marcomannic warrior from Pegaso

[centurion]

Hi Roberto,

What a fantastic painting job you have done with your figurine. The shield is simply brilliant - you must tell us all your secrets. Would love to see more of your art work.

Kindest regards.

 

[Joe Hudson]

Roberto,

Sorry I missed this one You have done a really nice job on this figure.

Best of luck,

Joe

 

[yoshi]

Hello Roberto,
I think i can underwrite everything already written or said. Yes, bring him to Euro, so I have the opportunity to see this piece live!!
I don't have any knowledge on the shield but I like it very much as all the other painting. Especially because I work with acrylics also. How did you paint the woods from the inside of the shield? Looks briljant to me.

 

[Cicero]

Hi Roberto,

First I want to congratulate you with you fantastic rendering of Pegaso's Marcoman. In short, this is truly art!

But secondly I'm afraid that Marc is putting you on the wrong leg about the Marcomanni's history.

God knows the Marcomanni, as the Romans called them, were NOT AT ALL a Celtic tribe !!! They were GERMANS living in the region of nowadays Thüringen and were a sub tribe of the bigger, but loosely formed Suebi tribe. Marc is lucky both the Celts and the Germans can't read his mistake because I'm sure they would tear him apart for this insult! No figure painting anymore after that, I reckon :lol:

So in contradiction to what Marc stated, Vercingetorix was neither a member of the Marcomanni. In fact several decades before the Marcomanni clashed with the Romans, Vercingetorix was a noble of the CELTIC Arverni tribe, who took the lead of the united Celtic uprising in central France, a region now called the "Auvergne" and named after Vercingetorix' Arverni tribe. At last Vercingetorix had to surrender to G.J. Caesar in 52 bC after the siege at Alesia. He was put in chains and led in a triumph in Rome. After that he was promptly executed.

To go further with the Marcomanni's history: they came into collision with the power of Rome in the first decade BC, when the Roman general Drusus attacked them in Germania. It was because of this that the Marcomanni had to leave their home grounds and moved to Bohemen. There they formed more or less the first Germanic state in the early years of the first century under their king Maroboduus, which seemed to have had no hostile intentions towards the Romans. However, the Romans were afraid that Marcomanni's kingdom would attract other Germanic tribes and in that way they were a threat for the empire.
In the year 6 AD Rome decided to once again attack the Marcomanni with 12 legions but under pressure of an uprising in other parts of the Roman empire, the action was cancelled. To relieve the threat of the Marcomanni, a peace treaty was signed between Rome and king Maroboduus.

In the second century AD the Marcomanni formed a coalition with other German tribes and started the so called Marcoman's War with Rome. It costed emperor Marcus Aurelius much effort and time to contain this crisis (remember the opening battle of the movie "Gladiator"). It was his son Commodus who signed after all a new peace treaty with the Marcomanni.
Still, In the following centuries the Marcomanni invaded several time the Roman empire but at last a part of them entered in Roman service as "foederati".

BTW the helmet Pegaso's Marcoman is carying is indeed of Roman origin, it's an Imperial Gallic type which came into use in the late first centry BC and early century AD.

Roberto, I hope I didn't bore you with my text but I think correct historical information is the very base of our hobby.

Marc don't hit me on our club meeting next tuesday , but you know this is my field of interest

Best regards

Johan

 

[pkw4]

Thank you very much for your kind comment.
I hope i did not cause a fight.
The wood inside the shield is very simple to do.
Paint everithing a light brown.Then with a dark red brown paint thin lines sometimes straight and somethimes shaped like a v. Once this is done paint the lines between the boards a very dark brown(almost black). With the same colour paint few small dots to rappresent the nots in the wood.At this point apply a very thin wash of reddish brown.This helps to lessen the contrast between the colours.
And finally depending on the positin of the shield painT a very thin line in a flesh
colour onthe top edge of each board.Very simple and very effective.
Ihope my description was clear enough.
thank you all again
Roberto

 

[ori]

Hello!
I'm painting this figure too, and I have a question for all you. Wich element allows us to call this warrior as a "marcomanian" man? I don't know too much about those tribes, but, don't you think that this subject could be simply a celtic warrior?
Thanks to all.

I attach my version

 

[Guy]

Beautiful work Oriol.........love the flesh tones and the trousers.

 

[Roy]

I don't know of the various subtle differences that could show this piece as a celt...but this figure is certainly inspiring some fabulous paint work...

Keep it up guys..

Roy.

 

[pkw4]

Hi Oriol,
beatifull work(as usual).Ialso agree with you about the origin of this model.
The good thing about painting this kind of subject is that one can use is own immagination and it would be difficoult to be prooven wrong due to the lack of remains(especially clothings).I have really enjoyed piainting this piece.
the only problem i have encoutered is that the figure seem to be leaning on one side. this is notable only if you look at the figure from the left handside.
I think it can be seen in your first photo.From any other angle seem fine.
Unfortunately for me this became more evident once the figure was finished and stock to the base. After showing it to few friends they all said the same thing
"from this angle it is leaning forward".Fortunately i was able to correct this flaw
without any damage.Ihope i'll see you to the Euromilitaire next week.
All the best
Roberto