new from lost battalion

[Scott777]

Hi all, it's been awhile kinda took the summer off but here's the latest from The Lost Battalion

TLB 031 Viking Beserker 200mm resin bust
sculpted by Shane Terry
painted by Mike Butler

Retails for $29.95

This isn't posted on the website yet but is available just ask for it when ordering

Thanks Scott

 

[Nick Majerus]

Looks great Scott! Are you going to have some of this bad boy at Chicago?

Nick
RS4

 

[megroot]

Excellent sculpt, and Mike get out the best of it.

Marc

 

[John Belcher]

Hello Scott.Fantastic sculpt Shane.I was lucky to see this this box art version in the Flesh at the New Zealand I.P.M.S Nationals & Scale Model Expo in Wellington NZ earlier this month.Mike has done a fantastic job of the painting.If you think it looks great in this photo it looks twice as good in the flesh.

Regards,John

 

[Mike - The Kiwi]

Great to see the announcement of this one Scott, attached are some more photos for folk to pore over.

If you are collector and would be like to acquire the box art bust, please do contact me.

Kind regards,

Mike

P.S. A full Step By Step from the raw putty stages through to the completed box artwork available here:
http://forums.delphiforums.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=medrenfig&msg=2718.39

 

[housecarl]

Love it, I can see me getting one.
Carl.

 

[ubbi]

very beautiful sculpt and painting, i like this berseker also because there is a lack of bersekers in the viking figures, the only pity is that i prefer figure of 54 to maximum 90 mm , so I will waiting for a berseker with the legs


Stefano

 

[housecarl]

Stefano El Greco do a 90mm berseker.
Carl.

 

[ubbi]

Carl, thank you for your suggestion much appreciated, i know this figure from El Greco but i don't like the pose...

These on the left are bersekers , the Odin warriors, it is a drawn from an helmet from Vendel ( there are also warriors wearing helmets with horns, so it's not completely wrong to imagine a viking with a horn helmet...)




Stefano

 

[gorgosaurus]

These on the left are bersekers , the Odin warriors, it is a drawn from an helmet from Vendel ( there are also warriors wearing helmets with horns, so it's not completely wrong to imagine a viking with a horn helmet...)
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Stefano

Sorry, but there are some questios to be addressed here...

NONE of the Vendel helms excavated had horns themselves.

To date no horned helmet has been found in a Viking context.

The stamped plates on this helmet show a naked figure in a horned headress resembling a helmet, but it may represent a ritual event rather than battle, perhaps even an "idealised and mythological" figure, not a realistic one.
"Berserk" has been severally interpreted as "bear-shirt", "just-shirt" or "bereft-of-shirt" (bare chested/naked, thus the possible identification of the figure as a berserker). This could even represent a cultural memory of the horned helmets found in Scandinavian Bronze Age contexts which were very thin, clumsy and probably not intended for combat situations but have been found.

Lastly, although seax and knives have been found with runic inscriptions I know of none placed like this on the blade or having lacked a metal inlay. That doesn´t mean it´s impossible, just unlikely.

Spike.

 

[secutor]

Spectacular the "rune" on the blade!!!! a Masterpiece!!!
"Tal Robert"

 

[ubbi]

Sorry, but there are some questios to be addressed here...

NONE of the Vendel helms excavated had horns themselves.

To date no horned helmet has been found in a Viking context.

The stamped plates on this helmet show a naked figure in a horned headress resembling a helmet, but it may represent a ritual event rather than battle, perhaps even an "idealised and mythological" figure, not a realistic one.
"Berserk" has been severally interpreted as "bear-shirt", "just-shirt" or "bereft-of-shirt" (bare chested/naked, thus the possible identification of the figure as a berserker). This could even represent a cultural memory of the horned helmets found in Scandinavian Bronze Age contexts which were very thin, clumsy and probably not intended for combat situations but have been found.

Lastly, although seax and knives have been found with runic inscriptions I know of none placed like this on the blade or having lacked a metal inlay. That doesn´t mean it´s impossible, just unlikely.

Spike.

dear Spike I am agree with you, I only intended to show this drawn from a bronze plate of vendel type helmet, from my sources these kind of figures may rapresent the odin warriors , warriors which without any difensive armour fought with extremely ferocity probably under some drugs effects . They were completely devoted to the Odin cult and they thought themselves to be invurnerable with their god protection, probably also a sort of ritual kind of fight.. so they dressed themselves with characteristic of the animals often associated to the odin cult : the wolf, the hund, the bear and the raven, so they often used to wear the furs of these animals . I think also no so many people know that even the lombards ( who in ancient time came from Scandinavia had this kind of warriors wich wore hund heads and were so terrible that they drunk the enemy blood , you can read if you are a passionate of this period the " Historia Langobardorum " wrote by Paolo Diacono a lombard himself..)
If we look to the figure with the horn helmet, the horns are the necks with heads of a raven not simply horns. So my intention was that could be possible from this bronze plate source , the existence of these kind of helmets ...

Thank you for your interesting post

cheers

Stefano

 

[Mike - The Kiwi]

Sorry, but there are some questios to be addressed here...

...

Lastly, although seax and knives have been found with runic inscriptions I know of none placed like this on the blade or having lacked a metal inlay. That doesn´t mean it´s impossible, just unlikely.

Spike.

Hi Spike,

Agree runes on blade are speculative. I based these on some found on a spear head that research suggested could indicate the user's name, as well as a personal exhortation to his god. A personal preference aimed at adding a little 'extra' touch to this bust. Note these are painted on and not inscribed on the kit part.

There are some good online sources on the topic that I used as a guide to my approach & content of these.

Appreciate your comments, always enjoy learning something new.

Kind regards,

Mike

Michael J Butler
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Mike

 

[Scott777]

Just to let everyone know the kit is on the website now. I will be in Chicago also.