SI's Bonnie Scotland, 17thC: 30/9 more WIP units plus standing stones

[anevilgiraffe]

lovely work 

[Silent Invader]

Thanks all

Yeah! Shoot that bloody piper! LOL

[Paul Richardson]

The crofts are marvellous. Next you'll have to paint some English civilians occupying them as holiday homes.

[rumacara]

Lovely.

[Silent Invader]

Thanks all

The crofts are marvellous. Next you'll have to paint some English civilians occupying them as holiday homes.

That'd be me 

[carlos marighela]

The crofts are marvellous. Next you'll have to paint some English civilians occupying them as holiday homes.

Indeed why choose one time frame when you can have bothy. 

Beautiful work those crofts looks wonderfully organic to their setting.

[Silent Invader]

A belated thanks, Carlos

In the meantime, I've finished 16 more figures, plus tokens/markers/counters and trays. All descriptions are as for Pikeman's Lament. All are Bloody Miniatures, converted to  wearing bonnets, unless otherwise described.

NB: Photos were all taken in poor light and so have been brightened, hopefully not too much

First up, 6 x Commanded Shot, using what had been a 10 slot tray:



Of which my favourite mini is this modest conversion from the Bloody Miniatures casualties:



Six dragoons, also on what had been a 10 slot tray, with a dismounted horse for flavour:



The kneeling figure, second from left as viewed, is I think a Bicorne.

Next are 4 more artillerymen to complete the crews, together with tokens to represent extra notional gunners as these will be Reduced Model Units, simply because 6 crew for such small guns would look silly.



There's a few more involved conversions in this group. The thumbs up chap was a BM swordfighter/duellist, the gruff chap with hand on hip was a Renegade pikeman, the kneeling man sorting the cannon balls is a Bicorne with added bonnet, and my favourite of the lot, the older guy leaning on the barrels shovelling powder was the BM prostrate casualty.



And the additional artillerymen and RMU counters added to their guns:







This brings my growing Scottish force to 78 minis for 45 points:



Next in line are additional units of 1 each of pike and shot plus Veteran Forlorn Hope, so 30 more minis in the next batch. 

[Captain Blood]

Ingenious conversions Steve. The guns and crews are particularly good 

[Silent Invader]

Ingenious conversions Steve. The guns and crews are particularly good 

Thanks Richard. The beauty is in the guns and my world would be complete with just a single bigger one .....

[levied troop]

Beautifully done 
As always!

[Malamute]

Brilliant, this is fast becoming a wonderful, completely unique collection

[Hu Rhu]

Brilliant, this is fast becoming a wonderful, completely unique collection

I agree. A wonderful collection of figures and terrain.

[anevilgiraffe]

the thumb guy's nose is magnificent... positively Brodyesque...

[Silent Invader]

Thanks all, I really appreciate the feedback!

Lots more still to come and I really need to get them into another game

the thumb guy's nose is magnificent... positively Brodyesque...

Definitely !

I like to think of him as a reasonably well-to-do but somewhat naive second son of a merchant who's found himself caught up in this warfare malarkey and has discovered he quite likes working with gunnes.

He's converted from this figure:

[Silent Invader]

And moving on at pace ....

Next in the painting queue are pike, shotte and forlorn hope. I've previously shared the converted pike and shotte, but not the FH, so here goes.

My FH will fill the role of hard-as-nails assault troops, so need to be well equipped. But how to make them look distinctly Scottish, rather than just like say New Model Army troopers? An absence of helmets in favour of just bonnets would have been silly and so credit to OSHIROmodelterrain, who suggested a mix of helmets, bonnets and bare head.

So here they are:



The figures with bonnets merely had head swaps (the originals being helmeted) with the bareheaded officer chap having both a head swap and a helmet attached to his belt.



The officer was originally helmeted and from the BM All the King's Men pack, with the replacement head coming from the BM conversion sprue, while the helmet attached to his belt was taken from a figure in the BM Militant Tendency pack



The other three figures are helmeted and so have added sashes to indicate their Scottishness.



The central figure was from the BM Pistoleers pack and was originally without carbine, carbine strap and powder flask, which have all been added using BM conversion parts to match the style of the rest of the group.