Avete omnes,
I know, it's historically not quite correct, but I liked the original scene photo from the movie and scratched this little setting in 54 mm:
Uwe
In fact, it's a very cool scratchbuilding job. That Maximus figure is stock, right? What about Tigris? Did you build him too?
It's amazing how many figures in the seats! They look so real... like moving! :wink:
Just kidding... very good job!
Quote:Where did the tiger come from, or did you 'just knock it out' in an afternoon?
I just re-read that, and I need to point out it's meant to be a compliment. I.e., it would take me weeks to do, but given a lunchbreak you could probably make the whole background from cotton wool ear cleaners. :?
Thank You, friends, for Your friendly words.
Los, Jasper, Jim, Ivan, none of the figures comes from the stock. I know that ‘De Tara’ made a vignitte including Tigris and Maximus just at the same time when I finished my little setting. The only stock piece is Russell Crowe’s head, I took it from Andrea (Maximus as a general) and reproduced it in milliput. So I could give him some folds above of his eyebrows in order to make him look a little bit more worried.
Like the gladiator who was called ‘Tigris gallicus’ in the movie, I built the tiger too totally from scratch and I could even use something from myself, so that the tiger is a bit related to me, now.
wink: ) white ones and so I could kill two birds with one stone.
The cotton ear cleaners are surely a good idea – I’ll think it over next time. In the moment I am unfortunately sitting at the wrong computer, but on Monday I will try to add some old photos from the production.
Greets - Uwe
Quote:The cotton ear cleaners are surely a good idea – I’ll think it over next time.
Heh - from [url:2r7955ss]http://film.guardian.co.uk/Feature_Story/feature_story/0,4120,158631,00.html[/url]
Quote:....even in these times of computer-generated effects, there is still a need for traditional models. A fact born out by the model for The Phantom Menace's pod-racing arena. The crowd was made up from different coloured cotton wool buds and a hair dryer was moved to emulate crowd movement....
Cheers.
Interesting site, Jim... Here some more photos from the building process:
The hollow round shield of Maximus was made from the top of a so called "Ãœberraschungs-Ei" ("surprise-egg", containing chocolat and toys).
The tool on the ground was made for foot-prints in the sand.
On this photo You can see the tiger-prototype that I first intended to use, but it was a little bit to small.
Greets - Uwe
Simply amazing! I couldn't so much as draw one of those figures, let alone *sculpt* one...
is that a "Kinder" egg or a different brand? They're not allowed to be sold in the United States because of silly laws about non-food products; apparently the toy inside is just too dangerous for us...
Danno, Kinder-egg sounds good, You can find a photo of it here:
[url:3ss4lihh]http://www.wasschenken.ch/?/h3.htm[/url]
Uwe