Samurai?

[Paul Kernan]

The Barbier-Mueller collection is housed in Dallas, Texas. It does do tours but I don't believe any are scheduled now.

Btw, Steven Turnbull is a contributor to the Barbier Mueller book.

Bob

I saw the travelling collection in Boston a couple of years ago...outstanding . The book is well worth it.

 

[akaryu]

Hello Paul,

The Charbonnier book is good, but as a primer for a "newbie" to things Japanese it isn't well suited. The Toriilinks books offer great photos of specific pieces of armor but are not that useful to get the overall picture. No need to count rivets if one doesn't know what a tank looks like! A lot of these books are on the expensive side too. As you are obviously a polyglot, there are two Osprey-like books in German I dare recommend, ideal to get a grasp of what the Age of the Country at War is all about:
http://www.zinnfigur.com/product_in...id=naltsu2dor86fsjse8o1p796n6&sort=1d&ID=1425
http://www.zinnfigur.com/product_in...id=naltsu2dor86fsjse8o1p796n6&sort=1d&ID=1425
All the best,
Piet

 

[rossbach]

Thanks Piet. I just bought the Bottomley book, the Galeno book and Armures de Japon. I need these as optical references when painting. From what I've seen the pictures are glorious.

But I am still looking for a book to get an idea of the historical time frame. German language? Well you guessed correctly. My mother is german. Also deutsch ist für mich kein Problem!

These German Osprey versions: are they reliable as a source?

Viele Grüße

Paul

 

[rossbach]

I saw the travelling collection in Boston a couple of years ago...outstanding . The book is well worth it.

You lucky ........ ! . Trying to get my hands on a copy of the book.

 

[Paul Kernan]

You lucky ........ ! . Trying to get my hands on a copy of the book.

Pure luck on my part. I was in Boston on a family trip and I noticed the advertising flyer in the hotel lobby

 

[Mirofsoft]

How about the Samurai models Ray Lamb did for Poste Militaire? Are the Bonapartes version on the same level?

I won't mention Taisho here which he did many moons ago for Calder Craft/Hinchliffe............... I think it still can hold its own.

I would appear to me however that old PM Samurai's notwithstanding the excellence of the casting (as was Poste Militaire's hallmark back in the days) seem to be a bit stiff/statue like when compared to what Pegaso has on offer.

Paul

Bonapartes bought the molds from Poste Militaire, recasted them, and sometimmes, with pieces and bits from those molds cretaed new figures

 

[akaryu]

These German Osprey versions: are they reliable as a source?

Yes Paul, they are reliable as far as I can judge and are clearly written with the modeler in mind. I bought them when my bookshelves were already collapsing under the weight of several hundreds of Japanese books and these two little volumes surprised me!
Viel Spass!
Piet

 

[Forté]

Just in case you're still looking, Young Miniatures do an excellent Damiyo bust which I aim to be getting very shortly. Though from recent research it's questionable that it's based on an actually known Damiyo but it's still a great looking piece.