caldrail
-
Posts
6,272 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
148
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Static Pages
News
Blogs
Gallery
Events
Downloads
Everything posted by caldrail
-
A composite picture. The foreground is a photo of Dragons Mount at Uffington Castle, where according to legend St George slew the nasty beastie. Blended into the background is a bryce landscape.© (c) Mark Ollard
-
The Great Western Railway goods yard at Colbourne, Swindon, is still there, although now used for road logistics.© (c) Mark Ollard
-
The early bird gets the worm.. or some great pics. It wasn't as cold as it might have been and it was worth getting up that morning.© (c) Mark Ollard
-
The Marlborough Downs have never looked so empty... A late evening shot in March this year.© (c) Mark Ollard
-
Just north of Chiseldon in November 2005. A moody shot of a quiet meadow.© (c) Mark Ollard
-
November last year - I wandered around Chiseldon on a frosty morning and got some great pics including this on the ridge above Hodson.© (c)
-
Although slightly retouched to get rid of a blemish, this pic shows the wet weather of February 2004 as it closed in. The sun is slowly swallowed by heaps of cloud.© (c) Mark Ollard
-
Back in February 2004 I took this pic of the rainclouds gathering overhead. This pic is not retouched - these are the original colours! Yes I got wet© (c) Mark Ollard
-
Flights across the equatorial zone are frought with peril. Brought down by collision with a careless lifeform the aircraft settles into the swamp. The crew had better recover their wits soon. Carnivores dwell here.. A straightforward bryce render with a custom truespace model. I added a steam affect to show damage.© (c) Mark Ollard
-
Cargo flights are grounded for another three hours.... This was done with a custom truespace model imported into Bryce. The truck was done entirely in bryce and the standing figure was a poser model. I was really pleased with this.© (c) Mark Ollard
-
Deep within the Viyek Wastes is a city forgotten by all save those who search the oldest legends. There the Sand People have made it their home, and not even they know all its secrets... The origin of this is a desert scene rendered in Vistapro, and that was well old. The city was added in Paint Shop Pro, with a darkened sky from Bryce mixed in for a sort of twilight effect.© (c) Mark Ollard
-
The people of Rumaca built and maintained a great archive in the center of an asteroid where they thought it would last forever. The death throes of the star destroyed it nonetheless.... An exercise in hollowing out with negative objects in Bryce. The jericho tree is from a bryce disk.© (c) Mark Ollard
-
With great care must you approach that place hidden in the Kaedia Wilderness. Within the alien can see all that is and is to be... A cave made of terrains in bryce. The alien is a praying mantis model from a truespace disk. With a little care in lighting, I wanted a cold and 'horror movie' feel to this.© (c) Mark Ollard
-
The young wizard Karsagus entered the astral plane to contain and control the Vortex. Should he succeed, his power will be boosted ten-fold... Believe it or not, this is a modification of a spaceship passing a nebula. Another rendering was 'twirled' in Paint Shop Pro and a pair of arms added from Truespace. Took all of 30 minutes.© (c) Mark Ollard
-
Deep in the Krellori Swamp the lizardmen have nested. Soon they will hatch and raid for for food... This one didn't take as long to render as I thought, easily within my 2hr target. I was quite pleased with this.© (c) Mark Ollard
-
The heretic Papagodi managed to bring a fleet together in the early part of this decade. The attacked and destroyed Sengathra, the sector capital nearest their homeworld. The fleet subsequently scattered to avoid retribution. A bryce rendering. I tried to get the mood of a city helpless under attack.© (c) Mark Ollard
-
This is a recent photo montage. The sky was taken from the Ridgeway above Broad Hinton, the landscape from farmland north of Chiseldon, Witlshire.© (c) Mark Ollard
-
The Castle in the Wild Hills, where the wizard Karsagus began his quest for knowledge at the hands of his mentors, the Veluna Cabal. One of my first Bryce renderings.© (c) Mark Ollard
-
The room of the wizard Karsagus, in his early student days before he opened a lair in the abandoned mines north of the Great Lake. A golden oldie. This was my first detailed rendering way back in 1995, done entirely in Truespace.© (c) Mark Ollard
-
Ancient Tug Of War
caldrail replied to roman wargamer's topic in Gloria Exercitus - 'Glory of the Army'
It should be remembered that the roman army was derived from the greek model. The very earliest roman forces were warbands on a basic level. Greek organisation was adopted until the romans decided a more flexible approach was needed during the Punic Wars - a typical case of warfare advancing techinique and technology. But isn't that typical of Rome? Like the modern Japanese, not so good at inventing but they sure know a good idea when they see one. -
I vaguely remember some mention of an increase in deformed children that was seen as portent of bad things.
-
We laugh, but augury was a serious business business for many romans. They were a very superstitious people in most cases (although a few worldly wise grifters would have sneered) and acts of nature always had some divine cause. Claudius was particularly keen on augury if I remember, and Tiberius kept an astrologer, Thrassylus, on his payroll. Caesar ignored an augury at his own cost did he not? Constantine famously rallied his troops by claiming he had seen a vision from god - I think he was telling king sized porkies there myself seeing as he would remain a pagan until his deathbed.
-
I suspect he didn't find much marble there. A lot of those early monuments were used as building materials for later ones. Am I wrong, or did Rome migrate back toward a brick city in the later half?
-
Rome Downfall Linked To Roman Army?
caldrail replied to Aurelius's topic in Gloria Exercitus - 'Glory of the Army'
Go for it. -
The condition of an animals liver was said to hold answers. Eagles represented imperial power, storms indicated an angry god. Wolves were symbolic of the city of Rome. The actions of these things were often interpreted as warnings of future events. There must have been plenty of others as well. Oh, and concerning chickens, one roman admiral didn't like the augury the chickens gave him, and had the lot thrown overboard. He said something along the lines of "What do they know, they're only chickens". He then lost the battle.