Viking's girlfriend dress

[Kamil Feliks Sztarbala]

I'm working with that nice duet I don't know which colour of that gilrls dress will be the best- red, green aor white? Maybe other? What is Your opinion?
Kamil

 

[Roc]

An off white with be nice. Roc.

 

[Edson]

i guess in that time, they (the "happy" girlfriends) not have a great variety of colors to choose, so maybe anycolors is good, in that the final word is yours.

Cheers
Ed

 

[Uruk-Hai]

I must insist that you carve away the horns as no vikings had horned helmet.
Depict the figure as a celt, Iberian etc but no horns on a viking.

Due to trade routes the viking society could have the best of dyes and linen. However as this seems to be a captive probably from England, Ireland or France Id suggest something green, brown or wool white.

 

[Kamil Feliks Sztarbala]

Originally posted by Uruk-Hai@Feb 18 2004, 12:58 AM

Due to trade routes the viking society could have the best of dyes and linen. However as this seems to be a captive probably from England, Ireland or France Id suggest something green, brown or wool white.

Thanks!! that what i'm asking for

Salut
Kamil

P.S. previous post is mine of course

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Originally posted by Guest+Feb 17 2004, 04:11 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Guest @ Feb 17 2004, 04:11 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Uruk-Hai@Feb 17 2004, 03:58 PM
no horns on a viking.

I know that- but with horns it looks better than witout [/b][/quote]
Not to me, shipmate. <_<

This is not personal, being scandinavian with vikings as one of my main interests I always will do my best kill and bury the myth of vikings with horned helmets.

This is Wagners fault due to his imagination. :angry:

The only things that annoys me more are people claiming the authency of the "Kensington Rhune Stone".

Please call it a celt instead?

 

[Johan]

being scandinavian with vikings as one of my main interests I always will do my best kill and bury the myth of vikings with horned helmets

Uruk, I guess you consider the Poste Mil viking by Keith Durham to be an excellent figure - do you have any good suggestions for colours of dress items and shield of that one? Would it be a good idea to paint a stylised Raven on the shield, and if so where could I find an illustration of that?

... if I ever paint that figure (it's in my grey army...) I'd prefer to paint it properly, so that Odin, who dwells in the halls of Valhalla, will approve of my work...

 

[Kamil Feliks Sztarbala]

Uruk,

Please call it a celt instead

As You wish..

Could Yopu give me some more informations and syggestions 'bout painting?

 

[Anders Heintz]

I think your blues are really good mate, nice highlighting. Did you decide on a color for the gal's dress yet? Keep us posted

 

[Uruk-Hai]

"A furore normannorum libera nos domine"

Sztarbi.
Im not sure about what you want suggestions upon. Please specify. Personally I would make some of the ornamentation on the "Spangenhelmed" inspired helmet with perhaps brass. If the helmet itself is in dark steel the ornaments could very well be in silver.
The garment of the breast have always been interpetated as leather as me although Ive seen it painted as metal several times. Elkhide was very popular to cover shields as well for body armour. Elkhide has always been in rich supply an were used commonly in scandinavian armies up til the 30 years war.

Johan.
The PM viking was one of the best viking figures when it was new. Even still good its not the best on the market.
The best way is to imagen what kind of viking is this and what is his background. Newbie-veteran. Simple weapons, new shield versus wellused shield and weapons with engravings.
Rich-poor. If the later simple clothing coloured in earth colours and if rich he should have astoninshing fabrics perhaps of oriental production.
And so on. This to determine what kind of clothing and fabric he would be wearing. Simple, extra vaganza or in between.
A Hird(levy)man could be carrying a ring as a token from his chief as this was a popular give away to good and loyal warriors.
Very little foundings has been made considering shield and theres nothing suggestioning that they were painted. Not in finds or in paintings and drawings from that time. Perhaps only simple patterns or fields.
Raven has been used on standards at several occasions. This as ravens have a very dominating role in war. Firstly as a battle field scavenger and secondly Oden the lord of the gods has two ravens as servants, namely Hugin and Munin which translates to "Thought" and "Action".

