Re-organising and re-basing (2)... Dragoons and ....

 Some Sash&Sabre figurespainted up to fill the gaps; the new look for the dragoon regiments now completed....

Next out of the boxes for looking at is the artillery...

I could do with some more field guns, lego wheels and WSS plastic cannon parts

just the ticket 😀

I think I'll have enough now. I need to make a couple more limbers though....

Re-organising and re-basing...

I'm going through an exercise in re-organising my 17C collection; I'm re-basing some units as well and checking the storage used is properly labelled and uses the minimum number of boxes as possible.

Cavalry Basing

I have a number of cavalry units either singly based, or a mix of single and two figure bases. For simplicity I decided to make some movement trays for them out of thick cardboard...

The Croats are the first to benefit...

Pike&shot dragoons

Looking at what I'd done for dragoons I had mounted and dismounted versions; the dismounted getting some horse holders and the dragoons on single bases.

With my small game table, the mounted dragoons are hardly ever used; most games they are deployed. So I've scrapped the mounted units - some riders and all the horses will be used for some new units; the rest will head to the melty-pot of doom to be cast into some new figures. The new scheme is a small horse holder base and twelve dragoons on 2 figure bases (a few figures needed to fill the gaps are on order).

Pike&shot foot regiments

The existing scheme for foot regiment; its based in ones' and twos'; the number of musketeers is OK but would better with more...

I decided to have 4 figures per base and adding a couple of extra musketeers; the new look scheme

I've 15 regiments of foot to alter to the new scheme. I've cut all the cardboard bases ready for big foot shuffle.

More sculpting: Levy of Nobility ...

 I need to raise some more Polish levy of nobility for some games I have planned; rather than casting and converting figures. I decided to make new masters and moulds. It makes things a bit easier.

Three options for levy of nobility: musket, saber, bow...

 

I have enough mould compound for another mould, so I made some other extras; a Lithuanian 'petyhorcy'and Polish mounted/dismounted dragoons.

A final tidy of the above masters todo. I hope to get the moulds made over the coming week or so and trial castings done.

Cossack Artillery..

 I've converted and painted up some more figures for artillery crew....