Last of the Polish Pancerni and some Afghan skirmishers

The basing department popped home for a barbeque today and brought a few bits of based figures including the last unit of Pancerni.

Dave and I still havent met to discuss how we will aproach this project but the good news is these are spot on for the Great Northern War project anyway so all good either way.

As usual these are a mix of manufacturers both riders and horses, these guys being either Redoubt or The Assault Group, both horses and riders mix in well with each other. The trooper in the middle of the right hand base had a sword snapped off so I replaced the whole hand with one gripping a pistol which I really quite like.

I have used nail art water slide decals to drop some design on the saddle blankets for about half of them, simple geometric designs for most but a fancy one for the standard bearer.

You can see the trumpeters saddle blanket here quite well.

A view from above gives and idea of the irregular style of basing I prefer for the Poles and the Cossack's.

Some of the nail art is more visible here including the floral design on the standard bearer.

And again from above here. Really pleased with how this came out.

She also brought me a few skirmishers for my Muslim tribesmen, I fancy a skirmish screen for each brigade so this is the first of many and a mix of metals and plastics.

Size wise they fit quite well but the Perry and Foundry metals are much better sculpts, interesting to see if the plastics will be inter-changeable in any way with the Perry plastic Afghans due out next month. The kneeling figures are all metal in case you hadn't figured out which were which.

Thats it for now, see you all again soon, hopefully some more from the basing department in the near future.