The guy being shot was cut from the base and repositioned to look like he is falling backwards with his arms reworked and a new bare head added and I cut a shako and chord off a head from the set and positioned it on his head like its falling off. You can,t really tell from these pics but it looks pretty cool I think.
The dead guy was made from legs from a CTS Mexican dead figure on a Hat body with repositioned arms and head and a pieced together short riffle from the set.
The firing pose was taken from the Wurttemberg line infantry set and a shako head from the jagers was added on along with cutting off the musket and pinning on the end of a short riffle.
You just cut the musket off at the hand and then cut off the top half of a short riffle and with a pin or small finish nail or something you make a hole on each side and insert a small piece of wire as a pin and glue the 2 halves together.
Here are a few quick mini dioramas I did with them. the Prussian cavalry are Italeri and Timpo hussars with Hat Prussian heads added on them. I reworked the pants on most of the Italeri hussars to prussian style pants but also left a few with the french style boots because I got lazy.
I also made the cheve de frix??? Spelling??? barricade out of sticks from the yard drilled out and tooth picks stuck through them. Simple but effective! The trees and wind mill are also scratch built.
The polish lancers in the back ground are metal Del Prado figures that I also converted into various poses.
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Fish, you are a vertitable industry of inventive modelling! It is inspiring to see what is possible by some judicious conversions. My conversions have been limited to creating flag bearers and making and painting my own standards. I have done a little bit of head swopping using pin and glue. I did a few Helmet cavalry at one stage but didn't really find the parts stayed stuck very well and needed re-guing in some instances. I am thinking about doing some Seven Years War Austrian conversions using the Italeri 1798-1805 then trimming off the hat wear and replacing it with spare bicornes from the HAT 7 Year War Prussian sets. There is a little sizing difference but I think it will work. I was planning to use excess pegs from the sprues which seem to fit neatly into the hat holes. I thought I could cut and glue these into the trimmed heads to give something for the bicornes to slot into. Keep up with all your posts and thanks for asking about the HAT Napoleonic Austrians again. From Hatbloggers response maybe we'll get to see them at some stage. They haven't been completely ruled out. I wonder what will happen re ideas for cavalry and artillery though.
Wonderful stuff!
Thanks Mike, Thanks Paul!
Paul I,ve been looking forward to those Austrians, Lots of conversion options if those sets come out but I,m a bit scared that we will not see any new 1/32 scale sets for awhile???
These last command sets coming out next were the last of the test figures and Hat had those made WELL in advance of there release. The fact that there are no other test figures which means that the expensive mold has been made already has me scared that its going to be a long wait to see any new figures.
If any new figures were on the way after these last command sets are to be released I think we would have seen test figures by now???
Go back and check how far in advance all those other test figures releases were seen before they were released and maybe we can get an idea of how long before we see any new test figures and add in that time and it tells me we are going to go through a LONG dry spell????
Good luck on those 7 years war conversions, sounds like a fun project!
The head conversions might go easier for you if you glue on the Hats from the HAT onto the HAT figures and use the head and Hat from the Hat figures instead of trying to fit just Hat extra hats onto the Italeri heads.
Try both ways and see which way works better.
Good luck!
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@FISH, we went crazy and made 60 sets that year. 60 sets. That's why all the test shots were shown way advance of their sell dates.
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Keep these artcles coming - great stuff and very inspiring.
How do you store your figures?
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Thanks Dave I,ll try and add a couple more posts soon and finish off the Russian in greatcoat conversion that I started also.
Then get into other how to stuff and show more conversions and talk about what I did to them.
I just don,t want to put to much stuff on all at once because it gets buried pretty quick in this blog format getting pushed back further into the blog and if you post to much at once with the pictures needed to explain what your talking about the posts will be pages apart from each other and hard to follow the comments and questions asked about the post are hard to follow. I hate this format.
Once they get a couple of pages away most guys won,t even see them if they don,t bother to search back in the pages.
As far as storing my figures, I use these small plastic bins I found pretty cheap and with the figures being on the metal washers and helping them from falling over, I just stand the figures upright in the bins and store them like that. There just tall enough to fit a flag bearer or a short horse with rider.
This method has worked out well for me and has really cut down on paint loss on the figures. I use to just throw my plastic painted figures into boxes years back and they got beat up and lost paint like that.
My unpainted figures are still stored in boxes, mostly Italeri boxes, I have a ton of those boxes and I love the flip tops and I can fit quite a few in a box.
Shoe boxes work great also for figures I have a lot of.
Other cheaper plastics are shorted into plastic bags and stored in 18gal plastic tubs.
How are you storing yours?
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@FISH, on the right, if you expand the months, you can see the labels.
Thanks Dave, I know about that but most guys will just look at the top page and move on.
If you click on the posts in that side bar like that you also get all the comments included with the post also. That,s the best way to view the posts.
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Interesting comment about taking the whole head off of the Austrian 1798-1805 rather than just cutting off the hat. It looks as if it might be a cleaner cut through the hat (not HAT! hoepfully). I notice on your posting description about getting the blade down deep into the neck. It looks tricky and I think with a sharp knife I might be prone to slicing into my finger. Whereas cutting across the hat I can do it on to a board slicing down. I am sure it is all about technique. My modelling knife is a Leatherman Supertool which has quite a big handle to grip on. Keep up with the conversions techniques postings. The step-by-step pictures are especially helpful to get a sense of how to do things.
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