Papaflessas christopher
- Papaflessas (1971) - Lavrentis Dianellos as Papa Giorgis.
- My first project for 2017 is this wonderful 200mm bust from YS Masterpieces.
- Gregory Flessas, (known to all of us as Papaflessas), was born at Poliani in Messinia in 1788.
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WIP Papaflessas - YS Masterpieces
I hope everybody had a good holiday, New Years and so on
My first project for 2017 is this wonderful 200mm bust from YS Masterpieces. First off, this thing is huge - it's basically the entire top half of a 200mm figure.
Here he is unboxed and unassembled after each piece has been prepped:
Here he is all primed up and ready to go. (Everything except the right arm has been blu-tacked in place; once primed I removed the pieces for painting.) I think this photo also shows just how amazing this sculpt really is. It's incredible.
As with all my figures, I always start with the face, and my approach is always to just base coat the face in a very quick and dirty way, and then start the real work with the eyes. Here are the finished eyes:
A couple of observations on the eyes:
- One very common rule of thumb we all learn when painting eyes is to always paint them looking into the direction that the head/face is turned to. This usually helps the face look more natural, and avoids the cross-eyed or
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Papaflessas - Hero of the Revolution of 1821
THE "BOMBER OF SOULS"
Gregory Flessas, (known to all of us as Papaflessas), was born at Poliani in Messinia in 1788. He was a clergyman, politician, and fighter of the Greek Revolution of 1821. His secular name was George Dikaios and he was a late son from a second marriage of Dimitrios Dikaios, who had a total of 28 children. He studied at the Dimitsana School, which he did not complete, and in 1816 he became a monk in the monastery of Our Lady of the Oak in Kalamata. There, he was named Gregory Priest Flessas. Later, after having an argument with the bishop of Monemvasia, he left and went to the monastery of Rékitsa.
In Zakynthos he met Theodore Kolokotronis, and later in Constantinople he was ordained Archimandrite by Patriarch Gregory I. In Constantinople he met Anagnostaras, who introduced him to the Filiki Society, on June 21st, 1818. In the Society documents he signed under the name of Competent and inscribed with the initials A. M.
In November 1820, Papaflessas bought a boat from Constantinople, and after receiving the sum o
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