David Bickley's Wargames Blog

The occasional ramblings of an average gamer, journeyman painter, indifferent modeller, games designer, sometime writer for Wargames Illustrated and host of games in GHQ.



Sunday, 15 February 2026

Making Good Use?

Or just too mean to waste 'spare' figures? Either way I have added to the Cossacks for my Crimean War project! When I had completed the figures for my Foundry Crimean War Roosian Cossacks shown in the previous blog post I had one figure left over. I decided to paint and base him to represent a Cossack scout - you might just recall that I have a few dismounted Cossack Scouts from Eureka's unreleased range. Now he is finished and ready to be matt varnished I hoped that you might like to see him ~

"Waste not, want not" as the saying goes seems to fit the bill. 

I've also finished cleaning up the 1st Corps Early Saxon figures for this new project as we had the threatened short dry spell and I was able to spray undercoat them! Just six Arthurian Heavy Cavalry left to be processed and I can start prepping the Russo-Japanese War figures!

5 comments:

  1. A good use of a spare figure there David, that will give you some options for scenarios, or as a courier/messenger for some bonus C&C etc:).

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    1. Indeed SteveJ, thinking along those very lines.

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  2. A scout is a great idea. Do the foundry figures come with open hands for the hard metal spear?

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