Two Eastern European Regiments of Shotte

[Thaddeus]

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.



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.

More pictures at the blog in my sig, of course.

[grant]

Very innovative!

[mrtn]

Impressive and inventive!
The hajduks look a bit drunk, maybe it's the leg stance that does it?

[Thaddeus]

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...

[Correus]

Now THAT'S thinking outside the box! Cool conversions.

[mikeland]

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 ). If I am correct this could be easily remedied with a quick scalpel tweak.

[Thaddeus]

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.

[stecal]

Brilliant kitbashing.

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