Mercator

While I'm working on the Arnhem Group Build Project I will show some figures I painted in the almost one year I wasn't actice at Blogger.

This was the Crisis 2011 figure. He is best known for his work in cartography, in particular the world map of 1569 based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing as straight lines. He was the first to use the term "atlas" for a collection of maps.

More info on wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerardus_Mercator

I painted this figure for the painting competition on 2015 FIGZ meeting. I won third price with it! Just a joke because there were only two prizes to win!

It was a joy to paint this figure. A bit bigger as my normal 20 mm figures, as this is a 28 mm figure, and for that reason a bit more difficult because of the details that are better visible. The painting scheme is taken from a picture I found somewhere on the WWW. The brown globe should be historical correct as can be seen in the Wiki link.

I hope you like him.

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Joseph, Marquis de Séguiran, Sieur de Bouc

This is the CRISIS 2013 figure which every visitor recieve when he enters the show. The only information I have about this figure is what is written on a little note that comes with it. "Joseph, Marquis de Séguiran, Sieur de Bouc, Colonel du Régiment de Maine, killed at the Battle of Eeckeren in 1703 (Near the TSA clubhouse". Information aboiut that battle I found on Wiki, but nothing about the person. You can find it here. The figure is sculpted by Paul Hicks and the casting by Griffin Moulds.

It wouldn't be me if I didn't have a story about this little work. In fact I have two of these figures. One of my own and the other (the one on the picture) well, is now standing on the cupboard of my mother. At the show I've met someone of our family and we agreed to see eachother at my mothers home to have a little chat. It was he who gave this figure at my mother. When he has left, my mother said to me that she would like to see it painted. Only, she said it joking. I didn't take it as a joke and I had the idea to paint it and give it back to her as a little Christmas gift. So I did and here you can see the result of this "joke". The base is made by my good friend Dalibor from Croatia.

Enough blabla but some more pictures!

I hope you like him!

Pictures of the show can be found here.

More pictures of CRISIS figures can be found here.

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Dull Gret – Mad Meg

This is the Crisis 2009 figure. The figure is bases on a painting of “Pieter Breughel de Oude” which he painted in 1562.

If you want to read more about this subject, you can find it here.

Enjoy the pictures!

As you can see I’ve painted her a bit different as shown on the painting. I based my painting on this:

Childhood memories?
How do they call in your country?

I hope you liked the figure!

A new friend arrived:

Rosbif (Monsieur le Rosbif & Johnny Frog)

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Buck Rider

Today I present to you a figure which was presented to all visitors on the big war-game event last November in Antwerp, Belgium: Crisis

Normally I don’t paint 28mm figures, I’m not a war gamer but a figure painter, but here I make an exception. It’s the figure of the meeting 2010.

Great bandit, isn't it!

Hope you like him ;-)

Crisis11: 05-11-2011

If you want some more information about the legend about the buck riders you can find it here 

And I say welcome to the following friends:

Porky (Porky's Expance), Ray (Don't Throw a one), Carloantonio (militaryminiatures), Benno (Benno's Figures), Paulalba (napoleonicsinminiature) and Thanos (Miniatures & Terrain).

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