From TamsinP - 15mm Seven Years War Russians (260 points)

Yes.  I know.  In my entry last week I did say that you might not be seeing any 15mm from me this Challenge, but I just didn't fancy starting on a 28mm project straight after those early WW2 Aussies.  So I looked through what else I had in the queue.  I didn't fancy starting on my Mongols; I haven't figured out a colour scheme yet for my Kra'Vak; the Ming Chinese didn't jump up and shout "paint me"...

Which just left some more additions for my already huge SYW Russian army.

Let's start with the infantry.


Azovskiy Regiment

This regiment fought in the battles of Gross-Jagersdorf, Paltzig and Kunersdorf.


Butyrskiy Regiment

This regiment, along with the 1st Moskovskiy, was one of the two oldest regiments in the Russian army being formed in 1642.  Originally titled the 2nd Moskovskiy Selective Regiment, it was renamed in 1727.  They fought at the battles of Gross-Jagersdorf and Zorndorf.


Kievskiy Regiment

This regiment fought in the battles of Gross-Jagersdorf, Paltzig and Kunersdorf.


Narvskiy Regiment

This regiment fought in the battles of Gross-Jagersdorf, Paltzig and Kunersdorf.


All the sculpted flags were hand-painted in my usual "impressionist" style. Here are some close-ups:

Azovskiy and Butyrskiy

Kievskiy and Narvskiy

With these four regiments painted, that leaves me with just nine more infantry regiments to achieve my megalomanical goal of having all the regiments which fought in the Seven Years War.  And the Observation Corps and some more converged grenadiers I suppose.


And now for the rest:


Cossacks

Just three more regiments of these.  I've had to reorganise the box-files my army are stored in (adding two) which has left me with plenty of space for more of these hooligans:

Artillery Limbers

Artillery

I know what you're thinking - there's only one gun there.  Actually, a howitzer which is the only artillery piece I painted this time.  That is because I already had more artillery pieces than artillery bases, but needed a 2nd howitzer.

The fusiliers on the artillery and limber bases were spare infantry figures.

All the figures here are 15mm from Essex Miniatures.


Now, for the scoring:

Infantry - 72 x 15mm foot = 144 points
Cossacks - 18 x 15mm mounted = 72 points
Artillery limbers - 4 horses, 2 infantry, 2 limbers = 16 points
Artillery - 8 foot and 1 gun = 20 points
Total - 252 points (plus any extras for the hand-painted flags)


Now, if you've been good boys and girls this week, you might get another 15mm submission from me today.

And before I forget, a little snippet of information for you.  All of the infantry and artillery (crew and fusilier) figures in this submission were painted throughout - highlights included - using a size 3 Da Vinci Maestro brush, rather than my usual sizes 1 and 0 W&N Series 7 brushes. I did it just for larks to see if it could be done.

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Tamsin, your ability to turn out lots of painted mini's - and at such high quality - is the stuff of legends, and this entry is the same. As for your SYW megalomania, there is probably a radical treatment available somewhere, but please don't take it! 

As a veteran Minion I can't fault your points calculation for these, but I'm throwing in an extra four points for the flags. The fact that they are hand painted and not decals is very impressive, especially at 15mm. And just because I can I'll top this up with another 4 points for the overall quality of the entry bringing the total up to 260 points. Keep em coming Tamsin, there's plenty more room on the scores spreadsheet for your entries!

Lee