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    Default Cool Military Pics & Art

    Whether found on a site, done by a friend, or an aquaintance, or youself.
    Post you military-based historical (prior to 1991) pics, art, and photgraphs here. Postcards too!

    I'll start off:
    One I did myself: Ich hatt einen Kameraden


    The Watch on the Rhine, WW1 postcard, from Deutsche-Schutzgebeite


    Also from Deutsche-Schutzgebiete, french WW1 postcard

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    Hmmm....that site's pretty cool.

    Favorite one of those:

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    I'm a huge fan of the military art of Angus Mcbride, here is a few of many of his great colour plates:

    Celtic mercenaries in Egypt:

    http://www.libreopinion.com/historia...s/celtas11.jpg

    British Army fighting the Zulus

    http://www.historynet.com/pod/0329_l.jpg

    Belgic Charioteer:

    http://www.libreopinion.com/historia...s/celtas15.jpg
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    Well I just moved into an old house back in October and found a few newspapers from late 30's and 40's. I have a British newspaper that dates back to the end of WWII. I will scan a few sections and post it here once I get home tonight.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Perkele
    Hey do you have any other interesting photos about winter war?And do you have any paintings of that war as i never managed to find any.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BKB
    Cool, any background information on these mercenaries? Were they just barbarians from the Balkan or Spain, hired by the Ptolemies?

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    They were Galatians in service of one of the Ptolemies, i think Ptolemy II. They attempted to carve territory for themselves in Egypt but they were defeated and the survivors were left on an island to starve to death! But this did not stop other Egyptian rulers from employing Celtic mercenaries later on.

    More pics:

    English civil war soldiers

    http://www.doyle.com.au/images/crom_sold.jpg


    More great Celic warriors:

    http://www.libreopinion.com/historia...as/celtas5.jpg
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    These Celtics look awesome. Just change the number in the URL and you have acces to tens of pictures.

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    Some Romans...








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    Quote Originally Posted by Centuri0n
    Eastern Empire Romans, I'm guessing? Thier greenish-blue shields make me think "byzantine".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hapsburg
    Eastern Empire Romans, I'm guessing? Thier greenish-blue shields make me think "byzantine".
    When the eastern roman empire was made, Roman legionaries didn't look like that any more.

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    No they hardly wore any armour at all.
    A roman soldier in the 5th centtury wouldnt recognisce the basic armour being worn by the roman infantry in the 2th century.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Princeps
    When the eastern roman empire was made, Roman legionaries didn't look like that any more.
    Huh.
    Well, like I said, when I see "roman" looking guys in armour of some kind, and I see blue or green, my mind automatically jumps to "byzantine" or "eastern roman" empires.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hapsburg
    Huh.
    Well, like I said, when I see "roman" looking guys in armour of some kind, and I see blue or green, my mind automatically jumps to "byzantine" or "eastern roman" empires.
    Legions had their own signs and colours, to recognize them in combat.

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    russians in chechniya


    Spartans At Thermoplaye


    Some Celts after Killing a Greek Soldier
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    Those last two was awesome Darkragnar especially the one with the spartans.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 00RedBaron
    Legions had their own signs and colours, to recognize them in combat.
    Oh. I didn't know that. I thought they all had red shields. Sorry for the misconception.

    Darkragnar: awesome, simply awesome pics.
    Here's one I made of the Watch on the Rhine.

    I made it a while ago, so it's not as good as the Kameraden one way above. It's still military art, though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by darkragnar
    russians in chechniya
    Heh... that Russian's using a SAW.

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