As usual, I am doing a lot of different stuff at once. What I especially like doing is individual figure variations and conversions. That is because I like to have character and hero figures and also, usually, variation within wargaming units.
I featured the Indian in an earlier post. He is a combination of standing and sitting Airfix Indian (sone by the copiers) on a spare made in England horse (Cheriliea or Charbens?)
I made another painted copy of the ElastoWit space princess. This was from one of my more successful molds. The green color is a mix of silver and green.
Kelloggs Friar Tuck: I have another original with club intact but the one I cast from was missing his weapon.
This is a resin casting from my conversion of a cheapo modern infantryman into a revolting gorilla. (They have some nasty habits involving personal hygiene). The end of the assault rifle did not come out so I added copper wire and will finish it with putty. I'll post a pic when he is painted.
The Timpo Romans are among my favorites. These are some of my latest castings; I have 12 now painted. I extended the groin protectors with putty. I especially like the screaming head shields. These are spare plastic ones I added after casting. I wonder if the shields have any historical basis, but I like them anyway. I have to cast some shields as I need more of them. The figure at left has a metal casting lower portion. Everything else, bar the shields, are resin.
Left, Reamsa Aztec with standard removed and new weapon as the original broke. The resin figure is at right. The weapon arm broke so i reattached at a slightly different angle. I also added a shield. What's that, the jaguar patter n on the resin figure does not look natural? Well, that was deliberate. Why? believe it or not, the Jaguar Knights mostly wore artificial skin outfits, not original jaguar skins. It sounds counter intuitive but think about how many jaguars would have to be killed. The historical depictions of the suits include natural looking ones like on my original and more regular, contrived patterns like on my new one. It took strong will for me to do that as someone will always say. 'That doesn't look natural!'. In fact, I have also seen references to blue suits with spotted patterns.
It is funny but my Aztecs have invariably been used in fantasy scenarios anyway. yet both these examples fit into the historical accuracy. Reamsa might have been wrong about the loin cloth as most references I see show it protruding from an opening in the suit. I am not sure about the head cover as usually it has a large jaw underneath to make it look like the warrior has been swallowed by a great big cat. I suspect that both forms existed.
Here is another gorilla cannon guy. When his head did not come out I sculpted a new one. I decided to add a helmet to make him into an officer. the style is in the original movies, not the reboot. The helmet was worn by the general. I added some wire for the telescope stem broke off. His mouth is lopsided but I suppose that adds to his character.
Here is one of the strange Viking dudes I got off Ebay. Under his based there is some white paint and the name 'Publius' added. I reckon he was once part of a wargaming army. Anyhow, I decided he looked like a Scottish highlander, especially with that style shield. The breast plate is bare metal and looked so good that I left it as such. I haven't seen pictures of Highlanders with breastplates but that is his individual trait, maybe inherited from his great grandad.
I removed the wire horns and made a putty bonnet. The figure seemed to have an eye patch, so I made this more pronounced. after painting the figure, I noticed that the kilt looked a bit too much like a mini-skirt so I have extended it and will paint this later. The feet were also tiny so I extended these. I also added his doodad pouch.
I have a bunch of 'wild Highlanders' still to be painted and suitable for Jacobins or earlier and I shall add him to them. They will become part of my 'Hillmen' army and fight alongside Vikings.
Final shot of the Aztecs
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