17th century Polish project

[Doom Beard 78]

 I've resolved to finally complete my 17th century Polish figures as I have a plan to use the  figures for a game of With Fire and Sword in 28mm .  First up is an artillery piece and some casualty counters .  I have another 15 casualty counters to do and then I can get cracking on some infantry ( the cavalry were finished years ago)

I imagine that the artillery crew are German mercenaries as the partisan wielding officer sports a hairstyle far to conservative for a 17th century Polish gentleman to have worn

[jambo1]

Really like the artillery crew and the basing is top notch, looking forward to seeing more.

[jcspqr]

Inspired basing Father Georgi.

[Doom Beard 78]

jambo1 , here is an early  ( and better) photo of the artillery crew, the officer had a little bit more work done to him but not  lot

[jambo1]

Great work on them, really good job.

[Doom Beard 78]

Some Haiduks ( Hungarian/Polish infantry)  here are 2 units of 24 . these were originally 2 units of 18 ( painted up about 8 years - never  seen an actual battle)  recently I painted up a few figures to bring these up to 2x24 .

I also found the time to paint up another  few casualty figures , but find that I seem to have way more than I recall buying.  I am working on a second cannon  and then its time to finish off that unit of Krakow militia I started  but never finished 

[Friends of General Haig]

Really nice units!  I like the way you have differentiated the two units.  Great reminder about casualties.  Must get some of those 

[Doom Beard 78]

Found the time to repair this unit- the trumpet seems to have bent and I am a bit worried that if I were to straighten the end of it that it could snap

currently repairing the snapped off Hussar lances ( the joy!!)

[Doom Beard 78]

What would a 17th century Polish army be without at least one unit of winged  Hussars

[M.P.]

They look very impressive, great paintjob  . There's one problem with manufacturers such as TAG, Old Glory or Warlord - they usually don't focus on depicting polish (as well as other central and eastern european) units from one period, so in most cases they often have sets with odd mix of hussars from the beginning, mid and late XVIIth century (even from XVIIIth century) or even mash up stuff from different decades on one figure.

[jambo1]

Taking shape nicely, really good work.

[Doom Beard 78]

Second cannon finished replete with so much wood and other flammable material to cause a Health and Safety at Work officer to look in horror-

Thanks for the kind comments.
The Poles have been an army I started ages ago and have fallen by the way side, I have been  tidying them up and fixing some damage while finishing off the  unfished.  I now have the Krakow Militia to do- just can't quite face it at the moment

Hopefully, i can use it in a game at some stage this year- but who knows what's going to happen.  I just need a ruleset and an opponent ( the latter is in short supply)

PS- I started a thread about a year ago on rules recommendations so please do not respond with a list of your favourite rules. I  am so far  leaning towards adapting By Fire and Sword to 28mm; fingers crossed it works

[Doom Beard 78]

2 units of Ratjar ( Reitar)

[Friends of General Haig]

The army is building up nicely.  Loving all of the different units 👍

[manic _miner]

 A great selection of miniatures.

 Most look to be from the TAG range.

 I also think that i spot a few GW Kislev winged lancers mixed in too.

 Just been getting into By Fire & Sword.A period i had not even considered before.