Below are two repro Charbens 18th century grenadiers with knights' heads and Renaissance-style putty additions. These are big figures so I had to find big heads. They are intended for my Nottinghill games. The look I am after is what the fighters might look like after scouring museums for the odd bits and pieces.
Here, they can also be seen below repro Cherilea Elizabethans.
This figure is a conversion from an Airfix WW2 German into a Japanese cavalryman, circa 1900.
Left is a metal home cast coy of AIP WW1 French soldier with grenade arm bent around to hold a flag. The flag is an imagi0nations Blusia one from the Virtual Armchair General. The Irish guardsman is converted from a resin coy I made from a Lone Star Marine.
This is the inside of the car lid from a paint brush set. Pins were poked in, using my TV remote control while I was watching TV!
Here is the outside top of the turret with a button hatch with bent wire for the handle.
The second go at the cannon barrel was made from a dispenser bottle and the end from a piece of marker pen.
The turret had the pins Super Glued on the inside. For extra strength I coated the entire thing with Modge Podge. I cut a hole in the top of the turret as I might put a figure there with the hatch open. Now, should the hatch sit open behind or in front of the figure? I am thinking of giving the crewman a gas mask and German helmet. The turret will be painted in the same scheme as the rest of the tank.
Another pic of the Elizabethans
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