*
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
March 28, 2024, 03:24:07 PM

Login with username, password and session length

Donate

We Appreciate Your Support

Members
Stats
  • Total Posts: 1686499
  • Total Topics: 118103
  • Online Today: 857
  • Online Ever: 2235
  • (October 29, 2023, 12:32:45 AM)
Users Online

Recent

Author Topic: Not For Glory- 1320s Scots *Updated 28/05*  (Read 22650 times)

Offline rumacara

  • Supporting Adventurer
  • Galactic Brain
  • *
  • Posts: 4333
  • Zillions of painted miniz!
Re: *UPDATED 08/03* 1320s Post-Bannockburn Scots
« Reply #60 on: March 09, 2021, 08:36:47 AM »
Wow!!! Those 2 are great. :-* :-* :-*

Offline Romark

  • Supporting Adventurer
  • Galactic Brain
  • *
  • Posts: 4472
Re: *UPDATED 08/03* 1320s Post-Bannockburn Scots
« Reply #61 on: March 09, 2021, 09:16:35 AM »


Offline bluewillow

  • Scatterbrained Genius
  • Posts: 2280
  • Bluewillow- Matthew Williamson
Re: *UPDATED 08/03* 1320s Post-Bannockburn Scots
« Reply #62 on: March 10, 2021, 08:36:44 AM »
Great additions mate

Cheers
Matt

Offline Swordisdrawn

  • Supporting Adventurer
  • Mad Scientist
  • *
  • Posts: 732
  • '
    • Sword is Drawn
Re: *UPDATED 08/03* 1320s Post-Bannockburn Scots
« Reply #63 on: March 10, 2021, 08:39:09 AM »
Fantastic conversions! The painting top notch too.
'The night is gone and the sword is drawn and the scabbard thrown away!'

Instagram Swordisdrawn264

Offline Iain R

  • Mad Scientist
  • Posts: 505
  • High on life... and thinners. Mainly thinners.
Re: *UPDATED 08/03* 1320s Post-Bannockburn Scots
« Reply #64 on: March 17, 2021, 01:35:23 AM »
Cheers guys!

Another simple conversion, just reprofiled the axehead to something a bit more restrained. I'm not a fan of the idea of mediaeval Scottish armies full of troops with matching saltire shields in bright blue and white. Looks gash and ahistorical IMHO. However, given that the saltire itself was a common device, it occurred to me that at least one person would probably copy the flag if they had access to blue paint (arguments about the veracity of blue & white saltires for the period notwithstanding). However, I stuck with a desaturated grey-blue, painted over bare linen, which seemed more appropriate for a common soldier than having gone to the effort of painting white over blue.

 


Proudly not painting Wars of The Roses since... ever


Offline Tordenkuglen

  • Bookworm
  • Posts: 90
  • Tordenkuglen aka Thunderball
Re: *UPDATED 17/03* 1320s Post-Bannockburn Scots
« Reply #65 on: March 17, 2021, 06:16:37 AM »
WOW Fantastic brush work, Im especially impressed with the faces, keep it up :D
Playing or wanting to play: FoW, Swordpoint, Saga, Donny Brook, Sharp Practice, Soldiers of God, Trafalgar, Check your Six, Hail Caesar, Pike n Shotte, Black Powder and much more. main interests in wargaming periods is between Iron and Black Powder.

Offline Hu Rhu

  • Supporting Adventurer
  • Scatterbrained Genius
  • *
  • Posts: 3408
Re: *UPDATED 17/03* 1320s Post-Bannockburn Scots
« Reply #66 on: March 17, 2021, 07:17:26 AM »
Simply gorgeous  :-* :-* :-*

Online Silent Invader

  • Galactic Brain
  • Posts: 9636
Re: *UPDATED 17/03* 1320s Post-Bannockburn Scots
« Reply #67 on: March 17, 2021, 08:08:08 AM »
Very, very nice  8)
My LAF Gallery is HERE
Minis (foot & mounted) finished in 2024 = 0
(2023 = 151; 2022 = 204; 2021 = 123; 2020 = ???)

