Cossack Army build - casting complete...

All the casting for the Cossack army is now done (plus a few sundry spares)....

Used the game table to sort the castings into infantry and cavalry units ...

Cossack Peasant Mob... (WIP)

Armed with mostly farm implements (from Bicorne Miniatures) and a few swords; figures are mostly my home-casts and a few Irregular Miniatures ....

I've also cast a rider to check for fit on my draft horses; plus how they work with the wagons I've made.

On the workbench...

 Just finished a couple things for the Polish army. From items produced from a recent casting session...

The kettle drummer, quite a tricky conversion to do....

plus a unit of Levy of Nobility, a mix of figures with some minor conversions....

Cossacks ... bits and bobs ...

 A few bit and bobs, mostly work in progress, for the cossack project .....

Some sample castings painted ...

some artillery crew for a couple of light guns...

command figures for two units of registered cossacks (officer, drummer, standard bearer)

Cossacks ... first metal...

 Moulds made last weekend and some trial castings done yesterday..

I've had to add a few more air vents to the moulds, so far the figures are coming out reasonably well. I have a defect in one mould - air bubble from pouring provides and extra lump on the front of one figure - it may be possible to fill the hole with some mould compound.

Cossacks ... pouring reservoirs...

 Master sculpts tidied up and pouring reservoirs fitted....

ready to started mould making; need to order some more mould making compund.

Cossacks ...sculpting

 I've been working on sculpting some 40mm cossacks, to home-cast a cossack army and/or some registered cossacks to fight with my Polish army.   I've reworked the generic rider and musketeer I did in 2020 and I've added a ten more ...

Two options for riders (which I can vary with different weapons and modify with green stuff as needed)...

Officer (?), three variants to hold half-pikes (or standards) and six musketeer variants

Next step will be to make some moulds...

Tatar Segban ...

 To make my Tatar Segban I  used up a variety of my own castings and made a few modifications - mostly the head-gear; in addition I made up a mould for a standing horse, casting some to go with the horse holders.

All painted and ready for action...

Elite Tatar Warriors (WIP)

Selected a few types of my castings Tatar, Polish Pancerni and Ottoman cavalry riders, to do some conversion to make up a unit of Elite Tatar warriors....(sons of nobles..)

The Tatars ....

All the Tatars now finished, including a couple of special command figures ... trying out formations 3 and 2 ranks of figures deep ...

The command group.....

on the move ....

useful addition to the collection, could be part of a Polish-Lihtuanian force or fight with Ottoman forces.

Tatars (on the workbench ...)

Prepping the rest of the tatars, doing some conversions to add variety and fitting weapons,

 Done and fixed to their horses ready for painting ....

Sculpt - Cossack...

Have sculpted a cossack rider and also one on foot, these can fight with or against the polish.

Tatar Trial castings ....

Mould made, trial castings done; I had a few minor casting issues, these will fix up with green stuff as needed; pleased that the extras of shield, bow case, quiver and two heads cast OK.

Using some of the trial castings, made up some initial command figures - converted ready to paint..( swords are Front Rank 28mm sabres)