Red Box 113 1/72 16th c. Moscow Infantry (pischalniki)

By the early 16th century at the latest, there were troops in Muscovy who carried a small version of the arquebus, known in Russian as the pishchal, hence they were termed pishalniki. As with gunpowder weapons elsewhere, these were relative simply matchlock weapons, but they were to prove their worth as the century developed, and by the middle of that century the famous Streltsi, dedicated to the gun, had been created. The men in this set are not the Streltsi, but those that came before, and would have continued after the creation of that body of professional troops, forming an increasingly valuable part of any Muscovite military force.

Specifications

• Contents: 48 figures
• Poses: 12 poses
• Material: Plastic (Medium Consistency)