Battle of Peterwardein 1716

 After a longer time, our hobbyfriend Stefan Meyer found back to the greatest hobby on earth and created a new diorama:-)

I was impressed to see the first bigger one on this subject of the Great Ottoman war 

Ottoman Napoleonic army

Andy sent me the first castings from Leonids Russian cavalry in Potemkin uniform 1786-1796.
This is one of my favorite uniforms, very modern for this time.

So I started to paint these figures as Carabiniers which I want to show here soon.
I already painted some Infantry units of them too.

Now I searched for enemies and the war I had in mind is the Russo-Turkish war of 1787-92. Austrians and Russian fighting the Ottomans.

Take a look at Wikipedia

There are a lot of articles about this war in German in the Österreichische Militärische Zeitung (ÖMZ) available for free on Google books.

Revoultionary French and Potemkin Russians against my own Napoleonic Ottoman army, a colorful subject. So I started painting my Ottomans too. Here for example some photos of the Janisarries.

You see from the flowers that I made them some month ago:-)
So when Ulundi is done I will concentrate on this subject

New figures in the shop

The last few days I was finally able to put all the new sets in the shop. First I thought I would have the time to paint all the Ottoman units before making the photos but this was not the case.

So the only set I painted from the three new ones were my favorites - the Delhis.
I still have to add the reigns. The lances I made from pins with lanceheads I got from the WGRS through Ebay UK.  And I have to add the guns on the other figures.

Another special set I put in the shop today are HATs Spartans. This set will sadly never produced in plastic as there were problems with the mold. I got the special permission from HAT to use the testshot I had to cast them in metal.

The Napoleonic Turkish army is sculpted

Yesterday I got the parcel from Ingo with all the missing masters to complete my Ottman army of the Napoleonic period.

Also Andy sent the first three sets of casted cavalry figures. My problem is I don't have photos from all the masters or castings. So I started painting the cavalry to put them in the shop.

All in all over 60 different figures of the Ottomans for the period 1780 to 1826 are done.

The units will be:

Janisarries

Regular infantry

Nizam regulars 2 versions

Albanian light infantry

Anatolian infantry (Spahis)

Delhi Cavalry

Spahis Cavalry

Haleb Delhis Cavalry

Kapikhulu Spahis Cavalry

Artillery

The battle of Helipolis one possibility now that we also work on the French in Egypt. 

Or I use them as an enemy to fight HAT's 1805 Russians in the Russo-Turkish war of 1806-12:-)

Here several photos of the masters as I got them from Ingo.

Janisarries:

Command

Rank and file (they got some beltsin the meantime)

Albanian light infantry

Here Ingo used western muskets. We got such a Turkish model and will try to make the change.

And finally the guys I call the "Cannonfodder"

And finally the Anatolian Spahis

The next set for my Turkish napoleonic army

Yesterday was the day of mails. After the painted Bavarians I got a mail from Ingo who sculpted the next sets of Ottomans for me.

This time it is the Delhis (light cavalry).

And here the masters