Pushki part 2

The crew for my cannon are a variety of figures that hopefully captures the fact that most early artillery was hardly a uniform arm, even if many of the gunners and crew were professionals.

The figure on the left is from the old metal GW Great Cannon set.  He is painted in the livery of the City of Nuln, which is the epicenter of artillery in the Old World.  It isn't hard to imagine that some Nuln-trained gunners might find their way north, into the Tzarina's service.  There isn't much to talk about on this figure, except on his backside, where I attached a pack from the Bretonian men at arms accessary sprue (I removed the heart-shaped metal on the flap):



The figure in the center is kit-bashed.  His head comes from the Empire Archer box, his legs and torso from the Empire Militia/Free Company box, and his arms from the Empire Great Cannon set.  He also has a canteen on his left side from the old Empire "Soldiers" box.  Perhaps he is another Nuln-trained gunner, or perhaps he is a Kislevite from Eringrad, which borders the Empire and where Empire customs and fashions are common, at least according to the fluff in the WHFRP supplement, the Realm of the Ice Queen:

The figure on the right is a Kislevite from the Mordheim range armed with the large, eastern-looking sword from the weapons sprue that came with the figure.  The one modification is he is holding binoculars in his right hand from the Empire volley gun/rocket launcher kit.  I figured that, even if the Tzarina hires professional gunners from the Empire to crew her cannon, they will always be commanded by Kislevites of some rank and proven loyalty.  One note on his uniform; while red jackets faced blue seem to be the standard Kislev livery, this fellow wears a blue coat faced red, perhaps to better hide the soot and dirt that surrounds any artillerist: