The "Paint Brennus" competition.

Greetings all!

I thought I would ask your advice (dangerous considering some of the people who frequent this forum and some of the ideas which received popular support in the past, but still).

For some people their interest in the past is just passing (no pun intended), for some it goes little further than EB. For some fools like myself it is skin deep.

For some time now I have been indulging my Celtic tendencies by having Iron and Dark Age designs tattooed onto my skin. With the exception of one (the first one I had done) all them are in blue, in accordance with the Ancient British and Pictish habit of using woad (bobbin, Edorix, we discussed this, we couldn't agree so I am being stubborn). They range in date from the 6th Century BC to to the 7th Century AD and are all either La Téne or Insular Dark Age in style. Although I have a few artefacts picked out that I intend to use for future designs there are some which I am not too sure on. Therefore I thought I would ask people to contribute images of artefacts and illustrations which might be appropriate. The current situation is:

1 Triskele from the Book of Durrow (a Dark Age Irish illuminated manuscript) on the base of my neck
2 Concentric circles on the tops of my arms (adapted from a Lepontic relief from the 6th century BC and a common pattern found in Britain and Gaul)
2 Pictish animals (a wolf and a boar) along my clavicles, both of which can be found in the National Museum of Scotland and date from the 3rd Century to the 7th Century AD.

In the future I intend to use triskeles from the Pictish Norrie's Law hoard for my chest and a triskele from the Bann Disk, an Irish bronze example of La Téne art, for my shoulder blades.

If you would like to suggest artefacts/designs/illustrations please do so. I simply ask you observe the following rules:

1. They must be either La Téne or Insular Dark Age in design: No Scythian, Celtiberian, Jastorf, Dacian, Anglo-Saxon, Nordic or Halstatt patterns.
2. No Christian imagery or knot work, the all too common types of Celtic artwork.
3. Please provide the source or provenance of the object/image, if it is anonymous I won't accept it.
4. The artefacts images must have been produced between the start of the La Téne period and the end of the 7th/8th centuries AD, ideally I would prefer images from within the EB timeframe as La Téne art is superb during this period.

And remember, for whatever tactical/strategic problems you may have in EB a fullstack of Belgic minhalt will always do the trick... well... except against the Sauromatae.... that really went badly.

-Brennus

May i ask for photo's of the ink you already have? I can understand it may be a private thing but I am very interested in what you described and how it actually looks on a real person.

: No Scythian, Celtiberian, Jastorf, Dacian, Anglo-Saxon, Nordic or Halstatt patterns.

thats racism :|

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Originally Posted by moonburn

: No Scythian, Celtiberian, Jastorf, Dacian, Anglo-Saxon, Nordic or Halstatt patterns.

thats racism :|

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:D

@Brennus
I can't suggest anything, because I was never interested in that, but man, it's just so awesome, if some time in future I want to make a tattoo, certainly I will do some "barbaric" stuff, it seems to be the most "natural" thing to tattoo, not some modern stuff. Though I have no idea whether and what tattoos Slavs made :P (albeit I don't have a surety how much "Slav" is in my DNA... pale skin - ok, but black curly hair? :P)
btw sometimes I would like to be a Maori, their tattoo art is great

I will post some pictures tomorrow so you can get a clearer idea of what I mean by the descriptions.

Apologies for the delay, one sunday the washing machine pulled itself out of the wall while I was out and shook itself to pieces in the process, thereby flooding our kitchen and the apartment below our's.

Well done. We had a tv ad in australia where a washing machine and a vacuum cleaner did the same while fighting over a beer.

lol. Australian beer commercials, from what I have seen put our British and Irish ones to shame. Well everything is sorted out now, except the excess water left a load of silt on the floor so I can't get into the kitchen, living on a diet of chewing gum. Will post some pics ASAP, meant to do it today but my housemate has gone away, thus if I take any pics they will be warped.

Given up? If it's too much hassle then don't worry. Sounds like you have a bit on your plate right now.

Sorry for the delay. Busy week with work and had stuff for EBII to write. Will be done on Sunday. I promise!

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Originally Posted by Brennus

Sorry for the delay. Busy week with work and had stuff for EBII to write. Will be done on Sunday. I promise!

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so stuff means a preview ?

Possibly, we still haven't previewed Bartix and their new Stegosaurus Kataphractoi.

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Originally Posted by Brennus

If you would like to suggest artefacts/designs/illustrations please do so. I simply ask you observe the following rules:

2. No Christian imagery or knot work, the all too common types of Celtic artwork.

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Hah! You getting this would be like me getting a Southern Cross tattoo.

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Originally Posted by Brennus

their new Stegosaurus Kataphractoi.

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Now that's a review to look forward to.

and me that always assumed that a stegosaurus was already kataphractoi enough so you added lamellar armour on top of the already existing bone and scale armour that nature no happilly endulged him in ?

should be fun having stegosaurus steak after a great batle in the southern egyptian deserts they´ll be cooked before the batle is over

You may be getting stegosaurs mixed up with the later ankylosaur dinosaurs. They share a common/recent ancestor but it is likely the boney plates on stegosaurus were used for display purposes rather than defence.

On topic I tried all weekend to post some pictures but having issues with uploading them.

Not meant to be I guess.

Afraid not, have tried uploading a few times and just can't get it to work. Have managed to settle on the artefact to use for my arm if your interested; the Bugthorpe scabbard.

Cool. Will be interesting enough. Better than a barbed wire arm circlet =)