#osprey publishing

[keitrinkomfloukru]

I checked, the book is real.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

ALL [PACHYDERM] POWER TO THE MUGHAL EMPIRE -- BORN & BRED FOR ARMORED COMBAT.

PIC INFO: Resolution at 640x997 -- Spotlight on Mughal war and/or Mughal army elephants, from the military of the Mughal Empire, artwork by Peter Dennis for the Osprey book "War Elephants."

War elephants of the Great Mughals 16th-18th Centuries:

OVERVIEW: "In the time of the Great Mughals in India (1526-1858) people either rode an elephant or sat in a ‘Howdah’. The most valuable elephants were protected by armour. Some were fully clad in armour, others had only their heads and parts of their trunk protected, others had no protection at all. Elephant armour was made of; plates and mail (As in the royal Armouries example), Scales sewn on a piece of cloth, brigandine (steel plates sewn in between layers of cloth), or just quilted cloth or leather. The armour also had a peculiarity – protective "ears," two projections on the elephant’s head to protect the driver."

-- CHALKLANDS (blogspot/Pete's blog), "Elephant Armor"

Sources: www.reddit.com/r/HistoryIllustrations/comments/o102ff, Pete's blog, various, etc...

[pinturas-sgm-aviacion]

1940 08 12 Bf109E-4 JG53 Pik As - Mark Postlethwaite - cover art Osprey

On 12 August 1940, JG 53 was tasked with carrying out a ‘Freie Jagd’ off Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight in support of Ju 88s of KG 51 that were attacking Portsmouth harbour and Ventnor radar station on the Isle of Wight. Leading 1./JG 53 was Hauptmann Hans-Karl Mayer, who was flying a Bf109E-4 coded ‘White 8’. His Rottenflieger was Unteroffizier Heinrich Rühl in a Bf 109E-1 coded ‘White 10’.

Flying at 8500 m, Mayer spotted three Hurricanes below attacking a lone Bf 110 at 1220 hrs, and although he quickly engaged the enemy fighters the Bf 110 pilot bailed out. Mayer selected the right Hurricane and Rühl the left, the former firing a total of 20 x 20 mm shells and 80 x 7.92 mm machine gun rounds into the RAF fighter, which immediately burst into flames and dived into the sea for what would be Mayer’s tenth victory of the war. Having already exhausted his supply of cannon shells, Rühl fired 200 machine gun rounds at his Hurricane, which then hit the sea in a gentle curve.

Mayer now turned his attention to the remaining Hurricane, which had been engaged by the rest of his Staffel. This combat was not as one-sided, however, for his Bf 109E was hit six times. Mayer’s combat report noted;

‘After my first kill I flew back to the dogfight with the last remaining Hurricane against several aircraft of my Staffel. I immediately attacked and was able to open fire twice, and also received some hits myself. The damaged aircraft tried to escape in the direction of the coast but I stayed close to it, while my Staffel lost me in the haze. At first it made only slight evasive actions, and so I was able to get in several well-aimed bursts. The aircraft started emitting black smoke, went down in a shallow dive and disintegrated on impact.’

Mayer had achieved his second victory of the mission, firing ten cannon and 250 machine gun rounds at the Hurricane, which, after hitting the sea, sank immediately. Although it cannot be said for certain,it is believed that Mayer and Rühl accounted for Plt Off John Harrison, Acting Flt Lt Wilhelm Pankratz and Sgt Josef Kwiecinski of No 145 Sqn, all of whom were reported missing in action off the Isle of Wight at times that matched the three German claims

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Frostgrave Cover Art by Dmitry Burmak

[the-random-hamlet]

How to Play Helluva Boss (& Hazbin Hotel) as an RPG

Welcome to Hell, but should you abandon all hope? Or can you make it through another day walking the mean streets of Hell? Find out when you play Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel as a role-playing game.

