Queen Boudicca of the Iceni

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Ian cheers mate, they say the devils in the detail, my right hands steady its the left that shakes :sadcry:

Tony and Polux many thanks hopefully another update later

Paul

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Just a small update, ive done the front part of the mail shirt, and also the helmet with some changes to the face as well

Just the back to do

Paul

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Absolutely amazing work

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Thanks Joep glad you like it

Just a couple of pics today, the back of the mail shirt

And the belt made from .25mm styrene, the buckle is stretched spru

all for now

Paul

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That's brilliant Paul

The needle trick has been stored in my grey matter for later thanks

Is the head gear going to be the style with the leather cap and metal helm?

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Cheers Colin, yeah its not bad and it gives quite a good chainmail effect, The helmet will be all metal with cheek guards ah la Roman style, or i might go with scaled type cheek guards i havnt decided yet. Im going to do some kind of celtic design on the helmet as well so ill have to get the steady hands out of storage

Paul

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next step was to make the cloak, i always find these tricky, mainly because theres an awful lot of milliput to mess around with and to try and stop it sticking to its self. one way is to make it in sections but on this occaision ive done it in one bit

Ive then sat him on the chariot so that it hardens in the right position. once its gone off ill add some more creases and sand it down

Paul

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Keep up the good work Paul.

Could be very satisfactory knowing is all do it with your own hands

Best regards

Polux

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That's amazing work Paul ....

I quite like the addition of the 1st century pot of revel glue

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Thanks Joep glad you like itJust a couple of pics today, the back of the mail shirt

And the belt made from .25mm styrene, the buckle is stretched spru

all for now

Paul

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Absolutely fantastic. I've been following this and I'm in awe of your skill and patience Paul. ............ Syringe needle??? That must have taken ages.........?????

But I have a question.............. I'm not big on history, at least ancient stuff. But, and I know I'm leaving myself wide open for a kicking here, The good Queen Boudicea was tooling around AD60 ish, and I understand the Roman Soldier types were among the first to use "Buckles" .......... But did the good Queen's people have them as well???? ...... This isn't a criticism Paul far from it ......... I just saw the buckle and the question just sort of lept into my addled brain. No doubt I'm wrong................

Peter

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Sorry for chipping in here ....... I'm a bit geeky about Archaeology.

The Romans actively used buckles to fasten their armour and its common to say they had "the franchise" on the idea.

There were two other examples of buckle fastening found ... one from France which was dated around the same period so they could have found/copied the idea, the other was Swedish which was dated around 300 -500 years before. Seeing as we had lots off visitors from that side of the north sea its entirely feasible that the iceni (or any brythonic tribe) could have had this utility years before the romans.

Again sorry for slightly hijacking your thread Paul.

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No problem Colin, there are examples of buckles in the British museum that pre date this era by hundreds of years. and although the word buckle comes from the latin buccula, or cheek strap, as in for a helmet, there have been many decorative as well as functional uses for buckles and there are examples of buckles from around 500bc in Egypt. We also have to consider the fact that, as with the horses, many soldiers would strip the trappings from a vanquished foe, and it was not uncommon for the tribes to wear parts from Roman armour, which at the time was the state of the art gear, in deed in my time in the army ive purloined many a piece of U.S. military equipment, all above board you understand.

Thanks for the question Peter, I don't find it a criticism at all, in fact if I get something wrong please let me know, theres nothing worse than finishing a sculpt and then finding out that its not correct, and how else would we be able to improve our talents without criticism

thanks for looking in,more to follow

Paul

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Just one small update today, while the cloak was hardening I decided to make his sword, I used 1mm styrene and 2mm styrene rod with .25mm styrene for the strapping

first the basic shape of the scabbard, I then added the metal to the throat and the locket at the open end and the chape at the bottom end

I then added some strapping with .25mm styrene

and finally the hilt and guard with a V pommel at the end

Final pic just gives you some idea of the scale, again I probably could have gone for a Roman Gladius, which were well made, but the Iceni as well as many other tribes were expert metal workers.

all for now

Paul

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Superb work again paul , keep those updates coming , cheers tony