New leader portraits

Semper Victor · Sep 16, 2006

Hi, this is my first post in this forums but I've been lurking for quite a long time. Of all the paradox games Vicky is my favourite, and to enhance my games I've been making some new leader portraits (for the nations I've been playing the most), they could be grouped into three categories:

-Replacements for the ones already existing in the game, wich I dislike for one reason or another

-For leaders already in the game (vanilla version) who lack a portrait

-New leaders (I like playing with lots of them)

I've been drawing them for several months, and some time ago I posted some of them in the VIP forum (I used another nickname there), but now I'd like to share them with the rest of the gamer community.

Enjoy them!

Semper Victor · Sep 16, 2006

Turkish leaders portraits

Leaders already in the game:

Omer Pasha (1806-71) + Leaderfile done

Osman Pasha (1837-1900) + Leaderfile done

New leaders

Admiral Hobart Pasha (1822-76) + Leaderfile done

Mehmet Ali Pasha (1827-78) + Leaderfile done

Hüseyin Avni Pasha + Leaderfile done

Cemal Pasha (1872-1922) + Leaderfile done

In the next one I'll post some portaits for UK and the Dominions.

HMS Enterprize · Sep 16, 2006

Did you do these yourself?...they look very good.

Semper Victor · Sep 16, 2006

Britain and her Dominions (I)

Leaders already present in the game (I)

Admiral Thomas Alexander Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (1775-1860) + Leaderfile done

Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough (1779-1869) + Leaderfile done

Admiral Sir Charles Napier (1786-1860) + Leaderfile done

FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788-1855) + Leaderfile done

James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan (1797-1868) + Leaderfile done

Robert Cornelis Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (1810-1890) + Leaderfile done

Admiral Sir Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour, 1st Baron Alcester (1821-1895) + Leaderfile done

Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon (1832-1893) + Leaderfile done

Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832-1914) + Leaderfile done

Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley (1833-1913) + Leaderfile done

I'll post the rest in my next message

Semper Victor · Sep 16, 2006

Britain and the Dominions (II)

Charles George Gordon (1833-1885) + Leaderfile done

Admiral John Arbuthnot "Jackie" Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841-1920) + Leaderfile done

Admiral Charles William de la Poer Beresford, 1st Baron Beresford (1846-1919) + Leaderfile done

Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850-1916) + Leaderfile done

John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres (1852-1925) + Leaderfile done

Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton (1853-1947) + Leaderfile done

Admiral Sir Archibald Berkeley Milne (1855-1938) + Leaderfile done

Sir John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe (1859-1935) + Leaderfile done

Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (1861-1928) + Leaderfile done

Damn, too many images, I'll post the rest in another post.

Semper Victor · Sep 16, 2006

Britain and the Dominions III

Admiral Sir John de Robeck (1862-1928) + Leaderfile done

Admiral Sir Charles Edward Madden (1862-1935) + Leaderfile done

Admiral Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt (1870-1951) + Leaderfile done

Sir Hubert de la Poer Gough (1870-1963) + Leaderfile done

Admiral David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (1871-1936) + Leaderfile done

SOUTH AFRICA

Jan Christian Smuts (1870-1950) + Leaderfile done

CANADA

Sir Arthur William Currie (1875-1933) + Leaderfile done

Now I have to go, but I'll post some new leaders for Britain and the Empire as soon as possible

Semper Victor · Sep 16, 2006

Britain and the Dominions (IV)

Well, I'm back and now I'm going to start posting some portraits for leaders who don't appear in the game archives (vanilla version). There are a bunch of them so I'll have to post them in several messages.

Admiral Sir Edward Codrington (1870-1851) + Leaderfile done

Sir Charles James Napier (1782-1853) + Leaderfile done

Admiral Sir James Whitley Deans Dundas (1785-1862) + Leaderfile done

Admiral Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons (1790-1858) + Leaderfile done

Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde (1792-1863) + Leaderfile done

Sir Henry Havelock (1795-1857) + Leaderfile done

Admiral Richard Saunders Dundas (1802-1861) + Leaderfile done

Sir James Hope Grant (1808-1875) + Leaderfile done

Admiral Sir Astley Cooper Key (1821-1888) + Leaderfile done

Frederic Augustus Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford (1827-1905) + Leaderfile done

Some more to come in the next posts...