Offline Atheling

  • Elder God
  • Posts: 11905
    • Just Add Water Wargaming Blog
Re: *UPDATED 17/03* 1320s Post-Bannockburn Scots
« Reply #68 on: March 17, 2021, 09:22:03 AM »
Oh yes Iain  :-* :-* :-*

Offline Romark

  • Supporting Adventurer
  • Galactic Brain
  • *
  • Posts: 4472
Re: *UPDATED 17/03* 1320s Post-Bannockburn Scots
« Reply #69 on: March 17, 2021, 10:28:31 AM »

Offline Iain R

  • Mad Scientist
  • Posts: 505
  • High on life... and thinners. Mainly thinners.
Re: *UPDATED 17/03* 1320s Post-Bannockburn Scots
« Reply #70 on: March 26, 2021, 10:16:03 AM »
Thanks again, chaps, you are most kind!

Back to more pikemen I'm afraid, this time the scruffy lads. I know this pack drives the Scottish mediaeval historian (and keen wargamer) Chris Brown daft, but while I agree they are certainly not representative of the appearance of Scots mediaeval troops, and the entire force shouldn't be composed of such troops, a few scattered here and there certainly aren't outwith the bounds of realism. They are at least still well enough equipped with gambesons, steel helmets and proper weapons, rather than the usual caricature of Scottish infantry as raggedy men with sticks...



I do like the idea of this guy being an old greybeard campaigner, who's been turning up to every muster since he first followed his da' to Largs in 1263. Now no one has the heart (or balls) to tell him to go home and act his age. Beware an old man in a profession where men die young and all that...





Offline Atheling

  • Elder God
  • Posts: 11905
    • Just Add Water Wargaming Blog
Re: *UPDATED 26/03* 1320s Post-Bannockburn Scots
« Reply #71 on: March 26, 2021, 10:31:33 AM »
Quite lovely  :-* :-* :-*

The understated plaid is spot on Iain  8)

Offline Dolnikan

  • Librarian
  • Posts: 143
    • Dolnikan Games
Re: *UPDATED 26/03* 1320s Post-Bannockburn Scots
« Reply #72 on: March 26, 2021, 10:46:41 AM »
A whole army like that might indeed not be the most realistic, but that doesn't mean that there wouldn't be anyone showing up like that. It's the same with the latest armour, many poorer soldiers wouldn't exactly have the most modern and fanciest kit available. And especially an older man like this one would be pretty likely to also have something to keep himself warm during the whole standing around business. Which makes a kind of cloak very fitting indeed.

Offline Atheling

  • Elder God
  • Posts: 11905
    • Just Add Water Wargaming Blog
Re: *UPDATED 26/03* 1320s Post-Bannockburn Scots
« Reply #73 on: March 26, 2021, 12:14:56 PM »
A whole army like that might indeed not be the most realistic, but that doesn't mean that there wouldn't be anyone showing up like that. It's the same with the latest armour, many poorer soldiers wouldn't exactly have the most modern and fanciest kit available. And especially an older man like this one would be pretty likely to also have something to keep himself warm during the whole standing around business. Which makes a kind of cloak very fitting indeed.

In other words, keep the Braveheart poop off the table  lol

I think the cloak and said plaid are fine on a few miniatures, after all, I couldn't count the number of many times I have turned up for something and forgotten to take something off or forgotten to bring an essential item. One particular cricket match facing a damn fast bowler banging it in with just one pad on my leg will not be forgotten in a hurry!  o_o

Offline Iain R

  • Mad Scientist
  • Posts: 505
  • High on life... and thinners. Mainly thinners.
Re: *UPDATED 26/03* 1320s Post-Bannockburn Scots
« Reply #74 on: August 23, 2021, 11:15:27 PM »
Well, after a hiatus of several months, I find myself slowly drifting back towards the hobby. An impulse purchase in Waterstones has seen me dig out the After Bannockburn project, and end up up to my neck in the heraldry of the minor parish gentry of Northumberland, managing to put names and arms to a few I'd been unable to previously.

As such, it's time to bore you all with some more scruffy pikemen with which to raid their lands.

I like this sculpt, for some reason I can see him in a Crusader army, too; the dishevelled appearance just screams "long march through the desert" to me...






 

Related Topics

  Subject / Started by Replies Last post
0 Replies
1874 Views
Last post February 09, 2015, 04:35:47 PM
by Khurasan Miniatures
64 Replies
18130 Views
Last post September 06, 2021, 11:51:02 PM
by Iain R
8 Replies
2369 Views
Last post October 16, 2016, 04:30:07 PM
by DivisMal
2 Replies
1043 Views
Last post June 12, 2020, 01:11:01 AM
by photocrinch
4 Replies
1029 Views
Last post September 28, 2020, 08:58:55 PM
by marco55