Ezipion turns kneeling knight into standing pose for collectors and painters

Ezipion Digital Store’s May drop put the biggest reveal front and center: a familiar kneeling knight has been raised into a standing pose, and the shift gives collectors and painters a much more forceful silhouette to work with. The exclusive model is listed for May 15, while the wider May Tribes release included 11 historical figures and scenes available from May 1, with supported and unsupported files and both 28mm and 34mm formats in the folder.

The change is more than a simple restyle. In the update, Israel Delgado Laborda, working as Israel (Ezipion), said the kneeling version from the Brotherhood of the Cross of the Catacombs had felt boring with the relic still in hand, so the relic was repositioned into the standing figure’s hand to keep the concept intact. The great helmet has also been added, and the model is described as not finished yet, but close. That matters on the painting desk: a standing knight creates a stronger focal point for heraldry, weathered metals, cloth contrast, and narrative basing than the same figure frozen on one knee.

The model sits inside a broader historical line that has become Ezipion’s calling card. The company profile says Delgado Laborda has been 3D printing since September 2019, and the project is framed as a way to sculpt more personal, less commercially driven figures that do not always fit the shape of crowdfunding. The catalog leans into late 14th-century Europe and the Hundred Years’ War, with files offered in the usual Castilla Oscura scale of 32 to 34mm and rescaled historical 28mm versions. The creator also says the models are supplied with and without supports and tested on printers.

That historical grounding helps explain why the pose change lands. English Heritage describes medieval knights as mounted, armored cavalry warriors, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art notes that by the fourteenth century improved crossbows could pierce shields and mail, helping drive new armor solutions, including helmet forms that joined the great helm and chapel-de-fer. In that context, a great-helm knight still reads unmistakably medieval even when the gesture changes from devotional to defiant.

Delgado Laborda’s wider record also adds weight to the release. The company profile lists work for Games Workshop, Mantic, Freebooter, Wyrd, Last Sword, and Star Player, and the May lineup echoes the same taste for tombs, relics, and knightly memory. One mausoleum piece was described as inspired by 14th-century knightly tombs, with the possibility of a dog at the feet and a crested helmet used as a pillow. The standing knight now carries that same mood, only with a harder stance that should make it the kind of figure painters keep on the desk instead of leaving in the pile.