Khan of the Golden Horde

[DonRumata]

It`s my old work. Figure sculptured by D. Shevchuk for "1-st Guards", 54 mm.
Scenery, statue - self-made.

Regards,
Anton

 

[megroot]

Exceptional work.

marc

 

[pinsel]

hello anton
well that nice.and timeconsuming.one sees not all mongols where light cavalry.the had heavy cavalry with crouched lance fighting units too.interesting is the lamellar armour on the horse.it looks like the saramatian cathapracths.in Dura Europos todays syria very good exemplars of lamellar horse armour parts where found. so good preserved that there are black an white pics of an horse known which the finders covered with those armour parts.
very intersting is that these mongols fought enemies like japanese in their try to conquest the japanese mainland as europeans like at the battle of liegnitz in poland which even did not know of each others existance. neverless fought the same mongol foe.
looks great.and seldom choosen as modelling challenge
cheers

 

[gordy]

Fabulous work Anton The metal work and detailed painting are splendid, The tall grass a great touch as is the statue

 

[DonRumata]

Markus, thank you.

"very intersting is that these mongols fought enemies like japanese in their try to conquest the japanese mainland as europeans like at the battle of liegnitz in poland which even did not know of each others existance. neverless fought the same mongol foe." - well said

Gordy, - thank you for appreciation.

 

[pinsel]

hello
i di read some time ago an very interesting article about the unearthing of the graveside of DonRumata and 17 of his followers.beetween the legs of him an small girl was depostited.
you chosse an interesting nick of whom nearly noone does know at all.
by the way your idol looks very interssting ahs some similarity with the stauette whgich where found on the garvehil of Hochdorf germany.lovely sculpt.
intersting figure i think its hard to get it here in germany as most figures from russian federation.which is an pitty.alone E.K.casting ect is great
cheers

 

[Martin Antonenko]

WOW! Great work!

Regards

 

[DonRumata]

Martin, thank you!

"i di read some time ago an very interesting article about the unearthing of the graveside of DonRumata and 17 of his followers.beetween the legs of him an small girl was depostited."- ?

Markus, my nick is name of the character brother`s Strugazkie sci-fi book, he is my namesake.

About brothers:
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Стругацкие

About this book:
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Трудно_быть_богом

Regards,
Anton

 

[DonRumata]

Markus, - here you can buy figures of some russian firms:
http://www.soga-miniatures.com/

Khan - old figure, I painted him 4 years ago:
http://www.1st-guards.com/catalogue/?category=3

the idol represent real cumanian(kipchack`s) XIII c. statue in the steppe. Cumani, in russian chronicles- polovtsi:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuman


Regards,
Anton

 

[John Bowery]

Anton,
Nicely done and good looking base to go with him.
Cheers
John

 

[winston]

Really a geat work on all the scene and for the mongol paint!!!

Philippe

 

[gogok]

Nice~! I love this topic too. And I finish this as a set in last year.

 

[pinsel]

hello anton
seems to be an coincidence.because there was an living person of this anme as well an tribe leader.
so i thought maybe you choose it because of this.maybe the autor was so insired that he used the name for his novel???
thanks for your links will give them an close look.
cheers

 

[DonRumata]

John, Philippe, William - thank you everyone!

Markus-it`s interesting, I don`t know about this man, only about the sci-fi book character.

Regards,
Anton

 

[pinsel]

hello
if i remember right it was on the Aleutes
cheers

 

[DonRumata]

Ok.

Regards,
Anton