1/32 HäT Blog: French chasseurs

Here are my Hat french Chasseurs. Like Dave had suggested in his post I used head swops from the other french light infantry sets so there would be more poses. I also did a couple more command figure conversions some dead and wounded and a couple of other conversions to add more action to the set.
Here are the figure sets with the head swops side by side with the factory figures.

Besides the simple head swops I did these conversions also.

These are marching figures cut from the base with the arm repositioned and glued back into a 2 part putty covered washer to look like they have been wounded. A pretty simple but effective conversion.

These 2 figures were used to create the figure in the middle of a kneeling to repel figure.
The figures were cut in half and re-joined a the waist but needed a bit of 2 part putty sculpting to make the join look good.

Here is another simple conversion The factory figures are there to show the before conversion figures.
By cutting the figures from the base and repositioning them you can get wounded and running figures.
This type of Conversion works well with the Hot/cold water treatment also. Something I,ll get into in the future.

Here is a dead figure conversion from the loading pose. The arm and musket was carefully cut from the body and pulled out to the side and the figure was embedded into 2 part putty for a base and to help the figure lay on the ground in a more natural pose. To get the putty not to sick to the table get some plastic and put a touch of baby oil or vegetible oil on the plastic and roll out you putty base onto the plastic to the shape you want, texture the putty with the brush like shown in the basing post ant then embed the figure into the putty and try and make him look like a dead guy and not a standing guy that was just cut from the base.
you can push the putty around to make him look natural. then when he looks good you can fix any ground texture you messed up getting him set.

I made a bugler and then I found a good metal one (the figure to the left is a metal casting) My bugler was made from the loading figure and I found a bugle in my parts box not sure of the make? I cut and pieced a musket and rested it in his arms.
Just for fun I figured I,d make a figure holding his hat, cut from a hat figure from the set and I think the musket was a metal one I added? The figure on the side is the base figure.

I did head swops from the command set also so I would have that whole set as Chasseurs also.

I reworked the pendant guys a bit also and made a sapper from one. I repositioned the pendant on one to look more natural and be different from the other one.
The sapper head was taken from the voltiger set and was given a 2 part putty beard. The ax was made from the top of the pendant and was pinned into the top of the cut back pendant pole. I finished him off with a back pack from the set.