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| This lot have taken quite a while due to distractions... |
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| 'Production' horse archers - didn't come out too badly. I've given them a sorceress on a tiger as the officer - no idea how she'll keep up with the horses, but then, she is a sorceress. |
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| I have to admit I quite like this figure. |
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| Meanwhile, I am continuing with the home made figures. This lot a proving a bit of a problem - too many bits of metal stuck in the torso so the wings keep collapsing. |
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| One thing I did want to have a go at was make a toy soldier. Eventually I want to be able to produce attempts at those German Christmas figures... got a way to go there. |
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| Few more efforts... problem with these are that I'm not getting on with my Amazons... |
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| Some sort of big not-really-an-insect Queen with teeth and bat wings. My favourite so far. Need to do the children. I made a point of pinning the abdomen sections with lengths cut from spears. |
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| Some kind of Cthonian - looking for a good colour to represent other worldly creatures this orange/green mashup looks good. The figure itself also seems to work. |
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| Not a success but points the way. About all I can say about it really. Again, the colour looks good. |
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| Another 'failure' but again I can see what I've done wrong for the future. I need more of these! |
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| Latest whim I suppose. I have used Green Stuff and similar in the past but never really made much effort. However, thought I might start treating it a bit more seriously. Buy a pack of cheap oven hardening polymer clay and see what I can do. |
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| My major thought was Cthulu Mythos type figures in smaller scales - plenty of them around in 25-32mm, nothing in smaller scales. My first attempt are sort of Great Race of Yith. In fact, I made them a bit too short, but overall they look OK. Lessons learnt - limbs seem fragile, need to have a metal frame. Plenty of spears and pikes lying around. |
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| I should also start modifying figures as well. This is just an initial attempt of simply adding a long dress to an Amazon - conversion types I've done a lot of in the past. Actually this polymer was softer and easier to work than the two parters. Needs a bit of touching up re paintwork, but quite happy with the way the figure turned out. The figure I used was one of my rejects - base damaged, sort of repaired while doing this. Must do more of this type of conversion! |
Re Aly's comment on paint conversions, I have a long history of this sort of thing. One of the figures I produced/converted early on after getting Garrison was a 'universal archer'...
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| So here they are in 2007 from my Egyptian army... |
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| The middle Egyptian/Kushite figure is how I originally made it - for others, just snapped off the feather, though later had a mould made without the feather. Persian, Kushite and Egyptian armies, 2007... |
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| Lousy photo from 2014. Assyrian heavy archer, 2nd rank original Garrison 20mm, others conversions of the 20mm Assyrian slinger. Instead of using Rose shields I already had I bought a couple of boxes of HaTT Assyrians and used the shields from there. Standard is from the 25mm Assyrian range, officer's swords just hammered flat spears. |
Incidentally, the base figure itself is a real Frankenstein's monster. Torso is a Nubian spearman, below the waist was from a cavalry figure, think the bow arm was from the Greek archer, base from some figure or other and quiver from the weapons box.
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| My normal cavalry squadron is 12 figures. For this lot, I went for 18 figures so that it covered 6 bases. |
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| For shield blazons I've continued the animal theme, in this case by using a stag. |
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| The armour is just paint. It works really well. |
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| I went for something different for the command element. The commander is MID3, Midianite Princess on camel. Standard bearer is simply SS62, slave girl with fan, with the base cut off and made to fit on a horse. And finally the defining feature of my Amazon army - a tiger. |
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| When you're casting figures you often have some figures you have no immediate use for. This lot were all put to one side to act as an addition to my various sects. |
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| Normally I would paint them plain brown, white or (rarely and usually the elites) red. This lot I decided to make a bit more colourful. |
