Stephen Báthory (Hungarian: Báthory István, Lithuanian: Steponas Batoras, Romanian: Ştefan Báthory, Polish: Stefan Batory, Russian: Стефан Баторий) (27 September 1533 – 12 December 1586) was a Hungarian noble Prince of Transylvania (1571-1586), then King consort of Poland (1576-1586) and Duke consort of Lithuania (1576-1586) to Anna Jagiellon. He was a member of the Somlyo branch of the noble Hungarian Báthory family. Many historians consider him to be one of the greatest of the elected Kings of Poland.


Thanks go to Tomek W. and Maciek P. for inspiration and discusion

I would like to present my uncompleted bust.

There is still at least 40% of work to do.

My inspiration, one of Matejko paintings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Pskov)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jan_Matejko-Batory_pod_Pskowem.jpg



Hope you will like it! Regards, Piotr

Hi Piotr,

Great work so far, superb detail, look forward to seeing the finished bust!

Tecumsea - thank you for your kind words!
Napoleonpeart - yes, probably I will issue it. Luckily I returned to the sculpting hobby lately, so I hope I will finish it soon.

Still I have to add to the bust :
a) many rivets
b) coat
c) I'm going to add three possible hats: fur hat, magiar type hat, or a fancy helmet (which is part of the armour).

One remark - the face was inspired by painting from Batory's era (http://artyzm.com/obrazy/kober-batory.jpg) not the Matejko's painting (which presents idealized version of the king).

Regards, Piotr

P.S. Scale is 1/9

This is gonna be a stunning bust.
The painting must be a joy. Is it gonna be commercial??

Marc

Amaizing job sofar. I like this. How did you do texture on armour? stamped(?)

Excellent work sofar Piotr!

Marcel.

megroot - thank you - yes I will problably issue a small batch (e.g. 25 pieces)
MikkoH - thank you! yes, the texture was stamped.
Marcel - thank you very much

Hi Piotr,

looks very good already! The face has character and the subject makes it a must have for me!

Thanks, look forward to see the progress!
Denes

Piotr, very nice work so far. Possibly your best to date! Looking forward to seeing the completed piece!

Jay H.
OKc

Amazing work Piotr, please can you let me know how you sculpt the scrolling design in the boarder of the chest plate?
Cheers
Tommi

napoleonpeart - thank you! I'm still a real beginner in the figure's area.

dinovision79 -> Lengyel, magyar – két jó barát, együtt harcol, s issza borát
Our nations had and still have good relations

Sambaman -> thank you. I'm happy that the progress is visible.

tommi -> there is no magic in it. Since I'm an engineer (IT area) I built 'Do-It-Yourself' the cnc machine (the photo story is here -> http://figurki.org/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,144/topic,637.0) and I drew the design in CorelDraw and I next milled the scrolling design. It took me a while to achieve the desired result.

Regards, Piotr

Wspaniała robota. Tak Trzymać!

What a great start. The detail is superb. I also sculpt and do the best I can with all those details needed on figures and busts but never achieved such a result. Great job. Can't wait to see your bust finished.

Congratulations Piotr!

It will be a great work. I think István Báthory wasn't a handsome man - as you has written it right. But so ugly like on this picture he was just as old men.

I'm looking forward the finished work.

Cheers,
Balázs
PS: +info: this armour was made in 1565 and it is now in Vienna in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, where are great collection of "Rüstungen"
see here:http://www.khm.at/de/neue-burg/sammlungen/hofjagd-und-ruestkammer/

WOW ..... the details of armor is Fantastic ....
(How you made them? by the addition or subtraction?)
Good Continue

MAB

Another come back after many years of absence within this hobby...
Please note, that this figure is still in progress phase, so please forgive its quality or shape...

There will be two heads options (slightly changed eyes lips) + 3 hats options as below.

Fantastic stuff indeed , if only you could add the arms with the sword to the bust (Yes I'm a greedy sod! ) but I'd definitly be interested in getting one of these myself

Steve

Napoleonpeart - thanks, I will try to finish it asap... let's hope it won't take me another 4 years .

Helm, thank you! This is going to be rather a simple bust - adding hands, then sword, then maybe legs... and again we will land in 2018 ... My personal goal is to finish it ;D in the predicable future...