This is part of a project I\'ve started with a friend based around the Scottish campaigns in the English Civil War. I\'ve decided to
build the forces of that wily commander Montrose and my friend is building the Covenanter\'s.
My Montrose(ish) army isn\'t an attempt to exactly replicate what the forces of Montrose looked like, but rather a melding of
Scottish and English together so I can use it as both a Scottish Royalist army and a Northern English Royalist army. I like the
history of Montrose and Rupert so I\'d like to use it for both. Basically it will be my own impression with quite a few liberties
taken. Hopefully the end result will still be convincing enough to not totally offend the purists out there.
I\'m starting off with a regiment from the rock hard Irish brigade in which I mixed Bicorne\'s Irish and English together which
gives them a mixed and slightly ragged appearance (except the officers) which I feel they probably looked something like that.
The Irish were noted for usinga half pike, but I prefer the full pike and so went with that. They also wore a greyish top and
white leggings(many did any ways) of which I included in the mix, but I changed the top to mostly green for two reasons.
The first is I\'ll have plenty of grey to do when I do the regular Scot units and well......they are Irish and green just darn
well belongs!:-)
The figures are from Bicorne and the English figures are simply superb(best ECW around IMHO) and the Irish figures are pretty
good too if not quite as good as the English figures. I painted them using AP with highlights added. The Flag is from Flags of War
and while it looks wonderful it\'s a little small for me, however I heard he\'s now making them bigger and so I probably replace it
with a bigger one.
God save the king!
Thanks for viewing!
