Another transfer from the old site. I have since made some potential upgrades, with the M35 body (among the review photos HERE) and given him a whole comedy series (HERE, with another actress playing his wife).
Thor
I wanted to make a Thor figure rooted as much as possible in the actual Scandinavian tradition, as opposed to the superhero movie version. I say "as much as possible," because there is very little pictorial or sculptural evidence and what there is, tends to be very simplistic. So after some research, improvisation, customization, kitbashing, and sculpting, I came up with the following figure (picture heavy section at end).
Based on Scandinavian lore and the minimalist available imagery, I settled on a horned helmet (two of those, from the Bronze Age, were found at Veksø in Denmark), a sword, a Norse armlet, and then the three traditional attributes of Thor: an iron glove (one of two Járngreipr), iron hammer (Mjölnir), and warrior belt (Megingjörð). Although the imagery generally depicts the gods and their champions nude (apart from the weaponry, etc.), I added a wolf-skin cape and wolf kilt for the sake of decency. And before anyone says it, apparently the long red beard of the tradition wasn't always conceived of as long or red, while the winged helmet was invented for 19th-century Wagnerian operas.
I sculpted the helmet and the hammer (actually two hammers, one bigger, one smaller) from air-drying clay in a rustic, barbarian manner, painted them with acrylics, put together the belt (actually two belts) from various bronze-finished beads, and used a Spanish rabbit fur for the wolf-skin cape and kilt. The armlet and the clasp for the cape also came from bronze-finished jewelry. All these materials I found at Hobby Lobby. I used Phicen's M34 body, a Hot Toys head sculpt of Chris Hemsworth as Thor, and one of the gloved hands that came with Hot Toys' General Zod. I also added a Kaustic Plastik Roman belt. Since the worship of Thor preceded the Viking Age by almost two millennia, I went for an older, early-to-mid-Iron-Age look.
Hope you like it.
Thor and Friends
Over the last couple of days I made some changes and additions to my Iron-Age non-superhero-movie Thor. To wit, a more accurate and detailed helmet (it came out a tad largish, the old one was a tad smallish), newly created torque and armlets, tunic, a fishing boat, a friend (Hymir), an adversary (Jörmungand), a wife (Sif), and a mistress (or part thereof). These were customized, kitbashed, or put together (like the tunics, jewellery, and drinking horn) by me. It became a bit of a photo essay. Pictures follow below.
You can find a detailed review of the Phicen M34 body HERE.
(Below) Thor showing off his new helmet (great helm?) and wielding his hammer...
(Below) Close up...
(Below) Thor sheds some of his equipment to go fishing with his friend Hymir, and accidentally catches the Midgard serpent Jörmungand... the Evil One gets away... Snakes!
(Below) After all the exertion, Thor cleans up and tries out a fancy new tunic, which was all the rage in AD 600 (or therebouts), which he saw advertised on a helmet plaque buried with a king of the Angles on one of those drizzly western isles...
(Below) Close up...
(Below) Remembering he had a home, Thor goes back there, and his lovely wife Sif dutifully greets him a drinking horn filled with delicious mead. Her annoyance and reproach at her husband's belated homecoming is suitably concealed, yet clearly detectable... Women!
(Below) Ever the gentleman, Thor produces an impromptu bouquet of flowers he must have helped himself to in the nearest god's front yard. For a moment Sif thinks he has remembered their anniversary... or the International Day of the Woman... then she remembers whom she is dealing with... Men!
(Below) Although touched by Thor's effort with the flowers, lovely Sif wanted a very different and much more satisfying gift for their anniversary. And being a woman and a goddess, she had already helped herself to a vital part of one of her rivals for Thor's affection while he wasn't paying attention... Lovely! (and not so innocent)
(Below) And they all lived happily ever after. (Hey, if Marvel and Hollywood can mess up ancient Scandinavian mythology, so can I... No Ragnarok!)
Hope you enjoyed!
Thor
I wanted to make a Thor figure rooted as much as possible in the actual Scandinavian tradition, as opposed to the superhero movie version. I say "as much as possible," because there is very little pictorial or sculptural evidence and what there is, tends to be very simplistic. So after some research, improvisation, customization, kitbashing, and sculpting, I came up with the following figure (picture heavy section at end).
Based on Scandinavian lore and the minimalist available imagery, I settled on a horned helmet (two of those, from the Bronze Age, were found at Veksø in Denmark), a sword, a Norse armlet, and then the three traditional attributes of Thor: an iron glove (one of two Járngreipr), iron hammer (Mjölnir), and warrior belt (Megingjörð). Although the imagery generally depicts the gods and their champions nude (apart from the weaponry, etc.), I added a wolf-skin cape and wolf kilt for the sake of decency. And before anyone says it, apparently the long red beard of the tradition wasn't always conceived of as long or red, while the winged helmet was invented for 19th-century Wagnerian operas.
I sculpted the helmet and the hammer (actually two hammers, one bigger, one smaller) from air-drying clay in a rustic, barbarian manner, painted them with acrylics, put together the belt (actually two belts) from various bronze-finished beads, and used a Spanish rabbit fur for the wolf-skin cape and kilt. The armlet and the clasp for the cape also came from bronze-finished jewelry. All these materials I found at Hobby Lobby. I used Phicen's M34 body, a Hot Toys head sculpt of Chris Hemsworth as Thor, and one of the gloved hands that came with Hot Toys' General Zod. I also added a Kaustic Plastik Roman belt. Since the worship of Thor preceded the Viking Age by almost two millennia, I went for an older, early-to-mid-Iron-Age look.
Hope you like it.
Thor and Friends
Over the last couple of days I made some changes and additions to my Iron-Age non-superhero-movie Thor. To wit, a more accurate and detailed helmet (it came out a tad largish, the old one was a tad smallish), newly created torque and armlets, tunic, a fishing boat, a friend (Hymir), an adversary (Jörmungand), a wife (Sif), and a mistress (or part thereof). These were customized, kitbashed, or put together (like the tunics, jewellery, and drinking horn) by me. It became a bit of a photo essay. Pictures follow below.
You can find a detailed review of the Phicen M34 body HERE.
(Below) Thor showing off his new helmet (great helm?) and wielding his hammer...
(Below) Close up...
(Below) Thor sheds some of his equipment to go fishing with his friend Hymir, and accidentally catches the Midgard serpent Jörmungand... the Evil One gets away... Snakes!
(Below) After all the exertion, Thor cleans up and tries out a fancy new tunic, which was all the rage in AD 600 (or therebouts), which he saw advertised on a helmet plaque buried with a king of the Angles on one of those drizzly western isles...
(Below) Close up...
(Below) Remembering he had a home, Thor goes back there, and his lovely wife Sif dutifully greets him a drinking horn filled with delicious mead. Her annoyance and reproach at her husband's belated homecoming is suitably concealed, yet clearly detectable... Women!
(Below) Ever the gentleman, Thor produces an impromptu bouquet of flowers he must have helped himself to in the nearest god's front yard. For a moment Sif thinks he has remembered their anniversary... or the International Day of the Woman... then she remembers whom she is dealing with... Men!
(Below) Although touched by Thor's effort with the flowers, lovely Sif wanted a very different and much more satisfying gift for their anniversary. And being a woman and a goddess, she had already helped herself to a vital part of one of her rivals for Thor's affection while he wasn't paying attention... Lovely! (and not so innocent)
(Below) And they all lived happily ever after. (Hey, if Marvel and Hollywood can mess up ancient Scandinavian mythology, so can I... No Ragnarok!)
Hope you enjoyed!
