Here is Pegaso's recent release of an Absarokee (aka Crow) warrior in 54 mm as sculpted by Benoit Cauchies. He is depicted with a traditional pompadour hairstyle with braids and long decorated hair at he back. He wears a beaded buckskin shirt trimmed with ermine fringes and decorated trade cloth leggings with typically decorated squares at the hems. He is carrying his bow and arrows in a mountain lion skin quiver with more beaded decorations. He also carries a long crooked lance.
The lance was a problem when I opened the box, While everything was well packed between foam rectangles, the curved top of the lance was bent out of shape. Even doing so very carefully, the top section fell apart while I was trying to correct the bends. I e-mailed Pegaso and Luca Marchetti offered to replace the part, but I thought the material would be too delicate to handle any type of transport to shows. I therefore took a piece of brass rod and measured it to the remains of the original piece and bent the top to match. I then cut the original at the hand and decorations and drilled an appropriately sized hole through the parts. Next, I wrapped the lance with fine brass wire, stopping when I reached the spots for the decorations and the hand, which were inserted and set with Zap-A-Gap. I also added a blade made of left over white metal flattened to a pointed blade shape.
He was painted in Vallejo and Andrea acrylics.
