15mm Early Medieval or Norse-Irish commission

After finishing the Spartans, Phil (no, the other one) asked me to do some medieval Irish for him from the Donnington Ancient & Modern range.Always up for a challenge, I agreed.

They arrived and rather fun figures they were too. I painted them under the principle of the posher, the better the clothing.

Phil will do his own basing later.
Starting off with the lowest of the low, the slingers.

Back view

Chaps with big choppers

Back view. You can see I started adding plaid/tartan on this batch.

Mixed weapon batch

Back view

Side on

Slightly better clothed again

Three at the back were figures that fell off their painting sticks!

Getting into tartan now

Go lads

Nobility

Tried not to make their plaid too regimented

Attitude

Seriously posh blokes

Flags by kind permission of Mark Carmichael

Nobility or strongmen?

Back view

They must be getting richer, they've got trim on their outfits.

Kings and things

Brightest and cleanest of the lot

Positively regal

Mounted kings and nobility, plus a representative from Craggy Island?

Oldest and most sacred banner

Definitely the poshest

The posh half of the batch

Top view

Not posh view

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