Work was slow lately but they did find the time to dress up for Halloween!
I see the headsman has been busy lately
hehe have fun! xD
Something different this time, I believe many of the people who are interested in the military history of the East Roman Empire are familiar with this illustration from the Skylitzes manuscript:
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The illustration depicts the funeral of an emperor (IMS) you can tell by their long axes that the soldiers in the background are Varangian Guardsmen.
Notice the raindrop shaped shield at the lower right part of the image (green circle and arrow).
It's been the theme of a mini project of mine to keep me from getting bored of the round shields.
This shield will feature among those that my render of VG will carry.
Here are a first couple of milkshape screenies:
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This is the finalized versions of my round shield metal frameworks, in the 256x256 scale (I have no idea if I will ever make bigger ones).
So what we have is eight of them for a reasonable variety in my attachments texture maps of 16 shields each (for the round shield units).
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Well, it's a fair remark, but I would not have proposed this if I wasn't sure about it's authenticity.
It turns out there have been more than one specimen of this style.
This is the specimen from Ludvigshare:
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Link.
And this is another specimen:
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Link.
And there is also this even less preserved specmen which (I think) is exibited in the Silkeborg Museum in Mid Jutland:
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Link.
I am taking this opportunity to show the increment in my collection of two-handed axes.
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I hope you approve.