For Sale: 28mm Picts

This is a painted 28mm Pict army I have for sale. I painted it in late 2025 and it has never been used. The miniatures are a mix of Footsore and Gripping Beast. There are a total of 58 foot, 8 mounted & 1 chariot.  I am asking for $475 including shipping in the US.

The Picts are one of my favorite ancient peoples.  I used a lot of Pictish symbols on the shields and stripes and plaids on the clothing.  Lots of fun to paint!

4 mounted nobles.

4 more mounted nobles.

4 nobles on foot.

4 more nobles on foot.

General on foot with a standard.

There are 24 Pictish foot with a mix of spears, axes, and swords.

There are 12 Pict crossbowmen. I think the one on the back right is a dead ringer for Dave Grohl.

12 skirmishers with javelins.

There is also a general in a chariot holding a severed head, with more heads hanging from the chariot sides.

Robin Hood Project: Merry Men

All the Robin Hood stories feature an array of Merry Men. I started my Robin Hood project by looking at the options in 28mm. There are ranges in Metal from Footsore, Conquest, and Crooked Dice. In the end I decided to use the plastic Peasant Levy miniatures from Wargames Atlantic for the rank-and-file. Part of the reason was cost.  WA also had men-at-arms and knights on foot that I could use for the Normans and keep the sizes consistent.  

Each sprue has 6 lower halves and 6 upper torsos (split at the waist), with various arms and heads.  The pieces generally fit together well. There are a few with arms from the Perry HYW English set that I used to add some more variety and they match size-wise. I started by assembling 1 sprue of 6 minis. I gradually added more until I had 24 and painted them all at once. I went back and assembled and painted the last 6 later for a total of 30.

I wanted to keep to a simple color scheme of greens and browns in different shades, similar to what you see in most depictions. There are 4-5 greens and 7-8 browns. They painted up well with few issues.

Group 1: This and all the other groups have 1 each of the 6 bodies, I mixed and matched the upper and lower halves so there aren't any duplicates even before the heads & arms were added. I think the one at front right has Perry arms.

Group 2:

Group 3:

Group 4:

This is the 5th & last group which were painted at the end of June. I had one sprue left and just wanted to paint them. The miniature on the left in the front row is a Wargames Atlantic 3D print from their Outlaws digital files. More on those in the next post. It replaced the mini that I took from this sprue to use for the Sheriff's archer.

The Merry Men assembled!

Robin Hood Project: Normans

A Robin Hood game needs Norman oppressors. Or the defenders of law & order if you side with the Sheriff of Nottingham.  Either way, Normans are an essential part of a Robin Hood game. I chose to use the Wargames Atlantic plastic sets Foot Serjeants & Foot Knights from their Barons' War range. I purchased mine from Spruedude. Each box has 24 miniatures and plenty of variety. The legs and torsos come separate but were easy to assemble and the parts are interchangeable between sets. This project is the first time I've used WA and there is enough detail without overdoing it.  They paint up well.

I painted all of the serjeants first. I primed them with white gesso, then I used a variety of colors but no green as I wanted to reserve it for Robin Hood's troops. I waited to paint the shields while I debated how to organize them for the 7TV rules I am using for this project.  Eventually I split them into 6 groups of 3 or 4 serjeants each. I added a knight to each group and gave the groups identical shields so I had the option of using them in small units. It would also make it easier for players to differentiate their models. I used the excellent decals made by DestroyCarthage. I went with an animal theme, selecting designs with animals such as fox, ram, lion, deer, & boar.

After using 6 knights in the units, and 3 as characters (to been seen in a future post), I had 15 of the box of 24 left.  So of course I painted them too.  I am not sure what I will do with all of them.  I could use them as elite foot in a Dragon Rampant army, or I might sell some of them at the upcoming Historicon flea market.

I already had 8 Crossbowmen that I painted in early 2025. I wanted 8 more, so made 3 from the WA serjeants and added 5 metal Footsore crossbowmen from my lead pile.

These are plastic WA crossbowmen, except for the one loading in the rear right, which is from Footsore.

These are all metal miniatures from Footsore's Barons' Wars range.

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The Sheriff of Nottingham's men assembled to hunt outlaws.