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April Duel

Please choose your winner

Poll ended at 30 Apr 2017, 21:55

My Life for my Wife
8
40%
St. Crispin's Day
12
60%
 
Total votes : 20

Posted by Dad's Army on 23 Apr 2017, 21:55

This is duel nr.160 folks!

The rules this time were:

The duel against mister X, who will duel every month..
- no base
- Italeri English Knight
- montly duel mister X
- 2 pictures

You have a week to choose your winner.
Once again gentlemen take your places and may the best painter win.
Please leave comments after the duel has finished


"My Life for my Wife"

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"St. Crispin's Day"


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Dad's Army  Netherlands

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Posted by Dad's Army on 01 May 2017, 09:50

And another duel has come to a end...
The winner is Mr. "X" with his entry "St. Crispin's Day"
He was up against Ralph (Strolch) with his cool entry "My Life for my Wife"
Also a job well done, but didn't recieve enough votes to win.
Thanks for dueling both, I hope someone will follow your excample and pick another month!

Congrats to mr "X" and bring on the next duel!!!
Who is next???
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Posted by Ben90 on 01 May 2017, 13:29

Thanks to both duellers! A pretty close duel at the beginning...
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Posted by Strolch on 01 May 2017, 18:36

Congratulations Mr. X :thumbup:

Thank you for the duel :-D

Your figure have some more details than my one :thumbup:

Good luck for your next duel ;-)
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Posted by Peter on 01 May 2017, 19:53

Congrats to both with a very nice duel! :thumbup:

@Strolch: I would like to see more work of you! This one doesn't look bad at all! ;-) :thumbup:
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Posted by Bluefalchion on 01 May 2017, 19:56

Good job Strolch. I like the face, wood-staff handle, and leg armor of your entry better than the one from Mr. X. The shirt of Mr. X's man turned out a bit better to my eyes.
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Posted by Kekso on 02 May 2017, 10:38

Regarding painting quality it was tough choice. So I voted for funnier title ;-)
Thank you both for dueling.
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Posted by Bluefalchion on 21 Jan 2019, 17:42

This was the first 13th-14th century figure I painted in my life. Since I was not too familiar with the period, I had to do a lot of research to find plausible colors. I set out consciously to make the shirt over the chain mail as detailed as I could swing it. I got the red on a little too thick, which made the lions a bit tough to paint. Also, the face ended up looking better in real life than it did in this photo. The title was obviously intended to evoke that great English victory at Agincourt.

Since it was April (Spring), I thought it would be fun to have a green background, although I ended up never doing that again. Strolch had a really nice entry, and it ended up being a pretty close duel. Dalibor stated that he voted for the funnier title, but I'm afraid I don't get the joke.

One last note: after this duel, I decided to stop leaving a black line visible between colors on the figure. Some other painters seem to be able to pull that off better than I am able to.
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Posted by Susofrick on 22 Jan 2019, 08:45

This was also a great duel. I have no idea how I voted, but it doesn't matter that much. I am very fond of this diary from you. It is very nice reading!
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Posted by Bluefalchion on 22 Jan 2019, 20:56

Well I wasn't sure if anyone would be interested in my process. That's why I have decided to clearly label these diary entries so folks can give them a skip if they like.
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Posted by Beano Boy on 24 Jan 2019, 01:10

Two jolly good figures painted and presented here. Bravo to both of U.


As the raggedly army of Brits took their stand in a field flooded with mud,
and while 60,000 arrows were let fly within three minutes ,the sound
of cannon were also heard rolling out their metal shot. BB
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