Amidst the carnage of battle

While I was working away steadily on the 31st Huntingdonshire Infantry regiment I was also splashing paint intermittently on some spare Roosian casualty figures with a view to composing another vignette, a fripary if you will, to serve as an objective marker or a table filler in our games. While the configuration of figures was pleasing to my eye I couldn't help but think it just lacked something. This thought was nagging away at me when I had a revelation almost; what I needed was a Roosian Orthodox Priest providing spiritual succour amidst the carnage of battle! I knew Foundry had one such figure, but in a set of SYW Cossacks which I had no obvious use for, so I began searching the web for a suitable single figure. I found one on The Assault Group {TAG} site which would do the job nicely - in fact I found two, but the second was in a Muscovite Command set and again I had no use for the other two figures. I did cheekily ask if he would sell me the single figure clutching an icon from the set, sadly without success. {You have to say some folk seem to find it hard to think outside the box. A little leeway on his part would have bought praise here, instead it's a gentle reproof.} Oh well... Anyway, here is the end product for your interest, even comment if you're so minded ~

Snapped by that fellow Fenton perchance? No? Oh well, here are some  captured in Glorious GHQ Colour as our Hollywood PR folk might say instead ~

As usual, the infantry figures from Great War Miniatures, the Orthodox priest from TAG, and the base from Warbases. I think the composition has worked out well, so I have to thank Matt for his useful insight there. {It doesn't compare with his prize winning vignette at last year's The Other Partizan, but his old man knows when to take advice from a greater talent!} If you've not seen it, here it is as a closing bonus~

Next up will be a battery of Roosian 12lb guns, their bases just need the addition of static grass and Tufts and they will be completed. Watch this space, as the saying goes...