Murat

[moskowa]

Hello friends
this is my last work, sculptured by my friend Andrea Iotti, and I painted.
Murat 54 mm

greetings from Italy

davide

 

[Joe Hudson]

Very nice and clean.

Joe

 

[rej]

Weldone to both of you!!! Great tandem!!!!

Saluti da Malta

Ray

 

[tefaet]

Molto bello Davide ,complimenti
Ciao Jose Luis

 

[housecarl]

Beautiful work.
Carl.

 

[Sambaman]

This is nicely painted, but is it just me or does the rider look far too big for the horse on this piece? I tink the proportions of horse and rider need to be examined here.

Jay H.

 

[Chevalier de Malte]

Bel tandem ragazzi,

echo Ray, Salute da malta

ivan

 

[Jason W.]

This is nicely painted, but is it just me or does the rider look far too big for the horse on this piece? I tink the proportions of horse and rider need to be examined here.

Jay H.

You right Jay. But what I think they were trying to achieve is a "stylized" version of the great Murat. It reminds me of Confederate General Longstreet's monument at Gettysburg.

Not for everyone for sure, but this is art...Pure art! Like Joe said, note how clean everything is. A true connoisseur collectors piece. Much like the Russian style. I love it! We need more of this.

Like a mammoth of the hobby was reported to have once said "It's not about accuracy, it's about art". Or something to that effect.

 

[kastigamatt]

Well --we were missing another "Murat".......I like the painting job on the tiger skin. Ciao

 

[captnenglish]

You right Jay. But what I think they were trying to achieve is a "stylized" version of the great Murat. It reminds me of Confederate General Longstreet's monument at Gettysburg.

That's what it reminded me of

 

[captnenglish]

This is nicely painted, but is it just me or does the rider look far too big for the horse on this piece? I tink the proportions of horse and rider need to be examined here.

Jay H.

You're not the only one

 

[templar magister]

Davide another superb figure to see at MSS
Christos

 

[megroot]

Excellent paintwork, specially the tiger stripes.

Marc

 

[John Bowery]

Davide,
Just beautiful work and lovely colour on the horse.
Cheers
John

 

[Von Hullesem]

finalmente lo hai finito Davide..
Me l'avevi fato vedere a casa tua..Spero che lo porterai al Club Squadron..
il prossimo venerdì sempre che non lo hai consegnato al compratore.

Saluti
massi

PS sono io quanti massi conosci..

 

[mil-mart]

Davide, once again another beautiful painting, especially the horse and the tiger skin.- Superb work.

Cheers Ken

 

[Elaphus]

Hello Davide,

nice painting and sculpting,

great figure,

Greetings

Karsten

 

[blaster]

Hi Davide,

Another superb figure! Murat was a big man who loved fancy costumes - my favourite centaur!

Rgds Victor

 

[TWOMOONS]

You right Jay. But what I think they were trying to achieve is a "stylized" version of the great Murat. It reminds me of Confederate General Longstreet's monument at Gettysburg.

Not for everyone for sure, but this is art...Pure art! Like Joe said, note how clean everything is. A true connoisseur collectors piece. Much like the Russian style. I love it! We need more of this.

Like a mammoth of the hobby was reported to have once said "It's not about accuracy, it's about art". Or something to that effect.

Beautiful work on this figure...superbly done. Top notch painting.

Interesting comments....especially the "mammoth" statement. I wonder if that particular mammoth was ever a judge....
During a competition, I had entered what I thought was a pretty good example of a mounted Hun. Now Hunnic ponies (basically Prezewalski's horse) were really quite small (my research showed), with pot bellies a hooked head, and stout necks... so I sculpted it that way. Literally, the rider's legs almost scrape the ground sometimes.
Later on, after the awards, I was told (on the sly, mind you) that the piece was very well done; sculpting, painting, presentation, blah , blah... but it didn't win a higher award because the judges couldn't get around the fact that the horse was so small.
Now to go and corner a judge or judges and explain to him/them all about Hunnic ponies and their size is just not what you do. But after you work painstakingly on a piece, literally for months, you don't want to crash and burn over ignorance to accuracy, either.
The point being...art for art's sake is wonderful, I agree. I'm at the point where I would do anything that came into my head...and damn the consequences. That was then, this is now.
But there's always that monster in the corner...
Just thought I'd share that. Anyone else ever have a similar experience?
How do others feel about artistic form over accuracy in miniatures?

 

[Paul Kernan]

Yes. I had a similar experience just before seeing the light and moving from armour to figures. I'd entered a Challenger tank in Royal Scots Dragoon Guard markings from Desert Storm. As with the rest of the vehicle, the thermal wrap of the barrel was painted a sand colour with white id markings. Most British armour regiments had been moved in hurry from Europe to the Middle East and therefore a good number of their vehicles were field painted. I was awarded a silver but later told it was close to gold. The judges apparently had a problem with the wrap being painted the same as the rest of the vehicle. Unfortunately, I didn't have my reference material with me Frustrating but can you do