Kostis Ornerakis wrote:The ships of Christopher Columbus by Xavier Pastor.
I do not have this book in my collection but Santa, Pinta and Nina have always interested me and I am getting very curious about this book, I already googled it.
Kostis, it is great to see how lively the ship with the men on its decks has become now!
I just love it.
And it is very surprising to see, again, how precise and realistic at the same time you spray and paint these very tiny figures!
There is only one sailor with odd trousers for this period: its the one with two buckets and long, wide 'soul' trousers. This one is obviously one of the 20th century sailors you mentioned.
These trousers were introduced by the end of the 18th century during the French revolution and called 'sans culottes'. (without knee-breeches). But Peter is right when he suggests:
Peter wrote:When you put the next couple of hundreds figures on that deck he will not see the difference anymore!
All the other sailors are convincing for 1492 while still several of them must depict the 1930 Spanish marines.
What is so good about your way of composition is: these men are not spread all equally over the ship but concentrated in small groups with specific activities. This makes it lively, realistic and also very dynamic. Very well done.
The way you re-cast some figures in resin interests me a lot.
I will direct questions about this to you in the near future as soon as I am ready to produce amphora's, sailors and other details for my ancient Greek fleet.
Thanks for sharing your beautiful work once more.