Ready From RayR - Vulcan : Prince Rupert & Boy (20 pts)

 

Believe it or not I have been very busy with the brush since the start of the Challenge, but like the twat I am, I started too many things at once, so I've not got a lot finished....Sigh!

Vulcan: Something Logical; Pointy Ears

I suspect as most of you know, I don't do a lot of fantasy of Sci Fi, but do have a small collection of figures just for the Challenge, BUT, I thought I'd go a bit left field. 

My first entry into Challenge 12 is a 25mm Bicorne figure representing King Charles' nephew Prince Rupert and his dog Boy. I've got a crazy yearning to do a small (yeah right) ECW army for Donnybrook, based on one of the smaller skirmishes that Rupert was involved in. So I thought I'd start with the main man himself. Whether or not anything else gets painted is another story.

Prince Rupert didn't have pointy ears, nor did his Poodle Boy, but his horse sure did!

Just look at them ears!!! Pointy or what????

So there we have it, and I managed to get this post in before the end of the year too.

10 points for the mounted Prince Rupert

2 points for Boy?

20 Bonus points for Vulcan

Total of 32 points!

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The words 'Donnybrook' and 'small army' should twig those who know Ray to what's to come. Great work Ray! I like how you think, with starting with the Man himself. Bicorne has done a nice job on Ropert here - he looks suitably commanding and hirsute and your brushwork does him great credit. But I have to say that the sculpt for 'Boye' is pretty lame. He was a standard sized poodle, meaning he was a pretty big dog. The designer must be a Parliamentarian sympathiser. 

And 20 points for the horses ears? Riiiight. I should have expected no less from you Ray. I tell you what I'll give you 10 for both Boye and the 'pointy ears'.

In some respects this is going to be a long three months, I can tell. :)

- Curt