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Here's the covenanters in all their glory.  Project on hold until Royalists catch up!

Clearance - for sale - fantasy

Like it says on the tin - misadventures in lead....

Halflings

Elves

 Dark Elves

 Dwarfs

 Goblin Boar Riders

 Chaos Harpy

Hobgoblins

Empire

Clearance - for sale - Historicals

Running out of space so time to make some - here's the historicals - the last of my Viking miniature Normans which were my first fully painted ancient army.

Just posting the images here for tmp advert - will delete from sight once they are sold.

Ride of the Valkries

Been pretty quiet on the painting front of late.  Got back from the Alps, found my shoulder was wrecked (MRI next week!!) and then had the folks over.  So now that the cards are laid aside and the drink has been drunk I thought I'd get back in swing.

This is one of the coolest models GW have ever made.  It's been sitting in undercoat for over a year now so Conor has been happily playing with it scantily clad to say the least!  Like all his armour, it's been painted up in a Russian WW2 scheme mainly because I have had these transfers sitting around from when I decided to do Johnny Reds Mosquito when I was about 14.

So a couple of washes and highlights later it was ready to go and the insignia just set it off.  Now it's ready to see of some 40K taliban, no doubt sponsored by dark-elder t-party officionados. Photos no the best but just rejig'd the camera so normal service soon.

Northern Levies

Of all the government regiments, the northern levies are the most enigmatic.  Raised locally, they are recorded to have been raised by the Laird of Grant and the Fraser's of  Beuly.  As the biggest population centre locally is Nairn, it is likely that these troops included a fair number of drafted fishermen as well as the local crofters.  Given that this isn't the "deep" highlands, I've chosen to depict them without kilts, as they probably had more in common with the common population of Scotland rather than the "wild" clans.  However, given that they were probably levied rapidly, its unlikely they would have been given more than a bunnet, and so would be wearing their own clothes.  Thus I've pained them with some grey, but also a variety of natural tones.  The officers are a bit more snappily attired, reflecting their landed qualifications - continental fashions having reached even these parts!  The standard colour's (red and white) reflect those of   regular regiments raised locally to Nairn, the colonels standard includes the stag's head crest of the Fraser's.

Again the photo's are not the best, it was over 100 outside and the figures were almost to hot to handle!  will do a full army shoot in the autumn.  Next regiment on the list is the earl of Findlater's, but don't think it'll be done till late October.  Mind you I've now passed the half-way mark on my contribution!!

Northern Levies - Complete

Been busy painting these guys over the last month - will do the bases in the next week and get some better photos plus a write up of the unit and the rationale behind the flags.

Not the best photos - flash or no flash that is the question....

Auldearn The Movie

360 from the summit of Garlic Hill.