Cossacks !

 I have been having a Cossack blitz. I had a number of stalled projects:

1. Totentanz Cossacks half way painted  (the sheer figure size was making basing a nightmare and made me give up)

2. Boki Leib Cossacks (have been primed for some time but lacked the Black Sea Sotnya). 

3. Essex Cossacks that were painted as irregular Cossacks 20 odd years ago (now the Totentanz will be irregular and make the Essex lot look like hobbits)!

4. Fighting 15’s Ozil Cossacks need painting.

5. AB Cossacks do not make a full unit and need lances replaced.

6. Eureka Cossacks do not make a full unit and need lances replaced.

It’s a lot to do. But the Totentanz are completed. The Boki Cossacks only have the BSS to finish. Half of the fighting 15’s are done and the Essex are repainted as Generic Don type Cossacks. 

I will get them photographed and posted soon.

Russian Opolcheniye 2

 Finished the chaps in the felt hats ! I was in a bit of a twis over the basing of this unit. It should four bases with a total of 24 figures (working at 1:20 it gives a unit at 480). But the unit would have a very small frontage. So I am basing on only 3 bases. 

French Corps Command Stand - Murat

 I have had the excellent Boki Sho Murats kicking their heels for a while on the pile. But as I have been focusing on increasing my French command stands, for one lucky figure their time finally came. It was the Borodino Murat because I just wanted a really over the top version. I had seen a few other versions online and the figure painted up really well. The problem was then what to pair him with. Luckily I had two Boki timpinast (or kettle drummers) waiting for such an opportunity. These figures are also very nice. They are very large figures and to keep them in proportion I placed them on the largest AB heavy horse I could find. Then as a final flourish I added a Lithuanian tartar trumpeter. He was proportionally dwarfed by the timpinasts, but with a little bit of card his height and self esteem were lifted. 

Workbench - oh what a mess

Need to do some tidying on the workbench!!