It is on the limit of our period but may nevertheless interest some deep-pocketed members: Andy Wood. The 1549 Rebellions and the Making of Early Modern...
Work is well underway on my Anglo-Danish line in 15mm, to supplement my Vikings (available now) and my Normans (just awaiting painted samples so they can go up...
http://www.angelfire.com/mb2/battle_hastings_1066/bayeux_tapestry/mountedsaxons.jpg A bit indistinct, but you can see clearly that these Anglo-Saxon mounts...
It totally depended on the accoustics (weather condtions), the strength of the speaker's voice, and if the army was arranged to listen. Mostly, though, I think...
... Could I ask the same question for 15 mils? I'm currently painting up some Essex arabs. I guess there's going to be a lot of speed painting in the next few...
RE Female Skythians, Falcon UK make a smaller (closer to OG or Donnington scale) Female mouinted figure shooting as a "Noble Woman" and also a "topless'...
Whatever happened to Falcon UK? Last I heard of them was some years ago when they were taken on by Chariot (before Chariot was taken on by Magister Militum)...
... One is that they were wearing the same style of costume as Romans and Persians on the frontier. That would be a long tunic wth fairly baggy trousers. The...
This is pretty much anybody's guess... If I were purchasing figures to paint, in whatever scale, I'd go for: a range of Arabs I liked (early Islamic conquest...
From The life of Malchus written at Bethlehem, a.d., 391 All of a sudden the Ishmaelites on horses and camels made an assault upon us, with their flowing hair...
... Not even a simple turban, which is pretty much just a simple head wrap? Nik Gaukroger "Never ask a man if he comes from Yorkshire. If he does, he will tell...
Donnington (now produced by Ancient & Modern Army Supplies) do a very nice range of Nabataeans which are (IMO) also very usable as Pre-Islamic Arabs. ...
That's what I have gone for; millenia old practical hot climate headware. Pactical consideration over the (minimal) evidence. (Also I can subsequently convert...
... So giving Arabs kaffiyeh may not be correct. Later depictions of Arabs in a Spanish context or in the Skylitzes manuscript show head cloths that go over...
... ____________________________ Thanks. Anyone aware of any English/Scandinavian sources? I suspect the tapestry makers may have used Norman tack for the...
... ____________________________ Thanks. Anyone aware of any English/Scandinavian sources? I suspect the tapestry makers may have used Norman tack for the...
... One can, of course, turn this on it's head and say, because pre-battle orations were part of the literary tradition, literate commanders would expect to...
The Lewis chessmen are perhaps relevent but are a century later Jim ... From: "khurasanminiatures" <khurasanminiatures@...> To: <ancmed@yahoogroups.com> ...
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Merlin Douglas Larsen ... Also someone (might have been Phil Sabin, can't remember) pointed out that a commander could of...
It is with some embarassment that I reveal that I have acquired a Numidian army by accident ;-( I tend to paint in fits and starts, will have a long session...
... What I didn't recall was an early illustration of a kaffiyeh which , I believe is a headcloth with a semi rigid cord around it as worn by classc Lawrence...
http://members.tripod.com/khurasanminiatures/ad-command.jpg King, General, Standard, Musician. They have the tight wrinkly sleeves and hose-like leggings. All...
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