Highlanders (and more!)

Having had a week with no Hospital, Clinic or Doctor's appointments and the complete absence of any new family crises,  managed to get a lot of painting and modelling in this last week (at least it's a lot by my standards)

Reverse View (bit obvious)

I spent three sessions of a few hours each, picking out missing details, Chinstraps (- who the heck needs chinstraps on a figure !); hair that I'd missed (including moustaches ffs) and various straps (easy to miss in the multitude of straps the British soldier seemed to be engulfed in).

Officer, Piper and test subject !

In "The Sword and the Flame" rule-set, each Imperial unit of twenty figures  has an Officer and Sergeant, the latter I have represented by the piper- having no suitable sergeant highland figures.
Each two Units have another officer and Sergeant (four units would have yet another officer - probably mounted).
On the right is the CO of these two units (A redoubt figure), a piper  (Old Glory) and a figure I used as test piece (Irregular).

Rear view, for those that like this sort of thing

The Moray and Alba Highlanders

OK, so I'm not that good at painting, so obviously doing anything more than just suggesting Tartan is about the limits of my capability and the figures don't help either - with all that kilt swirling going on and the Irregular minis not having any rear pleats i their kilts !

Rear View, Irregular Minis in the front rank OG in the rear

The irregular minis came to be because I ran out of OG Scots (thirty to a packet!) and could supplement their ranks with single figures from Irregular)

The Cairngorm Highlanders (all Old Glory)

Rear view - you can just about make out the splash of yellow in their kilts

base of the largest building showing wall positions etc.

Having finished the Highlanders, as far as I was concerned (other than varnishing), I used the rest of the week and weekend, turning my hand at some building work, all in foamboard.
 Here's some photographs that have been heavily photoshopped to show pencil marks on the very shiny foamboard surface.

Central bit - with the fourth attempt at a back wall !

The four outer walls for the above (since this photo was taken they have been cut out)

The mess that will be four buildings !

Newly arrived window (frames really)

This week will be one wherein I'll probably be devoting all available hobby time to foamcard building. I've already used up three A2 sheets, but luckily I've got about another dozen A2 sheets, so shouldn't be running out anytime soon (best Xmas pressy ever for scratch builders).
As luck would have it, whilst typing out this blog an Ebay delivery of model 'windows' arrived, which means I'll be concentrating a lot of effort into the large building shown above and if you look closely you may even make out where the windows will go !
 
In response to a request in last week's comments I'll hopefully be showing a little more detail in how I tackle making foamboard (foamcard ?)  structures and maybe some finished models -prior to painting, gungeing etc. The best bit of quick advice I can give is to plan as much as possible and remember walls have thicknesses ! I use a notepad and isometric paper for sketching out ideas and plan a lot before cutting anything !

That's it then for this week, I do hope something has been of interest.
As always thanks for taking the time to visit and your comments, queries, criticisms etc. are truly welcomed and appreciated.