Tlingit: northwest coast North America - Varang update p13

[Mason]

Russians look perfect.

They do indeed, and you are right: Those placcy Victrix heads seem to fit the bill nicely.
Glad to these project up and running again.
 

[WuZhuiQiu]

Which sources did you use for the Tlingit head swaps?

[Atheling]

Ah...... great to see this project pack on the move James.

The Russian conversions look very convincing 

[BillK]

Appreciate all the conversion work you're doing and the effort you put into your basing.

[James Morris]

Which sources did you use for the Tlingit head swaps?

One is a Westwind Arthurian head, and the other a Wargames Atlantic Dark Age Irishman.   

[twrchtrwyth]

One is a Westwind Arthurian head, and the other a Wargames Atlantic Dark Age Irishman.   

Descended from Madog's men?

This is a fascinating and well done project. 

[James Morris]

Box of even more Tlingit just arrived from Russia!  Canoes are metal, which is a bit crazy, but I’ve gone for a couple to save time with scratchbuilding.  Anyway, the crew are nice.

[Atheling]

Can't wait 

[WuZhuiQiu]

Box of even more Tlingit just arrived from Russia!  Canoes are metal, which is a bit crazy, but I’ve gone for a couple to save time with scratchbuilding.  Anyway, the crew are nice.

Are the crew available separately?

[James Morris]

Appreciate all the conversion work you're doing and the effort you put into your basing.

Cheers!  I’ve enjoyed doing darker woodland bases on these.  They also have a little sand from British Columbia on them.

[James Morris]

Ah...... great to see this project pack on the move James.

The Russian conversions look very convincing 

Cheers Darrel! I think the Russians are ok.  I suspect more of them would have been wearing some native clothes but they look Russian to me!

[James Morris]

Are the crew available separately?

I presume so. It’s not clear from his Facebook page, but I’ve just been able to specify individual bits and pieces whenever I’ve ordered.

[WuZhuiQiu]

Have you found either of the Ospreys on Russian fortifications to be particularly useful for the Russian side of your project?

[James Morris]

Have you found either of the Ospreys on Russian fortifications to be particularly useful for the Russian side of your project?

Haven’t even looked at them, to be honest.  There are surviving drawings of the Russian settlements and some reconstructions in Alaska- so I’ll probably look at that for source material if I get onto that side of things.

The more I read about the Russians in Alaska, it’s very clear that they were operating on a shoestring at the limit of a long supply chain.

[WuZhuiQiu]

My guess is that log construction know-how must have been highly portable, and that customary approaches would have been likely. Might ostrogs from earlier colonization in Siberia have been the inspiration?