Don Cossacks

Perry miniatures released recently some Swedish dragoons for Napoleonic period. A friend of mine is  working as a dragoon in the Finnish army and thus we quickly came into conclusion that we have to build small forces for some skirmishing based on the Finnish war between Russia and Sweden in 1808-09. I took Russian side and an essential part of any Russian skirmishing force are Cossacks, which I painted first:



The paintwork is nothing fancy. I don't normally like painting horses too much, but after painting about 50 of them this year, I'm getting used to them. These turned out quite nice.

I also took some WIP photos along the way:

Final steps, bases were covered first with Vallejo pumice. Then I made some mud from dried sea grass, glue, pigment and paint and topped it off with some slush made of baking soda, glue, paint and dirty water from my water cup.

The horses have been painted.


Start, with a proper drink to go with them (though actually made in Kaliningrad).


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  1. Teemu11 November 2018 at 23:30

    Jaakko, you really need to join into our "Suomen Sota" gaming...

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