The Siege of Osaka 1615 vs Arnhem!

[Adam]

Here is the 18th duel folks!

Very broad rules this time: A vignette, any era, with foot figures, horses, guns, buildings, everything allowed.

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


The Siege of Osaka 1615





vs

Arnhem!

[Adam]

Well this was a pleasure to see- two excelent entries- congratulations to Thomas and Oniria for some great dio's, and congratulations to Thomas for winning.

Well done guys

[ONIRIA]

Congratilations Thomas!
Well deserved win! Those japs are terrific!!

Saludetes

[Paul]

Both excellent
Unfortunately in the 1st two pics of the Arnhem dio it seems like there is a bod with two heads, definately not cos in the third photo it can be seen that this is not the case.

[je_touche]

Unfortunately in the 1st two pics of the Arnhem dio it seems like there is a bod with two heads, definately not cos in the third photo it can be seen that this is not the case.

Which shows the importance of choosing one's camera angle carefully.

Anyway, I loved them both and would have had a problem to make a choice - so I didn't. Definitely the most high-class entries of all duels so far.

PS. Why is it that after a while I could see the votings though I did not cast my vote?

[Maurice]

Thought is was a nice catch, the siamese twins

But tough choice, so congrats to both

[ColeF]

Very nice Thomas! Had a hard time deciding wether or not it was yours. I've never known that you did Samurai.

[Konrad]

The "Siege of Osaka" is a wonderful entry.
(I knew, it was a bavarian sky. )
"Arnheim" too,of course.
Great work of both.

The quality of all contributions in this forum
becomes better and better.

[chen]

It was a very difficult choice to make... and I did it by throwing coins. Congratulations to both Thomas and Orinia.

[dykio]

I just couldn't choose. Both dio's are really winners so congrets to the both of you gentlemen.

[west1871]

amazing entries again very hard choice

[fulgator]

hi

great work on these two

my preferate is the samourai , but only by the subject

the work on paras is wonderfull, the facial expression from these are amazing !!!!!!!!we can see their glanze.............

those samourai .........................if i can, i will inspire for my project ....

thanks for the dreams

[Alex]

Magnificent works!
I, unfortunately, didn't vote... But work with Samurais very labour-consuming and careful. However work with soldiers "Arnheim" - very live. I would vote for it. Persons of soldiers, their pose - all very present, is transferred mood and fear and courage! Perfectly well!

[T. Dürrschmidt]

Thank you all for your kind replies! Thanks for voting. And cheers to Oniria for giving us a great "Arnhem" scene. The facepainting on these figures is absolute masterclass.

Here is a picture that shows my small diorama from bird´s view.

[Paul]

Thomas, from which tree did you take the twig (behind the two carrying the box) ? A cyress?? (zypresse)

[T. Dürrschmidt]

I don´t know paul. I´ve bought a small plastic bag with some of these twigs on a model fair some years ago. Just wanted to have some more exotic looking plants on this diorama.

[Paul]

Just wanted to have some more exotic looking plants on this diorama.

And it worked

[Peter]

My compliments to both contestants This was a very hard choice to make

[Susofrick]

Great entries both. And as usual these last duels I can't remember which one I voted for. Not important, congrat's to the both of you!

[ONIRIA]

Hi all

Thanks or comments

Here' are some more pictures of my dio

Saludetes