From Millsy: 10mm Scots Royalist Horse (54 points)

Two posts in one week! It's almost like I've got some time to myself. In fact that's the truth with Simon Miller's cracking new For King and Parliament variant of his To the Strongest! rules all finished design-wise and ready for print. Given I've spent a fair bit of time with FKaP recently you can probably imagine where in the inspiration for this submission comes from. :-)

I've long been a fan of the Project Auldearn website and wanted to replicate Montrose's greatest victory for myself. Given that large project costs and associated storage are all considerations for me these days I decided to have a stab at the project in 10mm scale.

This week I've made a start on the Royalists forces under Montrose and finished all three cavalry units. All the miniatures are from Pendraken and very fine indeed they are too. Painted over a black undercoat they reward a high-contrast style and really pop when viewed from a couple of feet away, perfect for table-top viewing.

First up is Lord Gordon's Horse, a single base of 9 miniatures, mixing regular "English" horse with Scots to give the impression of a better equipped unit which would fight in the "Swedish" style, charging into the enemy before discharging their pistols in the melee.

You can see at the rear of the base room left for the unit name and dice holders for indicating hits, ammo and dash values under the FKaP rules. I'm going to have to do my own flags so I've left those for now to do in a batch once a few more units are complete.

Next up is Aboyne's Horse, a more typical Scots horse unit. There was roughly twice the number of these as Gordon Horse at Auldearn so I've chosen to do two bases, effectively two units in FKaP.

As you can see with the basing I've attempted to replicate the highlands in thick heather, gorse and grasses. Martin from Tajima1 very kindly knocked out a custom order of heather tufts in short order. They really look the business and I'm thrilled with the effect.

All up that's 27 wee horsemen for a total of 54 points.

Cheers,

Millsy

From Minion Tamsin:
A short and sweet submission of short and sweet Scots. Great painting on the wee chaps and the basing looks sweet. That's another 54 points for you Mr Mills.