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Another commission, Art of War's 1/10 scale kit of Guts on horse back.
It's an old kit released in 2001, but as the description presses; a really well produced kit.
For the base, I wanted to recreate the charge at Doldrey.
The kit comes with 2 heads, one helm less smirking as hell and one helm clad one looking... well, bored.
The commissioner decided to follow my idea transplanting the smirking face onto the helmed head:
As the kit is pretty big demanding a wide base and as Guts is charging into battle, I wanted to cram as many vital details as possible into the presentation.
The commissioner agreed, and I came up with the idea of Guts jumping over a battle field obstacle:
For the presentation base I noticed that my old humidor lid was quite perfect size wise:
Some plaster of Paris, desert sand and a wash later:
Populating the base...
Stray arrows from distant archers:
A water barrel being crushed by the steed's right hoof:
Water will be splashing further on...
And an abandoned shield + a halberd banner:
I got the inspiration for the shield from this manga frame:
The halberd banner/flag... well, I browsed the manga and the art book back and forth till I noticed this lil' banner in the art book. Quite suiting i think... ;)
The one to the far left. That - is - the - Swedish - Flag!!!
All, save the barrel dry mounted on the dry brushed base to look like this:
Another commission, Art of War's 1/10 scale kit of Guts on horse back.
It's an old kit released in 2001, but as the description presses; a really well produced kit.
For the base, I wanted to recreate the charge at Doldrey.
The kit comes with 2 heads, one helm less smirking as hell and one helm clad one looking... well, bored.
The commissioner decided to follow my idea transplanting the smirking face onto the helmed head:
As the kit is pretty big demanding a wide base and as Guts is charging into battle, I wanted to cram as many vital details as possible into the presentation.
The commissioner agreed, and I came up with the idea of Guts jumping over a battle field obstacle:
For the presentation base I noticed that my old humidor lid was quite perfect size wise:
Some plaster of Paris, desert sand and a wash later:
Populating the base...
Stray arrows from distant archers:
A water barrel being crushed by the steed's right hoof:
Water will be splashing further on...
And an abandoned shield + a halberd banner:
I got the inspiration for the shield from this manga frame:
The halberd banner/flag... well, I browsed the manga and the art book back and forth till I noticed this lil' banner in the art book. Quite suiting i think... ;)
The one to the far left. That - is - the - Swedish - Flag!!!
All, save the barrel dry mounted on the dry brushed base to look like this: