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Tuesday 29 October 2013

The Bruces plus one

Just a quick post to show that I have finally taken enough Dutch courage to do some more "florry counter-florry" in order to finish painting my Scottish command elements (the non-hairy bits anyway).

The Islesmen are now about half way to completion, then it will be a mad month of varnishing and basing, plus as many odd bits as I can muster before the first outing.

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Robert the Bruce, in case you did not know. The hairy lumps are painted coir doormat to represent some wild grasses on the moorland of somewhere in Scotland.

A detail of that heinous "florry counter-florry border". Heraldry can be a crime against painters! Now I reckon I know why Chaucer had it in for the "knight" character, making him anything but chivalrous. He must have had to paint some hell-spawned heraldry at some point...


And baby makes three...

Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, and some more (the last!!!) of that florry counter-florry.

And again.

This element is a mix of Black Tree (Randolph) and Fireforge figures.

Edward Bruce.

The snot is a spare lump of Green Stuff from doing my Islesmen conversions, which will be painted as a rock.

Another mixed bag of figures, this time 1st Corps (Edward) and Fireforge.

7 comments:

  1. Great looking command groups. I'm going to check my reference books to see if there are any more florry counter-florry designs I can recommend for this game ;)

    Regards,
    Matt

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  2. Fantastic paintjob, I love the first stand, colors are just wonderful!

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  3. Lovely!!! You must have a steady Hand! I also like the idea for the "wee folk". I was going to go for "they looked a lot like the rest of the troops " look but I prefer the shaggy "Tartan" look like you´ve done.

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  4. Stunning brushwork on the heraldry!

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