The Highlanders are gloriously weird. I tripped over the site that sells them a while back, and was tempted to get a warband or two of them to add weirdness to our occasional fantasy skirmish games!
The Bolshies are great, but it looks like the camera is focusing past the figures, on that crack in the wall! Broonkah, try moving the camera back a bit from the figures - most point-and-shoot autofocus cameras (like the one I use) have a minimum focus distance of about 30cm/12". Moving back will help with the depth of field issues, too. The other thing I'd suggest is using a sheet of paper or card as a background - I made up
a set of coloured gradient backgrounds that I use regularly for my own photography.