Hey!
As i will soon be picked up by Chris (Bestienmeister) to leave for a painters meeting AND Roman & Peter already left for their workshop AND Ben & Matt are having their workshop this weekend too.... it will be a quite calm weekend :)
I'm really totally looking forward to painting the whole weekend and having some good talk with some friends :)
Oh and to not make this posting all senseless... i have a update of the ronin :)
So i hope some of the other monkeys keep you amused on the weekend!
Cheers,
Raffa
Enjoy your WE! Awesome sculpt and concept. I´m looking forward to your next update on the Ronin =)
ReplyDeletethe ronin is cool, but the sword is wrong. samurai swords allways are blade up, so that the tip doesn't aim to heaven, but the bottom... you should fix that! greetz Tuffskull
ReplyDeleteNo, not correct. The katana usualy was carried sharp side UP. This was because the katana was mostly drawn while being mounted (horse-back). So if a warrior would draw his katana blade sharp side DOWN he would cut his horse´s head. But with the sharp side UP he will draw the blade straight UP alongside his body center and not in a swing.
ReplyDeleteBy doing it the "UP-way" firstly he won´t harm his horse and secondly while being on foot he automaticaly has protection allong his body center from certain incoming blows right while drawing the sword.
Hence not all fights are horse-back fights so naturaly several different ways of sword fighting exist. The style of drawing once sword depends on the teachings of his master and the dojo (school). So there is no normal or always. It´s just more comon to carry it sharp end UP cause its more widespread than sharp side down due to the ammount of traditional teachings which also depend on region and culture.
A Ronin is revered to as rogue warrior, without master or dojo. There is no rule or law they obey. They have not master/teacher (anymore) so thei are kind of, let´s say, creative ;-)
And what kind of nick is "Aefe4aec-7672-11e0-9cf7-000f20980440" anyways?!
Sry for the long comment. I had to state that cause I trained Aikido for several years.
def a must have!
ReplyDelete@Daniel... my nick is Tuffskull, dunno why aol is making this strange names. I still make kendo...for sveral years now. So I know the whole stuff....normally the bade is sharp side up. but it depends on time and circumstacers, right.... I would like it mor in the correct way...;)
ReplyDeletebut it is still a great work
The Ronin realy is a must have, as Count_zero and many others already stated.
ReplyDelete@Tuffskull: I´d too like it UP. But hey, I see that as an invitation to do conversions ;-)
Keep up the awesome work Rafa!
what is now actully with ypour dayglow colors ?
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