Border reivers

[Lowtardog]

Yup

[dijit]

Isn't the mounted guy Vendel/Sgt Major? He's got that look abt him...

I think so yes, but I dont really know tbh.

[The Gray Ghost]

if I could inject a question into this thread
Hoka Hey have two packs of Broken Men, what were they
Thanks

[LeadAsbestos]

Exiles from their own families and other assorted outlaws, if I read correctly.

[dijit]

Hoka Hey have two packs of Broken Men, what were they

Broken men are generally men who have no clan ties anymore. Many reivers were wanted at some point or another, but the ridding families (or clans if you want) protected them. Though sometimes justice was carried out in one form or another. Broken men differed in that they had no ridding family to protect them and were generally acknowledged as being beyond any form of the law (however weak, bizarre or corrupt that law may be). Sometimes they'd be hired as extra hands on a raid, but generally lived by thieving from any and all.

[Metternich]

Truthfully, there is nothing in that pack that distinguishes those particular figures as broken men vice being members "in good (?) standing" of a riding family.   

[dijit]

Well I've lost my painting mojo, but I have been busy building terrain. I've got hold of a load of 11" square plywood tiles (why 11"? Who knows!) Not having access to the ubiquitous blue foam (no where seems to stock it here in Denmark), I've had to do with expanded polystyrene sheets. Not the best, but it'll work.

So far the tiles have been glued together, rivers carved out and a couple of rocky hills built. The hills are also made from polystyrene, heavily carved, the random offcuts glued back on in random places and all covered in a good thick layer of polyfiller, sand, paint, PVa glue and cornflower. It gives a good limestone texture. The groundwork has also been started with sand and paint covering everywhere that isn't getting some other treatment.

Next step is to finish the rocks, paint the rivers and dry bush the peat banks. Then a good mixture of flock on the grass.







I've also started the small croft I got way back at the started of this project, so that the turf roof can have the same treatment as the rest of the grass.



Anyway just to say the project isn't dead and is progressing (ever so very) slowly!

[Argonor]

You certainly made more progress during the last 3 months than I have 

[dijit]

You certainly made more progress during the last 3 months than I have 

I don't know, it seems that you've got a lot of vikings well on the way.

[LCpl McDoom]

Great work dijit. I've currently hauled all my reivers out of storage, returned them to the tabletop as I'm using them as Guildsmen in a fantasy setting with 'Dragon Rampant' rules (DR/LR seems to lend themselves well to warband-style warfare.)

Anyway, I live in and around the Borders so would be happy to post you up some pictures if it suits as inspiration 

[3 fingers]

Great work dijit. I've currently hauled all my reivers out of storage, returned them to the tabletop as I'm using them as Guildsmen in a fantasy setting with 'Dragon Rampant' rules (DR/LR seems to lend themselves well to warband-style warfare.)

Anyway, I live in and around the Borders so would be happy to post you up some pictures if it suits as inspiration 

For  a spell I was fascinated with bastles/Bastille ,their construction etc

[LCpl McDoom]

Got several close to where I live, some now in the strangest of guises (one a fish & chip shop?) and I almost bought one when I was house-hunting.

[3 fingers]

Can you imagine if you restored one ,and visitors had to climb a ladder to a first floor 

[dijit]

Having your own Bastle house would be pretty cool.

Anyway, I live in and around the Borders so would be happy to post you up some pictures if it suits as inspiration 

That would be awesome! Thank you! I spent many holiday in Dumfrieshire, so have plenty of mental images, but fresh ones never hurt

I've also been busy and made progress on the boards and got a few more reivers down (some of who made it into the Pike, Muskets and Flouncy Shirts painting club).

Here you can see the flocking under progress:


And a few of the almost finished boards. They just need small bushes, etc glueing around the base of the rocks.


The river sections aren't finished yet, but I did get the croft finished:


And the 4 rivers I've managed to paint recently. A couple of which featured in the painting club:


And lastly a picture of all the reverse I've managed to do. I need to get more of the mounted reverse done.


Anyway hope you like them.

[LCpl McDoom]

Well done, good to see. I should take the time to get some pix of mine sorted out.

Towers
http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/stboswells/smailholmtower/
https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/smailholm-tower/history/

And Bastles
http://www.tarset.co.uk/visiting/blackmiddens.cfm
http://thebastle.co.uk/

Church Towers & plague-stricken Ancroft's 'Broomie-Huts'
http://www.northumberland-tales.com/Ancroft-church-tower.html
http://www.thebothyproject.org/wild-shelter/