07-09-2006, 09:05 PM
Thanks chaps
Yes indeed one of my favourite subjects and I have built up a collection of camel images ancient and modern. A few years ago I even photographed a Guard member in full armour mounted on a camel on a beach near Bristol
. Interesting to note how totally relaxed the camel was as to opposed to how a horse reacts the first time it sees anyone in armour.
I also wrote an article on the subject for Military Illustrated magazine in 1996 and have sent several RAT members copies.
After Verlinden models made a figure clearly based on one of my paintings I sent them the details of the Dromedarii painting I had just completed (1995). Sadly although I was sent a free copy of the standing Auxiliary Centurion they produced they never sent me the Camel figure
There are plenty of ancient sources for illustrations of Palmyrene camel riders but not as far as I know any of the 'Roman' units. You might be interested to know that I will be painting another Roman Dromedarii for my latest book project.
Graham.
Yes indeed one of my favourite subjects and I have built up a collection of camel images ancient and modern. A few years ago I even photographed a Guard member in full armour mounted on a camel on a beach near Bristol
. Interesting to note how totally relaxed the camel was as to opposed to how a horse reacts the first time it sees anyone in armour.I also wrote an article on the subject for Military Illustrated magazine in 1996 and have sent several RAT members copies.
After Verlinden models made a figure clearly based on one of my paintings I sent them the details of the Dromedarii painting I had just completed (1995). Sadly although I was sent a free copy of the standing Auxiliary Centurion they produced they never sent me the Camel figure
There are plenty of ancient sources for illustrations of Palmyrene camel riders but not as far as I know any of the 'Roman' units. You might be interested to know that I will be painting another Roman Dromedarii for my latest book project.
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
