GNW Russian range.

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Re: GNW Russian range.

Post by Der Alte Fritz » Thu Sep 10, 2015 6:15 am

A mounted Swedish infantry officer would come in handy, or could one figure do double duty as a cavalry and infantry officer. :roll:

And you have to do Charles XII and Peter I personality figures... :P
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Post by Dfogleman2 » Tue Oct 06, 2015 2:42 pm

Clib,

You might want to consider Russian pikemen kneeling with pikes forward and pistols drawn for use in the firing. The 1708 regulations called for every other man in the front line to have a pike. I've seen a few pictures that depict them as kneeling with the rank behind them able to fire.
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Post by barr7430 » Tue Oct 06, 2015 4:43 pm

After some repairs to masters the production moulds are being made over the next 2 weeks. Hope to have some Russkies ready for Antwerp!
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Post by Russian James » Tue Oct 06, 2015 6:13 pm

Certainly hope there will be kneeling pikemen at the 'receive'...

It's how I've been planning my units! :shock:
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Post by Dfogleman2 » Wed Oct 21, 2015 4:36 pm

Russian James wrote:Certainly hope there will be kneeling pikemen at the 'receive'...

It's how I've been planning my units! :shock:

Agree!
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Post by barr7430 » Sun Nov 01, 2015 11:43 pm

Here are painted versions of the first 5 codes. They should be in the shop over the next two days.
http://leagueofaugsburg.blogspot.co.uk/ ... n-pre.html
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Post by Gunfreak » Mon Nov 02, 2015 10:07 am

Fantastic!

Those Russians sure love green, even their pikes are green.

Also i noticed you painted the quite dark green, almost napoleonic green.
I thought they used quite a lot lighter green back then?
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Post by Friedrich August I. » Mon Nov 02, 2015 10:22 am

Gunfreak wrote:Fantastic!

Those Russians sure love green, even their pikes are green.

Also i noticed you painted the quite dark green, almost napoleonic green.
I thought they used quite a lot lighter green back then?
I believe that the Russian Uniforms may have even been darker:-)

http://content.foto.mail.ru/mail/lgpreobr/269/i-316.jpg

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Post by Gunfreak » Mon Nov 02, 2015 10:59 am

Friedrich August I. wrote:
Gunfreak wrote:Fantastic!

Those Russians sure love green, even their pikes are green.

Also i noticed you painted the quite dark green, almost napoleonic green.
I thought they used quite a lot lighter green back then?
I believe that the Russian Uniforms may have even been darker:-)

http://content.foto.mail.ru/mail/lgpreobr/269/i-316.jpg

Russian Reenactor Website
http://www.peter.petrobrigada.ru/index_e.htm

Intresting, that kinda screws over the Russian unit I'm making now, only 5 command left, and it's painted in quite a light shade.
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Post by Adam Hayes » Thu Nov 05, 2015 8:54 pm

This is well before the period of stable chemical dyes. Dyes tended to fade quite quickly when a uniform was tramped through the sun and rain and mud of a campaign season. Not really helpfully compared to a once a month re-enactor who puts his coat carefully in the closet at night rather than sleeping in a ditch with it round him...
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