Polish Uhlans - 28mm Murawski

More cavalry for my Polish. Here's Duchy of Warsaw 20th Regiment of Uhlans. Murawski miniatures again who make both pre and post 1810 Uhlans. These are the post 1810 version. 

Love the uniform colours of this regiment. Also close to Vistula Legion cavalry uniform I think. Flag by GMB, and lance pennants from Aldopho Ramos. 

The lance arms come separately and have a small pin that fits into a hole in the body so super gluing them on is easy. I then glued in the lances to the hands with superglue. Once dry I used maximum strength epoxy glue to strengthen both the bond of the arm to the body, and lance to the hand. Similar to the Krakus Cavalry, a bit of filing was also necessary to fit some of the riders to horses.

Polish Krakus Cavalry - 28mm Murawski

Work on my Duchy of Warsaw forces continues. Here's some Krakus cavalry. Kind of like Polish 'Cossacks', but more fierce and reliable as I understand it. Again, these models are from the excellent Murawski range.

I did find some of these a tight fit for certain of the horses, and had to do a bit of filing to get some of them to fit. Not sure why that was, but not too much extra effort.

There were probably not enough of these to justify having a unit if aiming for a brigade level wargame, but I liked the figures and they are an easy paintjob. :)

Flag pennants are from Adolfo Ramos Store in Spain. Quick contact and service. Decided to switch to these paper pennants as I think they look better than metal versions.

Polish Vistula Legion - 28mm Murawski

First of my Polish infantry. As the title says - Polish Vistula Legion from Murawski miniatures. I love these guys! Great uniform, and a crazy rooster flag! Awesome. Quite possibly my favourite unit painted so far.

Speaking of uniform, there's a few conflicts in the sources for various details of this. I suspect there were probably quite a few changes and instances of "using what we had" at different times. No doubt they would have looked very scruffy on campaign most of the time too, but I prefer parade ground look with my Napoleonics. So after a few headaches trying to sort it out I went with the following as a reasonable enough representation.

You'll note I've also painted them up as a regiment of 36, rather than my previous 24's. I've decided to start switching to this for a few reasons. I think it looks better to have more figures and a few other people here play General de Brigade which is at this 1-20 scale. Also it suits these 'French' style organisations to have one complete company of six figures on each base.

The only quibble I have with the figures themselves is the eagle bearer - who is leaning forward holding the eagle at about a 45 degree angle. The whole point of wanting march attack poses is that they don't jam each other or the enemy with pointy out bits so not sure why they made the eagle bearer doing this! I've stuck him in a second rank so the standard doesn't get in the way though and that worked ok.

Speaking of flags this is a 75% size photocopy of the GMB flag, which was too big for my liking. I know there is the argument that "people were shorter in 1800" but I prefer flags that are not so unwieldy looking and I think the GMB flags are still a bit oversize even if you allow for people being shorter. (Edit - checking forums I see GMB offers smaller size flags by special request if you do want them).

Lastly a couple of photos to show the Grenadier and Voltigeur companies who are hidden in the above pictures. Grenadiers have the Czapka shako, and a cornet player is included in the Voltigeurs.