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RMD wrote: ↑Tue Apr 07, 2020 8:52 pm

valleyboy wrote: ↑Tue Apr 07, 2020 8:50 pm Does anybody else do Cossack artillery Mark - can you clip heads from something else?

I think Old Glory 15s did them, but I want four crews, not 15.

what about this cossack head
https://abfigures.com/cavalry/1002-cossack-officer.html

It is a pity Russian Grenadier heads do not do the job, we know someone who has some excess....

Does anyone do Crimean War Cossack gun crews and would they work?

Vintage Wargaming wrote: ↑Tue Apr 07, 2020 10:09 pm Does anyone do Crimean War Cossack gun crews and would they work?

I don't know, but they were wearing a very different uniform in the Crimean War; 'peasant dress' of tall boots, a frock-coat and tall fur cap. Very much like 1812 Moscow Militia, in fact.

valleyboy wrote: ↑Tue Apr 07, 2020 8:58 pm

RMD wrote: ↑Tue Apr 07, 2020 8:52 pm

valleyboy wrote: ↑Tue Apr 07, 2020 8:50 pm Does anybody else do Cossack artillery Mark - can you clip heads from something else?

I think Old Glory 15s did them, but I want four crews, not 15.

what about this cossack head
https://abfigures.com/cavalry/1002-cossack-officer.html

Yeah, that's the right sort of full-dress headgear (I'm painting him at the moment, in fact) but doing a load of head-swaps is well above my effort-ceiling.

I was wondering why, when you see depictions of Cossacks in the field, they hardly ever conform to dress regulations, wear a dozen different types of headgear including regulation busbies without plumes and cords and generally have their arse hanging out of their charivari. Yet, when you see depictions of the Cossack Artillery, they're the models of sartorial elegance and conform perfectly to dress regs, with not a plume out of place...

Aha, hold the knout... I've found a period sketch of them wearing those tall, floppy Cossack-hats, which is progress... Now if I could only find a picture of one wearing a busby without all the full-dress crap, my excuse would be complete...

FreddBloggs wrote: ↑Tue Apr 07, 2020 9:47 pm It is a pity Russian Grenadier heads do not do the job, we know someone who has some excess....

FreddBloggs wrote: ↑Tue Apr 07, 2020 9:47 pm It is a pity Russian Grenadier heads do not do the job, we know someone who has some excess....

First lockdown stuff. My usual black lined Prussian rubbish.

Just a small unit of dismounted c’s for a Sharpe Practice game I’ve been working on
The officer is a young Seydlitz

Very nice usual rubbish there Purps.

I’ve found more raw metal Indian Mutiny figures than I currently have painted. And I have a lot painted. So of course I've started cleaning them up and undercoating. Then, in accordance with the ancient law of wargaming, I shall put them all in a box and forget about them for another 25 years.