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Title: First painted Picts
Post by: irregularwars on 19 May 2015, 08:41:59 AM
I managed to slap a bit of paint on my first Pictish models over the weekend. Here are a couple of photos with a more detailed review on the blog.
http://irregularwars.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/first-look-pendraken-10mm-picts.html#more (http://irregularwars.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/first-look-pendraken-10mm-picts.html#more)

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rmUGB4ypjW8/VVrvPMpyDyI/AAAAAAAADP0/ldWUSkZVXXY/s1600/IMAG0859.jpg)

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EPB5h9glu2U/VVrvQ_f0K2I/AAAAAAAADQM/QnnBY8DqI8s/s1600/IMAG0863.jpg)

Cheers!

EDIT: Pics resized.
Title: Re: First painted Picts
Post by: Subedai on 19 May 2015, 09:03:56 AM
Nice looking hairy bunch of chaps.
Title: Re: First painted Picts
Post by: Techno on 19 May 2015, 11:52:30 AM
Looking good, that man !
Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: First painted Picts
Post by: Bodvoc on 19 May 2015, 11:53:52 AM
Top work, l just got some Picts too, not to paint just yet...until I saw yours, they may jump the (very long) painting queue now.
Title: Re: First painted Picts
Post by: mollinary on 19 May 2015, 12:16:04 PM
Really confused here - aren't all Picts painted by definition?!  :-\ ;)

Mollinary
Title: Re: First painted Picts
Post by: Szymon on 19 May 2015, 12:25:33 PM
Really nice ! Especially the shields  ;)
Title: Re: First painted Picts
Post by: Steve J on 19 May 2015, 12:55:16 PM
Nice work and great to see them painted 8)
Title: Re: First painted Picts
Post by: irregularwars on 19 May 2015, 01:38:03 PM
Quote from: mollinary on 19 May 2015, 12:16:04 PM
Really confused here - aren't all Picts painted by definition?!  :-\ ;)

Mollinary


;D ;D ;D =O =O =O =O =D>
Title: Re: First painted Picts
Post by: irregularwars on 19 May 2015, 01:39:05 PM
Cheers all. The sculpts (and the paint work) looks nicer at 1:1 scale than in the enlarged pictures.

Title: Re: First painted Picts
Post by: phenallred on 19 May 2015, 01:59:38 PM
Very nice work I do like the details on the shields
Title: Re: First painted Picts
Post by: Leman on 19 May 2015, 03:37:44 PM
Very good indeed. They are still near the top of my wants list - probably very top of my 10mm wants.
Title: Re: First painted Picts
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 19 May 2015, 04:53:15 PM
Sorry there wasn't more variety in the sculpts, I could only afford to fund that many...  :'(

Look spiffing though! 8)
Title: Re: First painted Picts
Post by: irregularwars on 19 May 2015, 06:44:35 PM
Quote from: mad lemmey on 19 May 2015, 04:53:15 PM
Sorry there wasn't more variety in the sculpts, I could only afford to fund that many...  :'(

Look spiffing though! 8)

Completely understood Lemmy. You are to be commended for commissioning the project in the first place.

Out of interest, what rules set are you using them for?
Title: Re: First painted Picts
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 19 May 2015, 07:14:07 PM
Originally was going to be Hail Cheesy, but now Dux Brittanium/Dux Bellicum or Something...
In answer to the mixed pack with crossbows, they were a very rare weapon, most rules only allow one unit of skirmishers, so I figured it was better that way.
Title: Re: First painted Picts
Post by: fred. on 19 May 2015, 07:31:02 PM
I do like these, especially the cavalry.
Title: Re: First painted Picts
Post by: Hecoma on 19 May 2015, 07:43:43 PM
Great painting  :-bd
Title: Re: First painted Picts
Post by: streetgang on 20 May 2015, 12:48:08 AM
Wow! I really must order some of these! They look great and will make worthy opponents for my Saxons, Irish and British. By the way, is that one of the medieval Welsh figures used on the javelin base? Lemmey, another thank you for commissioning this range and making it possible. If I decide to mix some figures in, it is considerably much easier with proper Picts already there (as opposed to conversions on tons of 10mm buggers).

Title: Re: First painted Picts
Post by: irregularwars on 20 May 2015, 07:15:43 AM
Quote from: mad lemmey on 19 May 2015, 07:14:07 PM
Originally was going to be Hail Cheesy, but now Dux Brittanium/Dux Bellicum or Something...

As a player of both Hail Caesar and Dux Bellorum (Dan Mersey's Osprey one), I think I much prefer Dux for this period. It has more period flavour and isn't full of loop holes.
Title: Re: First painted Picts
Post by: Leman on 20 May 2015, 01:27:21 PM
Clearly you have not been playing Hail Caesar with the type of honourable gentlemen for whom the pastime was devised.
Title: Re: First painted Picts
Post by: FierceKitty on 20 May 2015, 01:37:06 PM
I suppose if you think about it, painted Picts is rather a redundancy!
Title: Re: First painted Picts
Post by: irregularwars on 20 May 2015, 02:14:17 PM
Quote from: Leman on 20 May 2015, 01:27:21 PM
Clearly you have not been playing Hail Caesar with the type of honourable gentlemen for whom the pastime was devised.

On the contrary, my lads are great, and I appreciate the flexibility of the rules (we have far too many 6mm armies c.200 BC that we use HC for), I just think that for early Medieval Britain, Dux Bellorum does it better and you don't have to sit and discuss any anomalies as they come up. Because they don't.  ;)

The real questions is whether to start on a third Dux army, and if so, which one...
Title: Re: First painted Picts
Post by: Womble67 on 20 May 2015, 10:03:29 PM
These look fantastic and are on my ever increasing list of wants

Take care

Andy
Title: Re: First painted Picts
Post by: Leman on 21 May 2015, 07:53:07 AM
IW, I see where you are coming from as I use Dux Bellorum and Dux Brittaniarum for post-Roman Britain.