Hi everybody,
This year has been an interesting one with new company's announcing their releases entering a often volatile business market , one that has made an impact from Russia is
We have seen a good selection of subjects from all different periods of history , as up to this releases we seen only one bust release (Mursi ) which I reviewed here http://www.planetfigure.com/threads/mursi-warrior-from-altores.79504/ as well as on social media but I am pleased to see we now have a 2nd with this release and its a good choice IMO
The medieval period is one full of potential subjects , Altores have chosen to depict a common soldier , who bore the brunt of the fighting , often with nothing more than "looted" items of clothing and armour , but right in the horror of the front line and hand to hand combat ...where no mercy was the rule.
The subject has been depicted with one of many versions of a billhook , derived from farming tools and with hooks to drag an unfortunate armored knight from his horse , a lethal point to penetrate chinks in armour , through mail and when he was struggling on the ground like an upturned turtle to despatch him with the pointed ends.
Sculpted with the facial features in full shout ...perhaps hes has seen the tank like formation that thunders down to his position...or maybe he is alerting his commander of the threat.
Wearing a helmet with a deep neck guard he is lucky to have this , many variations of helmets are seen including with visors and eye slots , he also has on "jack" padded sometimes with armoured plates sewn in, under this he has a mail shirt with a hooded shoulder covering , sometimes these were coloured showing allegiance to a specific town or cause ( Paris for instance had red and blue halved)
Also he has a fine looking sword , a good quality weapon , sometimes we see lesser but still very useful weapons like the falchion
Books ( where would I be without my library!!) include these
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This year has been an interesting one with new company's announcing their releases entering a often volatile business market , one that has made an impact from Russia is
We have seen a good selection of subjects from all different periods of history , as up to this releases we seen only one bust release (Mursi ) which I reviewed here http://www.planetfigure.com/threads/mursi-warrior-from-altores.79504/ as well as on social media but I am pleased to see we now have a 2nd with this release and its a good choice IMO
The medieval period is one full of potential subjects , Altores have chosen to depict a common soldier , who bore the brunt of the fighting , often with nothing more than "looted" items of clothing and armour , but right in the horror of the front line and hand to hand combat ...where no mercy was the rule.
The subject has been depicted with one of many versions of a billhook , derived from farming tools and with hooks to drag an unfortunate armored knight from his horse , a lethal point to penetrate chinks in armour , through mail and when he was struggling on the ground like an upturned turtle to despatch him with the pointed ends.
Sculpted with the facial features in full shout ...perhaps hes has seen the tank like formation that thunders down to his position...or maybe he is alerting his commander of the threat.
Wearing a helmet with a deep neck guard he is lucky to have this , many variations of helmets are seen including with visors and eye slots , he also has on "jack" padded sometimes with armoured plates sewn in, under this he has a mail shirt with a hooded shoulder covering , sometimes these were coloured showing allegiance to a specific town or cause ( Paris for instance had red and blue halved)
Also he has a fine looking sword , a good quality weapon , sometimes we see lesser but still very useful weapons like the falchion
Books ( where would I be without my library!!) include these
Continued in next post
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