Monday 8 February 2021

From TomM: Ptolemy, silver saint of Sagitta (5 pts)

  For those who follow my blog, it will be no suprise that I like anime perhaps even more since wargaming.

And that all started back in 1986 with Les Chevaliers du Zodiaque on the french channel TF1, a series known even better perhaps under it's japanese name Saint Seiya.



It's also on Netflix btw now, just ignore that crap 3D monstorsity Netflix made, that is just horrible and in no way representative of both the story and the mythos of this mythology inspired series.

Now recently, a spanish company named Nonsense Miniatures started to make resin 3d printed "Constellation Warriors" models, well, the Saints actually, and one of their first 4 figures is this one, Ptolemy, Silver Saint of Sagitta, scaled at about 36mm.  They also have a free to download beta ruleset for them on their website.
 

 
So I painted up him as the first one, don`t ask me why because even if his appearance in the anime was rather short, he was the one that mortally wounded Athena, instigating the race across the twelve Houses of the Zodiac up to the Grand Pope's palace.
 
And just for reference, here is his anime version...  



So that makes a single figure and good for 5 points in this entry


9 comments:

  1. I have heard of the series, but never seen it. The mini looks pretty cool, will you be painting the rest of the cast?

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    1. I have his entire range so far released (7 minis for now), so yep, they will be done this year :-)

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  2. I'm unfamiliar with this- but well done, anyway!

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  3. Very nicely done. Given the huge popularity of Anime I am suprised we don't see more miniatures for the genre.

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  4. Well done on this figure. The only Ptolemys that I know of are mathematicians or Pharaohs.

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  5. Great looking anime figure, and Macedonian generals of course Peter!
    Best Iain

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    1. First of the Pharaohs I counted him at his promoted rank.

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  6. Nicely done, great version of the original 👏
    Regards KenR

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