Picts in the Hyborian Age?

[NickNascati]

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?

[Ragnar]

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

[Codsticker]

I believe this is ACTUAL art from the period showing Conan fighting Picts

[Ceeteegee]

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.

[v_lazy_dragon]

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

[darthfozzywig]

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! 

[frank xerox]

Apaches in the forest is how I always pictured them.

[white knight]

The Belgian classic fantasy comic series about the Red Knight, pictured them like this:

[The Bibliophile]

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

[bandit86]

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