Queen Boudicca of the Iceni

[yak face]

Totally amazing scratchbuilding paul, its a real pleasure to watch this come together , looking forward to the next bit , cheers tony

[john i am]

Wow poetry in motion a pleasure to watch some serious skills you have I'll be watching this thread for sure keep it coming Paul

[papa 695]

Just seen this Paul. What a great project and what great work your doing keep it up and those pictures coming

[Guest]

thanks for the comments guys, I have to say im quite pleased with the results so far. Just another pic showing a bit more binding, its quite time consuming but only 2 to go

more to follow

Paul

[Guest]

Wow, sir you are an artist, fantastic job

[Guest]

Cheers Andrew, its much appreciated.

Just a picture of the finished chariot, well I say finished, there are a few more things to do but I cant do them until the horse team are finished.

So onto the horses and the figures, im going to do Boudicca last as im still not sure as to how im going to pose her. I want the whole thing to be pretty static, no flying cloaks, galloping horse etc, so the driver will be chilled against the side of the chariot, probably smoking a joint and wearing shades :shocking:

For the horses ill be using a couple of mini art horses converted and for the figures I have 2 mannequins. If you havnt used these and fancy a go at sculpting your own figures these are a great way to get started

Ill start on the guys trousers next as theres plenty of sanding to do on the horse

all for now

Paul

[Ian M]

Great job on the chariot it should look the bees what not when painted.

Where can you get the mannequin figures from? Never seen those before.

Ian M

[Guest]

Are you taking any length out the leg of the horse Paul, or are they more like "pony" size compared in scales to the Chariot?

That is if you're going for exactness

[Guest]

Ian thanks mate, the mannequins come from Michtoy in america, they do various scales male and female, i think Verlinden also do manequin figures as well

Colin, no im keeping them as they are, although as you have rightly said most celtic tribes only had ponies or cobbs, by the time of the battle of Watling Street in AD 60, the combined tribes had defeated the romans on several occaisions, its therefore possible that horses were taken from the romans and used for their benefit. The Roman scribe Tacitus also wrote that Boudiccas chariot was drawn by two white horses, i suppose then as now the press couldnt be taken for granted but ill give him the benefit of the doubt. It would also have been a minor alteration the change the yoke spa to accomodate a larger animal. The design of the celtic chariot was superior to the roman one. having suspension and a non rigid standing base, even the wheels were better as the roman wheel was made from segments at the rim, each segment being joined making those joints a weak spot, whereas the celtic wheel rim was a solid piece of Yew steamed around a former with only one joint.

more to follow soon

Paul

[Guest]

Fair enough Paul, there's definitely a possibility that some (originally) Spanish equines made their way over here. There's evidence that larger breeds were used in agriculture around AD100 so boudicca may have chosen a couple of nice beasts years before AD60.

P.C. Tacitus amassed incredible records of the empire that are still refered to today by archaeologists so we'll go with it. (Daft thing....he was French wasn't he?)

Incredible work on the chariot by the way sir

[Guest]

Thanks Colin glad you liked it

So started on the blokes strides, i have done these in the traditional way with leg bindings, they still need a lot of cleaning up and the creasage sorting

Im also going to make a start on the head and helmet, loads of designs to choose for the helmet so not sure which one to pick yet

Paul

[Guest]

After cleaning the legs up a bit i made the bottom of the shirt, and then on top of that i did the bottom part of the chainmail shirt

The chainmail was done with a syringe needle, purchased from my friendly vet, i filed the point down so that im left with a C section, and then indented the milliput in rows. first one way then turned the needle round for the next row and so on. This leaves a S shape indent in the milliput, its very time consuming but worth the effort

Paul

[Ian M]

Not sure what I admire most. The detail, your steady hand or your patience!!

Great stuff !

Ian M

[mossiepilot]

Just got caught up, and your work is brilliant Paul, fantastic scratch building mate.

Tony.

[Guest]

Amazing scratch build Paul...