various versions, including de Langeton (differenced with a blue label: both original and cleaned up versions are shown) , Baude (white on red), and Sakevill (differenced by a field of ermine).
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(cleaned up version here:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/..._(aka_Willement's_Roll)_-_Shields_218-265.jpg)

Other sources include de Watevile (note the differences), Barringtone and de Vere (from the C14th Parliamentary Roll) https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:The_Parliamentary_Roll:
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And from Ireland, France and Germany and Belgium (Flemish): Bladen, de Bassompierre and the town of Menin (Menyn):
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Here are some more (some with a gold/or .. ie yellow field) from a French book of arms (I think the Egmond one with multiple chevrons is 'chevronelly of five argent (or?) and gules'):
http://www2.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/archim/0008/dafanch06_a103502n00001_2.htm
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However, my favourite (for the irony of the name) is the Anglo/Scottish Meek family:
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So... you pays yer money and takes yer choice :)
 
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