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What's your favourite historical period?

  • 2. Dark Ages

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  • 3. Medieval

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  • 4. Renaissance

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  • 4. 17th Century

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  • 5. 18th Century

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  • 6. 19th Century

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  • 7. 20th Century

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  • Total voters
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For me, Eduardo Jose Tellez sums it up.
I can't pronounce what he says he is, but I have to fall in the same category. A nice model that grabs my interest, whatever the period, that's what does it for me. :)
 
I never think of my favourite subjects as 'periods'.

Just give me anything with worn leather, dyed fabric, (ruffled) feathers, forged metal, body painting, tattoo and long hair and I'm in. ;)

No, it's NOT necessarily a 1968 hippie. :lol:

Q.

Hello, Adrian, welcome to the Planet. (y)
 
As to periods of history I like to study: ancient and modern, with everything in between. But I voted for "ancient" for GP and it is an epoch I always like to return to.

For figures, pretty much the same thing, but I have to say the slight majority of my "war production" through the years has been devoted to the Napoleonic era.
 
I started with Napolionics and have drifted toward F&I war, and the American West now that there are some fine figures out in those areas. Like most of the rest of you I am also happy to work on something that catches my interest no matter what the period as long as the pervayors of those addictive resins and white metals do'nt have all my money when I see one.
 
Aren't the Dark Ages and Medieval the same thing?

Nope! Dark ages were from about 600 to almost 1100 A.D. (1066 actually).:)

(Forgot this part:)

Ya know, "19thC." covers WAYYYYY too much stuff to be a single category! ;)
You need to break it and the 20thC. into specific categories, e.g. Napoleonic, Franc-Prussian, ACW, Colonial, American West, and so forth. :)
 
I have to admit to a bias towards Napoleonics and ACW. However - it the quality is there and the figure good enough I'll paint anything.

I find it does you dood anyway to branch out occasionally and it stop you from going a bit stale.
 
It's been a long time since my basic history classes, but here goes. Middle Ages as I recall was broken up into Early, Late, and High. Roughly speaking, Early went from around 500 to about 800/900 AD. Late went from about 800/900 to about 1200/1300 and the High Middle Ages covered roughly 1300/1400 to about the mid 1500s.

The Dark Ages is a fairly narrow time band that gets its name from the low quantity of written material. As I recall, it went from the 'fall' of the Western Roman Empire to maybe 600 AD. I might be wrong here, but it seems as though the 'Dark Ages' refers primarily to British history; e.g., from the withdrawl of the Romans (early 400s) to roughly 600/700.



Gary
 
My favorite period is from the Civil War-World War II.
My favorite milestone in that period of time being World War I.

Cheers!
 
Not so much a "period" with me - I like French Napoleonic personalty figures and personality figures related to the German resistance against Hitler (July 20 Stauffenberg bomb plot). Needless to say I have to make many of my own figures!

Colin
 
My favourite periods are the second half of the XIX century and the WWII, especiacilly this last. Nearly all of what I paint is german of the WWII ;)
 
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