"Border Reivers - Thistle & Rose" Topic

The old Vendel miniatures are meanwhile available via Thistle & Rose. Time to show some pics and write a short story about the Border Reivers. For english version please scroll down.

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It is good to see our German cousins interested in my local history! (Yes, I live in Northumberland!)
Those are lovely models, and the terrain and painting are top notch! – well done!

I live in Louisiana but long ago the Bells, ancestors on my mother's side, were nasty and rich along the border.

LT

My ancestors on my father's side were border reivers, and later on my mother's side we had highwaymen (2 of whom were hung)
Great minis, and far more painted than I have.
I recommend reading "The Steel Bonnets" by GMF, and for some fiction the various P.F Chisholm novels

Good to see these figures being used! I have twenty of them I bought over 10 years ago, of which 10 are on the painting table, and 10 more are waiting to be primed. : )

I recommend reading "The Steel Bonnets" by GMF, and for some fiction the various P.F Chisholm novels

There has been a copy 0f "The Steel Bonnets" on a shelf in my study for years. I was surprised when I first read Fraser's statement that the powerful and rich Bells were English but none of them left me any money or land so I really don't care where they lived.

LT

I live part of the year in the Borders and have read Steel Bonnets a couple of times. But somehow I missed PF Chisholm. Just order the first book, thanks Huscarle.

If you ask me, I would use these beautiful figures for the early actions in the Caribbean! Very versatile figures.

I'm just curious how one knows if an ancestor was ‘hung'. Seems pretty personal to me.