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Title: Picts in the Hyborian Age?
Post by: NickNascati on June 18, 2020, 12:38:17 AM

All,
      I am assembling minis for some age of Conan type skirmish games.  Reading Howard’s  Hyborian Age essay, I am stumped at the best way to represent Picts.  The description seems to vary in the course of the essay.  Any thoughts?

Title: Re: Picts in the Hyborian Age?
Post by: Ragnar on June 18, 2020, 04:09:09 AM

Perhaps start with this quote from Beyond The Black River.

"...a short, dark, thickly-muscled man, naked except for a loin-cloth, a necklace of human teeth and a brass armlet. A short sword was thrust into the girdle of the loin-cloth, and one hand still gripped a heavy black bow. The man had long black hair..."

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600741h.html

Title: Re: Picts in the Hyborian Age?
Post by: Codsticker on June 18, 2020, 05:54:25 AM

I believe this is ACTUAL art from the period showing Conan fighting Picts :D
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D2YW_7nW0AAMlqu.jpg)

Title: Re: Picts in the Hyborian Age?
Post by: Ceeteegee on June 18, 2020, 10:57:57 AM

If we go off the movies, then you're looking for a figure depicting a 5 ' 5" Sardinian man weighing in at about 185 pounds.

Title: Re: Picts in the Hyborian Age?
Post by: v_lazy_dragon on June 18, 2020, 09:24:56 PM

The general consensus seems to be vaguely native American- i have heard the CP models/Footsore Skraelings suggested.
The frostgrave tribals might also work too - loinclothes, tooth necklaces. Options for a range of weapons. Most heads have mohawkd of some sort rather than long hair

Title: Re: Picts in the Hyborian Age?
Post by: darthfozzywig on June 18, 2020, 11:54:25 PM

Pretty sure Howard's inspiration was Eastern Native American tribes (Iroquois, Mohawk, etc). He was very much telling a "frontier America" story set in the Hyborian Age. Worked for me!  :)

Title: Re: Picts in the Hyborian Age?
Post by: frank xerox on June 19, 2020, 10:53:37 AM

Apaches in the forest is how I always pictured them.

Title: Re: Picts in the Hyborian Age?
Post by: white knight on June 19, 2020, 11:20:19 AM

The Belgian classic fantasy comic series about the Red Knight, pictured them like this:
(https://static.fnac-static.com/multimedia/Images/FR/NR/50/08/6a/6948944/1507-1/tsp20151020142622/De-wilde-horde.jpg)

Title: Re: Picts in the Hyborian Age?
Post by: The Bibliophile on August 30, 2020, 11:26:39 PM

I used a combination of skraelings and models from the recent Conan board game. You can see some pics here, as well as download the Beyond the Black River supplement I produced.

https://miniaturescrum.blogspot.com/2020/03/striking-back-against-covid-19-free.html (https://miniaturescrum.blogspot.com/2020/03/striking-back-against-covid-19-free.html)

Title: Re: Picts in the Hyborian Age?
Post by: bandit86 on August 31, 2020, 10:50:06 AM

Lucid eye have some that might work Neanderthal and neolithic are close
https://recreationalconflict.lusagi.com/lucideyepages/savagecore.html