I wanted to try my hand at converting some figures to ADC's, not really needed on my gaming table but nice to place on board scurrying here and there with new orders. They also have subbed as command figures on more than one occasion.
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| My three new ADC's surrounding a previous conversion of a French officer intoWellington. |
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| This figure started out life as a French officer from the Italeri French Command set, and was probably the most straight forward conversion. |
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| This and the following were adapted from Scots Greys (Italeri) |
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| I liked the energy of this completed figure with bicorne in hand. |
And here are a few more shots of the conversions.
My second stab at conversions is these Italeri British Horse artillery into Foot artillery.
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| The original set as shown on the Plastic Soldier review page. |
There are no very satisfactory British Foot artillery sets, in my opinion, so I decided to tackle this conversion. As the Itlaeri set incorrectly had the horse artillery in tailed jackets, that made things a bit easier. And I always can use a few more tarleton helmeted heads in the parts box!
The new heads were extras from the HaT British infantry set. Besides this, it was mostly ridding them of their swords and the addition of belts, bread bags and canteens as well as a second end to the gun swab.
This isn't a bad set to work with - I find the figures a bit tall and lanky, but they fit in well enough with my previous conversion of the more stocky Hagen metal Portuguese into British gunners. The gun in these pictures is a Hagen gun, better than the serviceable but not so-detailed Italeri gun pictured above that comes with the horse artillery. I'm certain more of these conversions will eventually make it onto my table as need for more British artillery arises!
So here are the final conversions...
Great conversions! Any chance that we'll get a "how to"? I'd love doing these myself ...
ReplyDeleteGreetings,
CW
Thank you, CW. My conversions mostly consist of lopping off the unwanted bits with a surgeon's scalpel, re-pinning arms in new locations and patching up the mess and adding new belts and bags with with modelling putty. I have since created some French ADC's, probably my most ambitious conversions to date, and I recorded that process a bit more - soon to be posted!
DeleteGreat conversions! Any chance that we'll get a "how to"? I'd like to try these myself ...
ReplyDeleteGreetings,
CW
My sculpting abilities are rather subpar, so for me all these conversions are quite ambitious. Do you sculpt all the new parts, such as the bicornes, or do you also use parts from other figures? Anyway, your wargaming armies look awesome and are a great inspiration!
ReplyDeleteGreetings,
CW
Hi CW,
DeleteBicornes are recycled parts, pinned into place. Belts, pouches, epaulettes and hands that need to be redone are sculpted. If you look closely my sculpting is "subpar" as well, but it generally works at a certain distance.
My indispensable tools are: pin vice with drill bit, pins (I have taken to using a 35 to 45 unwound guitar wire, especially for finer bits that need pinning), a small adjustable vice, and Tamiya quick drying epoxy putty. For sculpting my big break though was discovering silicone sculpting tools (just the cheap ones) although I still use my scalpel to carve the edges of belts etc. Finally I have been experimenting with making buttons with the end of a mechanical drawing pen, removing the fibre tip and using the hollow chassis to press buttons into the putty. Hope this helps - I will try to do a post around this one day!