#HistoricalFigureAlong - Apr - May 2024

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calm zealot
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Paint a mini or figure representing an actual existing historical faction from any time.

STANDARD HOUSEKEEPING RULES :

You may prep your mini, this includes, gap fill, assemble, purchase and prime ahead of time. Paint should only be applied during the time-frame of the PAL.

Anyone can join in on the fun. Just share your mini first and paint within the time frame. Request your points in the point request channel by following the pinned post on how to ask for points.

You can't submit the same mini for multiple PALs or other multiple events. And units minis can't be split among the different PALS if they are identical .

Have fun and be nice to each other. Share some wips and some laughs.

calm zealot
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@subtle bridge @vivid vapor @velvet sonnet @quiet imp and @cosmic jacinth

quiet imp
vivid vapor
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Oh man. I forgot I said I’d do this. Did we decide that busts still count or are we going straight full figures?

calm zealot
calm zealot
quiet imp
calm zealot
vivid vapor
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We’ve got a month. I can ship you a 75mm Roman, it should get overseas in time

quiet imp
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Oh wait. It must have been my landsknecht bust. God I do not feel ready to tackle that yet…

subtle bridge
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Okay. April start it is.

rose helm
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I mostly end up painting Historicals so I’m looking forward to this. Just the excuse I needed to continue working on two lion rampant armies

velvet sonnet
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i need to decide what mini to paint ...

jovial walrus
velvet sonnet
subtle bridge
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I’m going to aim to do this guy. I have another WW2 German on the go so I can use the excuse to finish the other as well.

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hollow nest
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just writing here to remebeer to join this pal

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also, we have two months time frame right?

vivid vapor
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Yes, 1st April - 31st May to complete

hollow nest
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nice

hollow nest
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enetering the PAL with this one

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velvet sonnet
hollow nest
velvet sonnet
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FeR miniatures I mean

hollow nest
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nope, on the box there is written "tartar miniatures"

velvet sonnet
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Tartar is good brand 👍

jovial walrus
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Does the mini for this need to be sculpted specifically as a particular historical figure? I'd like to paint this pirate mini as Captain Diego "el Mulato" Martín. He was an Afro-Cuban pirate captain in the 1600s. He allied himself with the Dutch and lead a prosperous career of vengeance against his Spanish enslavers.

He's a difficult historical figure to get much info on because he wasn't white, and he also liked to go by aliases a lot. Seems he had quite a vengeful streak against the Spanish, but quite a merciful streak when robbing other nationalities.

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The mini would be during the years after his escape from Havana while working his way up in the pirate world with the Dutch. The chest on his shoulder signifying perhaps an early success.

velvet sonnet
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This is Caribbean pirate so this is OK

velvet sonnet
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I MAY paint this, not sure yet. dry fitting in process.

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vivid vapor
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Bigchild Roman guy?

velvet sonnet
vivid vapor
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Ah, cool. I was curious because I have a couple of the BCC Romans but didn’t remember seeing a standard bearer

velvet sonnet
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lol, I have this figure for years and finally I have a chance to paint it.

subtle bridge
velvet sonnet
subtle bridge
velvet sonnet
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It's manageable 😙

velvet sonnet
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5 days to start HISTORICAL FIGURE ⏰

scarlet knot
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Hi my friends, I'm going with this one, Agamenón from Art Girona - 54mm, for me an extra challenge, in addition to the theme because it's not fantasy 😅, the size since I really like painting is 28mm. 😃

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scarlet knot
# jovial walrus Great looking sculpt, and a cool choice of historical/myth figures. Should be a ...

Yes great sculpt from Adriano Laruccia, my first contact with fantasy was when I was exposed to Greek and Roman mythology as a child, my mother read it to me. I remember as soon as I started reading one of the first books I read during the school holidays was a youth version of the Odyssey, with the return of Ulysses from the Trojan War, this figure is a historical almost fantasy, that way I feel closer to home 🥰

velvet sonnet
scarlet knot
# velvet sonnet White metal mini! My man. What a fancy shield.

I have to motivate myself with this figure and paint the others from the same brand that I have here, I had the opportunity to visit the factory in Girona and see the entire collection, it's difficult to leave without buying and historical ones are not my favorites but the antiquity period has Amazing things! 😍

velvet sonnet
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it's nicely sculpted. 👍

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have fun and go wild

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I can imagine that if I visit Pegaso

ripe moon
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Boudica (Celtic iceni tribe, led (failed) rebelion against the Roman empire in Britain) from Hasslefree. Not a historical figure maker, so probably not fully historically correct stylistically (about half the cloth you would expect 😉 ) Would this still work for this?

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velvet sonnet
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it's nice

jovial walrus
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Summer party Boudica 🙂

ripe moon
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Hmmm alternative idea. Now I do not know which one I want to do most. Second idea is way more time consuming even though it is smaller scale. They are incredibly detailed for the scale. And i would have to sculpt part of the diorama. The fencing at the least.

Found these 2 15mm scale medieval lancers on horseback. They are perfect to make a joust tournament scene.

Which one would you people like me to tackle... Boudica or the 15 mm joust diorama?

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subtle bridge
ripe moon
# subtle bridge How big is your motivation?

Big enough to tackle either one.
The joust is a more unique project which is motivating in its own right. Boudica is just painting. Both seem fun so no wrong answer. Just cant make my mind up. So a little nudge either way from you guys would be enough to sway me.

subtle bridge
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Visually the joust scene would look better.

jovial walrus
ripe moon
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Allrighty.. joust it is. Sparked creativity... already catching myself brainstorming how to build it so thats promising. And need minor conversions. Both lances are more or less pointed upwards. Want them more forward facing.

vivid vapor
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Countdown is on.

