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DA VINCI's TURTLE
« on: December 18, 2010, 09:33:57 PM »
This one is a special one!!!

The Genius had a lot of projects, amongst them a war machine manpowered with guns: really a proto-tank.
Dominique Jadoul from Retrotracks falled in love for that engine and decided to make a kit of that.
When I saw the box on his stand during an expo... I think it take me no more than 30 seconds to have bought that splendor.

The build was easy, there are a few pieces; but it was for me an excellent test to obtain a wood effect with oil paints on an acrylic base...










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Re: DA VINCI's TURTLE
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2010, 09:36:12 PM »
Great idea with shields of family and what is the cannon type?

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Re: DA VINCI's TURTLE
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2010, 09:41:04 PM »
Honestly I don't know the cannon type. I used the kit parts without thinking if there are correct or not...
The shileds, it's an invention from me: my personal interpretation of, let say, "medieval cockades": aromrials on wood shield.
The armorial is the one of the Holy Roman Empire.
...Well, it's a kind of "medieval what-if"...

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Re: DA VINCI's TURTLE
« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2010, 12:42:17 AM »
Beautiful  :-jump :-clap :-clap :-clap :-clap :-clap :-clap

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Re: DA VINCI's TURTLE
« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2010, 09:20:08 AM »
Thank you!!!

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Re: DA VINCI's TURTLE
« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2010, 10:30:49 AM »
A few months ago I watched a program about this! :-flo
Great,great work mate :-flo

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Re: DA VINCI's TURTLE
« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2010, 11:17:38 AM »
Thank you, Sall!

I must say that the "Turtle" is a family business: my daughter Mathilde realised an excellent work on another one; here is the photos of her work:





She used Vallejo paints: wood as base, and then a drybrush with woodgrain.

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Re: DA VINCI's TURTLE
« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2010, 01:34:04 PM »
Oh oh oh ... Daughter is like her dad. :)) A true master. :-clap :-clap
Honestly, I do not know which we prefer. :-think Maybe,is her little nicer. :-razz :-razz :))

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Re: DA VINCI's TURTLE
« Reply #8 on: December 19, 2010, 01:44:08 PM »
Agreed, personnaly I prefer her turtle to mine... ;-)

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Re: DA VINCI's TURTLE
« Reply #9 on: December 19, 2010, 02:04:50 PM »
Agreed, personnaly I prefer her turtle to mine... ;-)

We said in Serbia 'World belong to younger'

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Re: DA VINCI's TURTLE
« Reply #10 on: December 19, 2010, 04:54:21 PM »
Agreed, Srecko!