Heres a pic of a raven from genuine viking art:

More of that:

Perhaps this could be used as inspiration:

More inspiration for shields can be found at the Foundre website, but caution, one must be very selective:
Foundry

And Johan, at the next "Blot" Ill tell Oden youve said "Hello".

 

[Johan]

Thank you, Uruk; very interesting ... Yes, I know about the Raven being the "battle-bird", and also the companions of Odin. Interestingly, the native Americans also regard Raven as a bird of the gods...

It seems indeed that Ravens "associated" somehow with Vikings... perhaps these intelligent creatures could understand the link between the Vikings and impending deaths on the battlefield - which, in Raven's language, probably simply meant "food"!

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Another expression for littering the battle field with fallen enemys would translate to: "Feeding the eagle."

This is often seen on rhunestones tributet to vikings fallen in places far away.

Norse poetry is mostly consisting of renaming things with sentence synonyms.
Gold for example is translated to: "Tears of Freja." This as when she wept the tears turned into solid gold.

The ravens place in many myths is surely depending on its intelligence. And that it could be taught to speak.

"Nevermore." as Edgar Allen would have put it.

 

[Johan]

And that it could be taught to speak.

... and count to 10, too...

and in fact Odin could not have chosen better birds as his messengers, because there is no better long-distance flyer or intelligent and sharp-eyed bird as the Raven; in fact, it's flying capacities are unmatched (they outfly birds of prey with ease).


so far biology class! :lol:

 

[frank h]

Hi Uruk, Johan, Kamil

What a wealth of knowledge I have Just gleaned
and all figure related surely this is what the planet is all about.

To think, it all started about the colour of a girl captives dress
My thought is off white to grey heavily weathered and distressed

Thanks for the viking info

Frank

 

[johnbrewer]

I may be a bit late for this one. But I think there used to be and may still be a site on delhpi forums by the Viking Woman. I think that was the name of the site as well, not too sure about that. Hopefully this may help

 

[pipetrepid]

Re: Viking's girlfriend dress

an earth tone would certainly seem appropriate! bill

 

[Paul Kernan]

Re: Viking's girlfriend dress

Janne

Horned Vikings, Romans with red tunics and William Wallace (Braveheart) wearing kilt, long hair and WOAD!!! Hollywood has a lot to answer for

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Well thats hell of a thread-bump!

I guess its you and me against Hollywood, Paul!?
Shall we threaten them to cut of the Latte supply if they dont better themselves?

And Johan, any pics of the finnished piece?

Cheers
Janne Nilsson

 

[Showlen]

I agree with Rocco; an off-white / creme color would accent well with the skin tone and other colors you're going with.

-Ronnie

 

[TWOMOONS]

Always loved that figure...it must be out there now at least thirty years or so...Beautiful job. Is that part of what was sold as "Lindesfarne"?
Wow, those monks had pretty girls around.
What would Hollywood be if it portrayed all these heroes accurately? It's always been so....does any remember the sun rising over the South China sea in the west in "The Green Berets" with the Duke? That's really stretching it...and the flap over "Objective Burma" (probably before most members time...even mine)...where Flynn led the Americans through all the heroics? John Wayne as Ghengis Khan (The Conquerer)?
The portrayal of Native Americans in the past though, wins the prize, IMO.
Charlie Buchinski (Bronson) as Chato. Burt Lancaster in "Apache". Robert Blake (Robert Gubitosi) as every Indian, everywhere. Anthony Quinn as Crazy horse?
A word about ravens: they are extremely intelligent--as are all members of the blackbird genus...Crows are off the charts.
But the sharpest eyed bird species of all is the owl...it has thousands of more cells in it's eye than any other creature on earth. Night vision; it's eyes are so big, it can't rotate it's eyeballs to well, so it uses it's whole head to scope things out.