A Brief Return...

...to the Crimean War project. While I was dithering over what Romano-British and Early Saxon figures to order and waiting for my Russo-Japanese War order from Empress Miniatures the only figures I had ready to paint were these Foundry Cossacks for the Crimean War. I really didn't want to paint them, you will probably be able to tell! But, needs must when the endless rain makes spray undercoating figures outdoors impossible! So here we have three bases of the figures in question ~

There's little chance that I could have matched the colours or style of those I painted in the 1990's, so I opted for a different scheme after some time searching images across the net. I settled on a dark blue-black which I chose to represent with Foundry 'Equipment Black' as the light shade has a bluish tinge to it which matt varnish should bring out. Their standard is from the sheet of Cossack flags I bought from North Star last year and the bases are from Warbases as usual. They will pass muster at gaming distance on the tabletop battlefield here in GHQ and, as you know, that will do for me. I hope you will think they'll do for you also.

I did clean up 18 1st Corps Sub-Roman Britons on Monday afternoon though I still need to sort out their shields before they can be spray undercoated. At this rate  these two new projects are going to be a long drawn out process...