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Two Eastern European Regiments of Shotte

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Two Eastern European Regiments of Shotte

Postby Thaddeus » Sun Jun 03, 2012 11:47 pm

Cheapskate that I am, I'll be using the minimum recommended unit sizes from Pike & Shotte. This puts my Battle Line regiments at an eminently manageable eight soldiers each. Here are a unit of Haiduks and a unit of Free Cossacks, both of which will be fielded using the Polish list's Hungarian Infantry stats.

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The Haiduks are Wargames Factory Persian bodies, with mostly Perry Zouave arms and heads. The pennant thingy is just paper, pvc glue and paint, glued to a celtic spear.

Some of the Cossacks, the ones converted from Perry Zouaves, I've posted here before. This unit, however, also incorporates a couple of metal Cossacks from The Assault Group.

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Re: Two Eastern European Regiments of Shotte

Postby grant » Mon Jun 04, 2012 12:14 am

Very innovative!
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Re: Two Eastern European Regiments of Shotte

Postby mrtn » Mon Jun 04, 2012 6:52 am

Impressive and inventive!
The hajduks look a bit drunk, maybe it's the leg stance that does it?
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Re: Two Eastern European Regiments of Shotte

Postby Thaddeus » Mon Jun 04, 2012 7:38 am

mrtn wrote:The hajduks look a bit drunk, maybe it's the leg stance that does it?


Yeah, now that you mention it, the legs on the Persian bodies don't really mesh that great with the arms I used. Not too worried about it though, Poland did invent vodka after all...
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Re: Two Eastern European Regiments of Shotte

Postby Correus » Tue Jun 05, 2012 2:21 am

Now THAT'S thinking outside the box! Cool conversions. :D
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Re: Two Eastern European Regiments of Shotte

Postby mikeland » Wed Jun 06, 2012 10:09 am

Really excellent work, I like these, very clever conversions, you have put a lot of thought into them.

The only tiny thing I'm not sure about is the guns, not sure they look quite right for 17thC firearms, I don't think that muskets had the metal bands attaching the barrel to the wood until later on, but I may be totally wrong, my area of knowledge is limited more to 1640's England ... perhaps PM Invisible officer, he would know (He probably has a few :lol: ). If I am correct this could be easily remedied with a quick scalpel tweak.
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Re: Two Eastern European Regiments of Shotte

Postby Thaddeus » Wed Jun 06, 2012 6:32 pm

mikeland wrote:The only tiny thing I'm not sure about is the guns, not sure they look quite right for 17thC firearms, I don't think that muskets had the metal bands attaching the barrel to the wood until later on


Yeah, the metal bands do look weird for the period, but the Assault Group miniatures (which are purpose-built 17th-century Cossacks) have them, and the relevant Osprey shows them as well (albeit only in the commissioned illustration, I didn't see any primary source pics one way or the other), so I left them on my plastic Cossacks. Even if it is wrong, I don't fancy filing them off my metal TAG muskets, so I would still probably leave them all as-is.

I should shave them off of the haiduks' guns though. That was just laziness on my part. Thanks for prompting me to double-check the sources on them.
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Re: Two Eastern European Regiments of Shotte

Postby stecal » Thu Jun 07, 2012 12:38 am

Brilliant kitbashing.

Turkish rifles & muskets often had banding so you may not be so far off after all.
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