I have a small unit of Pict Hunters with bows.
Figures came from a bag of (IIRC) Old Glory 28mm Welsh Archers that I acquired 15-20 years ago. While packaged as Welsh I figure that they are hairy, badly dressed and generically Celtic enough to work as Picts. Being Old Glory, posing and anatomy is um... interesting at times. Also it wasn't until I had these guys primed and ready to paint that I realized that two were wearing the Late Antiquity version of Ray's Budgie Smugglers.
According to Ancient Wargamer cannon (book of WRG) Picts differed from other hairy barbarians by using longer spears and more bows (including Crossbows). It's all pretty circumstantial based mainly on 1500 year old rock carvings, but it means that a Pict war band has a different feel than a Scot-Irish warband or Saxon raiders.
I tried free handing plaids on a couple of figures but gave it up as a bad job after the first two. I've left a clear space at the back of the bases for unit tables but I'm still playing around with the fonts that I want to use for Picts.
In terraforming my bases I tried to make these look like rougher terrain than typical with lots of rocks and low bushes. In his comments on my Intro post, Martijn noted that I had primed these figures on their bases and asked if it was something I often did. It was a short lived experiment and after a single session they were pried off, put onto pennies for painting and then returned to their bases when ready.
Points wise I make this 6 28mm figures for 30 points and and no theme bonus. But I can apply the points to the Carausius Emperor of Britain side Duel.
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