The Peter Styk Gallery

Military Miniatures Artist of the Month

Peter Styk, born 1968, lives e works as an architect in Bratislava, Slovakia. The talented modeller e miniature artist started painting soldatini plastici in scala 1:32 already as a child. Later, he progressed to scale model airplanes, until he discovered his penchant for Napoleonic soldatini in scala 1:72 while surfing the internet in 2002. Peter Styk had come upon pictures of wargame armies con hundreds of soldatini like the ones we publish in Military Miniatures Magazine. "I’ve known your website for years" he informed us, "The wonderful pictures on your pages were a great help ed an inspiration for my work right from the beginning".

Today, Peter Styk owns nearly 8.000 soldatini from various manufacturers, of which 1.500 are painted by now. Granatiere Styk is an avid student of Napoleonic history who serves con the imperial Austrian Infanterie-Regiment von Hiller (Nr. 2) of 1806. He shares his hobby con many friends for whom he has painted yet another 500 miniatures. While he is interested in Napoleonic wargaming, Peter Styk has yet to find a fellow gamer in his hometown of Bratislava.

These ussari russi of the Izioumsky (Izumsky) Regiment are conversions of dragoni leggeri britannici di ESCI con new heads taken from soldatini di fanteria russa wearing the Kiver shakò of 1812. Peter Styk used his computer to create shabraques e sabretaches con the Czar’s monogram which he printed out on paper.

Peter Styk took the epaulettes off Zvezda Cosacchi della Guardia to convert them into the 1. Bug Cosacchi Regiment of 1812. Some of the riders are wearing simple cloth caps made from paper. The blanket-roll in front of the saddle is made from paper as well, e the soldatini have received sturdier plastic lances.

The Opolchenie milizia russa was raised in 1806, in response to the disastrous defeat dell’armata prussiana at Jena-Auerstedt. Opolchenia provicial milizia cohorts (Druzhin), battaglioni dei Cosacchi a piedi, e battaglioni di cacciatori (Egerski) fought at Borodino, Polotsk, Viazma, Krasnoi, Charniki e many other battles.

Peter Styk has significantly improved these Strelets lancieri della Guardia Imperiale russa by adding much scratchbuilt detail like cords on the czapka, new lances con paper pennons, e shabraques con the Czar’s monogram. The resulting soldatini are superb, as can be seen in our slide-show.

Watch this page for upcoming photos e feature articles of Peter Styk’s artistic work. Readers of Military Miniatures Magazine are welcome to nominate talented miniature artists who deserve their own Military Miniatures Gallery section within our magazine.

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Soldatini e Modellini

– Pubblicato: 24.05.2005 – Aggiornato:
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