Friday 27 July 2012

Turning Heads.

One of the problems in home casting is the limited variety of  figures , not so bad in portraying the rank and file but things like General Officers are more of a problem. With a purchase of molds off EBay I also received a number of ready cast mounted officers , I decided to try and convert one to add variety.


I cut off the right arm and the head as above , turned the head/throat around and glued it in place , added 'green stuff' filler and sculpted another coat front . I then added another arm from 'green stuff' and a piece of wire as a baton.


Before and after , luckly the Prince August figure is a little 'primative' shall we say so the arm was not to hard to sculpt (would not want to try it on a Perry miniature).


Sorry for the rather blurred photos of the finished item .I also added a waist sash and longer wig to the figure.


Not to bad for a first attempt. May try swapping heads with infantry officers next to add even more variety.



2 comments:

  1. It can begin to look like one of the main courses at the Academy was "officer posture" when you get too many pointing officers gathered in one spot.

    Nicely done.

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  2. Fab conversion, nicely done.

    I just turn the head around - cut off flat across the neck and fudge it with green stuff :)

    -- Allan

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