If you say "RP Models" to people in our miniature world most will either reply 1 of 2 things ......
"Detail & Textures"
or ....
"Dynamic and action packed"
Some might also say "Porta" after meeting Hugo at shows ...like the makers of the drink the owner Hugo Pereria is a man who is passionate about the end result .....
So its my pleasure to share my look at a release from 2017 which itself as a year was busy for Hugo t say the least , he attended and passed his military promotion and yet incredibly still released both busts and 75mm figures , the latter is what I will look with you ( the bust version will be later)
Its important to say Hugo does not sell his releases , having many trade outlets over the world but contacting him he will as many already know gives customer service above and beyond .
The release is this :
The release was announced by Hugo here and on social media
http://www.planetfigure.com/threads/75mm-viriatus-figure.112364/
Lets have a little bit of background on this maverick of the ancient world
Viriatus (also spelled Viriathus; known as Viriato in Portuguese and Spanish) (died 139 BC) was the most important leader of the Lusitanian people that resisted Roman expansion into the regions of western HispaniaDescribed as a shepherd who became a hunter, then a soldier, thus following the path of most young warriors, the iuventus, who devoted themselves to cattle raiding, hunting and war.
Viriatus was one of the few who escaped when Galba, the Roman consul, massacred the flos iuventutis, the flower of the young Lusitanian warriors, in 150 BC.
Two years after the massacre, in 148 BC, Viriatus became the leader of a Lusitanian army
Cassius Dio said of Viriatus:
"He carried on the war not for the sake of personal gain or power nor through anger, but for the sake of warlike deeds in themselves; hence he was accounted at once a lover of war and a master of war."
Rome knew that the Lusitanian resistance was largely due to Viriatus' leadership so Quintus Servilius Caepio bribed Audax, Ditalcus and Minurus, who had been sent by Viriatus as an embassy to establish peace.These so called ambassadors returned to their camp and killed Viriatus while he was sleeping.
The writer Eutropius claims that when Viriatus' assassins asked Caepio for their payment he answered that "it was never pleasing to the Romans, that a general should be killed by his own soldiers.", or in another version more common in modern Portugal and Spain, "Rome does not pay traitors who kill their chief".
Quintus Servilius Caepio was refused his Triumph by the Senate.
After the death of Viriatus, the Lusitanians kept fighting under the leadership of Tautalus
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