Hello fellow Planeteers,
Here is our new figure:

Oda Nobunaga - 1582
Our new figure form our BREASTPLATES, CUIRASSES AND ARMOURS series.

Sculpted by Antonio Zapatero.
Boxart by Mario Ocaña and Miguel Jiménez-Bravo
Material: White Metal
Size 54mm

El Taller - Hobby art
http://www.eltaller-hobbyart.com

I have been waiting patiently for this. I totally love this El Taller masterpiece. I'll probably get two of this. Well done El Taller.

Oda.

Not a criticism of this figure, which is very nice, (apart from the usual horse problem) but does this offer anything we haven't seen before.
In an era with such a wealth of choice in subject matter; why another basic armour type in a jinbaori? How about Ieyasu in his cuirass armour or a bear fur armour, just to stir up interest a little?

David

I like horse painting

Hi Oda,
I'm so glad it was worth the wait and that you liked the figure.

What a boring figure ! Check out the Arsenjev 54mm Samurai on horse (http://ruvit.ru/ru/pages/315/) for comparison: that's the high standard in pose , dynamics ,drama and detail one should aim for. And why again Oda Nobunaga "the butcher" of the Sengoku period ??? I suggest that western sculptors take those Russian master pieces as reference and, voila, the issue of such uninspired figures is resolved.

Hi Nap,
Thank you very much for your comment. It is an honour for me to count, in every figure, on your kindness.

Riveteer said:
Not a criticism of this figure, which is very nice, (apart from the usual horse problem) but does this offer anything we haven't seen before.
In an era with such a wealth of choice in subject matter; why another basic armour type in a jinbaori? How about Ieyasu in his cuirass armour or a bear fur armour, just to stir up interest a little?

Thank you very much for your comment.

Hi Pabloscobar,
Thank you very much. I'm glad you like it. I have been painting horses for many years now.

Lovely piece, well painted.
Glad it's not 90mm (my preferred scale) as my grey army is already too large.

Bill

karlw said:
What a boring figure ! Check out the Arsenjev 54mm Samurai on horse (http://ruvit.ru/ru/pages/315/) for comparison: that's the high standard in pose , dynamics ,drama and detail one should aim for. And why again Oda Nobunaga "the butcher" of the Sengoku period ??? I suggest that western sculptors take those Russian master pieces as reference and, voila, the issue of such uninspired figures is resolved.


Three observations to your kind comment:
For an expert collector like you, it is ridiculous to compare the Russian Vityaz Studio with any other brand.
I am very sorry that you find the figure boring, I assure you that was not my intention, and lastly, do you have a personal problem with Oda Nobunaga?

Of course taste is personal and each is entitled to his opinion,no problem with that,so I will just make a comment on the actual historical personality.Oda Nobunaga has indeed earned a reputation for being a brutal person.Probably justly too.But he was a violent man in a violent,turbulent age.His successor Toyotomi Hideyoshi almost obliterated the entire Korean peninsula in hs Imjin War and the man who succeeded him,Tokugawa Ieyasu,is the man responsible for the destruction of Osaka in 1615,the closest thing to the destruction of Magdemburg in Japanese history,where more than twenty thousand civilians were either killed or displaced.What I am trying to say is that there were many butchers in Sengoku and Momoyama Japan (by modern standards at least).The topic has been brought up many times here on PF.We are into historical modeling,we deal with historical personalities who killed people either by profession,habit or both.If we start applying moral criteria on figures we would probably end up painting multiple versions of Mother Theresa and the Dalai Lama.

Oda.