Swedish army 1790

My friend Peter from Sweden sent me These photos of the Regiment Björneborg in the Russo-Swedish war of  1790/91.


In my Imagination I see Leonid's Russian Potemkin infantry charging the entrenched Swedes:-)

Ming Garrison troops (Musketeers) from DT Models

Last week I got the latest figures of Thomas' range of the Japanese Invasion of Korea 1592-1600.

After the Samurai Artillery a two weeks ago now Ming Chinese infantrymen sculpted by Leonardo from Phersu miniatures.

I am still impressed how consequently Thomas put his range forward.

Here the photos for this guys. In the meantime the 12th set of Ming Chinese

Polish uprising 1863

My hobbyfriends know I am the guy who is interested in conflicts nobody else heard before - or is interested in them. One of this lesser know conflicts is the January uprising in Poland 1863.

For those of you who know nothing about it, take a look at Wikipedia

And there is also an interesting movie "Squadron" on youtube,

But as this is a blog about figures I wanted to show you some great conversions I stumbled over. When I have it right in mind it was on Benno's forum.

Some great conversions from Strelets Zouaves into Zouaves of death. Just one of the many volunteer units to battle the Russians.

For the Russians themselves you can use Strelets' 1877 Russo-Turkish war figures.

In case you want to paint some figures for this subject here a "few" uniform-plates for Polish units: