Here are some of my Prussian conversions in the rough stages so you can see what was done to them.
Some are very simple head swops and others are a bit more complex and use parts from other figures.
I,ll try and remember from the pictures what I did to them and explain a bit of how I went about doing them.
Picture#1
Here is one of the artillery guys I did, He has new hands, one drilled out and a piece of wire added and some thread and 2 part putty to turn him into a cannon lighter.
Pic#2
Another artillery guy. I drilled out the hands and took some fine wire and twisted a couple of pieces together in a drill to look like rope and added it in his hands. This painted up pretty good to look like rope.
Pic#4
2 part putty over wire to make a cannon mover.
Pic#5
This is a Waterloo1815 figure with a Hat head and an ammo box from a Italeri set full of BB,s for cannon balls with a 2 part putty hand.
Pic#6
The bucket was made from twisted wire 2 part putty and styrene plastic strips. The other carrying the cannon ball charge was made from 2 part putty a bb thread and styrene strips and then I realized that I already had some of these all ready made in my Italeri french artillery set so I made another cannon loader pose with the pre-made Italeri one also ( not pictured here).
Pic#7
The wounded guy was made from the legs of a TSSD cavalry figure with an Italeri gaul head and the body arms and hat from HAT Prussian set.
The loading guy was made from a Waterloo 1815 figure with hat arms and head and a wire ram rod and 2 part putty to fix the greatcoat roll.
Pic#8
This guy is a marching pose with a new Italeri head and I cut the hat from a figure and added a new arm and made a hand to hold the hat in salute I later decided to add the pipe made of putty and added some cotton for smoke.
The figures in the back ground got some 2 part putty mustaches to add some different faces to the marching column and I re-positioned a bunch of heads also.
Pic#9
This figure Is a Hat body with re-positioned arms on Conte WWII G.I. legs and head with new 2 part putty hair and a Hat hat falling of his head.
Pic#10
Some Cannon rollers with repositioned heads with 2 part putty mustaches and new hands.
Pic#11
These are Waterloo 1815 figures with new Hat heads added to them. I think the Hat heads look much better on them and they fit in much better with the other figures with the new Hat heads.
Pic#12
This guy has a spent charge dislodger made from wire and 2 part putty with a new Conte head and hand and holds a cut off Hat hat.
Pic#13
Some dead/ wounded figures made from cutting the figures from the bases and reworking arms and repositioning the figures falling back and forward on there bases.
Pic#14
These are some action poses repostioned to look like they are running pointing fighting. The guy swinging his musket is the loading pose with the gun cut off and then pinned back on up side down to look like he is swinging it. I also changed his footing to give him more action.
Pic#15
This guy was made from legs from a TSSD cavalry figure and is a fallen soldier fighting off cavalry attack.
I hope these pics give some of you guys some ideas for your own conversions or even copy a few of these.
I know I like to see how other guys went about doing there conversions so I hope this post will help some of you get a few ideas seeing some of these in the rough stages.
FISH! <")))><
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7 comments:
so creative!
the guy with the pipe is original.
The one holding the rope turned out very well. Thanks for showing your stuff in stages.
Really good Fish . Very inspiring. Cheers Martin
Having one figure in a marching unit waving or with his head turned really livens up the scene.
Great job Fish. You have every reason to be proud of your work and showing it with many pictures.
Don't give up. Dirk
Conversions are very nice. I got some fine ideas reviewing your work. Question: In picture #5 it shows a cannon in the foreground and mounted lancers in the rear unpainted. The cannon has "boxes" built over the axle. Who makes that cannon and who made the lancers and horses? I like the fallen horse too.
Thank you! That cannon is made by Armies in Plastic and is a British gun, I just threw in for the photo although I do believe The British did give the Prussians a few of these guns. I know it was not many and I don,t know how much action these guns saw in Prussian hands???
A better fit for Prussian guns are The armies in plastic french guns painted blue/grey color.
The lancers are Mexican CTS (Classic toy soldier)figures I was going to convert into french line lancers but never got around to finish the project. The lances are very bendy and need to be replaced with metal ones, that,s about as far as I got on the project.
The horses were also going to be part of the project and they are Italeri horses I chopped up and repositioned as you may be able to see the green putty where I rejoined them.
the one falling was cut from the base and repositioned to look as though he is falling.
I did a bunch of them, cutting them up and mixing pieces together to form new horse poses. Dead,falling,rearing ect..
I,m still hoping that Hat will release some cavalry and artillery sets??? Till then we,ll have to keep chopping up Hats other sets to make our own.
FISH!<")))><
Some nice conversions, great to see.
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