Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

 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 nobilit...

 Dik and I arranged a game at Leighton Buzzard Wargames Club , so I gave Dik the choice of what to use and fight (it can be fun) and he plumped for my Later Picts vs his Anglo-Irish Vikings. My Later Picts, or any of my Picts, don't see action as much as they should, having been superceeded by my Early Scots, so it was nice to build a list for them again and get over 1000 10mm figures on table! I would post a picture of the list, but it's too big for snipping tool to make a clear copy of! Basically, it's 9 TuGs of Tribal, flexible, 8 bases, 3 protected, 5 not (shudder) all Devastating Charge, nothing else. Great on teh charge, but berittle, especially one it takes losses. An 8 of Attacoti who are Tribal loose unprotected superior dev charge (yes, they basically count as superior dev charge, but then normal blokes in combat), a unit of formed loose protected, short spear, melee expert cavalry, and then 6 6s of unprotected aerage skirmishing archers and 2 6s of javelin a...