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[Andrey]

Hello to all friends! Another new product for January.

LMBT - 120 The Greatest Men: Григорий Александрович Потемкин-Таврический

Sculpt by A. Bodunov

1/10 scale resin kit

Serene PrinceGrigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tavrichesky

Russian statesman, creator of the Black Sea military fleet and its first commander in chief, Field Marshal General.

 

[Nap]

Hi Andrey

Oh YES!!!...one for me ....lacework and awards ...and 2 sash as well

Lovely sculpt like the work on the hair and the head turned

Thanks for sharing

...off to have a look about him

Nap ( Happy ! )

 

[akaryu]

Excellent! Just ordered one!

Pierre

PS for the English speaking members, there is the man's biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore "The Life of Potemkin", quite a read.

 

[offo]

Nice sculpt.

 

[Martin Antonenko]

For the clothes and the medals, the picture was certainly the source Kev.

But for the face it was probably this picture that shows him a little older and less embellished ...:




Cheers

 

[Martin Antonenko]

I think, I'm in love...

 

[Richard Baxter]

A nice piece indeed. But why is his name always translitterated into the Roman alphabet as "Potemkin", when the Cyrllic letters clearly show that it is Potyomkin? That umlaut makes a lot of difference!

 

[akaryu]

A nice piece indeed. But why is his name always translitterated into the Roman alphabet as "Potemkin", when the Cyrllic letters clearly show that it is Potyomkin? That umlaut makes a lot of difference!

Most Russian names, both of people and places, are wrongly transliterated AND mispronounced on radio and television in the western world, even nowadays with all internet and other facilities; accents and stress are put at random or at the whim of the local presenter. Quite a shame really, for Russian is a beautiful and very melodious language, but who would recognize "PatYOMkin"? The slapdash way of using correct language nowadays irritates me beyond measure, turning the happy polyglot in a grumpy old man once too often!

Sorry for my rambling, must be the confinement getting on my happy disposition

Pierre

 

[Martin Antonenko]

You are absolutely right!

I also cringe every time someone says "Odessa".

It is spoken "Adjessa"...


Cheers

 

[rjray]

You are absolutely right!

I also cringe every time someone says "Odessa".

It is spoken "Adjessa"...


Cheers

Funny (off-topic) story similar to that...

Many jobs ago (I'm a software engineer in Silicon Valley, this was when I was going from start-up to start-up and changing jobs a lot) I had a Russian co-worker named Lena (Лена) and a CEO who just could not pronounce her name correctly. One day at a lunch outing, I was sitting across from him and her and she was trying to correct him on the pronunciation... he kept saying "LEE-nah" and she was trying to get him to say "Lyeh-nah". I had been studying Russian for about a year or so at this point, so I tried to help. For a good 4-5 minutes, I would have him carefully say "YEH-nah" over and over, then try to put the "L" in front of it. But every time he introduced the "L" it went right back to "LEE-nah".

Then the food arrived, and she and I gave up .

Randy

 

[rjray]

...and just to be on-topic: I might actually like this one better than the Kutusov bust you introduced recently! Both are truly excellent! Отлычно!

Randy

 

[Andrey]

...and just to be on-topic: I might actually like this one better than the Kutusov bust you introduced recently! Both are truly excellent! Отлычно!

Randy

Randy! Отлично! And the Russians also have the letter Ё

 

[captnenglish]

That will paint up beautifully and will be fun to paint.

 

[AleksanderBodunov]

Hello, friends!
Here is a wax bust created during Potemkin's lifetime. I was guided by him in many ways.
https://mediashm.ru/?p=14065

 

[Edorta]

Fabulous bust, I love it.

Military miniatures painted by Eduardo Garcia

 

[Romariogendalf]

Nice