Looks pretty good but the price is too high.
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GubernatorFan wrote:I, for one, appreciate the attempt to provide something a bit distinctive and perhaps less ideal. And while this is just a collectible, perhaps the tone of some posts has turned a little ugly.
GubernatorFan wrote:I don't have any actual proof, but I believe these are still using the same CooModel hard plastic jointed bodies as the first sets in this series.
Moonbase Alpha Male wrote:For "these," as a group, certainly yes -- but now I am wondering if this particular one is using something more like the Worldbox Plump. Did CooModel ever make a belly model like that? The proportions of this one seem different from the previous others in the pics, unless again it's just an effect of fabrics bunching up. If HY did actually go through a special effort to make this one the "Friar Tuck" of their Roman merry band, I'm impressed.
shazzdan wrote:Doesn't really work for lower-ranked Roman soldiers. Most were short and lean because their diet had little meat in it. There is one account where there was almost a mutiny because they were issued fresh meat instead of their typical staples of wheat, lentils, and chickpeas. Army rations included meat but it usually made up a fairly small proportion of their total food allocation, and even that was more than they were used to eating as civilians.
Moonbase Alpha Male wrote:
CAESAR
Let me have men about me that are fat;
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights:
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
White bread, yes. But most Romans never ate that. On top of that, modern strains of wheat have a higher calory density and are easier to digest. The bread available to the Romans did not enable the type of weight gain that we see with modern bread.GubernatorFan wrote:Given less varied nutrition, most pre-modern people would be shorter and generally slightly smaller than modern ones, that is true. But a lot of bread can make your body heavier and bulkier than meat by itself.
Of course there were. It is pretty obvious why when you look at what the aristocrats ate and the copious amount of alcohol they drank. Many also had a devotion to avoiding any kind of manual labour. But that has nothing to do with Roman legionaries.GubernatorFan wrote:While active duty soldiers might not have been particularly prone to heaviness, there are plenty of depictions of chunky Romans, including Nero and Titus, among others.
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