Young Miniatures Roman Cavalry Officer - Theilenhofen Germany 2nd C. AD

[Blue Thunder]

Master by Lorenzo Nino Lorenzoni & Painting by Diego Ruina.


Here's the images

Let the talk begin! This one is going to vibe!

 

[captnenglish]

Not my period, so no critique, but it is too cool for words

 

[Gaudin]

Awesome! Have been following WIP's so it was a no brainer how it was going to turn out.

 

[kevininpdx]

Beautiful. I wish they would have finished the sword though.

 

[tonydawe]

I like the pale eye. A neat touch Diego. A cracking bust from Young, who seems to be in the midst of a Roman Revival. Long may it reign.

 

[Babelfish]

I dunno ..... that face doesn't work for me. I can see what the sculptor was trying to do (give him an aggressive, fearsome look with bared teeth) but I think it looks kind of unnatural.

Maybe it's just the paint-job on this occasion (which is not to say that the rest of it isn't up to the maestro Mr. Ruina's usual stellar standard). Wouldn't mind seeing it close up "in the resin". Will be very popular though I'm sure.

- Steve

 

[Colin_Fraser]

Great sculpting and superb painting, especially the metals. Not a big fan of that upper gums grimace.

 

[kevininpdx]

Great sculpting and superb painting, especially the metals. Not a big fan of that upper gums grimace.

LOL ya too much gum.

 

[FigureLover]

Looks like he is loosing his false teeth!!!!!! Terrible mouth but very nice everywhere else
Ben

 

[BigDaddy]

Dentures are showing. Bummer

 

[Gaudin]

Its not dentures. He is a cavalry officer for a reason

 

[zane666]

love the eye,not sure about the mouth, I think they got it better with the 5th hussar.

regards Zane

 

[merlino]

great work of sculpture and usual excellent painting of Diego; But the mouth can not look like ..... written by those who preceded me, you can imagine the idea of the sculptor, but the realization is very "unusual" ...... sin, it would be a masterpiece!

 

[Ferris]

Excellent sculpt and brilliant painting, but it also made me realize why I'm not a fan of busts.....I can't help thinking that grimmace is because he just accidentally chopped off his left arm! But that's just me, it's an excellent release that I'm sure will do well!

Cheers,
Adrian

 

[fabrizio1969]

the paintwork is superbe,but the teeth are wrong and ugly

 

[Mark S]

Looks like he is loosing his false teeth!!!!!! Terrible mouth but very nice everywhere else
Ben

My first impression was exactly the same Ben,...it really does look to me like he's let go a massive yell and then "shlop" the wood and ivory dentures have dropped....the rest is a very nice sculpt but I can't see past the former unfortunately.

 

[Colin_Fraser]

I guess the question is whether the top of the mouth is easily correctible to the average modeller with adding a wee bit of magic sculpt or miliput to bring down the top lip to cover the gums. I don't think that would would be the best approach because of the moustache. If I had it, I would drill out the top teeth and gums, resculpt the teeth higher and perhaps add the tongue to create an open mouthed yell. Probably doable for most modellers.

 

[megroot]

Beautifull work.

Marc

 

[Colin_Fraser]

Crf - What you say is all well & good but, why should we have to do all that work on a brand new kit?? Get that guy some Poly Grip before he looses his top dentures!! Oh - almost forgot - why back to back Roman releases from Young?? Dave

Just trying to be constructive rather than destructively critical, which anyone can do. It'a great piece save one minor issue and we don't even all seem to agree on that being a problem.

Cheers

 

[Perseas]

A different era of the Roman empire from what we use to see and in so close time from Young, after the cavarly officer of the 3rd century comes another cavarly officer of the 2nd century both in germany, for me romans are my favorite subject and now with all this time diversity i can see the evolution of the uniforms side by side.
I think that Young also likes Romans and having them placed in germany that means that next month we have to expect a ww2 german placed in Italy...
As for the mouth expression i guess it depicts "strength and honor" with a very personal way...