The shields look good too, the textures look like they have been painted on and I love the designs you added to each one so they all have a unique look to them, certainly reminds me of the shields you would find on the side of viking longships and adds a bit of culture to the game. I’m glad chainmail was used because the scales bothered me a little too, and I prefer the look of Chainmail anyway.

The unique Tartan designs look very nice, I have family in Scotland so it reminds me of the various Tartan designs I see up there. I love the look of these textures you’ve made. Remember, all the rest Holds (with more warm weather) they will still have short sleeves! I changed ONLY the Northern Holds’ armors. Well, yes, the friend had a point: it’s silly having the NORTHERN HOLDS’ Guards wearing short sleeves armors! So, I made a textures patch with LONG SLEEVES for those Northern Holds. So, after a very logical comment & suggestion, I made this new patch. Since I made new shields, I updated also my other (older) mod I did (“LH’s Holds’ Shields Insignia HD”), because you may want to keep your current Guards’ textures and use only the shields’ insignias. I believe these textures are very nice and most important, very different and unique.

The NEW shields’ insignias (for every Hold) are VERY “Celtic-Viking-like”, although the Solitude insignia is very “Imperial” now.

Those Holds allied to Empire, they have the imperial “dragon” logo on the back – the others (allied to Stormcloaks) they have “Celtic” (different, each) symbol.

I didn’t placed logos on the armors’ fabric, because I found it too silly having “print-out” on the cloth! So, I made “shield-crests” on the chest and placed there the Holds’ insignias.

The Windhelm Stormcloaks having totally different design than the rest Holds’ guards.

I didn’t liked much those “scales” and I made all the heavier models with CHAIN-MAIL armor, while the rest remains padded leather.

I made “Celtic Clans’ Tartan” clothing for each Hold! Each Hold using their own coloring/design of “tartan”.

The big differences/changes comparing my mod with other similar mods, are the following:

Therefore, I made all holds’ armor/helmet textures, the gloves & boots (common for all guards), the helmets (different for each hold, as the armors) and of course all the shields’ insignia logos! So… I was thinking long time ago, to give a try and re-texture the Stormcloaks & Holds (cities) Guards, as I did before with the Imperial arsenal.

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