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scarlet knot
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Basecoated!

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subtle bridge
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With less time than I’d anticipated, I decided to switch up my Historical figure and go with something a bit simpler. Spanish Knight from Elite. Very nice Mike Blank sculpt.

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light lion
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Dark age Irish warriors from Atlantic, I think. I'll have to put one together.

velvet sonnet
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atm I feel I'll paint this for the PAL (will decide later)

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hollow nest
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i was almost about to quit as i lost a shield but after 2 hours searching i found it😅

velvet sonnet
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shield is for weak happydad

light lion
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Cement is drying, next to prime.

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signal totem
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!join join Saracens

hollow nest
scarlet knot
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Starting my Agamemón's skin

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vivid vapor
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Sketching tonight

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vivid vapor
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Stopping here for now

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hollow nest
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finished heraldry and started sketching NMM

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honestly one of those day where i enjoyed painting more than i usually do

ripe moon
hollow nest
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thanks!

hollow nest
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nmm nees some fixes in certain place and i still need to figure out how to make that helmet nmm

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light lion
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Primed up

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hollow nest
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reworked nmm a bit, arms still have to be worked on

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solar birch
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Decided to finally start Eliot Ness from the scarface boardgame pepecheer

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solar birch
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Managed to finish it today between work breaks, with the help of some xpress paints

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hollow nest
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almsot ready for the shield

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velvet sonnet
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🕵️

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subtle bridge
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Been trimming the metal base to fit this plinth I’ve got.

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light lion
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Adding a little color

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hollow nest
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only dagger and sword missing

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jovial walrus
# hollow nest finished!

Nice job, that looks great! You handled the light on the metal very well so that it's pleasant from all angles.

hollow nest
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thank you!

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i usually give two light sources one high on the right corner and one high on the back left corner

scarlet knot
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Advanced a little, adding light.

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ripe moon
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Distracted by the other pals. But made the base for the base. Hopefully some paint on the horses today.

ripe moon
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Ok change of plan. Little disaster. One of the horses and its knight (not painted yet so no work lost) dropped of the table. And... well I moved my chair back to pick it up... and drove the chairwheel over the duo.

Lets say it does not look pretty for either (converted knight arm had the pinning pin tear through the metal, horse broke two hooves off) I might be able to repair with quite a bit of work/resculpt... but I really do not feel like it, especially at 15mm scale. The other horse/knight is unharmed. So I'll finish that one solo on a small base instead (probably not for this PAL, maybe as a little bonus).

So Boudica is back on the table.

scarlet knot
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“Tacitus wrote many years after the rebellion, but his father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola was an eyewitness to the events, having served in Britain as a tribune under Suetonius Paulinus during this period.[2]
Cassius Dio began his history of Rome and its empire about 140 years after Boudica's death. Much is lost and his account of Boudica survives only in the epitome of an 11th century Byzantine monk, John Xiphilinus. He provides greater and more lurid detail than Tacitus, but in general his details are often fictitious.[5][6]…
…No contemporary description of Boudica exists. Dio, writing more than a century after her death, provided a detailed description of the Iceni queen (translated in 1925): "In stature she was very tall, in appearance most terrifying, in the glance of her eye most fierce, and her voice was harsh; a great mass of the tawniest hair fell to her hips; around her neck was a large golden necklace; and she wore a tunic of divers colours over which a thick mantle was fastened with a brooch. This was her invariable attire."[14][15][note 2]”

From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudica

Boudica

Boudica or Boudicca (, from Brythonic *boudi 'victory, win' + *-kā 'having' suffix, i.e. 'Victorious Woman', known in Latin chronicles as Boadicea or Boudicea, and in Welsh as Buddug (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈbɨðɨɡ])) was a queen of the ancient British Iceni tribe, who led a failed uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire in AD 6...

jovial walrus
scarlet knot
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Kevin White's sculpture seems quite credible to me, the Celts wore little clothing, it was common for warriors to fight with their chests bare, some people in the region in this period looked more like indigenous people.

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This is after from Boudicca

ripe moon
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Think she is cool. Will have fun painting her, the fiery hair and the patterned cloth. So I am not really that bothered that the joust fell through. Would have liked to do both, but I will settle for this 🙂

ripe moon
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Boudica done.

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light lion
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A Gallic warrior!

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scarlet knot
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Earlier, I did some more work on the NMM, now with the leather strap across the chest.

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scarlet knot
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Working on NMM and face

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scarlet knot
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Taking advantage of the momentum, I worked a little on this other historic that has been sitting in the pile for a long time…

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jovial walrus
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I offer up for your perusal, my Historical Figure Along mini --

Captain Diego "el Mulato" Martín was a renowned Afro-Cuban pirate captain in the 17th century. Born into Spanish slavery in Cuba, Diego escaped to freedom and embraced a life of piracy. He formed an alliance with the Dutch and went on to lead a successful and vengeful campaign against his former Spanish enslavers, exacting revenge for his past suffering.

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scarlet knot
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scarlet knot
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Done!

jovial walrus
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It's been a cool experience watching old agememnon come to life. The end result is beautiful! Your attention to detail for every little thing is outstanding.

scarlet knot
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I'm also going to finish Atila, which I started in 2012 from a class I took with Fernando Ruiz and I never finished, practically 2 figures at the same time now, I can't believe it!

velvet sonnet
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deadline fighter

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quiet imp
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Very nice