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Friday, 27 February 2026

AHPC16 - 15mm Ottoman Turk - Tufekci & Sekban

It'd back to my one true love, 15mm for this post. Yes I paint a lot of 25's, but 15's are best!

I posted my Challenge plan, back in December, part of that was trying to paint up, are figures for a scenario In Barry Hilton's book A Taste for Victory, set during the Relief of Vienna in 1683, there's a lot to paint up, but I'm gonna try my best to get as much painted up as I can.

Ottoman Army under Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa Pasha

1st Line (Independent Commands)

Irregular Tribal Raw 12 figs

2nd Line indie command

Timariot Sipahis Blade, Lance Drilled 6 figs XXX

Timariot Sipahis Tribal, bow/carb drilled 6f XXX

Timariot Sipahis Blade, Lance Drilled 6 figs XXX

Timariot Sipahis Tribal, bow/carb drilled 6f XXX

(Already painted before the Challenge)

3rd Line indie commands

Sekban musket, loose Raw 12 figs XXX

Tufeckci musket, loose Drilled 12 figs XXX

Sekban musket, loose Raw 12 figs XXX

Tufeckci musket, loose Drilled 12 figs XXX

Janissary Brigade & Brigadier

Janissary Orta All Musket Drilled/Elite 12
Janissary Orta All Musket/Flintlock Drilled/Elite 12

Janissary Orta All Musket/Flintlock Drilled/Elite 12

Janissary Orta All Musket Drilled/Elite 12

Reserve & Brigadier

Sipahis of the Porte Blade, Lance Veteran-Elite 6 figs

Vizier's Guard All Musket, Flintlock Guard 6

Great Gun Drilled 1 model

Holy League under King Jan III Sobieski

Polish Cavalry Brigade

Lipka Tartars Tribal Cav now Raw 6figs

Pancerni Bullet, armour Drilled 6 figs

Pancerni Bullet, Lance, armour Drilled 6 figs

Hussar Banner Blade, Lance, armour Veteran-Elite 6 figs

Polish Cavalry Brigade

Lipka Tartars Tribal Cav now Raw 6figs

Pancerni Bullet, armour Drilled 6 figs

Pancerni Bullet, Lance, armour Drilled 6 figs

Hussar Banner Blade, Lance, armour Veteran-Elite 6 figs

Imperial Cavalry Brigade

Dragoons Regt Dragoons, Flintlock, Drilled 12 figs

Cuirassier Regt Bullet, Armour Veteran-Elite 12 figs

Bavarian Cav Brig

Dragoons Regt Dragoons, Flintlock, Drilled 12 figs

Cuirassier Regt Bullet, Armour Drilled-Elite 12 figs

Saxons Cav Brigade

Dragoons Regt Dragoons, Flintlock, Drilled 6 figs

Cuirassier Regt Bullet, Armour Drilled-Elite 18 figs

Field gun 1 model

So here are my first 4 units, 2 units of Tufekci, one in red.

and one in blue

Then 2 units of Sekban in mixed uniforms, the first mainly in red,

the second mainly in green.

Most of the figures are from Essex Miniatures, but for some reason Essex don't sell command figures for either of these troop types, so I ordered some packs from Lancashire Miniatures, they are slightly bigger than Essex miniatures so i cut them from their bases and they now match in better.

I found the flags online, they are for the earlier Muslim armies in Spain, but trying to find info on Ottoman flags for the period has proved difficult.

I'm painting up some cavalry next, so look out for them soon.....fingers crossed!

So to the points...

48 x 15mm figures @ 2 points each makes 96 points!!

Wednesday, 25 February 2026

Cavalier 2026

Most of the Rejects paid our annual homage to Tonbridge to once again visit Cavalier Wargames Show.

It was a great show I picked up lots of bits n bobs, more on those later.

Both Rejects Lee and Richard have already put a post up about the show, click there names to see more.

There were some fab looking games to see as well. So lets start with some of those games.