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Post by mminiatures on Aug 11, 2006 18:43:25 GMT
Hi y'all
as some of you might know I'm working on a range of miniatures of Medieval Carpathians and Moldavians. I'm striving to make them as historically accurate as I can. Right now I'm ahving toruble finding enough facts about Moldavian soldiers in the time of Stephan the great. If anyone happens to know anything about Moldavia in the 14-1500's which goes beyond the info in a wikipedia search I'd be happy to hear it.
What I need in particular is details on Stephan the Great's appearence and the armorments of his soldiers. I have been working on Moldavian soldiers and shall post them hear shortly.
Thanks to anyone who can help.
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Post by Tim C on Aug 11, 2006 18:52:25 GMT
Have you checked the Osprey Men at Arms series of books to see if they have any material that you might need? I have several of these books and the sketches and back ground information is fantastic.
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Post by mminiatures on Aug 11, 2006 19:31:04 GMT
I have the one for medieval German armies and it has been of some use, although after discussion with some people on TLA I found that Germany, although very close of Moldavia and Wallachia, had rather different armies, heavily armoured knights and men at arms rather than Moldavian and Wallachian light infantry and unarmored cavalry. To refelct this the Wallachians are all armed with minimal plates and chainmail coats which are very light. The Moldavians have chainmail with leather armor on top which is also very flexible. They have furs draped around their shoulders becuase of the climate of Moldavia which can be quite cold. The problem is that this is all my speculation of what these armies might ahve looked like, I have found very few actual pictures. When I start their enemies, the turks, reference material will become easier to find.
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Post by Tim C on Aug 11, 2006 19:33:15 GMT
I have alot oh history reference books at home I will have a look and see if I can find anything out for you.
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Post by mminiatures on Aug 11, 2006 20:02:10 GMT
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Post by Tim C on Aug 12, 2006 4:56:15 GMT
They are looking very nice indeed mate, I like all of them. Great work.
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Post by charley1968 on Aug 12, 2006 8:53:45 GMT
Outstanding!
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Post by mminiatures on Aug 12, 2006 18:20:34 GMT
Heres a better pic of the spearman  |
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Post by jabberwocky on Aug 13, 2006 13:40:08 GMT
Great job on these!
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Post by Tim C on Aug 13, 2006 15:00:51 GMT
Are you having these cast by any chance?
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Post by mminiatures on Aug 14, 2006 21:18:20 GMT
Indeed I am, they'll go in the plate with the horses I showed on OR.
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Post by Tim C on Aug 14, 2006 21:52:34 GMT
cool mate.
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Post by suladan on Aug 15, 2006 13:19:12 GMT
there really nice, the faces are very detailed and the swords are very nice. the only problem i can see is the vloth and armour on some looks a bit on the chunky side. just a thought, but you should sculpt some heads and get the cast and sell them, and weapons, they will sell like hot cakes (mmm hot cakes) i would certianly buy some (weapons not hot cakes  ) thanks for sharing your progress with us, i look forward to seeing more  edit: [google]Balken History[/google] [google]Medieval Carpathians [/google] [google]Moldavians[/google] [google]Moldavia in the 14-1500's [/google] [google]Stephan the great[/google] [google]Stephan the Great's appearence[/google] hope they help ;D |
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Post by racssirt on Aug 15, 2006 21:20:04 GMT
Great work mminiatures! Show us some more! ;D
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Post by mattofmirkwood on Sept 2, 2006 8:24:06 GMT
They look great. I'm with Racssirt, show us some more! Please? |
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