Gorilla/Man-Ape Artillery Crews

 I have made some progress with my Gorilla/Man-ape cannon crews. 

BELOW: All these are made from castings of a crude pirate; the chunkiness of the figure lent itself to conversions into an ape. In the first picture all the figures except the middle one are my conversions. The one with arms outstretched is an ElastoWit camera-ape. Heads and arms have been re-made using Green Stuff and wire.

  I gave the gun commander the same helmet as the general in the original movies.

                                                         I call this cannoneer 'Fang'.

  The smiling ape has some bright green snot under his nose, so I call him Snot but given his charming smile I also call him Chuckles.

                                   This ape represents a rebel ape from before the ape takeover. Don't be fooled by the die as it is a large marble one which I use, with another, to mark the passing of game turns.

I havee as two wooden cannons and limbers that are the same style as in Beneath the Battle of the Apes; they are from ElastoWit but I have not assembled them yet.

  I always loved the scenes in Beneath the Planet of the Apes of the ape army on the move. A wargame for that movie would not be a lot of fun as all the mutants could do was plant disturbing images in ape brains, until the apes got wise to it. Then it was just slaughtering the muties but I suppose you could have, amidst the chaos the astronauts trying to disable the nuke.

  My fallback is to use the apes as part of a Beast-man army. My other, eventual aim is to do a wargame for battle for Planet of the Apes with the humans (soon to be mutants) duking it out with their ragtag vehicles nd weapons against the apes.