Martin Antonenko
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Thank you, Joe and Nap!!!
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52. Day, January 30, 2017
Outdoors ist raining cats and Dogs - ideal model building weather, so ...!
Let us now come to a fitting detail of our Cossack, which at the same time was a weapon and part of the Circassian costume:
The Kindjal (or Kindschal) ...:
The "Kindjal" was a dagger sharpened on both sides with a very sharp tip, which a Caucasian mountaineer always carried with him!
Even the Caucasian Cossacks, who had taken over the trappings and the fighting from their opponents, seldom came out unarmed.
The weapon itself as well as its name originally comes from Persia.
"Kindjals" was available in different versions, long, short, wide and narrow variants ...:
In general it can be said that the blade length varied between 30 and 60 centimeters.
The "Kindjal" was a feared melee weapon - and despite its created tip was mostly used as a bat weapon.Among the mountaineers it was a taint to kill with the peak!
The next picture shows the storm on a Caucasian Aul (= mountain village) during the Russian conquest wars in the 18th century.
Several Caucasians are to be seen in the picture, who have pocketed their sabers and instead pulled their Kindjals and are just passing to the close combat against the Russian infantrymen ...:
As a mountain resident - and also a Caucasian Cossack! - his arms were his favorite and most important, "Kindjals" almost always exhibited magnificent ornaments and silver fittings.
Like the silver-studded belts, these were mostly heirlooms that were handed over by the father to the eldest son.
I had selected Markus to sculpt this model ...:
And he has reproduced this Kindjal wonderfully!
My copy is applied both on the front and on the barely visible back.
So I just cleaned the dagger and primed it with pure black...
... and then the black - leather - related - part of the wicker sheath.
Then oil Colors were used!
And since "black" is not equal to "black", I have again blended another color, in this case blue ...:
Lights and shadows have I set so that they correspond to the angle in which our hero will wear the Kindjal later at his belt.
On the small photo montage one sees the difference, I mean, quite well - as well as the "blue" black ...:
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52. Day, January 30, 2017
Outdoors ist raining cats and Dogs - ideal model building weather, so ...!
Let us now come to a fitting detail of our Cossack, which at the same time was a weapon and part of the Circassian costume:
The Kindjal (or Kindschal) ...:
The "Kindjal" was a dagger sharpened on both sides with a very sharp tip, which a Caucasian mountaineer always carried with him!
Even the Caucasian Cossacks, who had taken over the trappings and the fighting from their opponents, seldom came out unarmed.
The weapon itself as well as its name originally comes from Persia.
"Kindjals" was available in different versions, long, short, wide and narrow variants ...:
In general it can be said that the blade length varied between 30 and 60 centimeters.
The "Kindjal" was a feared melee weapon - and despite its created tip was mostly used as a bat weapon.Among the mountaineers it was a taint to kill with the peak!
The next picture shows the storm on a Caucasian Aul (= mountain village) during the Russian conquest wars in the 18th century.
Several Caucasians are to be seen in the picture, who have pocketed their sabers and instead pulled their Kindjals and are just passing to the close combat against the Russian infantrymen ...:
As a mountain resident - and also a Caucasian Cossack! - his arms were his favorite and most important, "Kindjals" almost always exhibited magnificent ornaments and silver fittings.
Like the silver-studded belts, these were mostly heirlooms that were handed over by the father to the eldest son.
I had selected Markus to sculpt this model ...:
And he has reproduced this Kindjal wonderfully!
My copy is applied both on the front and on the barely visible back.
So I just cleaned the dagger and primed it with pure black...
... and then the black - leather - related - part of the wicker sheath.
Then oil Colors were used!
And since "black" is not equal to "black", I have again blended another color, in this case blue ...:
Lights and shadows have I set so that they correspond to the angle in which our hero will wear the Kindjal later at his belt.
On the small photo montage one sees the difference, I mean, quite well - as well as the "blue" black ...:
