| I decided to paint a figure from the medieval era, but a european knight seemed a little bit usual and boring. I bought this white metal kit from FM Beneito Miniaturas very cheap. It shows a Cuman warrior around 1130 AD The quality of the kit is good, but there are definately better figures out there. One advantage is the added small vignette. I painted the figure with acrlic paints from Revell and Lifecolor. I tried to do the shading without oil paints, but i´m not satisfied with the result overall. I used pigments instead. Maybe i will repaint the figure. The Cumans (Turkish: kuman / plural kumanlar, Hungarian: kun / plural kunok; Greek: Κο(υ)μάνοι, Ko(u)manoi;,, Romanian: cuman / plural cumani, Russian: Половцы - Polovtsi, Ukrainian: Половці, Bulgarian: Кумани) were Turkic nomadic people comprising the western branch of the Cuman-Kipchak confederation. After Mongol invasion (1237), they decided to seek asylum in Hungary, and subsequently to Bulgaria. Cumans had also settled in Bulgaria before the Mongol invasion. Related to the Pecheneg, they inhabited a shifting area north of the Black Sea and along the Volga River known as Cumania; where the Cuman-Kipchaks meddled in the politics of the Caucasus and Khwarezm. They eventually settled to the west of the Black Sea, influencing the politics of Kievan Rus', Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, Moldavia, Georgia and Wallachia. Cuman and Kipchak tribes joined politically to create a confederation known as the Cuman-Kipchak ... |
