Scottish miniature designer. Working on lots of Picts.
Regnum Pictorum
Joined February 2026
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The leaders of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will gather on Monday to sign a deal designed to kick-start the break-up of the United Kingdom, The Telegraph can disclose.
🔗: telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
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I was in need of some animals/objectives thusly I give you; The Skanderan Furvole.
The Furvole is a large domesticated rodent. Originally from the northern iceplains, they are clad in wooly fur and is the main staple of meat and cloth for most people.
#Fantasy #Wargaming
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Story Idea: Don Quixote but chinese where its a random Rich dude in 2020 from Guangdong or something who watched too many kung fu movies, goes insane, and becomes convinced he is a Kungfu master and starts roaming the south being a general annoyance to the populace
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why my artworks are never so viral as when other people post them without credit? XD
By the way, I think that narratives are precisely the worst kind of trap for a free spirit.
All of the great men of history saw their lives as imbedded in a narrative rather than shaped by their material circumstances
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
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Painting miniatures is 30% skill and 70% using some kind of magic liquid that instantly makes whatever you apply it to look good
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And I finally painted up some of my original sculpts. #paintedminis #Nerdlings
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A nice hoard of jewellery is getting posted today! Thank you for your support.❤️ Do you see your new treasures here?
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The earliest phases of our history is far more ambiguous. Calcagus might not have existed, he’s not described as a Caledonii and there’s no evidence he fought in the Grampians.
Calgacus was a leader of the Caledonii who fought the Romans in the Grampian mountains.
In Ireland, the original name of Derry, is Daire Calgaich "The Oak-Grove of Calgach".
The name Calgacus rendered in Old Irish would be, Calgach. If this is the same Calgacus is of course unknown, but what it shows beyond doubt is that the same given name, Calgacus, being used on both sides of the Sruth na Maoile, or North Channel.
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This beautiful Pictish ring is based on a gilt silver bezel found by a detectorist near Montrose. Its similarities to the Burghead ring are very self evident and being made from precious metal will complete your high status Pictish reenactment kit with a touch of regality.
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So between our Birlinn volumes King in the North and Picts: Scourge of Rome, Rulers of the North, there has been almost 12,000 books sold to date! Not bad for the old Picts!
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A very good point. But believe it or not we are in a golden age of Scottish history and archaeology. Our past has never been better understood or accessible! Reach out and grab it!
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Day 3 of our Dumyat dig and it’s very foggy! But we have a brand new structure at the gate!
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Calling Old Irish, Old Gaelic is entirely reasonable given that the language was spoken natively in both Britain and Ireland.
The Gaelic language has been spoken natively in Britain since at least the 2nd century AD, but as I theorize, it developed across regions of both from the proto-Celtic period.
Calling the language at that point Irish is therefore not geographical accurate.
This is a growing view. Some years ago when I pointed this out, it was scarcely heard of. Now, a quick search of Old Irish will mention it is also known as Old Gaelic.
