Conversions From The Work Bench

My fertile imagination is always conceiving new Frankenstein figures. The trouble is, like most geniuses, i get bored with one project and start another!

Anyhow below can be seen from left to right two of my Renaissance era Fezians. Well they could be a variety of Eastern warriors from Turkey and Persia to India.

Number one is converted from a Biblical set of David and Goliath. (I remember our good friend brenton once buying a pile of these sets from a Bible shop and telling the people there that he was building some wargame armies instead of buying them to make small children into enthusiastic Bible bashers. apparently they were not happy then about him buying them).

The helmet has been covered in putty and the spear removed to have hands hollowed out to receive a Timpo Arab musket. It looked a little short so I added the brass wire at one end which makes it a quite long musket as some were. Strictly speaking the straight sword doesn't look so Eastern but such swords were not unknown although a curved one would be more typical.

The other fezian is made from a Timpo Action Pack Arab with a HK swoppet cowboy head, again with putty turban. I had intended higher Turkish style turbans but didn't have a lot of putty. As I intend to make twenty of these suckers I might use tissue strips soaked in PVA.

The third figure is made from an Airfix cavalryman with BMC Spanish American Colored soldier's head. The arm holding a flag has been replaced with a spare. at some stage I robbed the figure of his holstered pistol for another conversion so I'll need to replace it. (Unlike European rank and file cavalry the Americans were normally so eqipped).

The Fezians are being made to be used in the next fantasy campaign with Beerstein, rump-Bogavania and Fezia moving increasingly from medieval to Renaissance levels of technology. The Timpo muskets (of which I have twenty odd spares) are flintlocks but will primarily serve as matchlocks.