04-27-2006, 04:02 AM
Hi, Jarulf,
Gee, am I the only one to remember that Claudio is into this stuff too, and has some sections on ancient arms & armor on his site:
http://www.claudiospage.com/
I don't know for sure if his photos & drawings are quite what you are looking for, but it might be worth checking them out. I didn't see a source listed - he might have taken some of them himself, not sure.
Haven't heard anything about your employment for a long time, but if you are at or near a large university, their library may well have some books about these subjects. In the past, I've come across such books at the Michigan State U. library while looking for stuff related to lapidary/metalsmithing. I was interested enough to check out a couple & read them - was impressed that the computer game Darklands (around 1994) had been fairly historically-accurate in regards to arms & armor.
The Society for Creative Anachronism might also have or lead to some information as well:
http://www.sca.org/
such as:
http://www.sca.org/goodbye.cgi?url=http://...com/index1.html
which I found on their site after a very brief search - there may be other relevant links there as well.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Dako-ta
"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."
-- Anna Quindlen
Jarulf,Apr 25 2006, 01:40 PM Wrote:I am looking for some site or place with pictures of armor and weapons suitable for fantasy rolplaying. That would be things such as swords, axes, chain mail and so on. Probably need to be painted art since I doubt there is that much real although I once got some hints of some real sword page.
I basically just need it to have to show for my friends when we play pen&paper RPG, makes it a bit more fun to have a picture or something showing how it looks.
One idea is to extract the models out of WoW or other games, but I feel that is a bit more work.
So anyone got ANY ideas?
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Gee, am I the only one to remember that Claudio is into this stuff too, and has some sections on ancient arms & armor on his site:
http://www.claudiospage.com/
I don't know for sure if his photos & drawings are quite what you are looking for, but it might be worth checking them out. I didn't see a source listed - he might have taken some of them himself, not sure.
Haven't heard anything about your employment for a long time, but if you are at or near a large university, their library may well have some books about these subjects. In the past, I've come across such books at the Michigan State U. library while looking for stuff related to lapidary/metalsmithing. I was interested enough to check out a couple & read them - was impressed that the computer game Darklands (around 1994) had been fairly historically-accurate in regards to arms & armor.
The Society for Creative Anachronism might also have or lead to some information as well:
http://www.sca.org/
such as:
http://www.sca.org/goodbye.cgi?url=http://...com/index1.html
which I found on their site after a very brief search - there may be other relevant links there as well.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Dako-ta
"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."
-- Anna Quindlen