Russian Figure News Greeks Mounted Cossacks we have some new interesting items. first we have a new Greeks foot and mounted Greek from No Name. We also have from No Name a new mounted knight. Next we have a new company from Uzbekistan made set of Mounted Ukrainian Cossacks XVII Century. They are made by a new company called Soldiers- Asia
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From Alex of Russia we have foot and Mounted Greeks. These figures will be a great complement to your Atlantic Greeks and at a reasonable price.
We posted about them before back in December 2016. At that time we had only five foot figures. Now the set is up to six foot figures and a mounted figure with two different plug arms. The new foot figure is Greek Sword back and shield with a covering on it. The mounted poses are with a spear or with a sword.
Andrey of Russia sent us some photos of the mounted Greek Warriors.
Andrey sent us photos showing both sides of the mounted figures.
One thing I like that Andrey does is comparison photos of different companies figure with their Russian counterpart. Here we have the No Name mounted Greek with the Atlantic Greek rider.
Here we have a mounted No Name Greek against an Expeditionary Force Thracin Cavalry.
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No Name has also come out with a new mounted knight wit two different plug arms. There are two poses mounted you can make. They are with pole axe and mounted with sword.
Here are the mounted knights from the other side.
This comparison photo shows the No Name knight with Reamsa mounted knight.
In this photo we have the No Name mounted knight going against the Marx 60mm knight.
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Andrey sent photos of five new mounted 17th Century Cossacks from a new company called soldiers Asia. There are five different poses.
- Firing Rifle to the side.
- Holding rifle on right side
- Sword in right hand
- Sword back getting ready to strike
- Holding mace up in left hand
This comparison photo shows Soldier- Asia with an Italeri
Andrey says the plastic is good but has not given a price yet.
We will have some comparison photos from Andrey of the new Mars Soutn Vietnamese troops and Napoleonic figures in the next few days.
Nice ,more from east europe with love …
The new cossacks remain me of replicant type art sculpture detail and design poses plus type mold used.
The NN greeks new poses are already on sale since two days ago by two sellers in Ebay so far….
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I have to agree with Erwin on this. They do look like Replicants figures, probably why I prefer them to the Italeri. I really like what Peter Cole does.
A mounted Spartan! May be a first in plastic 54mm-60mm. Once again nice add on’s by No Name. Is the mounted Marx 60mm Knight available in recast in Russia Otis that an old original??
The Marx 60mm knights were reissued from Mexico years ago. The horses were done by Excaliburr Hobbies. Mold is now lost
What I meant was the Marx mounted 60mm knight pictured above. The re-issued Marx 60mm Knights has the mounted Knight with ( I believe is called Cat-aNine Tails) overhead. The Knight above has a Lance at his side. My question was if the Knight mounted with Lance at side only available as a recast in Russia or was the mold in Mexico/US damaged and this pose not available in recast?
Correction: Ball and Chain Flail – overhead Knight.
The mold portion with the mounted knight meant to hold the lance was damaged. I’d gotten a bunch of them that had huge blobs of plastic formed behind the shield for almost nothing. I cleaned them up and they are OK if you’re not too picky. I had seen recasts (or possibly copies) for sale on Ebay recently and the mounted lance pose with lance was included. The view did not let me see behind the shield.
The weapon the Russian made Knight is holding is a Helberd. A somewhat unlikely polearm for a mounted man.
They are lovely figures but would a mounted knight carry a pole axe?
I not sure I have the right name for the weapon. I just gave the best description I could.
Is a mix of pollaxe and halleberde .To be a pollaxe need be smaller blade but the short pole make looks as is it.
Anyways both were specifically two hand infantry weapons and almost impossible for a heavy armor rider, knight or men at war to use it.
The horse were it is mounted is also non in accord x such heavy armor rider with such small seat and poor harness.
That looks wrong too.
