Muscovite Army

[Terry37]

Had some good sunshine today so took a few quick snaps of the progress on my 17th century Muscovite army. The bases are not done as I wait until the entire army is done usually and then do them all at one time for consistency sake.


Artillery


Streltsi - 10th Regiment Feodor Lopokhin at left and 12th Regiment Ivan Naramansk at right - two Shooter elements


The Jiltsi - a Flyer element.

I am working on the command element and two elements of Knights/Riders - Boyars now.

Terry

[SV52]

Great stuff.

[Steve J]

Very nice indeed.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Top ideas

[Shutuphippie]

Looking good

[d_Guy]

Great looking, Terry.

At first glance, the Jitsi looked as though they were riding carrousel ponies - which is actually a neet effect! 

[paulr]

 

[Terry37]

Thank you all, I am having fun doing the army, as it is one I actually got the figures for years ago and had them cleaned, primed and ready to paint, but obviously some other project bumped them. The original army was organized for DBA-HX, but I really have more fun playing HOTT, and you can't have flying horsemen in DBA so HOTT is the obvious choice. That required a little reshuffling of figures, but I had almost everything I needed so am just enjoying it now.

Bill, Yes I can see how the striped lances could give the impression of a carousel horse. I used four sources for painting the Jiltsi - The viskovatov, Gush, Osprey and a small book on Eurasian warriors. Two of the sources showed the striped lances and I thought they added a little color so went with it. Also the various sources showed different colors of hats from a cheery red, to a raspberry red to yellow. I went with the yellow thinking it would be the most colorful. I wanted to give them yellow boots, but all of the sources indicated black or very dark brown boots.

Thanks again guys!

Terry

[Techno]

Very nice work, Terry !

Cheers - Phil

[sunjester]

That's going to be a very nice looking army when you've finished.

[toxicpixie]

You have flying light horse, and you're worried about yellow boots? Go for it, I say!

Lovely stuff

[paulr]

But they are historically uniformed flying light horse

[toxicpixie]

I'm still in shock from the ongoing, at least mid 80's onwards discussion about painting orcs the correct colour, I can't comment

[Leman]

They look great, and leaving the basing til last is a great incentive for getting the army finished.

[Glorfindel]

Lovely figures.

I presume you have seen this book (due out in 'May').

http://www.helion.co.uk/browse-title-series-more/century-of-the-soldier-c-1618-1721/books-in-series/muscovy-s-soldiers-the-emergence-of-the-russian-army-1462-1689.html


taken from a great series of books, including a few which will be covering
some more unusual subjects.   Really good to see familiar and not so
familiar subjects from a different perspective. 


Phil