Hi all,

First post here in the Gallery. I thought I'd share a couple of  pictures of my Medieval Polish to face the Mongols (they arrived the other day and painting is ongoing.





There is a lot more information on the blog as this is a new project, started this year.


EDIT: Pics resized slightly.

Shiney!

Really look good

Red!

Really nice, and more good stuff on your blog.

I'm not tempted at all. Really not.

Good work...blog is great to

Nicely done - looking forward to seeing your Mongols 

Very nice

Looking good!

Very nice indeed

take care

andy

Great stuff !
Good blog too !
Cheers - Phil.

Nice work and I like the unified look with the red, plus the different shield designs.

Nice looking unit, Subedai. 

Thanks for the comments all.

Quote from: Steve J on 24 January 2014, 07:57:42 AM
Nice work and I like the unified look with the red, plus the different shield designs.

The predominant colour in Polish heraldry, as far as shield fields were concerned, was red albeit possibly a darker red than I have used, otherwise it was azure blue...and that's about it. I have tracked down 49 clans that had lands in or around the areas where the Mongols had their Walkabout in Poland, 33 have a red field, 7 have azure blue and the others are an eclectic mix of split or plain colours. I even found one clan that used a Newcastle United colour scheme (black and white vertical stripes).

I have used each base as a different clan but may increase the number of bases to form complete units (3 of 60 x 40mm bases) at a later date. As I mention on my blog the problem is that the devices were taken from ancient clan marks and not family designs so there are large numbers of families from different parts of the country all using the same device.

Quote from: Subedai on 24 January 2014, 03:10:04 PM
I even found one clan that used a Newcastle United colour scheme (black and white vertical stripes).

I hope the Mongol's sorted them out 

Though you could have one of that clan punching a horse     

BTW a great Blog and very useful info on Polish 'heraldry' Subedai . The plastic Russians are rather nice and will be useful reference for my Baltic Crusades forces.

Quote from: Steve J on 24 January 2014, 04:44:03 PM
BTW a great Blog and very useful info on Polish 'heraldry' Subedai . The plastic Russians are rather nice and will be useful reference for my Baltic Crusades forces.

Thanks again. I;m trying to keep a running commentary on the Polish but I think some of the new Mongols will sidetrack me every so often. On top of finishing the first Mongol unit -just needs the bases sorting- I have another unit of Polish cavalry two-thirds finished and the start of a unit of levy infantry. Only 210 infantry and another 45 cavalry to go for the Polish after that, although one of the Polish cavalry units will be the Knights Templar. There were a total of 500 at the battle of Liegnitz but I am using a bit of wargaming license here in doing the whole unit as cavalry even though the reality was that there were only 88 mounted men, the rest were  infantry of varying types but it will look good and that's the point.

If anyone is interested in the contemporary Polish nobility shield info I have, just PM me with an email address and I will send you a copy as a Word file.