Dear Willie, Jerry, Michael and Gerhard,
Many thanks for this impressive documentation !!!!!!!!!! I could not believe it..........
Actually this flat second hand seems to be edited quiet some time ago, therefore the interest. It seems indeed o be a Polish panceri, and the Oldhafer Polish serie,P23 to P44 seems indeed to be very close to this one.
I found a ling to currnet remaking of clothes from that period as
http://www.polishhussarsupply.com/Pancerni.html for th Panceri too, for example this strange steel disc top to the misurka mail helmet, typical of the pancerni cossaks and present on the flat.
I don't have access to the Ospreys 184/188, but your example, and the doc in Oldhafer, combined with pictures for colouring, from above reference an on internet, should be suffisent, I think, to proceed to a painting plan.
I may only have to make some minor conversion to the straight lance without point, to make one, with or without a small flag, before proceeding to painting.
I have some other painting works planned, but it will be a pleasure later to post its painting on the forum, as a thank for our kind and efficient support. The pleasure is also as I did for the hoplites and the ECW Dragoon is to expand a bit to the history aspect of the characters, letting us discover some unfamilar sides of our History and origins.
The roughness of the equipment let suggest it would be from the early period of these Cossacks, XVI to XVIIth C rather than later, although from the nobility.
