New Releases from Nocturna Models

[Kirtles]

Nocturna have recently announced 2 new releases & Jesus Martin from Nocturna has asked me to post the details here.
They are both 1/32nd Resin cast figures:-
1) The Minstrel (El Juglar) By Alfonso Gozalo (see also http://www.planetfigure.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30846&highlight=nocturna )

2) The Gatekeeper by Pedro Fernandez

Both of the box art paintings are by Jesus Martin

More details are on Nocturna's website:-

http://www.nocturnamodels.com

I have also recently received these superb models into stock in the UK - happy to ship worldwide

Steve Kirtley
www.skminiatures.co.uk

 

[Major_Goose]

Nice pieces, i like the Minstrel a lot !!!!

COstas

 

[megroot]

That minstrel is awesome.
Spotted some more figure's on there site.
Gonna look over them at Euro. Hopefully somebody has them in stock for a reasonable price in Euro's.

Marc

 

[Kirtles]

Marc,

I'll have them at Euro - I'm sure we can work an exchange rate out...

Steve
www.skminiatures.co.uk

 

[davidmitchell]

Started painting my version of the Minstrel today, its a fantastic figure which is full of character.

Cheers David

 

[JGREEN]

The minstrel looks great! That instrument would need some strings though, and that glass would be VERY difficult to pull off, i.e. make it look realistic.

Jason

 

[Figure Mad]

I think I will gets me one of the minstrels

David - will it be at Euro......?

Jason - just looking at the goblet that he is holding, the style of it is the turned wooden type, that was plentiful in them there olden days, so no need to do it in glass........ but I agree with the strings.....


Dave

 

[megroot]

Marc,

I'll have them at Euro - I'm sure we can work an exchange rate out...

Steve
www.skminiatures.co.uk

I'm sure we speak eachother then.

Marc

 

[JGREEN]

I think I will gets me one of the minstrels

David - will it be at Euro......?

Jason - just looking at the goblet that he is holding, the style of it is the turned wooden type, that was plentiful in them there olden days, so no need to do it in glass........ but I agree with the strings.....


Dave

Ah, thanks for the info Dave! That'd make it much easier to paint (and explains the way it looks in the box art).

Jason

 

[davidmitchell]

Hi Dave might just manage to get it ready for Euro,seem to be getting a lot more painting done this Year.

Cheers David

 

[Kandor8]

Ordered the minstrel from The Red Lancers yesterday. I'm thinking strands of hair for the strings, and a lot of swearing.

 

[Figure Mad]

Just got mine, its a lovely piece, not had a good enough chance to look at the string option, but gonna look at very small electric motor windings, very thin copper wire for the strings, it may work, or of course ethernet leads, break one down to the wires see how thin they are.

Dave

 

[Edward]

I'm definitely going to get one of these! I don't think making strings is all that necessary at that scale to be honest..

 

[Kirtles]

It's going to be interesting to see where this strings/no strings debate goes.....

Steve
www.skminiatures.co.uk

 

[frank h]

Hi Just to add to this ....sounds complicated ....LOL

Think Given the scale an approximation in light and shade might cover it

Frank

Strings
Strings were historically made of gut (or sometimes in combination with metal), and are still made of gut or a synthetic substitute, with metal windings on the lower-pitched strings. Modern manufacturers make both gut and nylon strings, and both are in common use. Gut is more authentic, though it is also more susceptible to irregularity and pitch instability due to changes in humidity. Nylon, less authentic, offers greater tuning stability but is, of course, anachronistic.

Of note are the "catlines" used as basses on historical instruments. Catlines are several gut strings wound together and soaked in heavy metal solutions which increase the mass of the strings. Catlines can be quite large in diameter by comparison with wound nylon strings for the same pitch. They produce a bass which is somewhat different in timbre from nylon basses.

The lute's strings are arranged in courses, usually of two strings each, though the highest-pitched course usually consists of only a single string, called the chanterelle. In later Baroque lutes 2 upper courses are single. The courses are numbered sequentially, counting from the highest pitched, so that the chanterelle is the first course, the next pair of strings is the second course, etc. Thus an 8-course Renaissance lute will usually have 15 strings, and a 13-course Baroque lute will have 24.

The courses are tuned in unison for high and intermediate pitches, but for lower pitches one of the two strings is tuned an octave higher. (The course at which this split starts changed over the history of the lute.) The two strings of a course are virtually always stopped and plucked together, as if a single string, but in extremely rare cases a piece calls for the two strings of a course to be stopped and/or plucked separately. The tuning of a lute is a somewhat complicated issue, and is described in a separate section of its own, below. The result of the lute's design is an instrument extremely light for its size.

 

[Figure Mad]

Hi Frank

What if its a Mandolin, which if I am correct had a longer neck and less strings.

Dave

 

[megroot]

Dave
I don't think its a mandoline. They had 4 pairs of strings. Came populair from 18 century.
I think it is a more a lute, but then the bridge should be at a angle of 90 degree. It's more likely that this is a lute, and the bridge could be easely correct.
LUTE

Mandoline

The Lute became very populair from the 10 century till the 17 century where the mandoline began his popularity.

I got back to the picture of the figure and i see the neck is 90 degree's bend.So the discussion Lute of Mandoline is off. It's defenitely a LUTE


Marc