Favourite General's pose

[martin goddard]

If you were making a figure to your own likes.
It is a general or force commander.
What pose would you go for.


I might have a German WW2 company commander with a mapboard and pencil. He would be prone , taking cover. Equipped with a single eye periscope and mug of tea.

[Wardy64]

Dick Winters Band of Brothers advancing crouched with rifle.

Dave

[Fat Wally]

Mounted Union General waving hat, and troops forwards.

[Radar]

Either of the Van Dyck portraits of Charles I on horseback (there's one of Charles on a white horse at Windsor, one on a bay at the National Gallery),
Charles's pose is almost identical in both portraits. The pose shouts 'look at me I'm in charge/very important'. A great pose for a General, which would work for 1500s through to late  1800s.

[Sean Clark]

One foot up on a rock, one hand on a hip, the other pointing to some distant objective.

[Radar]

One foot up on a rock, one hand on a hip, the other pointing to some distant objective.

That's 'catalogue man' not 'general' surely?

[Ben WARD]

German officer in smock advancing with an assault rifle

[Leman (Andy)]

Prussian general from the Wars of German Unification examining a map whilst adjusting his monocle. Wars of the Roses commander standing in his stirrups looking back at his troops whilst pointing his mace forward.

[pbeccas (Paul)]

Standing, hands on hips, 1000 mile stare.

[Colonel Kilgore]

Colonel Bill Kilgore, complete with surfboard

[Clay]

A German officer standing with a slung MP40, helmet hung on his belt, munching on a disk of chocacola in one hand and a cuppa in the other.... looking bored