Jacobin Paintjobs Continue & a Few Others

 These Jacobin Cherilea highlanders are going to be among my favorite figures. The ones with no flock are my most current paintjobs. Still to ass are the odd buckle and the brown wash followed by grass flock.

  First up you can see the original spearman pose at front right and the two conversions at left. replacing the spear with a halberd might have been another option. As for kilt colors, at this time it was varied, even between individuals so the patterns and colors I chose are fairly random. I paint the base color and then crisscrossing wide stripes followed by finer black or white ones.

The flag is the royal standard and would have probably been reserved for the Scottish king and entourage. (I'd be happy if anyone can show me otherwise). Anyhow, I like to keep some figures in their original guise. However, it was curious that the lion was engraved on only one side. Was it too hard to do the inside facing? I doubt that the actual flag would have a design on one side only, so I painted the red lion on the inside as well. Another option would be to carve off the lion and paint the blue flag with white Saint Andrew's Cross or one of the other flags flown.

The bag piper is now one of my all-time favorite individual figures and that is because the arms and hands are totally scratch built and the bagpipes bag also. The sword's man to his left has had his head position changed to looking back.

Below, Left to right: Airfix American infantryman, Paraguayan wounded from BMC ACW and Hilco WW1 British metal hollow-cast cavalryman. The figure has a fat stone to meet a hoof which did not sit flat on the base. The stone has been left unpainted because why improve on nature? I painted this figure in a very traditional way. (I don't remember if I already placed these last three in an earlier post or if my camera battery went dead before I could do it).