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Got it but scared of it lol

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Got it but scared of it lol
Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 27, 2004 10:54 PM
I have Pegaso's Florentine Knight. Man its more then I expected!!! The detail is awesome on it. I CA'd it together but since I can still easily take it apart I'll change that to 5 minute apoxy. Where the legs, surcoat and belts meet I have a nasty seam, have some Milliput on the way for it. I primed it with cote de'arms tan primer then sprayed it with Polyscale rlm66 to get a good look at what I have.'
Just cant get over the detail this thing has. If pilot or armor kit figures for our kits were half this good we'd all be using them.
Renart before you look at any progress pic I post... no I am not going to be very accurate on this one Wink [;)]. Keeping it simple, block colors for this one.Black Eye [B)]Tongue [:P]
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Posted by rjkplasticmod on Tuesday, September 28, 2004 11:57 AM
Jeff, there is nothing to fear but fear itself. Just start slappin on some paint. BTW, haven't seen you much on the LEM.

Regards, Rick
RICK At My Age, I've Seen It All, Done It All, But I Don't Remember It All...
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 28, 2004 12:56 PM
thats because I lost the link again Disapprove [V]Black Eye [B)]Ashamed [*^_^*]Confused [%-)]Grumpy [|(]Oops [oops]Oops [oops]Sigh [sigh]Sign - Oops [#oops], and a bit to embarrassed to ask because it would be like 6th time I asked for it.
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Posted by rjkplasticmod on Tuesday, September 28, 2004 8:53 PM
Shame on you. I'll save you some further red face time.

the link is: http://www.the-lem.com/phpbb2/index.php

Regards, Rick
RICK At My Age, I've Seen It All, Done It All, But I Don't Remember It All...
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Posted by renarts on Wednesday, September 29, 2004 6:19 PM
This is a cool figure and the inspriation for it is from a 13thc. relief carving from the tomb of Gugliemo Beradi (c. 1289) in the church of Santa Annunziata, Florence. The unique thing about this figure is that he is wearing, in addition to his mail chauses and hauberk, what has been described by period references as leather armor. It is cuir boulli (hardened boiled leather, that once treated this way became very rigid yet light and added another level of defense in addition to the mecula or mail and padded gambeson, the padded shirt or jacket under the mail) and has some very elaborate tooling and embossing work on it. The Spaulders (the shoulder plates) the cuisses (the upper thighs) the poulaines (the knees) and the grieves (the shins) are all this leather armor and possibly the vine work that is embossed has been gilded. Although no one is for certain on this. The original carving can be seen in Arms and Armor of the Medieval Knight by David Edge & John Paddock. And I think that Osprey's "Medieval Italian Armies" also may have some nice contemporary illustrations of this figure.

13thc. heraldry, even for the Florentines, was relaitively simple and had not gotten quite as elaborate as you see in the later 14th and 15thc which was when medieval herladry became an art form. So simple schemes and or charges on the shields would be quite appropriate.

Really you can paint him up as you see fit as Florence was a large export area and Florentine as well al as milanese armor was showing up everywhere in europe, second only to the german armories. And more importantly, because its your figure.....Wink [;)]
Mike "Imagination is the dye that colors our lives" Marcus Aurellius A good friend will come and bail you out of jail...but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!"
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Posted by zokissima on Wednesday, October 6, 2004 4:14 PM
Don't know which fig you're talking about, since the only figs I used to paint were warhammer ones, and they had some very intricate and large pieces. If I may, I used to have a huge problem with glueing white metal figures together. I suggest definitely pinning them, or as you said epoxy (I still pinned) as CA glue usually just doesn't cut it.
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