It's been a busy month! However I have some goodies which have all arrived within a few days of each other. A sizeable portion of my Russian SYW army is now resident on my pairing desk. A unit of infantry should be completed today and a further unit lies waiting. My Grenadiers arrived - Wargames Foundry bought off eBay and my Cossacks eventually showed up from The Assault Group. Only a month late - Gregorian Calendar perhaps!. Finally a box arrived from the States with 4 unicorns and some Crew - my guns from Fife and Drum. (Thanks Jim!!)
A few different manufacturers there - but a bit of variety didn't hurt anyone did it?
Let's see....
Fife and Drum Russian Artillery
Lovely sculpting, clean castings and nice simple poses. I like these a lot.
Compared to the Ingo Artillery -
They're smaller but better sculpted and the poses are similar for these chappies, but not the rest of the Ingo crew who suffer from odd arm and hand positions - if caught them swinging the sponge and porte fire around like in an action that I'd give them a thick ear!
I'm tempted just to use the F&D figs as I have some labourers who can lend a hand with the spare tool which come in the pack.
The guns are 12llb Unicorns - lovely solid castings and I like the open box of roundshot. Nice touch.
Next up the Grenadiers.
I'd describe these as a little well fed and rounded, but plenty fierce character. Height ways they are pretty close to Ingo's Infantry. Sadly I wasn't a fan of the Ingo's Grenadier figures. Some of them are in coats and I wanted the unit in summer uniform and again the poses are a little limited.
Finally the Cossacks.
Nice figures, smallish perhaps but well posed and animated. The horses.....hmm. Not so pleased with these. I might hunt around and see what I can come up with from my spares box. Overall though they are nice and will make an interesting bunch of baggage botherers for my games. They'll be mounted on my round skirmish base as individual figures so I can use them
