07-30-2010, 02:23 PM
Quote:Ah! but you did paint it based on the Ostrova helmet did you not Graham? Which is not as complete as this example - so you sort of pre-empted it by adding the scale in your painting rather than mail!
Er......No!
As I said in the previous post I had nothing to do with the painting at all. Dr D'Amato commissioned another artist himself to do that painting. I can only guess that he supplied the other artist with the sources for the painting which I presume did include the helmet you mention. He would have provided the artist with detailed instructions for the reconstruction based on his own research as he did for the paintings which I did illustrate. These are all full page Plates in the book and had I done the Sarmation archer figure he would have been a full page Plate too.
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.
