This sculpt is an old rendering of "Jupiter Scapin" (look it up) from the 1980s. It is in God's True Scale - 25mm. It depicts the The Corsican Ogre standing in his greatcoat - a garment that earned him the soubriquet "Redingote Gris" because he was always seen wearing it on campaign.
This depicts Boney before he became Fleshy. I do wonder what The Man of Destiny would have made of Ridley "fast-and-loose" Scott's rendering of his life. Based on comments in Napoleonic Wargaming Facebook Groups (and those people know things), The Devil's Favourite would likely think the film somewhat inaccurate - At least The Monster would have a good answer to Scott's "Were you there?" question.
My white cat has been using the light box for napping (geddit?). Apologies for the less than professional hairs that keep making it into my pictures.
This is one single 25mm figure for 5 points and for a shameless points grab, the library section bonus of 20 points for a total of 25 points.
If you have any other names for The Tiny Tyrant - please include in the comments section.
Lovely work on this venerable sculpt! I have yet to see M. Ridley's flic, and I'm a bit wary from what I have heard so far...
ReplyDeleteYeah - it's not great but was still visually stunning and I like going to see a film and for this one my wife joined me. She enjoyed it and was completely unbothered by Napoleon drawing his sword and joining a last ditch cavalry charge at Waterloo, along with many other questionable bits.
DeleteI love those vintage Minifigs. Two massive thumbs up from me!
ReplyDeleteVive le Minifig!
ReplyDeleteA wonderful Minifig. Being totally ignorant of the Napoleonic period, I probably will stream the film and enjoy the visuals.
ReplyDeleteNice work on the Minifig fig
ReplyDeleteLovely painted Old School Minifig, probably matching well with any "modern" 1/72 range
ReplyDeleteGreat old school figure. Well done.
ReplyDeleteGreat to see a minifig rendition of the Corsican Ogre. We saw the film on its release day. Visually stunning, but everything else was pretty awful (many of the battle scenes made me cringe - and not in a 'good' way).
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