mercredi 21 février 2018

Musician of the month: Swiss drummer, 15th century

Remember my challenge, to paint a musician every month ? I explained here what happened in 2017. In 2018, I'm in for another attempt. This is the musician for February: a Swiss drummer from the 15th century, when the Swiss confederation was at war with Burgundy.



You will recognize a drummer from an Ultima Ratio set, UR008 Swiss Infantry (Bern) released en 2017.
For those who appreciate Fantasy, you will notice that this guy might also be used as a drummer in a Empire army from the city of Talabheim (from the Ancient World created by GW).

So this year, two musicians so far:
- January: Ancient Egyptian drummer
- February: Medieval Swiss drummer

For March, I would like to paint a man from another era, and another music instrument. Will you guess ?



19 commentaires:

  1. Very much the Empire style. Nice work Phil.
    I'm guessing a Highland Piper..? Oui/Non?

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    1. Thank you Maudlin. I would love to paint a piper (I used to play bagpipe myself some years ago), but I don't have any such mini. Next month, I plan to paint a musician with a wind instrument, but not the bagpipe :)

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    2. I must modify my answer above. I do have bagpipe players, the old Airfix, ESCI and Italeri scottidh regiments ! I was thinking of the medieval era, sorry :)
      So, a piper this year would be great!

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    3. I was thinking of the Airfix one (bien sur!)

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  2. Ah, le 15ème siècle et ses couleurs magnifiques, je l'entends d'ici ce superbe tambour...j'avoue que la cornemuse me semble sympa aussi pour la suite!

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    1. Merci beaucoup. Comme écrit dans le commentaire précédent, j'adorerais peindre un joueur de cornemuse... mais bon sang, je viens de réaliser, j'en ai! :) Mais ce n'est pas ce que j'ai prévu.

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    1. Nice guess, the lute player is on my list for this year! But not next month :)

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  4. Exactly I saw first the Imperial drummer hahaha
    Nice figure and nice suggestion!

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  5. Sympathique tambourin Suisse ! Très original comme challenge. Je vais le suivre avec attention :-)

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  6. I saw the imperial drummer from the beginning ! :)
    Thanks for the images and the suggestion!, nice figs

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    1. Thank you Sceavus! I'm not even surprised by your comment, you WFB fan :D

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  7. Nice work Phil, nice to see the empire getting some love (since gw killed it!!). I'm guessing your next musician will have the horn so to speak?

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    1. Thank you. It might be that I appreciate the Old World more since it got killed :)
      A musician with horns ? You might be thinking of another Swiss maybe ? Good idea (in spite of the fact that this guy shouldn't be also the standard bearer), but not for this time, I will paint a man from another country and another century.

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