tales of miniature wargaming
Some simple conversions of Games Workshop's Night Goblins with some greenstuff to make them Christmas Goblins. (I needed to make an extra body to create a 10-man unit anyway). Legend has it they hunt peasants in Europe to replenish the "elves" they die of exhaustion each year making toys or mining for coal.
Things are heating up in the North Pole.
Painted my first unit of 28mm pike & shot (well I still need to print the flag I designed). The miniatures are from Warlord Games and I got them for a beer. The bases will be done when I complete the next instalment: a command stand and two artillery pieces. That will give me a core for a division I can build off of.
This is the first "test" unit for a 28mm Montrose Scots army I have, in particular to represent a lowland unit of Captain William Innes of Tipperty’s, and Captain William Seton of Scethin’s (Shethin's), companies of foot. I discovered the (few) details of these units on the British Civil War (BCW) Project Regimental Wiki:
http://wiki.bcw-project.org/
Similar to the excellent Kronoskaf site that covers the uniforms of the Seven Years' War, the BCW Project site has details on units during the wars that ravaged the British Isles during the mid-seventeenth century. A worthy resource.
Reading about the Seton family also made it easy to design a flag for the unit, based on the Seton of Pitmedden family coat of arms. I chose this cadet branch as it's close to former site of Shethin Castle.
And because the family coat of arms is cool.
The uniform for the drummer was copied off this illustration (as it matched the colours I wanted in at least half the unit):
Which I discovered when I was reading on the origin of the Montero hunting cap:
https://the1642tailor.com/2014/03/30/montero-caps/
While painting these I was watching 'Rise of Empires: Ottoman' on Netflix, about the siege of Constantinople in 1453. Best quote so far:
"...pretty much for all of history, you will find a random British person involved in pretty much every war. And it’s always, well, more often than not, Scots. Because they just, for some reason, have that martial gene, I don’t know."
And the artillery is also coming along:
On the left is a Turkish pirate mortar from Eureka Miniatures and a Scots 9 pound Falcon cannon from Perry Miniatures.
