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first thought about designing a chess set way back in 1976 when I was living
and working in Germany. By early 1977 I had a number of figures in various
stages of completion. At that time I was till very much a novice using Plastilin-an
oil based type of plasticine to model the figures. I really didn't have any overall concept worked out for the chess set either so that by the time I came to model the knight and tackle the intricate flutings of Maximilian armour I began to have second thoughts. My knight suddenly became a rather paunchy executioner based on some of the sketches in the 1976 edition of Wilhelm Zimmerman's Der Grosse Deutsche Bauernkrieg. |
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Suddenly
I found myself hopelessly sidetracked on a 16 figure series called the
Blutgericht (literally) "bloody court" depicting the summary
beheadings of a group of peasant insurgents. I presented the series at
the 1977 Deutsche Zinnfigurenbörse.
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not until 1981 that I returned to my original project, inspired by the
availability of better modelling materials and spurred on by impending
fatherhood which was likely to keep me away from the modelling bench for
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This
was originally released in 1983 as a limited edition of 150 sets. There
are still sets available in three formats :
A) Kit Please email
me for prices and delivery schedules |
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