15mm Chinese - Part 22 Mounted Infantry

15mm Chinese - Part 22 Mounted Infantry [II]

This weeks offering is more mounted infantry. The castings are part of the Grumpy's Range available from Eureka of Australia. They were part of a bulk purchase of unpainted figures from Ken Bell off EBay last year. It took me a while to ID the castings because Ken got them as a job lot from someone else from EBay! They were described as Mongol Chinese which wasn't much help. The casting code is CHIC01 Chinese Peasant Cavalry with Halberd. There are three poses and from looking at the website they originally had a tall thin plume on the top of the Coolie Hats as they are also sold as part of the Grumpy Ming Range using a casting code share. The figures are well posed and given their age still very nice castings with minimal flash or degradation of the moulds. Since I need lots of castings for mounted infantry in my Chinese armies they will be perfect to use as these or as low quality cavalry elements.

It took me a week to do them from start to finish which isnt bad considering my painting speed and level of detail I am currently applying.

Grumpy Code CHIC02 Chinese Peasant Cavalry with Spear

I now have 6 Mongol cavalry to do followed up by 30 mounted Crossbowmen. I still need to purchase some more artillery crew and some 10mm scale guns from Kallista to use as the Yuan Reg Art [I] elements at the end of the list. I am using 10mm scale guns because the design of the pieces is correct for the army and the scale more suited to the smaller artillery pieces that started to emerge in the beginning of the Black Powder era. I also have a Tribal Khitan allied contingent to paint for the Tang. I might also buy a Khitan-Liao contingent for the Northern Han option in this list.