More painted units fo muscovite forces

 Painted some more units and casualties + finally painted monks with cannon.

Stay tuned, more to come!

Painted Boyar Sotnia (updated)

 Finally painted my Boyar Sotnia miniatures (some have nasty misprints but still I was able to paint them) - all 4 sets of Boyar Sons in da flesh:

More to come, stay tuned and check these miniatures here in my store.

Painted boyar command base

 Another command base - this time for a wealthy boyar with his family banner bearer.

Stay tuned, more to come!

Painted cossack ataman command base

 After a long pause I was finally able to print some of my last sets - muscovite command and boyar sons, so now I started to slowly paint them.

Here is a servant cossack (or Don or rebel cossack) ataman with his retinue, observing the battlefield (or another village they are going to pillage).

You can get stl-files for these miniatures in my shop.

Stay tuned, more to come!

New bundle - Boyar Sotnia

Save some money on a new muscovite cavalry with a new bundle - Boyar Sotnia. 

It allows you to buy all 4 new Boyar Sons sets (12 various miniatures in total) at once with a 20% discount. 

As usual, you can buy it in my store.

Stay tuned, more to come!

New release - Muscovite mounted command

Happy to announce new set - muscovite mounted command.

Set includes:

- Boyar from a proud and wealthy family, unarmored, on a decorated horse.

- General (Voivode) in expensive full set of eastern-style armor.

- Cossack leader (Ataman) in chainmail, who can also represent lesser boyar or voivode.

- Boyar son in padded armor and misyurka helmet, bearing noble boyar's personal standard (prapor). This model also has alternative version without banner cloth, so you can print ang glue any other banner you wish (or use this miniature as a bodyguard or a mounted boyar son with long spear).

You can buy these colorful guys here. Stay tuned, more to come!

Showcase - muscovite casualties markers

Painted a batch of test printed muscovite casualties. Quality of these test prints is uneven but when based and painted they look quite nice.

These are from the servant cossacks casualties set that you can find in my store.

Stay tuned, more to come!

Preview - Mounted standard-bearer

Finished 2nd model for the muscovite command set. It's a banner bearer, who holds so called "boyar prapor" - personal standard of a wealthy noble (not an army standard given by the tsar himself). 

This young boyar son or boyar's servant (kholop) rides fine horse in a decorated barding, weas a suit of padded armor and a decorated misyurka helmet showing high status and wealth of the banner's owner. Also set will include a version of this miniature with an empty banner-pole so you can print and glue any banner you want.

Stay tuned, more to come!

Painted servant cossacks command

 Painted test prints from servant cossacks command set.

Stay tuned, more to come!

From servant tartars to boyar sons

 

Interesting detail - servant tartars slowly merged with other feudal cavalry starting from the end of 16th century. For example, many tartars changed their religion to orthodox christian, and became usual muscovites of tartar origin - former servant tartars were registered as boyar sons. Many of the muscovite and later imperial russian noble families had their roots in tartar families that decided to serve tsar and changed their religion.

As tartars were good at archery, many of them continued to actively use bows as primary weapon till the end of the 17th century, when other boyar sons absolutely forgot how to use it.

Here I took a short break to paint and base some of my test prints: tartars and boyar sons.

Stay tuned, more to come!

Showcase - muscovite garrison force

 This is my small muscovite garrison force for the beginning of the 17th century.

I planned to use it for Irregular Wars ruleset by Nic Wright, but also think of it as a starting step for a larger project.

All miniatures are my 3d-models, printed by my friends and painted by me. Some are test prints (or sometimes even misprints).

Stay tuned, more to come!

New release - Unarmored boyar sons with pistols

Year 2025 is closing and I'm happy enough to close it with a new release - this time it's muscovite boyar sons with pistols!

Pistols were first introduced in muscovite tsardom in 1590s but were extremely rare. However in 1630-50s quite a lot of boyar sons were armed with only 1 pistol and no other ranged weapons!

Here you get 3 unarmored feudal cavalrymen 15mm figures fighting in close quarters with pistols and sabers only.

You can buy stl files in my store

And wish you all a Happy New Year! Stay tuned, more to come!

New release - Unarmored boyar sons with carbines

Here you get 3x 15mm muscovite feudal cavalrymen with carbines and no armor (although one is wearing eastern style "shishak" helmet with custom-made chainmail neck protection).

In fact this is how most of boyar sons looked like in 17th century (many of them also had a pistol, not shown here). Carbine was a cheap, quite effective weapon, and required much less training than bow to become a skilled shooter.

As usual you can buy stl files in my store. And don't forget about 10% winter sale discount!

Stay tuned, more to come!

Christmas 2025 Special - Orthodox monks artillery

Time for Christmas presents!

I've made a special Christmas set that you can download for free - 2x Orthodox monks artillery crew with "tyufiak" cannon. These old cannons made at the end of the 15th or beginning of 16th centuries were still effectively used to defend monasteries from rebels, invaders or tsar's forces. They fired stones or iron grapeshot and were deadly at close range.

This set is quite versatile as you can use these miniatures to represent monastery defence from 15th to 18th centuries.

You can download stl files here. Stay tuned - more to come!

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!

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!