The Ulstermen WIP

"The soldiers of Ulster naturally accustomed to suffering, and habituated to the frosts of that northern climate, have few wishes and few wants... Provided they have shoes and a few utensils, a woollen cloak serves for their covering — more zealously careful of their axe and bow than of their personal comfort."

Over the last while I have been working away at painting the Khandish models for my Ardacon 2020 army, so I thought I would share a quick WIP post. So far I've been working though the counties of Ulster with 6 of the 9 completed; Antrim, Derry, Donegal, Down, Fermanagh and Tyrone. 

A New Beginning

"It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish." Samwise Gamgee

The dust has hardly settled from Ardacon 2019 ( which I was unfortunately unable to attend) but already thoughts are turning towards Ardacon 2020. My hope is to be able to take a brand new army for myself in the GT, and hence much painting is required over the coming year. Therefore the road to Ardacon starts here.

A while ago I wanted to start painting an army that would challenge my painting ability and I had 9 Khandish Warriors a Chieftain and a Chariot from a project that never got off the ground. Due to the opportunity for freehand on the banners that every model has I decided this would be a good challenge. This also happened to be around the time of the All Ireland Football and Hurling Championship finals and seeing the various county colours and flags gave me an idea of how to paint those Khandish models. A few minutes later and I had an army list written:

32 Khandish Warriors (for the 32 counties of Ireland)
4 Khandish Chieftains on Chariots (for the 4 provinces)
And 1 Khandish King on Chariot (to lead the force as High King of Ireland)

All told, 721 points of Khand. Just shy of the 750 level Ardacon runs at (I'll figure out those spare 29 points later). Challenge accepted.

Now just the small matter of painting it...