1798 Rebellion Project Part 2: Skirmishers and Pikes

I started another batch of figures after finishing the first pike group. This time I painted another group of 10 pikes and a group of "Rebel Scouts", skirmishers armed with muskets and blunder busses.

Trent Miniatures seem to vary in style, making me believe that a few different sculptors worked on this range. These skirmishers have a cartoonish look that I think is very charming. I enjoyed adding character to each of the faces in the group.

The rebels often wore ribbons around their hats. Many of these bore slogans such as "Liberty" or "Erin Go Bra" as shown here. "Erin Go Bra" is a corruption of the Irish language phrase "Éireann go Brách", which means "Ireland forever". Few rebels were speakers of the language. 

This one is probably my favourite out of the whole group

As you can probably see, I should have dusted off these models before taking the photos - there's a lot of static grass and dust still on them!

The pack of rebels with firearms contained 8 figures, these two were left over. They'll be mixed into the pike blocks once I have more rebels with guns painted.

This flag was flown at Kilcullen (Co. Kildare). 

            Have you noticed that I quite like                                     painting flags?