Semper Victor · Sep 16, 2006

Britain and the Dominions (V)

Sir Henry Evelyn Wood (1838-1919) + Leaderfile done

Sir William Stephen Alexander Lockhart (1841-1900) + Leaderfile done

Hector Archibald MacDonald (1852-1903) + Leaderfile done

Herbert Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer (1857-1932) + Leaderfile done

Sir John Nixon (1857-1921) + Leaderfile done

Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien (1858-1930) + Leaderfile done

Admiral Sir Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee (1859-1925) + Leaderfile done

Sir Charles Carmichael Monro (1860-1929) + Leaderfile done

Sir Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend (1861-1924) + Leaderfile done

Sir Henry Sinclair Horne (1861-1929) + Leaderfile done

Still some more to post...

Semper Victor · Sep 16, 2006

Britain and the Dominions (VI)

Richard Cyril Byrne Haking (1862-1945) + Leaderfile done

Julian Hedworth George Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy (1862-1935) + Leaderfile done

Sir Henry Hughes Wilson (1864-1922) + Leaderfile done

Sir Henry Rawlinson (1864-1925) + Leaderfile done

Sir Frederick Stanley Maude (1864-1917) + Leaderfile done

Frederick Rudolf Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan (1865-1946) + Leaderfile done

William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood (1865-1951) + Leaderfile done

Sir Charles Macpherson Dobell (1869-1954) + Leaderfile done

Sir Philip Walhouse Chetwode (1869-1950) + Leaderfile done

Admiral Sir Roger John Brownslow Keyes (1872-1945) + Leaderfile done

Damn, I just had one more picture to post...

Semper Victor · Sep 16, 2006

Britain and the Dominions (VII)

AUSTRALIA

Sir John Monash (1865-1931) + Leaderfile done

And that's it for Britain and the Dominions. Next time I'll post Austrian and German leaders. Enjoy!

Semper Victor · Sep 16, 2006

HMS Enterprize said:
Did you do these yourself?...they look very good.

Yes, I've made made them myself. I usually work over B&W images and then apply colour onto them and manipulate lights and shadows to enhance them.
But if I can find good colour images, I use them directly, just modifying parametres like saturation, brightness, etc (for example, the portraits for hugh gough and wolseley have been made in this way).
It's not really hard to do them, just a little time-consuming (wich I unfortunately can't afford to spare very much), and after a while it can become tedious. In fact, the hardest part about it is to find really good images with wich to work with (thank God for wikipedia and google image search).
I'm glad you've liked them.

unmerged(55206) · Sep 17, 2006

wow these are amazing, keep up the good work.

Sir Humphrey · Sep 17, 2006

They are simpley amazing!

Semper Victor · Sep 17, 2006

Austria (I)

Well, as I told you in my last post, I'll proceed now to post my pictures for the habsburg leaders. As I've done with the Brits, I'll post first the ones already present in the game archives, and after that, the ones from my own harvesting.

LEADERS ALREADY PRESENT IN THE GAME:

Archduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen (1771-1847) + Leaderfile done

Archduke John of Austria (1782-1859) + Leaderfile done

Eduard, Count Clam-Gallas (1805-1891) + Leaderfile done

Franz, Baron von Uchatius (1811-81) + Leaderfile done

Archduke Albert of Austria, Duke of Teschen (1817-1895) + Leaderfile done

Friedrich, Count von Beck-Rzikowsky (1830-1920) + Leaderfile done

Lothar Edler von Hortstein (1855-1944)+ Leaderfile done

Franz, Count Conrad von Hötzendorf (1852-1925) + Leaderfile done

Karl Tersztyánszky von Nádas (1854-1921) + Leaderfile done

Hermann, Baron Kövess von Kövessháza (1854-1924) + Leaderfile done

TBC...

