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Very pleased to release our latest "large 15mm" Thirty Years War models, for German or Swedish horse (many units of Horse in the Swedish army in Germany being German). As Germans they mostly wear the archetypal Zischagge helmet. (EDIT: scroll down the thread a little to see the new cannon ad crew as well!)



The first set are typical horse in buff coats. Common to all these sets, by the way, is a commander with a warhammer and a standardbearer (flag is not included). In addition to the two commanders there are ten pistoliers, with four different upper bodies and two different lower bodies. These are posable to some extent so that the pistoliers can be depicted firing to the right or the left of the horse's head.



The second set are lesser cuirassiers in breast and backplate. The arrangment of this set is just like the previous set.



Finally we have mounted arquebusiers. These have the two command figures, six arquebusiers in reserve (three different poses of these) and four in shooting poses which I quite love playing around with (each of these poses is unique).

All are available now! The pistolier Horse are KM2601 and 2602, the mounted arquebusiers are KM2608.

http://khurasanminiatures.tripod.com/#15mmhistorical

Sculpted by Mike Broadbent, and painted by Artmaster Studio. Thanks for looking.

I saw, I liked, I ordered!

I wish these were 10mm... beautiful

Glorious!
How soon till the artillery and or Light horse are released? I would like to get them all as a bulk order if possible

Geoff

geoff wrote:Glorious!
How soon till the artillery and or Light horse are released? I would like to get them all as a bulk order if possible

Geoff

Artillery in the next day or two. The light cav have not been done yet. I'm going to make Polish cossacks instead of Croats a) just to be different and b) so that they can serve in the Polish early 17trh century expansion if and when I make that! (Husarians have wing on saddle, etc.)

Some nice Commanders would go down well!

Purchased one of each set. Waiting for those cossacks and artillery batteries to complete my Imperial army.

Regards from sunny Spain!

nickdives wrote:Some nice Commanders would go down well!

Just commissioned!

Wallenstein, Tilly, Pappenheim, and a generic fourth general. Plus three hangers on -- two subalterns and for Pappenheim, a Kurassiere kettle drummer!

Interestingly, portraits to the contrary, Wallenstein and Tilly are described by eyewitnesses (Montecuccoli to be exact) as not wearing armour in battle. So that's how they are being made, although Tilly will have the gorget he's shown wearing in a 1630 portrait. Pappenheim always seems to have been charging into the fray however and so will be in full kurassiere armour, including zischagge (this also conforms with Montecuccoli's eyewitness description of him). The fourth generic general will have a breast and back plate. All but Pappenheim will have a baton, Pappenheim will have, appropriately enough, a Pappenheim rapier held high!

I hope to have pictures to show you within a few weeks. Our thanks to Daniel S. for his invaluable assistance with the above.

German dragoons commissioned as well -- three shooters, a dismounted horseholder, a mounted horseholder, and two dragoon nags. Two of the five men will have helmets on. They will all have matchlocks without rests.

And we've just added the medium field piece to the range! KM-2609. Each set is one cannon and five unique poses for crew.

Does anyone know how these compare in size to the Testudo TYW range?

Both are "large 15mm" and IMHO look good in separate units in the same army but I wouldn't mix them in the same unit. (But then I almost never mix figures from diffrent makers so YMMV)

I agree with Daniel, the Cavalry are pretty close but the Khurasan Infantry are slighly smaller and thinner than Testudo, nice in the same army but not in the same unit.

khurasan_miniatures wrote:

nickdives wrote:Some nice Commanders would go down well!

Just commissioned!

Wallenstein, Tilly, Pappenheim, and a generic fourth general. Plus three hangers on -- two subalterns and for Pappenheim, a Kurassiere kettle drummer!

Interestingly, portraits to the contrary, Wallenstein and Tilly are described by eyewitnesses (Montecuccoli to be exact) as not wearing armour in battle. So that's how they are being made, although Tilly will have the gorget he's shown wearing in a 1630 portrait. Pappenheim always seems to have been charging into the fray however and so will be in full kurassiere armour, including zischagge (this also conforms with Montecuccoli's eyewitness description of him). The fourth generic general will have a breast and back plate. All but Pappenheim will have a baton, Pappenheim will have, appropriately enough, a Pappenheim rapier held high!

I hope to have pictures to show you within a few weeks. Our thanks to Daniel S. for his invaluable assistance with the above.

German dragoons commissioned as well -- three shooters, a dismounted horseholder, a mounted horseholder, and two dragoon nags. Two of the five men will have helmets on. They will all have matchlocks without rests.

Hi,

Just wondering if there is a progress report on the command packs/cossacks/dragoons. Just about to start painting all the figures I bought earlier in the year and keen to see the range completed

Cheers.............Geoff

Re-open the whole store please its the holiday season.

Mike has been very busy with a few other clients so it's been quite a while since I put the request in for the next batch, which is for dragoons and command. It will be dragoons, as well as both mounted and dismounted horseholders. Command will be Tilly, Wallenstein, Pappenheim, a "generic" general, and then four subalterns.

So far I know that Mike has finished Tilly and Wallenstein. I have seen pictures of them and they look great. They were made under the advice of Daniel S, and are a bit different from what the portraits might lead you to believe -- they are made according to eyewitness descriptions of their appearance on the battlefield. He is working on Pappenheim now. Dragoons AFAIK have not yet been started. That's what I know at present.

ps: He has also made a smaller gun which will be packaged with some of the German gunners as a light or battalion gun, for those later German armies that used them. That will be a new code sometime early next year.

hazelbark wrote:Re-open the whole store please its the holiday season.

It's open, actually reopened it about a week ago.

Meanwhile, am waiting for the personality figures to arrive, Mike mailed them out about a week ago. Next he turns to the German dragoons.

khurasan_miniatures wrote:

hazelbark wrote:Re-open the whole store please its the holiday season.

It's open, actually reopened it about a week ago.

Arrgh to find this out December 23rd.

Arrgh.

Update -- got the High Command set in! They look great. There are three named generals who each have a subaltern with them, and another general who is by himself.

Also got a photo of the dragoon set. Cool stuff, there are three shooting poses and two horse-holding poses -- a mounted and a dismounted holder.

Next up, more kurassiere!

khurasan_miniatures wrote:Update -- got the High Command set in! They look great. There are three named generals who each have a subaltern with them, and another general who is by himself.

Also got a photo of the dragoon set. Cool stuff, there are three shooting poses and two horse-holding poses -- a mounted and a dismounted holder.

Next up, more kurassiere!

Great news. Currently painting my infantry and can't remember enjoying painting this much for ages....great figures to work on.
More Kurassiere???? I already have 4 BG's worth. What is going to be different about these new ones?

Cheers..........Geoff

They will be closed helmets -- the zischagge was the most widely used helmet but others were used as well. More soon!