I've added to my Border Wars collection today with 6 mounted Reivers. These are from Flags of War Border Wars collection and are called the Broken Men. Back from the war, destitute, and perhaps no large family name to lean on. They would rustle up horses, cattle, etc. to make a shilling here and there, or perhaps pick up a writ from the Warden to hunt down someone like themselves that have been causing to much trouble.
Had these sitting around forever and every time my friend came over he’d ask, did you paint your canoes? Of course not I would say you know I can’t focus on one subject for more than a week.
So finally I knocked these guys out. Doesn’t make much sense doing the subject period without them. Now I have to go and find my forest animals and get them going.
Oh and I meant to use my bottle of water effects but found it had dried up into a hard lump. Oh well pictures for now until I get some.
I'm not exactly sure how it started, but I think it was about around the time I put on a Tribal game a few weeks ago. While I was setting that up I happened to see my Here's the Ruckus rules and that made me think about putting on another game of that sometime. Later at bedtime when I was looking up stuff on Youtube for the above subjects I think the algorithm popped up something about the rules Donnybrook.
Well the next thing you know I was off to the races checking that out as it's another cool looking skirmish game set during the Nine Years War, Spanish Succession etc. Next thing you know I was checking out the mother for the rules Donnybrook called Beneath the Lily Banners. Watching a few vids on the King William Wars or the War between the three Kings I was totally sucked into yet another period.
So to not fall into the trap of buying another shiny thing, I slept on it. Not for just one night, but a few. They say if you do that and still want it, go for it. I'm not sure who said that or if I just invented it for an excuse, but either way a few hundred dollars later and I had bought enough stuff to play a scenario. I only have to paint up about a hundred foot and about 30 mounted. Ha! I can do that... maybe... hopefully. The key will be painting as much as I can before something else shiny turns my head.
To help in these matters I decided not to paint 18 to 24 figures for foot units. Since the base size is key I went with painting only 12. Now I know it won't look quite the same on the table to some, but it's for me so, ha!
On top of that I wanted to do the single based figure rules for Donnybrook so I am painting them all on single bases and when I want to play larger scale I'll mount them on magnetic stands.
So here is my first unit for King William, the Danish Unit Prince Georg's Regiment and I can't wait to paint up the rest plus the Irish.
So my friend had me paint up these Mirliton figures from Italy. His horse choices made it hard for me to make color decisions. As I was looking through historical drawings and such I discovered that it wasn't uncommon for this period to paint their armor. At least I was able to give some color to them since it's supposed to be the early Italian War period just before everyone went gonzo on fancy ribbons and slashed clothing. Lastly I do not have a steady enough hand to be able to paint fanciful designs on the armor but I managed it a bit on the flag. Hopefully the color choices I used on the horses barding will draw the eye enough.
So here is my interpretation of that time.
Well it's been awhile since I've worked on anything from The Drowned Earth game, so I painted up some Dilophosors. I normally paint them like I see them in the shop but decided to do a different paint scheme after checking out what the paleontologists had to say about them. So here is my take.
