All the mounted cossacks....

 The last of the planned four units of mounted cossacks completed...

all four units together....

Buildings for the 17C eastern Europe (3) .. the second batch..

Two more buildings done... an extra house...

A lot of effort put into making a suitable windmill, I took the sails off an old Dapol OO/HO windmill I was breaking up..

All the buildings I've made so far...

Buildings for the 17C eastern Europe (2) .. the first batch..

 The construction of first batch of buildings has been complete...

For the next batch I've decided to add a couple more houses and outbuildings, plus a church and windmill; enough for a small village and thats should be it 😁

Buildings for the 17C eastern Europe...

I needed some generic eastern Euopean style 17C buildings for my cossacks project....

I did a trial build to start with - basic shell made from cardboard

Roof and base added....

Thatch added using material from a fleece throw... plus lots of PVA glue...

I'm currently making some more buildings......

Yet more mounted cossacks....

 The third of 4 planned units completed...

More mounted cossacks....

 A second unit of mounted cossacks finished today...

with the other unit I've already finished..

two more units remain to be painted.

Mounted cossacks.....

 The first unit of mounted cossacks has been completed....

Fun with flags....

Tarting up the infantry of my Monrovia imagi-nation, by giving them some new flags....

A couple of units get some generic flags so they can be used as 'German Infantry' by the Polish army

Three regiments get Swedish blue regiment style flags....

Swinefeathers....

I used some 28mm Warlord Games swinefeathers, to make up some bases to protect musketeers

a couple of usage options...

Registered cossack units completed...

 The last of the planned units of registered cossacks marches off the painting table and on to the game table to join their pals

Cossack Army build - update...

The last unit of registered cossacks is currently being painted; while doing this I've been finishing off prepping the remaining cossack figures I cast last year.

The last two lots of cossack 'moloitsy' done..

The project cossack army will be

4 command stands (finished)

4 units of mounted cossacks ( 3 prepped, 1 to cast)

4 units registered cossacks (3 finished, 1 being painted)

4 units of moloitsy (all 4 prepped)

1 unit of peasant mob (finished)

2 light artillery guns with crew (finished) 

6 'war wagons' plus other wagons  (finished) 

When the weather gets a bit better I'll cast the fourth mounted cossack unit. 

Another Unit of Registered Cossacks

 The 3rd of four planned units of registered cossacks completed

From the Unicorn to the Palace...

Scenario: The Musketeers: von Messing, Scharfe, Fischer and Hofler, are to escort an incognito VIP from the Unicorn coach house across a market square to one of the palace entrances.

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Von Messing is introduced to the VIP...

Von Messing leads off with Scharfe, Fischer and Hofler with and the VIP in the middle ...

Trouble ahead, two swordsmen block their way...

von Messing and Hofler take them on...

and push them back allowing the VIP, Scharfe and Fischer to move towards the market square...

von Messing downs one, while Hofler wounds the other badly....

As they move into the market square they are set upon by three more swordsmen, directing them is the infamous Hook, by his size is Schwerter ( a mercenary with two swords).... Hofler hangs back and keeps and eye on the VIP while the others are busy ....

Scharfe badly wounds one who falls back; von Messing downs one, but Fischer is just holding off the other.; Hofler and the VIP edge into the square

Two more swords arrive to support the Hook, the two Zwilling sisters....

Schwerter moves into the attack and engages von Messing, the musketeers (with the VIP behind) are being pushed back into a corner by some market stalls....

Scharfe finishes off a badly wounded man and then crosses swords with one of the Zwilling sisters; von Messing is only just about holding his own against the 'two sworded' Schwerter ....

The musketeers have the edge,  Scharfe and von Messing fight Schwerter, with Fischer tussling with the other Zwilling sister.

Schwerter is downed....

Scharfe, Fischer and Hofler take on the Zwilling sisters and the Hook; while von Messing leads the VIP through, a wounded swordsmen makes a brave attempt to block the way....

The Hook has had enough and runs off, the Zwilling sisters also withdraw....

von Messing deals with the swordsman who blocked his way easily...

the VIP is passed into the care of the palace guard....mission over

Setting up for a 'Musketeers' game....

Having re-organized a few things, my 40mm 'musketeers' game figures have been moved into a single box.

Before they find their way to a suitable cupboard/shelf for storage, I decided to setup ready for a game to use them...a chance to get the civilians out as well as well as the market stalls.