Drakkar Raider (AD 750) (Andrea Miniatures)

[Pedro Molina]

Code: Sv-11

Name: Drakkar Raider (AD 750)

Scale : 1/32

Size: 54 mm

Material: Resin/Metal

Pieces - Metal:7 Pieces -Resin:2 Pieces

Sculptor: Andrea Studios

Painter: Andrea Studios

Choice of two optional right arms (shield or axe)

 

[zane666]

Nice work, love the options.

Zane

 

[fabrizio1969]

very nice idea and work

 

[Jim Patrick]

Very cool looking figure.

Jim Patrick

 

[Mirofsoft]

Interesting piece

 

[swralph]

Very nice scene

 

[Mark S]

I still prefer this figure which obviously inspired the new Andrea one.

 

[Ferris]

Dunno.... The figure looks nice, but overall it looks a bit schematic to me. The location of the waves suggests he is in a very small boat, or a sinking one.

Adrian

 

[Helm]

I thought exactly the same as Adrian, but then I found this early illustration which makes it a lot more accurately scaled

Steve

 

[megroot]

Nice object.
but I like the flat more that has came out a few years ago....(my old brain don't remember the firm)

Marc

 

[Martin64]

the ship depicted is a reconstruction - so maybe there were different sizes of them. Maybe these ships are the same like men

"Some men are longer than others"

Cheers, Martin

 

[Tarracus]

I thought exactly the same as Adrian, but then I found this early illustration which makes it a lot more accurately scaled

Steve

Thanks for sharing, Steve. So it wasn't Ben Franklin who discovered electricity then?

 

[smudger1960]

My only criticism is the bow of the boat is too small,the figure is nearly as tall as the figurehead,great figure though

 

[kilsh]

Nice but agree a bit out of scale with the boat Mark is right though the version he has shown is better.

Cheers

Neil

 

[Bimmer3.5csl]

Very nice piece!!!!

 

[DEL]

I go with Martin on this. It's probably nearer in scale to these Orkney Yoles that have direct links to early Nordic boat building techniques.
http://70point8percent.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/building-lily-orkney-yole-association.html
So with that in mind my only criticism is the over heavy and misaligned graining on the wood, the Viking boatbuilders were as far as anyone knows masters of their craft.
Easily fixed, although we shouldn't have to.
Cheers
Derek

 

[renarts]

Looks clunky and not as crisp or elegant as the resin 70mm that Cool Mini or Not was selling a while back. (Ref, Mark S photo in his post above) I have that one and it was a joy to work on and paint.

As for ship scale, there were several sizes of ship, so that doesn't bother me and in a following sea in the North Sea...even an aircraft carrier isn't big enough.