28mm Hasslefree Miniatures mage
This nice mage comes from Hasslefree Miniatures in the U.K. I finished her a while ago and considering her size is sort of 1/48 she has a nice amount of detail. I liked her a lot. She is sort of basic but detailed at the same time. Proof I don't just review stuff. 🙂
In a word: "Alluring". 🙂
She is a very balanced figure I think. Not intimidating to paint but still detailed. Sexy but not over done.
In a word (or several hundred) - Edgar Allan Poe. Probably the first time one of HIS poems has made it onto a modelling site;
Lenore-
Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever!
Let the bell toll!--a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river;
And, Guy De Vere, hast thou no tear?--weep now or never more!
See! on yon drear and rigid bier low lies thy love, Lenore!
Come! let the burial rite be read--the funeral song be sung!--
An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young--
A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.
“Wretches! ye loved her for her wealth and hated her for her pride,
“And when she fell in feeble health, ye blessed her--that she died!
“How shall the ritual, then, be read?--the requiem how be sung
“By you--by yours, the evil eye,--by yours, the slanderous tongue
“That did to death the innocent that died, and died so young?”
Peccavimus; but rave not thus! and let a Sabbath song
Go up to God so solemnly the dead may feel so wrong!
The sweet Lenore hath “gone before," with Hope, that flew beside
Leaving thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy bride--
For her, the fair and debonair, that now so lowly lies,
The life upon her yellow hair but not within her eyes--
The life still there, upon her hair--the death upon her eyes
Poe was always awesome!
Aaron - you are right, even though he did write a lot about beautiful dead women.
No one is...perfect lol
Nicely done!
Thank you Sir!