Dux Bellorum 2 Irish Queen and followers AHPC post

Here we have a dark age Irish queen, let's call her Maeve? Together with 9 odd  fellows  they form a companion  unit for Dux Bellorum.
Then we have two more units( 20 Black tree design figures) based on the illustration of a Dal Riata warrior  in Osprey's  Arthur and the Anglo Saxon wars, probably my favourite Osprey . The colour for the queens clothing came from the same illustration.
Next up 10 naked Black  tree design Celtic warriors, not sure if they really existed in Irish or Pictish armies at this date but,hey they were cheap and nice sculpts and that's generally how I create my army lists!
10 more Irish warriors from a variety of manufactures, ebay and black tree design.

A load of these started off as Picts which I have press ganged into the Irish force, the Pict force is  following along  somewhere behind in the painting que and should turn up shortly.
 I  need some skirmishers and some light horse to finish off the Irish but that will be a while as I haven't assembled them yet, let alone  primed them!
The queen is from footsore figures and came free with an order of Romano Brits (which are way down the painting que) the other command stand figures are Black tree design Picts command plus sundry ebay types to make up the numbers
The shields were fun to paint in various Celtic patterns after the rigid pagan English. Next up first unit of a new ancient army!

All the best Iain