What's new?
August 2026
Release 12 - The Bloody Highlanders, arriving September
First up, it's 'The Boys from Lochaber' - four wild highlanders with open hands, ready to accept the ferocious Lochaber axes and other distinctively Scottish polearms provided on a separate sprue. Also adaptable as highland pikemen using The Bloody Pikes (product BM053).
Next 'The Heids o’ the Clan' - four braw and bonny highland chieftains and characters, including the obligatory piper. Includes a separate sprue of four highland targes.
Next up, it's 'The Redshank Laddies' - a band of highlanders armed with the characteristic Scottish basket hilted broadsword and a separate sprue of highland targes.
And finally, it's 'The Highland Shotte' - highlanders with muskets. Preparing, at readie, and giving fyre.
This release will also include a pack of Scottish parts and accessories (not pictured), ‘les accoutrements écossais’ - useful for both our highlanders and our previous lowland Scots release. Includes four distinctively Scottish weapons (pistol, musket, basket hilted broadsword and dirk), four Scottish polearms, four different Highland targes, and six different heads in adorable Scots bonnets.
Available early September as individual 4-figure packs, or all together as a 16-figure collection, ‘A Highland Gathering’.
These Scottish highlanders can be used for the late C16th onwards, when highland mercenaries known as ‘redshanks’ (for their bare, ruddy legs) were widely employed in the wars in Ireland and the Low Countries. Right through to the Jacobite rising of 1689.
In between, of course, doughty highlanders provided the backbone of the Marquess of Montrose’s Royalist army of 1644-46, and these figures are perfect for that illustrious employment.
They’re not intended for the later Jacobite rebellions of 1715 and 1745 - by which time flintlock muskets had superseded matchlocks.
There again, hairy, kilted Highlanders with swords, targes and polearms probably didn’t look all that different in 1745 to 1645. So use them as you will.
