'By Fire and Sword' Cossack Servants

Here's a couple of pics of  a unit of  'Cossack Servants' from the 'by fire and sword' range from wargamer.pl. the commander is from the Moloitsy set and the drummer is from the cossack command box.

I've now bought several different sets from this company and views on these figures are a bit a mixed on the bad side the metal is not the best, flash was awkward to remove on several casting and  five out of eighteen figures in this set either snapped during cleaning; or were broke on receipt. Also there appears to be a couple of different sculptors at work as there  are different styles and noticeable size differences between some of the figures in the same sets ; the cossack skirmishers and plastuny sets being two offenders. Nevertheless the bad points haven't put me off and there are several positives. The range is huge and continues to grow, the figures are very detailed , full of character and really capture the era well  and the newer figures appear to be improving in quality .

cheers Pete 

By Fire and Sword Muscovites WIP

Hi, i've been tempted with gaming 17th century Eastern Europe for some time and finally succumbed before XMAS with  and bought a Muscovite skirmish pack and a couple of sets of cossacks from Stafford games. Here's a couple of pics of a pair of standard bearers I've completed from the 'Russian dragoons ' who it appears were dragoons in name only  and fought with arquebus and long spear. I've painted the whole unit and will place some pics up once the're based, the flags are excellent and  from  jmchasco at the warlord Games forum http://www.warlordgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=16980 and are printed onto cloth . I would also like to thank Roland at Stafford Games for his excellent service http://staffordgames.co.uk/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=524&zenid=c9d34bf7139f265002c1d46dcc4f7dda.

Redstar Vietminh

here's a pic of my first Redstar Vietminh  figure; I really struggled to get the green right on this figure and think I'll paint a more olive tone for the rest of them as well as darkening the flesh a bit. cheers Pete 

15mm Blue Moon Great Northern War

15mm Blue Moon figures representing troops from the Pommerska and Narke Varmlands infantry regiments . These figures are now up on ebay along with some unpainted ones, cheers Pete 

Prince Repnin's Grenadiers Great Northern War

Here's a couple of pics of some Riever Castings and a Front rank command figure re[presenting  Prince Repnin's grenadier regiment .  the flag is hand painted onto linen. these figures were sold a good few years ago however this is one regiment that I think I'll be painting again soon enough. Cheers Pete 

Great Northern War

Painting Danish flags for the Scanian War has rekindled my interest in the Great Northern War so here's a couple of pictures of my command group for the Preoprasjenski guard that I painted over 7 years ago and have been in a box wrapped in tissue since then. The flag is hand painted on linen and was taken from the book by Hoglund, Sallinas and Bespalow and published by Acedia Press in 2006. I'll probably put these up on ebay over the weekend  as I'll be painting a new command for this unit  soon . cheers Pete 

Picture of the standard bearer who's hidden on the picture above. 

Battle of Lund 1676 II

Colonel's colour for the Danish Regiment Prins Frederic