Greek Hoplite 54mm Romeo Models

[Robert Laclavik]

This is my last 54mm piece, I really enjoyed painting this one, has a dramatic pose and is extremly well sculpted. The shield is painted by hand, as I was inspired by a foto from some figure show, so I decided to paint similiar scorpion. To make it more interesting I made a crab in that scale. It was really fun with this. Hope you´ll like it

 

[Guy]

Beautiful work Robert. I love the added touch of the crab.

 

[megroot]

Excellent,
The base and your paintwork on the figure is absolutely great.

Marc

 

[Sambaman]

Well done. The crab is a fun touch! But don't they only turn red like that after they've been cooked? Maybe I'm just a bit hungry.......Fun stuff!

Jay H.
OKC

 

[gorgosaurus]

I´ve seen live red crabs from the tropics but don´t know of any this colour from the Mediterranean unless they´ve been boiled.

It´s a very nice (scratchbuilt?) detail complementing a very nice model and can quickly be altered with a light basecoat and some green-brown washes.

Spike.

 

[vergilius]

I would be careful with those bare feet

 

[Graywolf]

Congrats Robert for the nice painting. I especially liked the painting of right arm that brings the well sculpted muscle details in sight. About the red crabs; I remembered I have seen them in Turkey years ago and made a little search. Canser pagurus-edible crab is a species living also in Mediterrenean and is reddish maybe more brown.

On the other hand, I feel the one on this figure base is a usual crab painted red by the blood on the sea after a deadly battle.
Best regards

 

[dinovision79]

Hi Robert,

nice painting, the shiled heraldic looks good and specially like the leather brown color.

Cheers
D

 

[Marcel]

Beautiful painting, my compliments!!

 

[Robert Laclavik]

Thank you all guys I am pleased, that you like my work.
well, hm..the crab, I must apologise,that it is more reddish than the real one,but I put it together within 2hours, it consist of 22 pieces of wire an plastik pieces and I was quite sick off it (it cost me a lot of patience),so I wanted to have it already done, so maybe it doesn´t look like the real mediterranean crab, but in fact I´m lucky,that it actually looks like a crab

 

[Roc]

Congratulation on a beautifully painted figure, keep up the good work.

Cheers
Roc

 

[Martin Vlcek]

hi Robert.Nice work
Opět pěkná práce ,ten krabík je super ,to by byla polívčička

 

[Christos]

Very nice work Robert,the crab is spot on!!!
christos