The first major project of 2018 is doing Flodden (and subsequent events in Scotland and Ireland in the 16th century). On the downside I am a tad late for Flodden 500, on the plus side my wife picked up basic painted armies on EBay for one of my Christmas presents.

They are mainly Pendraken (prehaps done by someone here - in which case they've found a good home!) and were quickly painted to what I would call basic wargame quality.

After much soaking, cutting, and scraping, the figures that will represent the major Scots wards (Center, Left Center, and parts of the Right and Left) have been separated and catageorized. The highlanders, horse, and ordinance have been set aside for later work along with all the English. I am also using element of some of my WoR figures to represent Scottish lords in their grandfathers armour.

Part way there:


The first batch of new figures is in the background ready to be primed.

All the pikes have to be repainted and most of the colour schemes. All the "jacks" also need to be repainted for emphasis. To do the organization I want to do (using the board game "Flowers of the Forest as a rough guide) I still need between 80 and 100 new figures painted from the ground up.

Here is a large group of standing pikemen to be transformed to my own aesthetic:


Now completed (more or less):


And where things stand now. Organized in the pike blocks and most of the lord's retinues done with new flags attached:


The 2nd  batch of new painting is to right ready for priming.

I have repurposed my other blog to document my new Sixteenth Century pursuits:
https://signaetportenta.com

Very cool present Bill

Looks nice!

Excellent stuff

Good progress on a great present

Thanks. Trying to work in PaulR production mode (without the painting skill) but don't know how long I can keep it up. 

    Looking forward to seeing the rest!

Looking damn fine, Bill !

Cheers - Phil

They are looking good!

Nice speed

Continuing to work near non-stop on the Flodden stuff but wanted to see how Pixie's LoA figures were going to work with the new, more modular bases I want to use for the 1680 - 1700 period  (and possibly beyond). I will complete the bases when I have all the LoA AND Flodden Scots (center and left center) finished.

First Foot Guards - 1st Batt - 1685 - grenadiers attached:

Again, Pixie's painting, I did only the added on pikes and the flags.

A second configuration with the pike in line to the rear and the grenadiers detached with their own command:


Pictures of other configurations (1690 - 1700+) are at this blog post:
https://inredcoatragsattired.com/2018/01/09/painting-and-basing/

Looking good. Interesting method of basing, but clearly works for the different unit structures. I assume you will use a sabot base?

Thanks, Fred. Yes magnetic sabot. Wanted to be able to sequential reduce the number of pikes over the course of time and have the grenadiers be present or detached while still maintaining something like correct ratios. Without the magnets they would be way too fiddly to use (short stubby fingers and wee pieces  O

Good plan

Looking good

Take care

Andy

Good way to use the same figures across multiple periods; the purist May weep but tbh my LoA and WSS cross periods either way as well. I do need to get round to sorting some pike bases to slip behind the WSS guys though. Thinking four figures (2*2) on a 10 Or 15mm Or 20mm square. What width are those chaps on?

I'm not very pure 

I use 1"x1" for my standard 6 figure base so the three figure bases are 1" front by 1/2" depth.

So about 25mm wide in new money then

Must order some more 20mm squares!

Just about to start color blocking the Flodden highland contingent (lots of blocks of multi-hued saffron) when nagging suspicion enters my mind. I have set up yet another modification to terrain system in preparation for playing out an extended game dealing with the aftermath of Monmouth's stunning victory at Sedgemoor. Everything is ready and should include six regiments of West Country Militia Foot - but - had I actually painted the last two regiments? Nope.

Switched all the Scots back to the "waiting to paint"  shelf - went through Pendraken figure bags and sorted out what I needed. A militia unit only has 21 figures - so 42 total - not too bad

Since I already had all that yellow paint out and since the second most popular color for militia uniform coats in 1685 was - you guessed it - yellow, it seemed a sign to stop with the red coats. After an extended one day painting session, too quick and dirty militia units:



Since I was adding pikes to figures anyway, figured I might as well base up another of Pixie's regiments, so that's the Coldstream in the background. May as well finish Montrose's gun limbered markers while at so they are there also.

It's a strange hobby - when I got up I had very definite painting plans - painted all day but not a single stroke was as planned. Got used to painting saffron however.

Quote from: d_Guy on 18 February 2018, 03:37:43 AM
It's a strange hobby - when I got up I had very definite painting plans - painted all day but not a single stroke was as planned. Got used to painting saffron however.

One of the many joys of the hobby

Looking good Bill!