The Pewter-Pixel Wars: scots

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01 January 2023

Painting table January 2023

Happy New Year everyone!

Well, here is the usual chaos on my table at the moment:

The now-commonplace assortment of genres and scales - fantasy, sci-fi, and historical - 6mm through 28mm. The pile of 'stuff' in the center is yet more vehicles and now infantry with their bases for BattleTech.

I continue to be amazed by interest that both of my sons have in BattleTech. My original thought, when I bought the introductory box set last year, was that I would need to collect all factions for the game, paint them, and cajole my sons to play. Boy howdy was I wrong, and we are in the process of collecting and painting more mechs, and now 3rd party vehicles and infantry, for the game.

Another popular game amongst my sons is Infinity. This is a sci-fi skirmish game by Corvus Belli with some of the most finely sculpted and cast 28mm metal miniatures currently in production. The troops in the middle of the pic above, both unprimed and in shades of red, are part of my collection.

Sci-fi is not the only genre getting attention here, however. I am beginning to dust off some older historical projects, starting with some Medievals:

These units are for a 14th century Scots army: Two units of schiltron on the left; and four Highlander units and their leader center and right. They are not quite complete as their flags have yet to be purchased. Somehow, these figures, and their unpainted counterparts, missed both the first and second sweep of 'disposals' last year, perhaps because I have a definite fondness for the project, which my lovely wife and I started way back when, and that a fair few were finished.

Here are the next two units, in a less finished state:

Two more schiltrons being sorted. All of these figures are by Claymore Castings, now available through Antediluvian Miniatures.

20 February 2021

Scots, part 6

Another addition to the Islemen contingent - these were finished some time ago:

Originally produced by Claymore Castings, now available from Antediluvan.

21 July 2018

Scots, part 5

Finally, some finished figures! Two elements of Islemen, and one element of Scots schiltron:

These fellows put the Scots army at 20% complete (roughly). I have two more elements of Islemen waiting along with some more schiltron, then a lot of schiltron, some bow, skirmishers, and dismounted knights to order, and several commander/hero types to fill in the gaps. Then, after that I need their English opponent...

Slowly but surely, this project is coming together.

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19 May 2018

Scots, part 4

More progress:

The tufts have landed! The tufts are Gamer's Grass brand; I believe that I purchased these from GC Mini.

After the glue dries - I secured the tufts to the bases with Matt Medium - the last step can be completed and that is to clean up the base edges. Then, finally, they will be done.

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06 May 2018

Scots, part 3

With this post, I bring to you a project that was originally featured on a separate blog that was disbanded long ago. The posts and pics from the discarded blog are here now, so one could look at previous work on these miniatures by clicking on one of the labels listed on the right or at the end of this post.

Slow, slow progress... the first two stands of Islemen for my medieval project:

These miniatures were originally produced by Claymore Castings, but are now available from Antediluvian Miniatures. The bases are not quite complete, as I have some tufts waiting to be placed. From looking at the pics, I can see that I need to work on my skin colors a bit!

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24 October 2015

Scots, part 2

There has not been much time here for the painting table recently, with a plethora of other items as distractions and to top it off by feeling a bit under the weather. I did manage to get some brushtime on the Scots:

The Islemen are slowly getting some attention, and on the right foreground are some knights with their gesso primer.

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06 October 2015

Scots, part 1

Purchased these some time ago, but only now just getting around to the pics:

Scots, or more specifically Islemen, from Claymore Castings. Here are a few more:

The fellow on the right of the bottom pic is a standard bearer, and he is holding a length of brass tubing that I glued in.

I am a little worried about the axes that they are wielding, as they are a bit thin and the pose is energetic. Wonderful figures despite that. I have others, but they had been primed black already and black primed figures just do not photograph well.

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23 October 2013

Foot troops, part 1

Another set of pics on some of my first purchases:

OT05 Scots Spear

OT19 Billmen

All of these are from Claymore Castings. It would not be too much of a stretch to interchange these miniatures, to add variety to your units.

26 June 2013

The first pics...

And now for some real content:

OT01 Command

This is the first set of command types from Claymore, usable by the Scots and English forces. One shield, pictured at right, is included in this set.

WP01 Weapon Pack 1

And, for more variety, Claymore offers a Weapons Pack with more bills and shields.