David Bickley's Wargames Blog

The occasional ramblings of an average gamer, journeyman painter, indifferent modeller, games designer, sometime writer for Wargames Illustrated and host of games in GHQ.



Tuesday 16 April 2024

The Cameron Highlanders

After many lengthy sessions, by my standards, at the painting desk over what seemed like eons at the time, the Cameron Highlanders have mustered into GHQ ready to join their fellow regiments in the Highland Brigade for my Crimean War project. When I appealed for information on the issue of hose, sporans and plumes I got two really good replies from Stephen first, then from Aly Morrison. The image below is from Aly's Almark on Scottish regiments and confirms my choices and Stephen's information are mostly correct, though perhaps the red on the kilts might have been broader!

It is strange, but I thought these 24 figures would take me the best part of a month but they are done in about 12 days. The figures are from Great War Miniatures , the flags from North Star and the bases from Warbases of course. Here they are anyway without any more waffling on ~

As a bonus here is a period photograph of my Highland Brigade in action at the recent Battle of Bugerov ~

For now though it's back to painting Roosians in the form of the fourth Jaeger battalion to complete the regiment! Their first base of figures is completed already and just needs texture and vegetation while the second base's figures are all ready to face the brush!


26 comments:

  1. Kudos to you David for carrying on with the tartan terrors and doing such an excellent job as always!

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    1. The Tartan Terrors? I may adopt that, I like it!

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  2. Beautiful painting and basing! A very handsome tabletop unit.

    Kind Regards,

    Stokes

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    1. Thank you Stokes, it's much appreciated.

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  3. Your Camerons have turned out really well, great job on them and a super addition to your collection.

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    1. Thanks Phil, they must do as I can't face more kilts right now!

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  5. They work a treat David…
    I’ve always thought that the best thing you can do with tartans is to ‘suggest’ them… Trying to do an accurate recreation it truly the path of madness/blindness.

    I’m glad my little Almark book was a help…

    All the best. Aly

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    1. Kiltophobia gets us all in the end! Thanks for your help and encouragement it's much appreciated.

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  6. They are quite splendid and it's good to see them both on parade and in action. Thanks for sharing the end result and I'm glad it didn't take half a lifetime to paint the Tartan Terrors. I'm not sure who has more to fear - their opponents or those that clothe them with the paintbrush.
    Stephen

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    1. Thank you Stephen, appreciated. On your last point, definitely the painter!!!

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  7. Very nice brushwork on the figures. Kilts came out well.

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  8. Beautiful unit David…..go the Highlanders 👍

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  9. Excellent regiment of Highlanders David!

    Christopher

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    1. Thank you for your encouragement Christopher, much appreciated. {Just rescued you from Spam file!}

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    2. That's good I would have been disappointed to be tossed in with the spam pile!

      Christopher

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    3. Blogger appears to have gone haywire!

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  10. You've done a fantastic job on those Jocks. The kilts are very striking,with the red really standing out.
    Great Stuff.

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  11. I think you've done marvelously well there Dave! A superb looking well turned out unit that would grace any table, and in record time too!
    We look forward to the next encounter.....

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    1. Very kind of you Paul, it's appreciated.

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