Napoleonic Russian Cannons

   A year ago I played with some friends my first Valour & Fortitude game. I decided then to built a Russian Army since British, Austrians, Prussians and of course French were already taken by my friends. I bought models of infantry, cavalry, a few Officers and three cannons.

   As of now, I haven't posted any of them. I start with the cannons. 

My three Russian cannons. One 12pdr and two 6pdr.

First I painted the miniatures and then glued them on the bases. 

The 12pdr cannon. A Perry Miniatures model.

The first 6pdr cannon. A Warlord Games model.

The second 6pdr cannon. Also a Warlord Games model.

Me and my assistant taking the photos

The assistant lost interest soon.

   Speaking of Russians lets see some of their foods, which we had the other day.

Khinkali (a Georgian dish, pasta

stuffed with meat and spices)

Chicken

Pickled cucumbers and carrots

Pirog (a cheese pie)

Pancakes

Borscht

Shashlik (shish kebab)

Pork cubes of shashlik

   That's it for today! Stay tuned for more!  

Cows, dead & alive

    The Farmyard Animal box of Warlord Games includes four plastic models of cows. I had a couple of metal models of dead cows, which I added to these four and my cattle herd for the battlefield was ready! 

The herd

   Though I really like the Holstein breed with their distinctive black and white markings, I chose to follow a monochromatic brown color scheme, which was far easier! 

   The herd took part as terrain pieces during one of our games, where an Italian Blackshirts force fought against the Red Army somewhere on the Eastern Front.

Red army NKVD agents and soldiers

Red army soldiers

The Italian Blackshirts

Two lovely Semovente

   Unfortunately for the Red Army, Antonios' Blackshirts were victorious!

   That's it for today! Stay tuned for more!

More animals and an exhibition

   I bought the Farmyard Animals box of Warlord Games to add some animals to our battlefields. The box has geese, chicken, sheep and pigs among others. I also had a dead horse to add some drama!

 

   Recently, I visited the annual exhibition of static models in Chania. The majority of the models were airplanes in 1/48 scale and tanks in 1/35. I took photos of a very nice diorama and a couple of interesting models, one of each of the three domains of warfare.

SAS jeep (Land)

LCVP or Higgins boat (Maritime)

Polikarpov I-153 Чайка (Chaika = Seagull) (Air)

   The last is a model of Nikolai Polikarpov, a Soviet aeronautical engineer and aircraft designer known as the "King of Figthers"!

   That's it for today! Stay tuned for more!