Russian Uhlans - Perry 28mm, & remembering Aly Morrison

Two units of Russian Uhlans this week. This is the newish plastic Perry kit. Great models, though the uniform has a lot of detail and braid that is a challenge to paint cleanly! Uniforms also help bring a bit more colour to the tide of Russian green. I actually ended up repacing the plastic lances with wire ones for extra strength, which is probably overdoing it a bit! 

The kit also comes with a very good uniform guide and lance pennants for all the different regiments, which I happily used. 

The first regiment is the Iamburg Regiment, with yellow (gold) braid and white over red pennants. Russian Uhlans wore same the four cornered Polish Czapka as Uhlans in many Napoleonic armies did.

The second regiment is the Siberia regiment, with white (silver) braid, and yellow over white pennants.

This morning I was also sad to learn that Aly Morrison has died.  One of the foundational members of GW as a sculptor and painter, and and later on involved in many historical projects. He and his wife Trish founded Marauder Miniatures as a subsidiary of GW in 1988. They created the spikey orange haired Dwarf Troll Slayer miniatures presently still part of Game Workshop's The Old World range, and expanded in the Fyreslayer Age of Sigmar range. Also the characterful Marauder Giant and many others. He was one of the three designers of the first plastic Imperial Space Marine set RTB01 in 1987, that kicked off the juggernaut of that line and IP.

In later years he moved into collecting diverse historical projects, with a particular fondness for Napoleonic Minifigs block painted in the old 70's style - shiny and plainly painted green bases. He kept an extensive blog of his wargaming projects where he interacted with friends and vistors until the end. I followed his Napoleonic progress when I could, and was pleased to see he managed to get some first games with them earlier this year. Thanks for all your contributions Aly.

https://alystoysoldiers.blogspot.com/2026/06/from-my-side-of-table-shiny-napoleonics.html

Russian Cossacks - Perry 28mm

A couple of units of Russian Ataman Cossacks next up. Perry miniatures, with wire lances. 

  

Quite a simple paint job, which is nice for a change with Napoleonics! 

In the background a Russian Cossack general (from Elite with Perry Russian General), which I'll have more pics of when I get to Russian Generals. Russian armies need a lot of Cossacks, though their utility is somewhat limited in field battles, so sometimes left out of the on table order of battle for this reason.

Russian Line Artillery Limbers - Perry 28mm

A couple of limbers for the Russian artillery this week. These are Perry models, which come with a more complete set of tack than some of their earlier limbers. Once again I used Gale Force 9 3 stand rope. 50x150mm bases. The idea for these was actually to add some plumes and use them as limbers for the Guard Horse Artillery, which I may still do, as I like to have all my horse artillery at a minimum to have limbers, though stretching that to all artillery would be very expensive!

 

Russian Line Horse Artillery - Perry and Commissar 28mm

Russian Line Horse Artillery this week, from Perry and Commissar Miniatures. The two guns on the left are Commissar - I believe I bought them before Perry released their own Russian Horse Artillery, which are the four guns on the right. The Commissar figures are slightly smaller and have gloves, but otherwise roughly compatible.

Russian Horse Artillery wore the same horsehair crest helmets as the Russian Dragoons, switching to Shakos in 1814, which was after most Napoleonic actions involving Russians had concluded. 

Russian Line Artillery - Perry 28mm

A dozen Russian artillery pieces, 8x6 pounders and 4x10 pounder unicorns. The Russians had a lot of artillery so the heavy,  horse and guard artillery still to come in future posts!  The unicorn was the Russian alternative to the howitzer, being something of a cross between a howitzer and a regular cannon, with longer muzzle, flatter trajectory and greater range. There was little practical difference in effect worth noting for the purpose of wargames rules by my reading though. 

Russian line batteries had 12 pieces so at 1:1 scale this would be a single battery. In practice often only sections would be deployed, with other guns left in reserve.

More Russian Line Infantry - Perry 28mm

More Russian line infantry, here we have the 19th Division from Borodino, with each unit representing a regiment, and minus the Jagers.

Same principle as the previous post of Russian Line Infantry, these are all Perry figures, and like them this division was chosen because they retained the earlier white flags which had more variety.

And a slightly closer up view of one of the units.

This lot also brings me to over 550 Russian infantry painted, and over 4000 Napoleonic infantry painted in total. :)