"28mm Plastic "Kern"?" Topic

Looking around the internet I've seen a few people using Wargames Atlantic Dark Age Irish as Kerns. I'm thinking of adding some Irish, fancying Perry's Gallowglass, to my 15thC /WotR collection – if only for some variation. At least four of the bodies on the Wargames Atlantic sprue look usable to my eye? Any thoughts, opinions or experience? Even only partially using the sprue still feels quite price competitive against metals and I can probably find some use for the other bodies.

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I see the hurdle as getting the older tunic to look like the later big shirt. Going back to the 15th century the frills may not have been so pronounced plus you can hide some if the errors with a cloak/cape.
If you are happy with carving up plastic and then building up again with modelling putty go for it. If a tad wary I suggest bottling out and getting some metals.

The Kerns in the WOR period tended not to use shields (some wicker ones in Ulster??). Armed with javelins and some bows, so sure a few of the Atlantic box would work, likewise the Gripping Beast plastic box.

The Perry Gallowglass are lovely

Victrix is coming out with Dark Age Irish: link

Thanks for the thoughts. I generally don't have the skills or time for significant surgery. But I think I might pick up a few metals initially and a single sprue and see how they match up.

I bought these guys from Old Glory – you need your own javelins and need to drill out the hands to fit them.