anybody know if a 10mm, N scale, 1/144th scale model is available, looking for one for my vikings  

This was discussed here, a while back - http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=10609.0 Worth a look, I think.

Peter Pig still do their 15mm one and the SMER 1:180 Oseberg ship is still available on Amazon. Both are around a tenner each. Not sure about the others.

There was also this thread http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,10903.0.html

I got a couple of Ironduke's longboats and they make and paint up very well but I think it was a one off casting?

Shapeways is always worth a look. I was after some WWI planes, found them and also came across some WWI heavy guns as well.

Smokie,
I used the Heller version (also 1/180) of the Osberg ship to play the part of Argyll's galley at Inverlochy.
It is in the far distance - works well as scenery, wouldn't be useful if you want to crew with 10mm




Here is the larger photo
https://inredcoatragsattired.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/inverlochy-move-1.jpg

thanks all 

and thank you d_Guy, just ordered two from eBay 

Thanks from me, too, d-guy.

I liked your photo of your re-fight of Inverlochy - so much that I had to hop over to your blog to see how your game went and what rules you used! A most enjoyable read not only for the battle report and photos (and its historical result) but also for the background research and associated links.

In my own reading of Inverlochy in the past, I've always wondered what type of vessel Argyll's "galley" was but could never find any information that might give me some idea of what it looked like. Alas, we do not know and probably won't know, so it was interesting that you chose a Viking long boat to depict this. This is understandable insofar as the Scottish 'birlinn' is apparently of Viking origin with one source indicating these were in use as late as the early 17th century [see link below]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birlinn

This may possibly suggest that a more up to date version could still have been in use as late as 1645 but, personally, I think that a powerful and wealthy man like Argyll would have something less medieval and more up to date - unless, like us, he too was a history buff!    So I was thinking it may have been more like a Renaissance galley.

http://www.rodlangton.com/rennaissance/pictures.htm

It was therefore very interesting to track down the following print courtesy of one of the links provided by you. 

http://www.ambaile.org.uk/detail/en/30760/1/EN30760-the-flight-of.htm

OK, so it was painted in 1898 (!) but I've never seen this before and it fits in more with my image of what Argyll's vessel might have looked like. So, thanks again for the report in your blog.   

Westie, thanks for reading the blog and your many comments.
Yes the Birlinn was the source of my thinking and I had picked up the Viking ship model a couple years ago (in a fit of passion about the TV series) so a bird in the hand...

Very much liked the Renaissance galley model pictures -excellent - thanks!

Agree with your comments about Argyll and his wealth and power - doubt he would have travelled in an open boat (even with a tarp over).

I had seen the Victorian print during my prep for Inverlochy and it might be the best interpretation of a Birlinn based on the little I known.
Of course it reinforces the Victorian Romantic notion of the cowardly Argyll fleaing with the Highlanders in hot pursuit (a reversal of the flight of the Bonnie Prince perhaps?)

As we know Argyll was a capable man but not a soldier. I have some sympathy for him having dislocated a shoulder after age sixty. It is believed he suffered the same after a fall from a horse and put his most experienced captain in command. We will never know the morale affect of his sitting out the battle in safety. One of the (Royalist) accounts said something along the lines that the Campbells were valiant men who deserved a much better chief.

BTW - I just posted the AAR for Inverlochy (until I posted the pic above - I thought I had done )

Thanks again for the comments.