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Googled “did mounted knights carry pole axes” and a lot of stuff came up. Seems like cavalry DID carry pole weapons. One succinct quote: “With the advent of armoured fighters, especially cavalry, pole weapons frequently combined the spearpoint (for thrusting) with an axe or hammerhead for a swinging strike which could pierce or break armour.”
http://www.medievalwarfare.info/weapons.htm
Pole weapon are many variant,meaning only a pole with end tip small or large blade or metal hammer end.Few samples -Short pole-weapons were used by cavalry as specifically requested made but generally were designed x infantry ,men at arms and militia against cavalry as most painting and arts shows.
The soldiers figure has what appear a mix of Poleaxe or Halberd,both specifically made infantry weapon to oppose ,dismount and strike heavy armor riders in combat .They have too long (pole wooden= haft) in order to be master by a mounted heavy armor with two hand while riding a horse,most pole arms-weapon axes where very heavy tip too that require a lot strength to swing and use their kinetic force correctly .
Same way two broad swords were not used by mounted fighters but only by infantry.
Above link is using same writing shortcuts posted in wikipedia too …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollaxe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halberd
Still i think is not big deal to use one knight with infantry weapon in hand ,maybe he grab from it and use in combat …
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All this talk of halberds and poleaxes reminded me of a recent visit to the Combined Military Services Museum in Maldon Essex. There you can see many genuine historical examples of these fearsome weapons. I must admit that when I touched them and saw them at close quarters, it gave me a chill imagining the horrific injuries they must have caused. There were countless different types and designs and some of them looked as if they could have been used by mounted troops. The Museum appears quite small at first, but is packed with weapons and uniforms from Medieval to Modern. A bit off subject but another thing that really struck me at the museum was a British Sergeant’s uniform from the Napoleonic period. It seemed so tiny. Being a Sergeant’s uniform the wearer must have been an experienced soldier, but he was about 5ft 2ins in height and must have weighed about 8 stone. No wonder they wore such tall hats and big epaulettes to give the impression of size. Any one interested in historical accuracy for their figures would benefit from a visit. Check out their website for a flavour of what they have.
John maybe some one put the uniform in a dryer machine x too
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Yes I been in several museum and are the more close experince to see it.Is true….
Up here the MET has a huge 4 halls collection of late medieval and samurai plus a new recent made Chinese ancient and medieval weapons, armor, uniforms.
Sararoga NY army museum, fort Henry and fort Ticonderoga have many most 7 years and revolution war large uniform and weapon collections w some ACW .
West point have many wars plus WW2 as well ….
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About the cossacks I can personally give then a lot use for many wars and periods from XVI to XIX centuries .With out need of much or none variation,conversion or paint I can place then as generic arabs,turks ,tartars,cossacks to be use in any east wars as well north africa.Some poses could be use for ships as sailors or pirates as well.
The horse scale is in accord to typical (not regular imperial cossack army horse) and used by generic irregular cossacks ,the more typical medium size steppe nomadic horse.
I will definitely get then to help increase the turks-egyptian cavalry for battle of pyramids and many Turks battles as well Napoleonic and Crimean wars scout russian cossacks .Also for norther wars and polish -russian wars too.
Cossacks often not only fought in side the of Russia but with their enemies and against Russian empire often in rebellion too.
The set has a lot of potential with no need of conversion .If painted of minor conversion they could be even give more use as well.
I just hope the the price is not steppe- ahead run ,otherwise they will end in my last-least want list x long.
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The Greeks are very nice. I particularly like the figure with sword and shield with his helmet tilted back. Very heroic looking! The Cossacks are not as well detailed and more toy-like, but they are nice. Something about them reminds me a little of Jean Hoefler figures, (as well as Replicants, as Erwin mentioned). I think it’s the plants under the horses.
Battle axes were tailored for use by mounted knights:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_axe
Battle axe can be a one handed weapon. That looks more like a Halberd, anyway. If I got these figures, I’d replace it with a more likely weapon. That’s just me, though. Few things go right into my collection without some sort of modification.
Interesting that countries such Uzbekistan of which i had never heard before any at all in toy soldiers or even toys making new plastic toy 1.32 scale figures sets.
I guess we will heard soon some coming from N Korea or Afghanistan ..who knows…
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If I live to see Afghanistan produce anything under their own governance, I’ll eat a pile of Afghan camel…… Well, you get the pic. I just don’t see them producing anything.