Ayrshire Customs and Excisemen faction

[Gerryjd]

This is the start of my faction which is based loosely on the Customs and Excisemen of Ayrshire. As it's almost Rabbie Burns night.. And that famous Ayrshire son, at one time, being an Exciseman....I thought I'd introduce you to the Faction leader......Wallace O'Brien Talbot.........or WOTTIE to his mates.......although being in the the profession he's in it's more like WOTTIE NO MATES!!!!

The rest of the faction will be a militia based force of Excisemen, Riding Officers, and Dragoons....so we'll see how it goes!


https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0mkg8qp1xqerg3e/PoKurObPNX

Cheers

Gerry

[obriendavid]

Nice looking figure Gerry, who makes him?
I suppose the Harry Bilton gang will be the dirty bunch of swindlers and cut throats?
Cheers
Dave

[Gerryjd]

Nice looking figure Gerry, who makes him?
I suppose the Harry Bilton gang will be the dirty bunch of swindlers and cut throats?
Cheers
Dave

Hi Dave,

It's one of the Foundry Smugglers. I've picked up a pack of them, and a couple of packs from their Malburian range with Customs, and Government Revenue men too.

Thanks for the idea for the next character's name!!!

Cheers

Gerry

[barr7430]

very nice Gerry but too much hair for one, wrong colour for another!
Ugly enough for all though

I was at a Burn Night last week and was so inspired by Karen Dunbar's rendition of Tam O'Shanter that I will arrange a Donnybrook scenario to re enact the great poem... look out here come my Witches!

[obriendavid]

Gerry, have a look at the New Highwaymen set from Outpost there are lots of nice looking figures there that might match what you are looking for. The original Highwaymen don't look that good but the remodelled range looks lovely.
http://www.outpostwargameservices.co.uk/
Cheers
Dave

[obriendavid]

I can see a certain Mr Jack having a gang of Wicked Ladies
Cheers
Dave

[Gerryjd]

Gerry, have a look at the New Highwaymen set from Outpost there are lots of nice looking figures there that might match what you are looking for. The original Highwaymen don't look that good but the remodelled range looks lovely.
http://www.outpostwargameservices.co.uk/
Cheers
Dave

Hi Dave,

Cheers for that. They look very nice indeed. Lots of really nice figures and I like how they've done both mounted and on foot for some of the figures!! Think I might be ordering some!!

Cheers

Gerry

[Gerryjd]

2nd character for my faction is Bill Harrison, an Exciseman who came to his profession from the other side of the law, being a former poacher.
A Dundonald man, he knows his way along the coast from Ayr to Ardrossan, and always operates on his own, believing nobody can track a smuggler as quietly or as well as him.
Many a smuggler has been felled by his trusty musket " Jeannie "

Pictures of him below, along with "WOTTIE" Talbot the Heid Exciseman

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0mkg8qp1xqerg3e/PoKurObPNX

Cheers

Gerry

[obriendavid]

It's good to see that Donnybrook has managed to get your painting mojo flowing again Gerry
That's one of the advantages of Donnybrook that you can have a faction from as few as 21 figures if you want an all elite force so no massive forces needed.
Cheers
Dave

[barr7430]

These look lovely Gerry. It will be nice to see them on the table

[Gerryjd]

It's good to see that Donnybrook has managed to get your painting mojo flowing again Gerry
That's one of the advantages of Donnybrook that you can have a faction from as few as 21 figures if you want an all elite force so no massive forces needed.
Cheers
Dave

Hi Dave,

Yeah, painting individual figures has been a help. Hopefully this'll help me get back into painting units! as is giving them a bit of a personal history!!

Cheers

Gerry

[Gerryjd]

These look lovely Gerry. It will be nice to see them on the table

Yeah, it will be, especially up against Harry Bilton and his smuggling pirates gang!!!

Cheers

Gerry

[PaulMc]

In honour of Gerry's new lads (with thanks to R. Burns)

The Deil's Awa Wi' The Exciseman

The deil cam fiddlin' thro' the town,
And danc'd awa wi' th' Exciseman,
And ilka wife cries, "Auld Mahoun,
I wish you luck o' the prize, man."

Chorus-The deil's awa, the deil's awa,
The deil's awa wi' the Exciseman,
He's danc'd awa, he's danc'd awa,
He's danc'd awa wi' the Exciseman.

We'll mak our maut, and we'll brew our drink,
We'll laugh, sing, and rejoice, man,
And mony braw thanks to the meikle black deil,
That danc'd awa wi' th' Exciseman.
The deil's awa, &c.

There's threesome reels, there's foursome reels,
There's hornpipes and strathspeys, man,
But the ae best dance ere came to the land
Was-the deil's awa wi' the Exciseman.
The deil's awa, &c.

They look great so far.

I'm thinking of doing Covenanters and Bluidy Clavers' dragoons to start with. Still need to get the rules.

[Friedrich August I.]

... look out here come my Witches!

If you still need some

muster them here:

http://www.rapierminiatures.co.uk/page/ ... ntasy.html

[barr7430]

Gunter,

you find some pretty interesting sites (and this one is Useful!)

Regiments of Witches... hmm almost as bad as Adrian's darkest wargaming moment.. a Regiment of Giant Spiders.... can you ever take that man seriously again?

I could use these witches for my Tam O'Shanter scenario!