Mea Culpa! I have sinned, well spent to be accurate. I mentioned a while ago that I was considering putting in an order to Irregular Miniatures and then I mentioned I was going to need some more Picts, you can probably guess the rest.
As always the service from Ian at Irregular was excellent, order placed on Tuesday, posted on thursday with an email to confirm, and delivered on Saturday. The castings are all crisp and clean with nothing required except a bit of filing to level the bottom of the bases off.
I ended up with sixteen blocks of Pictish Spearmen giving ninety-six figures which will break down into 6 more DBA/ADLG elements. Four blocks of five Dacian Light Horse which make two elements of Pictish Light Cavalry, two light Chariots four bases of naked celtic fanatics (possibly going to be Attecotti) and sixteen generic dark age barbarian foot generals and instead of the partridge in a pear tree a couple of sample castings a base each of Scottish Spearmen and Highlanders from the feudal and medieval range and the new boat scenic castings all in wonderful 6mm of course.
The scottish spearmen are really nice castings but they are cast shoulder to shoulder so i will have to have a think about whether I can get them to fit my basing scheme. The Highlanders are a really useful looking generic open order javelin armed light Infantry so I'm sure I will find a use for them.
I made a start on the naked fanatics as they looked to be an easy paint job, wall to wall Vallejo Pale flesh plus some shields hair and swords.job done, right? Well almost, it needed a couple of different skin tones and a wash before they looked right but all done in an hour or so. Once they are based I will grab a picture and post it.
I just had a thought, does posting pictures of naked Celts make this a porn site I wonder?
Just make sure you spell ‘Celts’ correctly.
ReplyDeleteHey Nundanket, if it's the 'celtic fanatics' you spotted would it help if I put them in green and white hooped tunics?
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