Some pictures to use as a resource.
Beginner | Rating: 8.89 Votes: 18
Views: 17935 | By: Dragonsreach  |
| Category: General Subcategory: Misc | Date: 2003-05-30 04:55:20 |
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I was recently fortunate enough to visit the Royal Armouries at Leeds with my father. We spend 7 hours wandering around and still didn't see all the galleries. However, while I was taking a lot of pictures it occurred to me that a lot of the armour and weapons on disaply would make a great resourse for the painters who visit this site.
Therefore, I have selected the best of those I took (ie those that aren't too badly blurred. MEMO to self: must remember to check shutter speed setting on new digital camera before taking picture.)
So here for your perusal and I hope of some assistance are the pictures.
This is a detail from Chinese quilted armour, of which I had to take a close up photo as the detail is amazing. Altough the colour of the cloth has faded over time the richness of the metal still shines through. (and yes that is a reflection of me in the mirror)
This is a 1/6th scale armour used as a sales piece by smiths. If memory serves me correctly it's from the 14th Century but don't quote me on that. As you can see the reflectivity of this highly polished metal gives a good indication of how NMM is intended to represent the same effect.
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yack
21 October 06 |  |
Rating: 7
Nice idea if you are planning to paint a mini in an indoor
diorama, but if not you should stick to looking at paintings of outdoor battles. Nice try, and I think Faethor was a little too harsh.
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Faethor
02 December 05 |  |
Rating: 5
Sorry bro, but taking pictures INSIDE the museum is not too handy if u wanna use it for NMM-light sources are crappy and not from upside-simply taken, this is not too useful-better is taking piscures on some historical actions outside-this could be useful...sorry for critics but very similar pictures emerget on some czech forums about NMM and heve been strongly critised because of all aforementioned...
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Hieronymus
27 May 04 |  |
Rating: 10
The 1/6 scale one looks a lot like a late 14th C. armour fron Schloss Churburg in Italy. The top helmet on page 2 is a Maximilian style armet with a bellows visor, it's probably German and looks to me like it's from about 1520. The next one's a burgonet from later in the 1500's. The breastplate on page 3 could be from the first half of the 1500's. It has that globose shape from that time, but not the fluting like the Maximilian stuff. Maybe it was made in Greenwich?
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Hieronymus
27 May 04 | |
Rating: 9
Thanks for the pictures! A guy I know, who makes armour, incedentally, said that if you stick the lens of the camera right up to the glass, it's too close to pick up reflections.
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Samurai Girl
13 June 03 |  |
Rating: 10
I happen to be an armorer and I could offer some pics of Japanese armor and European chain maille
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Dragnmastrz
03 June 03 |  |
Rating: 10
Fantastic and well done
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vincegamer
01 June 03 |  |
Rating: 8
background on time and location of pieces would be nice. For future, if you aren't worried about memory space, just photo the item label and when you are going through your photos you can see what each is. I learned this with vacations and film. Photo the sign at the entrance to the park etc. and when the film comes back from the developer you won't have forgotten where the shots were taken.
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freakinacage
01 June 03 |  |
Rating: 9
nice one. now i have no excuse to try (and probably fail at) nmm!!
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Skatron
01 June 03 |  |
Rating: 10
is very good
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unknowndude
31 May 03 |  |
Rating: 10
wow thats cool! very nice. it will give painters and modellers.
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laurence
31 May 03 |  |
Rating: 10
Cheers Dragonsreach  Its kind of you to share these impressive examples of plate armour, they have a kind of magical aura about them. I now have a clearer understanding of how to approach painting ES NMM, and I know just the mini to experiment on. I really look forward to your next article on Japanese armour... Thanks heaps!!
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