Latest from Steven - had them for a few days now, just got round to putting them on the blog!
'Hello, I have finally finished the latest round of 15mm prehistoric figures. The new ones are the Khurasan Miniatures I got for my birthday. I don’t feel good today (took sick leave from work) so this is just a photo dump.'
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| Flock completed with an option to do more later. They're slightly bigger than I intended but look OK - couple need paintwork touching up. |
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| Not all of them worked - this batch were all a lot bigger and fatter, generally deemed 'not good enough'. Might do a bit of work on them to produce something less based on reality though - would be a pity to waste them completely! |
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| Another unit for the Amazons - the original Pegasus is the grey (is a white Pegasus a grey same as for horses?) |
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| Just gone for my standard colour scheme - white blaze, in these cases four white stockings - I've not added any white to my Amazon cavalry horses. I'm thinking about converting one or more of these as unicorns. |
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| One thing missing from the Alice in Gerunderland range is a flamingo. So thought I'd make one. It sort of channels a flamingo rather than being an accurate representation, but I actually like it. |
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| The legs, neck and beak are all made from spears - the beak being a continuation of the neck. I'll probably do a few more of these. |
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| To be fair, got a lot of the stories already, but quite a few I haven't - Yuki-Onna and other stories never heard of. Should provide some inspiration. |
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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. |
