Capture the flag - sand sculpture (remastered)

I've made so many sand sculptures in the last 20 something years that you will forgive me if I don't remember the full story behind some of them. This is one where I can't remember the exact subject matter. I believe it had something to do with the history of Holland as it was made in Thorn, The Netherlands and this was a very popular theme in those days.

I do know that I was asked to make some sort of tower with two characters in a siege of a castle type setting. The block was massive but I wanted the characters to be life sized and the rest just environment. As you may have heard me say before I hate making sand castles but this was a sculpture where I needed to make one.
If only I had a child's sand castle bucket that I could fill and flip over it would have been great but no I actually had to carve the thing. In hindsight it would have been nice to carve the castle like an over sized sand castle bucket sculpture.

At the top I had a guy shouting in triumph as he waves a flag. Obviously he is the victor and some sort of Rebel due to his garb.

And at the bottom, on some rocky steps I made this Knight who seems quite dead, Probably due to the crossbow bolt in his neck. I cheated a little and made the bolt/ arrow with a pencil and paper that I glued some sand onto. To make something this delicate from sand alone would not have been possible so i hope you will forgive me for not being a sand purist. His helmet, lying near bye maybe gives some idea on what the siege was all about.

Well there you have it.
Move along, nothing more to see here.

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Why Remastered?

When i first joined Steem i was all excited and posted some of my favourite sculpture from over the years. When I settled in a bit I decided to post my work in chronological order and this one now fits into this timeline.
My style of writing has also developed and I have found other information to add to the sculptures stories.
Also some of these deserve a second outing so my new followers can see them and I can add them to my Steemitworldmap
So ever time you see a remastered post from me this is what I'm on about.

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Ps

Thanks for reading. I use Steem to document my work as an ephemeral Sculptor of sand, snow and ice, among other things. This will hopefully give it a new life on the Steem blockchain. Below you will find some of my recent posts.

Dreamtime - sand sculpture

Thorny Vines - ice sculpture

4D Train (Remastered - sand sculpture

I hope you'll join me again soon.

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