By Fire & Sword: Lithuanian field hetman Gosiewski (14/4/14)

[Anatoli]

First 3 (out of 6 bases) with Lithuanian Reiter's armed with arquebus for my Polish-Lithuanian army. They will be a welcome addition on both skirmish and division level.

More pictures of this unit over at my blog:

http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.se/2013/08/bf-lithuanian-reiter-company.html

[Anatoli]

Last 3 bases of Reiters painted up, which means I can field a full squadron of them along with the historical commander Gantzkopf. These models are all painted in a very uniform look, which would perhaps not be historically supported. But I just wanted to paint the troops a bit different than my regular Polish units, and also wanted a change of pace from painting each rider in different colors in order to speed up the painting a little.

As a unit, Reiter's are ridiculously versatile when it comes to including them in army lists. At the moment I am able to field them as part of the regular, and the Winged Hussar, Lithuanian skirmish lists. I can also field them as a regiment to support my Polish division if I get another box of armored Reiter's in the future, for now I can opt to field them as divisional support units.

You can also use the models for Courland and the city of Gdansk skirmish lists. And I am pretty sure that they will be part of any of the upcoming Danish, Imperial and Brandenburg PDF lists - just need to get some armored Reiter's as well. But at the moment, and after having painted some 300 cavalry models, I am pretty tired of painting cavalry. I look forward to starting a Cossack skirmish force sometime next month (which is why I'm eagerly waiting for the remainder of my BF&S Kickstarter which includes Ivan Bohun who I will use as a Cossack skirmish commander :-D )

Anyway, more pictures of the last trio and pictures of the full squadron with command can be seen over at my blog:
http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.se/2013/09/bf-lithuanian-reiter-squadron-finished.html

[Anatoli]

Lithuanian field hetman Wincenty Gosiewski painted up and ready to lead the Winged hussar skirmish list tomorrow :-D

Really great miniature, painted up easily and looks awesome. I used him together with the contents of a regular Polish command blister, but the flag is custom made and hand painted.

Now I just wait for the Polish infantry blisters to arrive so that I can finish my Polish-Lithuanian army for the time being and start up a Cossack skirmish force next. More pictures over at my blog:

http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.se/2013/09/wincenty-gosiewski-lithuanian-hetman.html

[Derzhinski]

Great painting, Anatoli!

I've ordered three skirmish sets: Polish, Cossacks and Swedish...  I guess that I read Sienkiewicz a time too many when I was a teenager! 

[Anatoli]

Painted up the first base for my Royal city of Gdansk skirmish list  (all units will also be part of my regular Polish-Lithuanian army), the models for the Gdansk troops are really nice and make for great extra musketeer and reiter troops with a tad more irregular look to them - perfect to use for Courland as well as other western type armies/regiments.

http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.se/2014/04/bf-royal-city-of-gdansk-command-painted.html

[Engel]

Some really nice looking miniatures you got painted since I watched this thread I see. Smashing stuff. 

[Olofeus]

Good job. I really  like Your painting style (and Your blog).
How long does it take for You to finnish a  basic unit  (4-6 bases)?

Kiitos ja moi!

Samu

[Anatoli]

Good job. I really  like Your painting style (and Your blog).
How long does it take for You to finnish a  basic unit  (4-6 bases)?

Kiitos ja moi!

Samu

For cavalry, 3 bases that makes a unit, it takes me 3-4 sessions of roughly 4-5 hours each. The same timeframe for twice the amount of infantry bases.

[Burnin Coal]

Am new to the forum but just read your entire thread...really impressive and doing great justice to this fascinating period of history...all f your painting has an excellent feel to it especially the irregular cavalry/cossacks - what are you using for uniform reference if I may ask ?.....thanks so much for sharing it all