Sambaman
A Fixture
OK folks, I have been slow in posting anything lately because I have been on this project for quite some time. I think I ended up with right around 40 hours in this one, I just hope it looks it! 
This is the Rhineland La Tene Celt bust from United Empire Miniatures. What a beauty this bust is! Can't say enough good things about the clean cast and superb sculpt. I was attracted to this piece because of the unique linothorax armor and his proud pose. It just stared back at me and said......Jay, go ahead and paint some kinda crazy patterns on me! So I did! Inspired from research I did on period La Tene Celts, I came up with these zoomorphic designs of wild boars for his armor based on a helmet adornment I saw from the period. The back piece is just the head of a boar and is of my own design. I took a little artistic lisence with the patterns, so I made my own design to fit the shape of the back armor. I first sketched the designs on paper. After refining them, I simply rubbed soft lead pencil to the back of the tracing paper and traced them onto the surface using a sharp pencil. the soft lead on the reverse side easily rubs off where you draw to leave the outline of the imge of the boars ready to paint. In my reading I also understand that with some objects they would cover nearly every square centimeter with designs. What the heck, I put period paterning everywhere it would logically and artistically fit! It was a hoot! BTW, all of the scratches I added to the armor are painted on and none are/were scratched or carved on beforehand. I had fun playing with the lighting to try and make them look appropriate. I wanted a not so new, somewhat worn look to the patterning as well, so the patterns are applied with very thin paints and in some areas I let the background color show through to indicate wear.
This guy is a Celt, so I just couldn't resist a bit of tartan, so his shirt got a nice simple, monochromatic plaid to further emphasize his "celt-ness". I almost forgot....I also added the ties at the bottom of the front on the armor with lead foil. Hope you guys like him. Any and all comments are as always appreciated! Thanks for looking,
Jay H.
OKC
This is the Rhineland La Tene Celt bust from United Empire Miniatures. What a beauty this bust is! Can't say enough good things about the clean cast and superb sculpt. I was attracted to this piece because of the unique linothorax armor and his proud pose. It just stared back at me and said......Jay, go ahead and paint some kinda crazy patterns on me! So I did! Inspired from research I did on period La Tene Celts, I came up with these zoomorphic designs of wild boars for his armor based on a helmet adornment I saw from the period. The back piece is just the head of a boar and is of my own design. I took a little artistic lisence with the patterns, so I made my own design to fit the shape of the back armor. I first sketched the designs on paper. After refining them, I simply rubbed soft lead pencil to the back of the tracing paper and traced them onto the surface using a sharp pencil. the soft lead on the reverse side easily rubs off where you draw to leave the outline of the imge of the boars ready to paint. In my reading I also understand that with some objects they would cover nearly every square centimeter with designs. What the heck, I put period paterning everywhere it would logically and artistically fit! It was a hoot! BTW, all of the scratches I added to the armor are painted on and none are/were scratched or carved on beforehand. I had fun playing with the lighting to try and make them look appropriate. I wanted a not so new, somewhat worn look to the patterning as well, so the patterns are applied with very thin paints and in some areas I let the background color show through to indicate wear.
This guy is a Celt, so I just couldn't resist a bit of tartan, so his shirt got a nice simple, monochromatic plaid to further emphasize his "celt-ness". I almost forgot....I also added the ties at the bottom of the front on the armor with lead foil. Hope you guys like him. Any and all comments are as always appreciated! Thanks for looking,
Jay H.
OKC
