Excuse me.
I don’t understand.
What does it mean, for example, "….. or has the bubble burst for Pegaso"? I could not get a good translation!
Are you not happy of the production? The manufacture of the three figures does not seem bad (but I never criticize sculpture or painting of the pieces!). And about the prices I don’t know what to say, I never bought figurines of this company, but if you complain about all of this … VOX POPULI ... ...
Regarding the "Gallic Gladiator" just two simple lines and a photo, I am a bit jurisdiction about ancient roman world in general and of gladiators in this case ... and I have read that some figure is considered by You illustrious colleagues very fanciful! Well, not that putting a sleeve (“manica”) to a figure this subject became a gladiator!
Accordingly; i don't know the source from which the figure is taken.
The “Galli” (sing. “Gallus”) was one of the oldest gladiator classes, supposedly established by Caesar after the conquest of Gaul.
A depiction of fighters classified in this category is the relief from Bologna (Museo Civico), 1st Cent. af. Chr, in my opinion the two figures are "Galli" though the Ville propane, for the kneeling figure, an “essedarius” (“combatant on a chariot” why? – Hi is identical to other!).
However, the author Augenti identifies the couple as “Samnites” (but Livy - IX, 40 about Samnites, says - unambiguously - “Scuta alterius auro, alterius argento caelavarunt. Forma erat scuti, summum latius, qua pectus, atque humeri teguntur, fastigio aequali: ad imum cuneatior mobilitatis causa: spongia pectori tegumentum, et sinistrum crus ocrea tectum: galeae cristatae.”; a golden or silvered wedge-shaped down shields, a left greave - ocrea - and crested helmets; nothing everything on the two figures of Bologna's source!)
Lets look at the figures: both have a helmet due to the models Agen-Port (with wide circular brim and cheek-guards of adequate sized) and a shield ("scutum") from the elliptical shape identical to the models in use among the Celtic warriors. They wear a pair of anklets (metal?) equipped with a protection for the back of the feet and the right forearm of the figure is standing behind a trimmed short bracelet : no “manica” to the shoulder with a strap across his chest. Their only garment is a classic “Subligaculum” (narrow at the waist by a “cingulum” worked) from which hangs on the front, with a fringed draperies. Their weapon is due to a traditional “gladius” or, at most, a short model LaTène sword.
The two subjects are gladiators “Galli”, and as You'll see, have nothing to do with the included!
I think that a good figure must be as a house: have good foundations (documentation); if this base is missing, the figure is only a simply of sculpting and painting exercise
A valid figure must be composed by research, sculpture and paint; otherwise is a statue or a picture.
With these interventions I see that people (that pay!) become more sawy and does not more accept everything by firms that, by now with a good blazon, sometimes fall into real big flop.
But, I see what I have sown is take-root and is sprouting!
Congratulations again to the Staff of the freedom of speech in this site; in an italian forum this thread would be removed and You don’t forget I have been banned for uniformological corrections about three Italian firms (corrections never removed by some).
I forgot; the combatants in photo 2 are “Samnites”, and corresponds exactly to the words of Livy, though Augenti identified them as “Provocatores”; the two typologies of Gallus and Samnis gladiators are by myself rebuilt, and are in my collection.
Photos 1 e 2 from “Spettacoli del Colosseo, Augenti, Ed. “l’ Erma” di Bretschneider; photo 1 page 117 - Bologna, Museo Civico; photo 2 page 103 - Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano alle Terme.
