Seljuk Turks

[Cromwell]

I am hoping that someone might be able to point me in the direction of a good painting guide for Seljuk Turks.

[timurilank]

I would use this if I were painting Seljuks :D:

http://www.google.nl/search?q=seljuk+turks&hl=nl&prmd=imvnsb&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=ZCkHT_GqCo2f-wazmsGkCg&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&sqi=2&ved=0CBAQ_AUoAQ&biw=1024&bih=685

Also Brendon Moyle's Shattered Lance website does offer some useful tips:

http://users.actrix.co.nz/moyle/figs/standard.html

[Cromwell]

I looked at google but wasn't sure what troop types I was looking at.

Shattered Lance was good especially for tips for the Crusaders.

[Swampster]

Try these
http://greatestbattles.iblogger.org/Turk/Romance_of_Varqa_and_Gulshah.htm
(Linked by someone on TMP recently).
I have a few Turks on my blog, too.
http://swampster-danteswars.blogspot.com/search/label/Turks

[Cromwell]

Thanks Swampster...those links were really useful.

I really enjoyed looking at your 13th Century page. Where did your interest in the 13th century come from?

My favourite time is 17th Century especially English Civil War and I began that interest through stories told to me by my Mother about family connections to those wars.

[Swampster]

I really enjoyed looking at your 13th Century page. Where did your interest in the 13th century come from?


Entirely because I wanted to try my hand at doing some heraldry and so I bought a Mirliton Communal Italian army at Salute!

I've always liked heraldry and had tried it on some Mike's Models figures about thirty years ago (as well as on various D&D figures). One of the things I have enjoyed most about finding the various coats of arms is discovering a lot about the nobility of my area.

I used to write off the 13th century as not very interesting but I couldn't have been more wrong. Once I had started to read about the subject, I got an army to match the Italians, then another and another. I still have Germans and TK to finish and will probably do a few Hungarian knights to take my Hungarians into the 13th century.

[Cromwell]

Am I correct in thinking that heraldry was born in the 13th Century?

That the various devices and family emblems that had been used before were officially formalised during that century and became regulated.

[Swampster]

Am I correct in thinking that heraldry was born in the 13th Century?

That the various devices and family emblems that had been used before were officially formalised during that century and became regulated.

More or less.
As you say, there are some earlier designs which look like heraldry and even passed either via family or title but it is the 13th century where it become common.