"Book with the most color plates?" Topic
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| JSears | 12 Dec 2014 9:40 a.m. PST |
You know those books of "Eastern Front Panzer color schemes" that are just chock full of color plates and captions on various paint schemes for tanks? Is there anything like that for medieval heraldry, arms and equipment? The color plates in the various ospreys are quite nice, but there are only a handful per volume. Also, because many of the illustrations show battle scenes it's sometimes difficult to make out the full detail of a pievce of levery or shield. I'm happy to do my actual research in denser tomes, but sometimes I just want to flip through a big coffee table book of heraldry designs for painting inspiration. This is the sort of thing I'd like to see. Just pages and pages of this:
Does that exist? |
| MajorB | 12 Dec 2014 9:43 a.m. PST |
For the WotR I would suggest:
"Heraldic Banners of the Wars of the Roses" in 3 Vols available from the Lance and Longbow Society.
lanceandlongbow.com/shop.php |
| Great War Ace | 12 Dec 2014 10:05 a.m. PST |
The Funkens got better as they went along. They are hard to top, as your example pic shows…. |
| JSears | 12 Dec 2014 11:48 a.m. PST |
Are the Funcken books worth tracking down? I was under the impression they were out of date and had the same number of illustrations as the various Ospreys (which are more readily available and incorporate newer research with the later publications) |
| rampantlion | 12 Dec 2014 11:50 a.m. PST |
The Funken books are loaded with illustrations. |
| Porthos | 12 Dec 2014 12:36 p.m. PST |
Liliane and Fred Funcken's "Le Costume, l'Armure et les Armes au Temps de la Chevalerie, no. 1 – du huitieme au quinzieme siecle" (from eighth century up to fifteenth century) starts at page 10, last page 156 and has a total of 76 colour pages. So that's more than half of the book in pictures.The no. 2 of this pair is "le siecle de la Renaissance".
A very interesting book is "A Wargamer's Armorial" by Tony Hughes, volume I: England. Twenty plates of shield designs (I hope this is the correct name), 40 shield each page, alphabeticaly grouped. I bought it here, though several years ago: link And of course I would love to see more volumes – Wales, Scotland, France… |
GildasFacit  | 12 Dec 2014 12:59 p.m. PST |
Hi folks Just to update what Porthos said. The volume he refers to is unfortunately no longer available. Binding and postage costs killed sales to such an extent that it was no longer economical to keep selling it. It also put me off finishing the other volumes that I'd planned on. I might have made it and others available as PDF once completed but the new legislation makes that very unlikely. |
| Mako11 | 12 Dec 2014 2:26 p.m. PST |
Some libraries carry the Funken books, so yes, they are worth searching out. |
| uglyfatbloke | 13 Dec 2014 10:57 a.m. PST |
The Funcken volume you apparently have is pretty damned good and if you don't have it it's worth acquiring. Not all of the Ospreys are very reliable vis-a-vis scholarship. |
| Druzhina | 13 Dec 2014 8:43 p.m. PST |
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