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LOD Enterprises "Judgement of Paris" 90mm figures.

 Nice figures depicting the mythical judgement by Prince Paris of Troy of the three Greek Goddesses Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite. They need a bit of finishing with files and X-acto knife plus filler for some void and bubbles. Many paintings of the Judgement of Paris have the goddesses in the nude. They had just bathed in the spring on Mount Ida. 

This figure set is "work and classroom safe" but still shows the beauty of the Goddesses in costumes based on mythology . Athena does have a sword instead of her usual spear and shield.

I painted them in acrylics based on a number of paintings. Since the subject matter is Mythology you can interpret the look as you please. 

Paris has the golden "Apple of Discord" inscribed "To the Fairest"

He is to award the apple to who he judges to be the fairest of three powerful goddesses. 

Athena offers Paris wisdom and skill in war as a bride.

Hera offered Paris kingship of Europe and Asia

Aphrodite offer the most beautiful women in the world, Helen of Sparta.

A hard decision for Paris. 

Paris chose the bribe of Helen, awarding the Apple to Aphrodite. 

Athena and Hera were no pleased and supported the Greeks in the future Trojan War.

A nice set to ad to LOD Enterprises' Trojan War series. 

A Christmas Carol Fan Fiction

MARX 54mm Jungle Figures. Askari as The Phantom's Jungle Patrol

 

These MARX African Askari figures were found in a lot of  colors. I color coded them brown. The MARX Ben Hur servant girl was already found in brown plastic. 

I'm not sure if the old MARX Hatari and Jungle Jim playsets could be considered racist or colonialist. They had a lot of fun figures including character figures from the two TV series.

More HaT 1/32 scale Civil War Soldiers.

 
Two boxes of the the #1 set give you 6 marching figures in frock coats and dress or "Hardee" hats.  You'd need 6 boxes to get a respectable unit of this pose.

Hat left off the brass cartridge box plate . I used a few drops of Mod Podge to raise that detail. This worked for me with the eagle badge on the left side of the hat.

The six shirt sleeve figures come from one of the #2 boxes.  I swapped the three kepi heads for hat heads. You can mix these in with the other Confederate figures or make an early war unit in all the same color shirts . Three # 2 boxes will do this. Painting checked shirts is work but I like my results. 

These figures are only equipped with haversacks.  

You could remove the percussion cap pouches and convert these figures to War of 1812, the Texas War of Independence, or foreign armies like Italy and Mexico where over shirts were worn as uniforms. 

Be sure to paint all of the Rifle as Springfields with the short sling that goes to the middle barrel band and all metal a steel color.