[pinturas-sgm-aviacion]

1938 07 19 Bf109D Legion Condor Aces - Mark Postlethwaite

the moment that Leutnant Rudolf Goy of the 3.Staffel of the Legion Condor’s Jagdgruppe 88 banks his Bf 109D, coded 6-75, overa Republican air force I-16 Rata which he has just shot down following an engagement between Segorbe and Viver, just east of Valencia, in southeastern Spain,on 19 July 1938.Goy’s Bf 109 was one of a group of eight aircraft led by Oberleutnant Werner Mölders, the highest-scoring fighter ace in the Legion Condor. The German formation comprised four separate Rotten of two aircraft each: a tactical innovation devised by Mölders that offered German fighter pilots in Spain a looser and more flexible system in preference to the more rigid wing-to-wing ‘V’ formation previously adopted. In the Rotte, the leader could concentrate on scanning the sky for the enemy,while the wingman would cover the vulnerable rear. Furthermore, such a formation reduced the risk of collision and allowed greater manoeuvrability and higher speeds. Several four-aircraft Schwarme could operate together in Staffel strength,staggered at different altitudes so that there was an even greater element of mutual search and protection, as well as flexibility,when engaging the opposition. Mölders’ and Goy’s formation had been despatched from La Senia airfield as escort to bombers of the Legion Condor when it encountered three escuadrillas of I-16s during the Nationalist offensive towards the Mediterranean. Mölders scored his third victory west of Villar del Arzobispo, and four other pilots, including Goy, accounted for an I-16 each. Rudolf Goy claimed three victories in Spain and went on to fly with II./JG 53 during World War 2.

[petermorwood]

Hmm.

Christopher Rothero wrote and illustrated books for Osprey Publishing.

Richard Scollins (1946-1992) also illustrated books for Osprey Publishing.

In addition, Rothero and Scollins illustrated articles for "Military Modelling" magazine, which I used to get for the many years when making and painting models was A Thing. :->

*****

Scollins did the pics for one about the Norse and Norman invasions of 1066, and I used to have that issue until it and all the rest went the way of old magazines during a house move.

However, I have a pretty good visual memory, and a couple of images online (seen as usual, while looking for something else :-> ) sent me searching for other images from that long-ago magazine article in August 1978 (see top left of the busy page).

Chris Rothero's book "The Scottish and Irish Wars 1250-1400" was published in July 1984, so there's no question which pics came first.

Both illustrators did work for the same magazine and same book publisher. Maybe they worked in the same studio. Maybe there was a deadline looming. Maybe they were friends.

And maybe Rothero just wasn't at ease with action poses, because a typical costume study looks like this:

After just a few - and there are lots more like these - his style becomes easy to recognise, as is the way he represents cloth, metal and faces.

That's why those images I saw on-line prompted a different memory...

...and why I did a little cut-and-paste exercise with the magazine art to confirm it.

I like to think, before doing his repaint version, that Chris Rothero asked Rick Scollins if it was okay, and Scollins thought of friends and deadlines and said "yeah, go for it."

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"NO ARMY HAS EVER PROVOKED SUCH JUSTIFIABLE TERROR AND LOATHING IN ITS VICTIMS..."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on illustrations of the Mongol Army and the warrior culture that encapsulated the very nature of their empire, from the book "The Mongols" (1980), written by George Turnbull and illustrated by Angus McBride. Part of Osprey Publishing's "Men-At-Arms" Series, 105.

DESCRIPTION: "The history of the Mongol armies is a catalogue of superlatives. No armies in history have ever won so many battles or conquered so much territory. No army has ever provoked such justifiable terror and loathing in its victims, or slaughtered so many of its vanquished.

What other army in history has marched on Russia in the winter and survived, let alone won victories? The stories of these and many other amazing feats of this "barbarian" people are here brought vividly to life by Stephen Turnbull, from the birth of Genghis Khan in the wind-swept steppes of Mongolia, through the conquest of China and beyond."

-- OSPREY PUBLISHING, "The Mongols" (published 1980, "Men-At Arms" Series, 105)

Source: http://miniaturasmilitaresalfonscanovas.blogspot.com/2012/02/angus-mcbride-los-mongoles.html.