More Polish trial castings ...

I've finished a couple more moulds for the Polish home-cast project and have done some trial castings. Pancerni and Light Cavalry...

 Foot Officer and Haiduks...

I've one more mould to do which will contain the Haiduk again (so I can cast units a bit faster) and an Ottoman style horse archer which could be converted into a Tartar.

Time to plan the polish army units and work out much metal to get and what extra accessories will be needed (shields, lances, words etc).

Polish Winged Hussar (painted ..)

After a little bit of a tidy up got on with painting my first winged hussar; the wings have come out nicely - overall looking good

Will cast some more when I'm doing trial castings of the other polish figure moulds. The Polish-Swedish war of 1600-11 has a number of engagements which could be re-fought;  better build the Polish army first 😎

Polish Winged Hussar (trial castings ...)

I have finally got round to making a mould and have made some trial castings ... single winged hussar

a slight problem with the mould, has left a small ridge in part of one side of the wing,

a little bit of filing does as a fix - the acid test will be how it looks painted.

A Hussar with two wings ...

will paint up a couple to see how they come out. I am also working on the moulds for the rest of the Polish figure masters.

Kettelwitz Campaign PDF

I've put together the initial version of the Kettelwitz campaign PDF. It has an introductory section and includes all the relevant blog posts from May to Dec 2017 for the campaign (the pictures link to those on the posts so you can click and enlarge if you want to).

link to access the PDF is here

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kEDL-UZwGupdLaPfq9v5oCFf7Fu23yrp/view?usp=sharing

(if you have any problems with the link then add a comment and I'll fix it - should be OK though 😀 )

Simple Sword Play Rules .....

Finally got round to tidying up my simple sword play rules. These were designed as an add on to my skirmish rules, to enable musketeers type heroes and opponents to indulge in sword fights. They are very basic, but they give reasonable results. So far the play tests have provided good little games.

The rules play sheet (about a page) is available from this link

Simple Sword Play - Rules Play Sheet

[post updated 31/8/2018: moved the rules play sheet to my Google Drive]

Sword play rules test .....

Moved outside yesterday evening for 'gaming session'; indoors was too hot and there was nice breeze outside.  The 'simple sword play rules' were tested out using small scenic setups on a couple of my table riser sections.

encounters in rocky outcrops...

 After trialling 1 against 1, 1 against 2 and tweaking the rules a bit we then tried a Musketeer dealing with three cardinals guard

 

the musketeer managed top fend off the guardsmen but picked up two wounds and got away.  I need to write up the changes to the rules.

Sculpts: review of Polish Masters...

As I've been working on some TYW sculpts I decided to review the 40mm Polish masters; a few tweaks done

• The Haiduk's musket has been shortened by about 3mm
• The riders have had their swords moved to down by the side of their left boot - easier to make a mould and less problems with metal flow.
• The Pancerni has been given a new face
• The generic foot figure has been reworked, the upper body has been changed with new arm positions plus a sword added too.

Here are the masters ....

     

I am going to make moulds for these (when the weather gets a cooler),  mould list

Hussar + Wing
Pancerni + Haiduk
Light Car + Haiduk
Generic Foot figure + ?

For the Pancerni and Light cavalry I will buy some add-on bits like shields and bow cases from The Assault Group, the 28mm accessories are just about right.