When a child Mr. Fufin was highly interested in knight novels and adventures of medieval knights. He grew up and began making his dream come true. He started making figurines of mounted and dismounted knights and recreated their weapons and armor in details: mails, shields, swords, daggers, clothes, etc. Each figurine is 30 cm tall. Some of them present real historic characters, for instance Richard the Lionheart.
Today his army comprises 60 figurines of English, German, Spanish, Portuguese and French knights of the 9th-13th centuries. In the future Nikolai Fufin plans to cover the period from the 14th till the early 19th centuries. He makes his figurines of tin and plastic and uses glass beads to decorate them.
Usually it takes him a month to make one figurine. The longest process is making a mail of the wire.
"I braid them when watching TV or waiting for a bus," Mr. Fufin said.
