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Author Topic: Kuban assault! - (upd. 9-march: mounted cossacks finally painted!!)  (Read 5763 times)

Offline Father Primus

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Despite terrifying lack of time, I tried to convert and paint some Civil War miniatures. I took some Gripping Beast arabs and, with the help from greenstuff and my bitzbox created these plastoons (with dashing officer).

Unpainted



Painted (sorry, photos quality is meh...)

« Last Edit: March 09, 2017, 06:37:03 AM by Father Primus »

Offline Steve F

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Re: Cuban assault! - converted cuban plastoons
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2016, 09:40:34 AM »
Very nice conversions, Father Primus.  It's inspiring to see such unexpected source figures transformed.

I was a bit baffled about what Cubans were doing in the Russian Civil War (I know Britain and the USA intervened, but that seemed a step too far), and then I twigged - Kubans from the Black Sea rather than Cubans from the Caribbean, right?

Offline Father Primus

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Re: Cuban assault! - converted cuban plastoons
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2016, 09:42:44 AM »
 lol lol lol lol

Mea culpa))) Misspelled a bit...  ::)

Offline Mike Blake

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Re: Kuban assault! - converted kuban plastoons
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2016, 10:00:19 AM »
Nice, whatever the spelling!  What's the background to these guys? I mean historically not the figures... They look so good I'd like to copy them in 54mm.
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Offline Father Primus

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Re: Kuban assault! - converted kuban plastoons
« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2016, 10:11:25 AM »
They are just foot cossacks, usually recruited from poorer inhabitants of cossack territories, who couldn't afford to buy a horse.

These are form Kuban host - they fought for white Armes Forces of Southern Russia. Initially they fought well, but ideological differences between cossacks and white officers finally set them apart.

Offline Mike Blake

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Re: Kuban assault! - converted kuban plastoons
« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2016, 10:46:53 AM »
Thanks for the prompt reply - sound like a useful addition to my BoB/RCW forces

Offline Father Primus

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Re: Kuban assault! - converted kuban plastoons
« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2016, 11:12:49 AM »
You're welcome!

Humble plastoons are often overlooked by wargamers - they're not as cool as colored-regiments or smartly dressed mounted caucassian cossacks.

Offline juergen c. olk

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Re: Kuban assault! - converted kuban plastoons
« Reply #7 on: August 08, 2016, 01:41:00 PM »
They look great . Wonderful conversions.

Offline commissarmoody

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Re: Kuban assault! - converted kuban plastoons
« Reply #8 on: August 08, 2016, 05:32:26 PM »
Your converse worked out very well.
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Offline Costanzo

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Re: Kuban assault! - converted kuban plastoons
« Reply #9 on: August 11, 2016, 06:07:44 AM »
Very nice pieces!

Offline Captain Blood

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Re: Kuban assault! - converted kuban plastoons
« Reply #10 on: August 11, 2016, 06:50:59 AM »
Lovely conversions, very good  8)

They work much better as cossacks with your Green Stuff additions, than they do as Arabs!

Offline Father Primus

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Re: Kuban assault! - converted kuban plastoons
« Reply #11 on: October 10, 2016, 08:27:07 AM »
Kuban assault goes on and on!

Let's take some mongols/napoleonic french and turn 'em into any comissar's living nightmare - mounted cossacks!


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Re: Kuban assault! - (upd. 10-oct. converted kuban mounted cossacks)
« Reply #12 on: October 10, 2016, 08:39:10 AM »
Oh yeah  :o :o These look great! I imagine some Commissars are changing their underwear as we speak!  lol lol
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Offline Mike Blake

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Re: Kuban assault! - (upd. 10-oct. converted kuban mounted cossacks)
« Reply #13 on: October 10, 2016, 12:26:19 PM »
These too look like they are going to be marvelous!

Offline Father Primus

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Re: Kuban assault! - (upd. 10-oct. converted kuban mounted cossacks)
« Reply #14 on: March 09, 2017, 06:36:19 AM »
Finally painted!!!!!


 

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