Semper Victor · Sep 17, 2006

Austria (II)

Viktor, Count Dankl von Kraśnik (1854-1941) + Leaderfile done

Eduard, Baron von Böhm-Ermolli (1856-1941) + Leaderfile done

Johann, Baron von Kirchbach auf Lauterbach (1858-1920) + Leaderfile done

Maximilian Csicserics von Bacsány (1865-1941) + Leaderfile done

And next, some new leaders.

Semper Victor · Sep 17, 2006

Austria (III)

Some new leaders for the Habsburg empire:

Anton, Baron von Dietrich (1783-1870) + Leaderfile done

Heinrich Hermann Joseph, Baron von Hess (1788-1870) + Leaderfile done

Ludwig Karl Wilhelm, Baron von Gablenz (1814-74) + Leaderfile done

Franz, Baron von John (1815-1876) + Leaderfile done

Wilhelm, Baron Ramming von Riedkirchen (1815-76) + Leaderfile done

Admiral Anton Haus (1851-1917) + Leaderfile done

Moritz, Baron Auffenberg von Komarów (1852-1928) + Leaderfile done

Karl, Baron von Pflanzer-Baltin (1855-1925) + Leaderfile done

Arthur, Baron Arz von Straussenburg (1857-1935) + Leaderfile done

Archduke Frederick of Austria-Teschen, Duke of Teschen (1866-1936) + Leaderfile done

And that's it for the Austian ones, now I'm going to post the Germans

Semper Victor · Sep 17, 2006

Germany (I)

OK, let's start now with the german leaders

PORTRAITS FOR LEADERS ALREADY PRESENT IN THE GAME AECHIVES:

Alfred Graf von Schlieffen (1833-1913) + Leaderfile done

Wilhelm Leopold Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843-1916) + Leaderfile done

Karl Wilhelm Paul von Bülow (1846-1921) + Leaderfile done

Helmuth Johannes Ludwig Graf von Moltke (1848-1916) + Leaderfile done

Hermann Gottfried Emil von Eichhorn (1848-1918) + Leaderfile done

Anton Ludwig Friedrich August von Mackensen (1849-1945) + Leaderfile done

Alexander Adolf August Karl von Linsingen (1850-1935) + Leaderfile done

Josias Oskar von Heeringen (1850-1926) + Leaderfile done

Felix Graf von Bothmer (1852-1937) + Leaderfile done

Fritz Theodor Carl von Below (1853-1918) + Leaderfile done

TBC...

Semper Victor · Sep 17, 2006

Germany (II)

Karl Wilhelm George August Gottfried von Einem (1853-1934) + Leaderfile done

Berthold Karl Adolf von Deimling (1853-1944) + Leaderfile done

Hermann Karl Bruno von François (1856-1933) + Leaderfile done

Oskar Emil von Hutier (1857-1934) + Leaderfile done

Otto Ernst Vincent Leo von Below (1857-1944) + Leaderfile done

Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff (1865-1937) + Leaderfile done

Albrecht Maria Alexander Philipp Joseph, Duke of Württemberg (1865-1939) + Leaderfile done

Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck (1870-1964) + Leaderfile done

In my next message, I'll post some new leaders for Germany

unmerged(55206) · Sep 17, 2006

wow you countine to be amazing, keep this up.

Semper Victor · Sep 17, 2006

Germany (III)

SOME NEW LEADERS FOR GERMANY:

Alexander Heinrich Rudolf von Kluck (1846-1934)+ Leaderfile done

Remus Martin Wilhelm von Woyrsch (1847-1920) + Leaderfile done

(service period: 1901-18, personality: bold, background: old_school)

Max Karl Wilhelm von Gallwitz (1852-1937) + Leaderfile done

(service period: 1902-18, personality: audacious, background: artillerist)

Ewald Konstantin Ferdinand Friedrich von Lochow (1855-1942)

(service period: 1903-18, personality: aggressive, background: school_of_offense)

Georg Kornelius Adalbert von der Marwitz (1856-1929)

(service period: 1905-18, personality: defiant, background: cavalry_school)

Rupprecht Maria Luitpold Ferdinand von Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria (1869-1955) + Leaderfile done

(service period: 1900-18, personality: gallant, background: aristocrat)

Well, and that's all for Germany. Enjoy!

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