Release - Boyar Sons unarmored with bows

New set is ready for purchase! These are bow-armed unarmored boyar sons. In this set you get 3x 15mm miniatures that represent the largest part of the muscovite feudal cavalry in 16th or first quarter of the 17th century before bows were totally replaced with firearms.

On the southern steppe frontier bows were still present for most of the 17th century and you can add some bow armed figures to your units even if all other riders are carbine-armed.

Various types of body armor were too expensive for most boyar sons (whose fiefdoms were usually small and poor) and often lost on campaigns with the capture of camps and wagon trains. That's why typical muscovite cavalryman weared his everyday dress as his only protection.

You can buy stl files for this set in my store as usual. Stay tuned, more to come!

Release - Boyar Sons in padded armor

 I'm happy to announce first set of new boyar sons mounted on updated steppe horses.

Here you receive 3x 15mm muscovite feudal cavalrymen dressed in padded armor and armed with bows, sabers and axes. One of the riders wears old model "shelom" helmet wit a small flag on top and added side face guards for extra protection.

Padded armor ("tegyliai") was a popular choice of defensive equipment among muscovite boyars and their retinue in 16th century. It was lightweight and sturdy enough to save its owner from arrows or saber cuts - ideal to fight another steppe cavalry like tartars. At the beginning of the 1600s we see the decline of its usage and in the middle of 17th century it's almost absent, though it is still seen in personal armories of wealthy muscovite nobles - often these sets were made of expensive cloth and brightly colored.

You can buy STL-files of these models here.

Stay tuned, more to come!

Release - 3pdr muscovite cannon (set 2)

The only artillery set I've made allowed only small diversity in poses and equipment, so I've created another set with the same type of the cannon.

You receive cannon with decorated barrel (it looks entirely different), 2 new crewmen and 3 new elements of equipment and tools that you can place on your bases.

You can buy this stl set here.

Stay tuned, more to come!

Release - Servant Tartars

Here comes the new set of 15mm miniatures - Servant Tartars.

This is probably my most versatile set, that you can use not only in 16-17 century wargames, but also in medieval and horse&musket era up to napoleonic to represent unarmored steppe warriors like mongols, tartars, kalmyks or bashkirs with a certain degree of historical inaccuracy. And in 16-17 centuries they can represent not only Servant Tartars of Muscovite tsardom, but also warriors of Crimean/Nogai/Siberian Khanates as well as Polish-Lithuanian tartars.

In the set you get 4 mounted figures on steppe horses, armed with bows, sabers and rope lassos. They wear no armor or helmets and don't have shields.

You can buy stl files in my shop, as usual.

Stay tuned, more to come!

Preview - Servant tartars

Take a look at the first miniature of the new set - Servant tartars.

These miniatures represent tartar units fighting for Muscovite tsardom or along rebellious cossack forces. 

Set will be extremely versatile and can be used to represent Crimean or Polish-Lithuanian tartars and can be used even in medieval and up to napoleonic times.

Stay tuned, more to come. And don't forget to visit my shop page!

ART - Servant cossack

Never studied drawing but once one gifted person showed me some drawing tricks and I, at that time a schoolboy (I was fifteen, I think), started to draw almost every free minute I had.

But, unfortunately, there was almost 15-year hiatus, that I now want to finish and start painting again - this time these will be illustrations for the units I make for wargames and some arts for upcoming rulebook.

Here is a servant cossack, reloading his snaphance musket:

Stay tuned, more to come! 

Servant cossacks bundle - 7 STL sets

As I finished working on servant cossacks miniature line, I present a discount option. You can buy 7 sets of servant cossacks (and pack steppe horses) with a 19% discount in this bundle.

Bundle includes:

• Command set (5 figures)
• Spearmen set (6 figures)
• Matchlockmen set (6 figures)
• Snaphance flintlockmen set (6 figures)
• Mounted cossacks set (4 mounted figures)
• Pack horses set (2 horses)
• Casualties set (4 casualties)

Stay tuned, more to come!