November 2024 Conversions& ElastoWit Ape Gun Limber
I like to convert figures to create something unique and also to fill missing ranks in my regiments. I am adding to my miter cap grenadiers. My few remaining unpainted Charbens repro grenadiers are mostly in sword wielding poses. I took one of the heads and transferred it to a BMC figure. The BMC Revolutionary War figures have two sizes of figures and I pick the larger ones for grenadiers. However, this stabbing pose is actually bigger even than the Cherbens figures so the head is a tad small. The left-over head I transferred to the Charbens figure, and he will be a hero figure in my games. The resin Mexican is a copy I made of a Lone Star figure, one of the less common Western figures. The base a foot and part of the hat brim did not come out, but those things are easily fixed. I was also two short for my AWOI redcoat cavalry. So far, I used Napoleonics to fill the spaces in the 12 man unit. I use the pistol firing figure as an officer so I wanted to change an arm. The new arm