Some time ago I thought it would be a good idea to start a Jacobite collection, I gathered together what figures I had to hand and started painting but somewhere along the line the project just ran out of steam. Since then they've been sitting in a display case amongst my other C18th armies, until last week when the need to free up space meant they had to find a new home. while they were out I thought I'd take a few pics, and here they are:
There's not a lot to be said about them, they're a mix of Cherilea and Replicants Highlanders, nothing unusual and no conversions, just simple basing.
The Cherilea chaps are a good bit bigger than Replicants something like 60mm versus 54mm to even things up I put the former on thin steel washers and the latter on poker chips which have the same diameter but are nice and thick to give the replicants a bit more height.
I painted them wearing the Macdonald of Clanranald tartan, or at least my interpretation of it! I had some trepidation about painting the tartan but sticking to toy soldier style it was quite easy and overall they were quite fun to paint.
The background buildings are odds and ends of ceramic tea light candle holders and such ornaments picked up cheap at car boot sales, they're not to scale but work well enough.
I think some of the poses could be used for other periods and scenarios, perhaps late medieval towards renaissance?
I do like that red lion standard, it adds quite a splash of colour to the line up.
I'm not sure I'll ever get the momentum back for this project, it was fun but there are too many other projects vying for my time. I'd like to be more focused and methodical in my approach to collecting toy soldiers, but lets face it the time for that is long passed!