Last year I started a new project in addition to my fantasy medieval collection: real historical persons. The plan is to create some well known personalities through history ~2000 B.C. til ~1800 A.D.
I just finished the first one (more or less, he still needs a better sword): Francesco Pizarro (1476-1541), Conquistador, "Scourge of the Incas"
Here are some reference pictures:
Anyone interested in his background might give this a read, I tried to make it short :mrgreen: :
Also excuse my english, I'm far better in reading than writing
Once upon a time...there was a time of explorers and seafarers. It was around the time of Cristobal Colon and his discovery (or rediscovery if we don't discard Leif Eriksson) of America (1492). This was also the time of spaniard Francisco Pizarro (1476-1541). Just turned nineteen years old he already went to the New World, Panama, in 1502. In 1513 he was among the first Europeans getting to the pacific ocean coming westwards - exploring the south american coastline.
After the fall of the aztec empire in "Mexico" to fellow spanish conquistador Hernan Cortez, Pizarro got the official permission from the king of spain for a similar mission to the southern part of America. In search for glory and well...gold! greed was Pizarros best friend and after some failed expeditions he really found some poor inhabitants with big treasure halls - the Incan Empire.
Quick few on the map to not get confused with Maya, Aztec and Inca:
Well the rest is history...greed, superior weapons, desease and some tricks helped him to defeat all of the Inca civilization.
Like just a few hundred spanish soldiers were enough.
But some my call it at least a small "happy ending" - Pizarro got murdered in 1541 by his own men in fight for power and gold.
Still the damage was done, but for Spain the conquest of middle and big parts of southern america was helping them becoming one of the most powerful countries in the world for a certain time.
Typical Inca walls, still standing to this day:
The inca walls were special: They formed the rocks in a way they perfectly fit onto each other - no mortar was used. A bit like big scale Lego
I made a base for Pizarro trying to copy the Inca wall style:
Inca base
Francesco Pizarro:
Like I said before, he is not perfect as he would need a more realistic sword. Still happy how he turned out.
The helmet is a print I got from the one and only - Ovy
The torch got made by a friend.
I just finished the first one (more or less, he still needs a better sword): Francesco Pizarro (1476-1541), Conquistador, "Scourge of the Incas"
Here are some reference pictures:
Anyone interested in his background might give this a read, I tried to make it short :mrgreen: :
Also excuse my english, I'm far better in reading than writing
Once upon a time...there was a time of explorers and seafarers. It was around the time of Cristobal Colon and his discovery (or rediscovery if we don't discard Leif Eriksson) of America (1492). This was also the time of spaniard Francisco Pizarro (1476-1541). Just turned nineteen years old he already went to the New World, Panama, in 1502. In 1513 he was among the first Europeans getting to the pacific ocean coming westwards - exploring the south american coastline.
After the fall of the aztec empire in "Mexico" to fellow spanish conquistador Hernan Cortez, Pizarro got the official permission from the king of spain for a similar mission to the southern part of America. In search for glory and well...gold! greed was Pizarros best friend and after some failed expeditions he really found some poor inhabitants with big treasure halls - the Incan Empire.
Quick few on the map to not get confused with Maya, Aztec and Inca:
Well the rest is history...greed, superior weapons, desease and some tricks helped him to defeat all of the Inca civilization.
Like just a few hundred spanish soldiers were enough.
But some my call it at least a small "happy ending" - Pizarro got murdered in 1541 by his own men in fight for power and gold.
Still the damage was done, but for Spain the conquest of middle and big parts of southern america was helping them becoming one of the most powerful countries in the world for a certain time.
Typical Inca walls, still standing to this day:
The inca walls were special: They formed the rocks in a way they perfectly fit onto each other - no mortar was used. A bit like big scale Lego
I made a base for Pizarro trying to copy the Inca wall style:
Inca base
Francesco Pizarro:
Like I said before, he is not perfect as he would need a more realistic sword. Still happy how he turned out.
The helmet is a print I got from the one and only - Ovy
The torch got made by a friend. 
. While I try to get some historical facts correct and don't overdue the - how you called it - over the top fantasy trope, I can't promise and also don't want to be 1000% spot on. I still like my figures to carry a bit of my own ideas and presentation. I don't want museum realism. But I found it very cool to get so much community feedback about some parts of his outfit and weapons on the two platform I posted this one. We have a great 1/6 community with many experts on historical facts 
