Dying Celt Vignette
Dying Celt Vignette
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=105451
Theres the link. For some reason B-shelf enlarged the pics so they are pretty big. And sorry bout' the pic quality but my camera stinks.
"The woad painted bodies littered the battlefield. the stench and rot of death was every where. The earth was stained red with blood and the very air seemed to be tainted crimson. One lay dying, his hand lifted toward heaven pleading for death for his friends were slayn around him. He died in shock and horror. The Romans had one this time."
Theres the link. For some reason B-shelf enlarged the pics so they are pretty big. And sorry bout' the pic quality but my camera stinks.
"The woad painted bodies littered the battlefield. the stench and rot of death was every where. The earth was stained red with blood and the very air seemed to be tainted crimson. One lay dying, his hand lifted toward heaven pleading for death for his friends were slayn around him. He died in shock and horror. The Romans had one this time."
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The Romans first seriously made an expedition into Britian under Julius Caesar, which would be around 50 B.C., if I'm not mistaken.
They didn't actually conquer any of Britian until the reign of Claudius, (I think that would make it in the 40s A.D.). At this point they occupied most of modern day England and Wales. Modern-day Scotland was never subdued.
They didn't actually conquer any of Britian until the reign of Claudius, (I think that would make it in the 40s A.D.). At this point they occupied most of modern day England and Wales. Modern-day Scotland was never subdued.
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Well, technically, the Celts covered all of Gaul (France), Iberia (Spain and Portugal), as well as all the British Isles, with overflow into Germany, Switzerland, and northern Italy...
I must have just been reading too fast. Saw the "woad-painted bodies" and immediately thought about Julius Caesar's invasion of Britian, and must have assumed you were talking about Britain.
The Romans had met the mainland Celts long before. The Gauls from northern Italy attacked and sacked Rome two or three centuries, or yet a few more, before the Republic became an Empire.
I must have just been reading too fast. Saw the "woad-painted bodies" and immediately thought about Julius Caesar's invasion of Britian, and must have assumed you were talking about Britain.
The Romans had met the mainland Celts long before. The Gauls from northern Italy attacked and sacked Rome two or three centuries, or yet a few more, before the Republic became an Empire.
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Well, I don't KNOW that woad is native to England. All that I know is that Julius Caesar mentioned that the BRITISH Celts had woad paint, whereas he said nothing about the mainland Celts.Trigger wrote:Woad is native to England? Than I guess this was in in England. LOL!
Like I said, my mind just made an unwarranted assumption.
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Some people?lil Jon wrote:Its a nice vingette.
It makes me happy that some of the people who were offended by the super model minifigures aren't bothered by the blood shed of this one.
Would you be referring to ME, by any chance????
Perhaps you should take note of the fact that all of my posts are related to the history of the Celts, and not to the figs at hand.
I will say, however, that while I do not necessarily condone violence, I do not find depictions of it to be as disagreeable as nudity-related depictions.
However, this is not the topic at hand....
The topic is the vignette. I think that it looks quite like a dead battlefield. I personally think it looks like there's too much for one 8x8 square, but I suppose that was look that Trigger was going for.