"Vile brigands ... anywhere?" Topic

Are there models out there of knightly (or yeomanly) looters and pillagers out there? Preferably in 15mm. The lines which I remember doing this are out of business.

Or should this just be done with pied paints and pilfered putty?

I want to do a disreputable, gnarly looking 'Free Company' sort of army.

Museum Miniatures?

Why would your brigand man-at-arms or yeoman (a difficult term at the best of times)look any different from a non-brigand?

More ragged, motley, irregular and burdened with loot. More like Viking pillagers and less like a color guard. Pirates rather than navy sailors. I will probably have to rely on paint and putty. The lines which used to have such minis are kaput.

Medieval soldiery were- to our eyes at least- pretty irregular in appearance anyway. Everyone had to provide their own kit, some of which was likely to be home-made. It might be a better thing to invest in a string of pack-horses/mules and wagons/carts to carry the ill-gotten gains…and maybe a few prisoners too – even pretty humble people were taken for ransom.

Those are good ideas and will make a splendid baggage camp for FoG. I think that I will just use a more varied mix of figures than usual, and perhaps introduce some rust here and there on armor. I may put some sacks or geese hanging from the saddles of the occasional hobilar type as well. I'm just lazy about modeling them, and hoped to buy them. Thistle and Rose used to have some Scots like that if I recall correctly.

Be wary of figures described as 'Scots' – there was no difference between Scottish and English troops, whether archers, spearmen or men-at-arms until such time as English infantry started to use bills rather than spears, but even then, that's the only difference.