Russian army. 17th century.

[zlovredov]

Hi, everybody.

Many of you already understood that I very much love a historical miniature therefore I started for a long time a diorama at which there will be soldiers of the Russian army of the 17th century. 

Three figures of the Russian army are at the moment ready.

Streletsky centurion. Regiment of Vasily Bukhvostov.




Strelets. Regiment of Ivan Poltev.



Ukrainian Cossack.



And three figures together. Figures - EK Castings.

[nicusi]

Hi!

I liked too Ek Castings, I worked three of them and I saw many beautifull worked by Russiaan painters. They are not all very qualitative but some of them had good possibilities.
You need to clean more carefully your figurines and eliminate theirs seam lines before starting the painting process (that's for the future projects). Also, they have a little chalky appearance, I don't know exactly if it's due to their painting process or photo conditions.
The flesh need more attention, also the textiles and leather elements. Make some variations on the boots, they look the same. Even so, their weathering level must be different.
The weaponry looks very fine at this stage.
Please, keep painting on the left and right figurines.
The figurines indeed could be put together in a fine vignette, you felt that very well. Courage and have fun, you can finish a beautifull project!
Cheers,
Nicolae

[zlovredov]

Aug 27, 2016 10:10:27 GMT -5 nicusi said:

Hi!

I liked too Ek Castings, I worked three of them and I saw many beautifull worked by Russiaan painters. They are not all very qualitative but some of them had good possibilities.
You need to clean more carefully your figurines and eliminate theirs seam lines before starting the painting process (that's for the future projects). Also, they have a little chalky appearance, I don't know exactly if it's due to their painting process or photo conditions.
The flesh need more attention, also the textiles and leather elements. Make some variations on the boots, they look the same. Even so, their weathering level must be different.
The weaponry looks very fine at this stage.
Please, keep painting on the left and right figurines.
The figurines indeed could be put together in a fine vignette, you felt that very well. Courage and have fun, you can finish a beautifull project!
Cheers,
Nicolae

Thank you very much, Nicolae. Concerning processing, late I noticed seam traces, already when painted. Boots I will be improved still when I work already with the diorama base. A photo in itself a little dark, on a skolka ready model and building I photograph on different cameras.

[dierk]

One of my favourites: finding seams after painting, usually after posting the pictures on the forum
What size are the figures? I'm not familiar with the company.

[zlovredov]

Aug 27, 2016 12:19:11 GMT -5 dierk said:

One of my favourites: finding seams after painting, usually after posting the pictures on the forum
What size are the figures? I'm not familiar with the company.

There is an interesting story. On the website of firm it is written that 54 mm, that is scale 1:35. But by my personal calculations scale 1:25. Firm one of major companies on production of tin tell-tales in Russia.