The Roman gladiators.

[Dmitri Baev]

Dear friends
Internet shop Soga-Miniatures has on sale a figure of the gladiator "Provocator".
http://www.soga-miniatures.com/shop/index.php?categoryID=1379
Scale of 54 mm, white metal, a steel sword. Prise - 32 USD.

 

[gordy]

Nice anatomy

 

[megroot]

As i whas addicted to the serie Spartacus Blood and Sand i'm looking forward what you gonna do with this figure.

Marc

 

[Harry]

He's very good, and the pose is very unusual. Bravo also for doing something a bit different. All the other gladiator figures on the market are mid to late first century AD but this guy dates from sometime early in the reign of Augustus.

He looks to be based on the provocatores on the relief from Rome now in the Baths of Diocletian museum. The scale armour pectoral is like the ones shown on the Porta Stabiana relief from Pompeii. I don't know if one can flip the shield over to show the front, but the shield carried by the provocatores on the Pompeii relief looks like this:

 

[Joseph Brubaker]

I love action poses,and movement in pieces,beautiful thanks for posting........Joseph