Now for something completely different.

I've had a sort of "thing" for Alexander Nevsky and the Ice Battle since Minifigs came out with their range of 25's during my college days in the mid-70's. I only had money for a few and then life moved on through heavy turbalence for a few years. (decades?) I've also had a discrete attraction to semi-flat plastics which probably dates back to childhood. So, when John at 54mm or Fight! offered up a bag of Russian medieval flats with that Teutonic knights vs Russians vibe, I jumped.

A selection of the figures in the bag. 

Now, I am forcing myself to not go crazy and didn't buy that similar set on eBay containing a priest, crossbowman and armoured Russian archer amongst others, at least not yet, but I am thinking about painting these figures, if only because both sides are done in both colours so you can't do Green vs Red and John has already painted 2!  

However, this also brought to mind one of my first goes at 54mm Wargaming. 

A scan of a very fuzzy photo. Conversions from Britain's and Crescent plastic knights.

In the late 90's  when I was "into" Armati, I started building opposing Intro armies of Teutonic Knights vs Russians which I was going to take to Cold Wars the next year. This is as far as I got before MacDuff to the Frontier  was published and I focused on staging MacDuff games instead. But something like that I think.....  

Eventually....

Maybe I should dig out my dvd of the movie for inspiration?

Thanks John!