And here is Elizabeth I

Still working on some bits.... joints/hands/hair but would appreciate your comments.

Most excellent! These are really coming along quite nicely! Keep up the great work! Aaron

Phic! You are the King when it comes to Period cllothing! Looks wondeful!

In a world filled with causes for worry and anxiety...
we need the peace of God standing guard over our hearts and minds.
 
Jerry McCant

Only 2 quibbles with this one - Aside from the bunchy swelling of the shoulders above the shoulder-rolls and the need to accentuate the completely flat-chested tiny-waisted "looks like ribs were removed" style that was the ideal (because Liz really looked like that & everyone wanted to emulate her), I'd say this is about as close to the original as one could hope for in the Poser universe. Really an incredible likeness - This is an original mesh entirely? or based on an existing Poser Figure? ...Just add 14 Ladies-In-Waiting, and 30 or 40 fawning nobles, and it's "Elizabeth Gloriana" to the life! ...Chuckle - I think this is the portrait that some Sheakspeare scholars(!?) compared to a Sheakspeare portrait (done some years after his death, actually) to "prove" that Sheakspeare was actually Liz's pen-name, and she was a cross-dressing playwright! - lol

Beautiful work Phil. Ironhart.

Beautiful work.....from the looks of the face and hands I would say this might be a new figure entirely.....Am I right?

Thanks folks.

Yes I'll be adding a waist narrowing morph and the shoulder bunches are now taken care of with the joint parameters. VIDandCGI you are almost right. The model and hands are my own work. It also includes a dummy head (just a simple sphere), onto which you can parent any head of your choosing. Here shown is the P3 head that you will find in your Figures/Additional Figures folder. Doing it this way gives flexibility yet retains the neck/head joint parameters. I did the Earl of Leicester figure the same way.

You may be interested to see where these figures are hopefully to be used http://homepage.mac.com/virtuallyhistorical/Menu1.html Click on the "Technical" link at the bottom of that page. Nothing cast in stone yet, still early days. Bearing in mind that my BDU set started off as a commission from a company creating Gov training manuals, I'm hoping that this set may be distributed in a similar fashion. I get compensated for the many hours spent and yet can still offer the models to the Poser community at a ridiculously low price. This in turn leads to more exposure and more commissions. Everybody wins. At least that is the plan :)

beautiful!