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Achillesby ~Merkaba998

Traditional Art / Sculpture / Figurative

This was the first of three Greek myth figures in Chavant NSP hard. He’s 18” tall and is my version of Achilles. I wanted to show him as aggressive, arrogant, and good looking. The stance says the first, the arrogance is in the fact that he isn’t wearing his full armor, and the good looking is up to you.

Unfortunately I finished him the week after Frank Miller’s 300 came out and everyone I showed it to was like “Nice Leonidas!” Oh well I should just start telling people it is and give up on the Achilles thing.

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The pose alone in Achilles by ~Merkaba998 draws the attention, the stance of the Spartan ready to pounce. The level of texture work as well as the finer details (look at the straps on the shin guards for example) have been carefully and precisely sculpted. ( Suggested by ~Sarkazum and Featured by !Thebuild )

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~xkazzafna Mar 9, 2012

that is awesome man he looks exactly like how Achilles should look very well done

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~GordonJuws Feb 10, 2012 Student

awsome man looks just like i immagined him

kinda looks like brad pitt too hehe where can i get one?

~Merkaba998 Feb 11, 2012

Thanks. Well about all I have left is the head, i think. Eventually I'll end up doing another.

~GordonJuws Feb 12, 2012 Student

what do you mean? you dismantled him?

~Merkaba998 Feb 13, 2012

Yes. I intended to revisit the character and update it. This statue's armature was built to hold a lot of weight without budging(3/8" stainless steel rods). Which also made it impossible to cleanly separate out for molds. But I sculpted it in Chavant, a wax material that was never meant to be permanent. Your supposed to take molds from it and recycle the Chavant into your next piece. This was well before I really knew what I was doing from a technical standpoint. But it served me well. The owner of Hard Hero told me it was this statue that made him get in touch with me because he admired the "heroic essence I captured" or something like that.

~GordonJuws Feb 13, 2012 Student

ohh shame :/ hope u do another.. ye you rlly did actually! the stance and appearance kick ass

think youll get round to doing other greek heroes? like perseus, jason, theseus? youre heracles is great too

~Merkaba998 Feb 14, 2012

Thanks. As to doing more, no near future plans but never say never.

~PyroStyx Aug 30, 2011 Digital Artist

brilliant

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~Merkaba998 Sep 27, 2011

thanks

~mara-aki Aug 1, 2011

aggressive stance: awesome.....arrogance: Perfectly portrayed.... good looking: no, i think:FREAKING HOT! would be the correct words for you sculpture! so much like what i imagine Achilles to be like!!!

just love it ^^

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