Elite Miniatures - New Release

[Guy]

News from Elite:
Capitán Alatriste
75 mm.
white metal
Sculpted by Eduard P Delgado
Two painted versions: Jose Hernández and Pepe Gallardo

Jose Hernandez:

Pepe Gallardo:

Master Sculpt by Eduard P. Delgado:

Elite Miniatures web-site - click here


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[Major_Goose]

Yep !! Thats definately a figure i will paint !!!!! Beautiful , and i love the subject

 

[Dan Morton]

Not my historical period of interest, but some gorgeous sculpting and painting!!!

All the best,
Dan

 

[megroot]

Great work. I like it.
But my Euro's are gone at Euro for a moment.

Marc

 

[Steve]

I am so sorry to have to put my ignorance on display but who is this guy? I have seen figures of him for years and the costume says 18th c. Europe. Beyond that I am clueless. Help?

 

[Jeff]

This might help. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395119/

I thought it looked like Viggo Mortensen and it is Viggo. I think that they are a lot like the Sharp novels for an English parallel. Mortensen is fluent in English, Danish, and Spanish, and conversant in Norwegian. He also speaks French, Italian, and Swedish reasonably well. This guy can go any where to make movies.

 

[Kisifer]

A beautiful release indeed from Elite. Surely a good seller.

Xenofon

 

[vergilius]

Did anybody see the movie yet?
Is it as good as this figure?

 

[Major_Goose]

The movie is nice and with good atmosphere i liked it a lot

 

[Diegoff]

I saw the movie some time ago and it has some brilliant fight scenes. Specially the fighting in the channels and in a siege in Flanders. The general look of the movie is very good, influenced by Velázquez pictures.
The main problem is that the director tried to put five novels in a script and the movie turn somewhat caothic.
By the way, the novels, by Pérez-Reverte, are highly recomended and they have been traslated to many languages, the english one of these, of course.

Diego

 

[vergilius]

thanks for the info

 

[Diegoff]

This is Viggo- Diego Alatriste in "Velázquez style".
Just search in Youtube "Alatriste" and there are some trailers.

 

[gorgosaurus]

This movie, "Alatriste" interested me, and I´ve seen trailers and read reviews of it :-

Slated by English-speaking and Danish critics for the lack of cohesion of the storyline, seeming like 2 hours of painterly trailers, and the fact that we never see why Alatriste is the man he is and does what he does...
Political intrigues, Inquisition v heretics, "paternal" concerns for the son of a comrade killed in battle all offer interesting avenues which are never followed to any satisfying conclusion...

It seems like the result of cramming a series of books into one film.
I´d loan a DVD before buying it.

The model looks a good likeness of Viggo Mortensen as Alatriste.

Spike.