Assyrian army

Assyrian army

Wednesday, 6 November 2024

'Paint conversions'

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'...

So here they are in 2007 from my Egyptian army...

The middle Egyptian/Kushite figure is how I originally made it  - for others, just snapped off the feather, though later had a mould made without the feather.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...
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.

4 comments:

  1. Great to see what can be done by paint jobs and simple conversions. plenty of mileage out of one figure.

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    1. It's a simple case of: 'What am I trying to achieve? What is the simplest way to achieve it?

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  2. An excellent use of paint Rob…
    As to the base figure… I think Dr Frankenstein would be very proud of you….

    All the best. Aly

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    1. Thank you. Trouble is, it's getting me onto the converting/making thing again. There's not a lot out there of figures in 20mm or smaller of use in the Lovecraft universe...

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