Crynsminiaturen News

[Bluefalchion]

Wow those are so cool!

[Cryns]

Thank you so much dear Huib, Ben90 and Bluefalchion for your nice words

Here are some development shots of set CM-006: Ancient Greek Workers Pulling Forwards:



















Catalogue: http://www.crynsminiaturen.nl

[despertaferro]

Probably the best sculpted bodies I've ever seen...
A pity that is not a subject that I'm planning to do...

Congratulations...!!

[Cryns]

Thanks for the kind words dear Despertaferro.

Crynsminiaturen set CM-005 is available now at the Schilling-Figuren webshop:
https://www.schilling-figuren.de/produkt-kategorie/crynsminiaturen/crynms1-72/crynmsantike/crynmsfiguren/




Catalogue: https://crynsminiaturen.nl/

[Erich von Manstein]

Excellent looking figures, certainly very useful for a longer ancient time period and versatile uses (manning ships, construction sites, war machines, capturing & fighting Cyclops or other mythological creatures... ).

[Cryns]

Thank you for your feedback dear Erich von Manstein.

Set CM-006 Ancient Greek Workers Pulling Forwards, cast in pewter in scale 1:72, is now available at the Schilling-Figuren Webshop: https://www.schilling-figuren.de/produkt/griechische-arbeiter-ziehen-vorwaerts-cm-006/




Catalogue: https://crynsminiaturen.nl/

[C M Dodson]

I see that you have modelled my physic perfectly in these muscular fellows!

As always, Mr C, with your work, perfection comes as standard.

Brilliant work.

Best wishes,

Chris

[Bluefalchion]

What a journey from a young person purchasing miniatures at a model shop, bringing them home to admire and possibly paint, to the person creating the figures and ships from the ground up for others to do the same. Where to next? I bet it will be an exciting place.

[Kostis Ornerakis]

Hello Cryns
Wow! Absolutely wonderful sets of figures!!

[Chariobaude]

I am always surprised by what research, meticulousness and talent can produce. what marvels!

[Cryns]

Thank you so much for your beautiful replies my dear friends mr. Dodson, Bluefalchion, Kostis and Chariobaude

I see that you have modelled my physic perfectly in these muscular fellows!

And your hairdo, wasn't it?

Where to next? I bet it will be an exciting place.

For the next year it will be more Greek figurines and more Greek ships. But also cargo packs.

Here is a preview for a new figurine set that will be available soon:



Catalogue: https://crynsminiaturen.nl/

[C M Dodson]

Alas…no.

The last wave was when it said goodbye and fell out!

Chris

[k.b.]

Truly extraordinary sculpting Mr Cryns. Congratulations! These chaps have had life sculpted into them. I am in awe of you. The painting is also splendid, the flesh tones are beautiful. If I had to be critical I might say the skin colours are all a bit too similar. But that is really nitpicking, I know! . As they say “ Variety is the spice of life!”

[Bluefalchion]

Alas…no.

The last wave was when it said goodbye and fell out!

Chris

If so, the first figure, top row might be just perfect. I am similarly situated in that department.

[Cryns]

Dear K.B.

Thanks for your feedback.

if I had to be critical I might say the skin colours are all a bit too similar.

Very interesting you say this. I have to admit I did not pay any attention to this idea at all.

In the past I put my energy in finding the right skintone for Mediterranean people who (being ancient sailors or harbourworkers) work all day in the full sun with few cloths on. After painting their skintones dark flesh / light brown, I was adviced by some forummembers here, like Kostis and Frankzett, who explained me about Mediterranean people having a skin that is pretty sunlight resistant. So I made the skins lighter.

I have seen several ancient Greek sculptings and vasepaintings representing black Africans.
We all know the mix of skintones from ancient Egypt.
All of them must have mingled when they spread out over the Mediterranean sea.

This means all skintones between black and white were probable in the Classical Greek Period in the Greek influenced harbours.

But I have no idea in what ratio. Does anyone here have a suggestion?

[Bluefalchion]

The precise ratio will likely never be known, as race is a more modern and troublesome concept.

If you want to incorporate the suggestion, which I think a good one, paint the next display batch as above, but with one or two a bit darker and one or two a bit lighter. That should serve, I would think.

[Kostis Ornerakis]

I love your painting on these figures, but if you want to incorporate the suggestion, as Aaron says, a well-diluted wood stain varnish applied with the brush on the flesh areas of some figures can be a solution.

[Paboook]

Really lovely sculpting.

[Cryns]

Thanks for your suggestions and advice Bluefalchion and Kostis.
Thank you Paboook for your compliments.

[Cryns]

Here is the next Crynsminiaturen figurine set that will be cast by Schilling-Figuren and be available soon:

CM-008 Ancient Greek Workers With Amphora's



catalogue: http://www.crynsminiaturen.nl