Check out Lino Martins' Ajax the Great:
Bruce
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Hey all,
Check out Lino Martins' Ajax the Great:
Bruce
-Yes, the centaur is classical rather than medieval, but classical tales were a large source for medieval literature and art, though the medievals probably would have called a centaur a sagittary.
Check out Lino Martins' Ajax the Great:
Bruce
-Yes, the centaur is classical rather than medieval, but classical tales were a large source for medieval literature and art, though the medievals probably would have called a centaur a sagittary.
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Re: Ajax the Great
It looks excellent. I wonder if its scale works with the old KKII action figures. Not that I ever cared for those guys, but the inner child in me loves imagining battling them with this centaur.
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Tycho McKorley wrote:It looks excellent. I wonder if its scale works with the old KKII action figures. Not that I ever cared for those guys, but the inner child in me loves imagining battling them with this centaur.
To me, it looks like it's a slightly bigger scale, but I could be wrong.
As for my opinion, all I have to say is "Wow!"
This thing is incredible. It must have taken him forever to figure out how to make it. Well done, Mr. Martin, well done!"There are two powers in this world, the sword and the pen; and in the end the former is always conquered by the latter"- Napoleon Bonaparte
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Re: Ajax the Great
Good centaur with great detail. My only problem is that Ajax in geek mythology was a human. Then again what's in a name?
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Re: Ajax the Great
I had the same 'worry'–hmmm, that's not exactly the right word–but it helped that on the builder's Flickr page he acknowledged that he wasn't attempting to build a model of Ajax. Instead, he only took the name 'Ajax' because it was "a nice strong Greek name that [he] liked." So, apparently there's strength in a name.quaraga wrote: My only problem is that Ajax in geek mythology was a human. Then again what's in a name?
As for the MOC, I think it's a great build. The original picture that I saw was dominated by the torso and head, and I didn't realize that this was a centaur until clicking through to the Flickr set. Seeing the whole thing, however, just made everything that much better.
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The skill it took to make this is very impressive. I know I could not have built it. It is very nice and worthy of all the attention it gets.