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Author Topic: My "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" Cavalry  (Read 23314 times)

Offline Jacksarge

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Thanks for the encouragement guys, helps to spur me on  :)

Great looking stuff, every single one of them.
You capture the look perfectly.
Ideal backdrop for the pictures as well.

So when are we going to see some in-game shots?

@Humakt - thanks, and unfortunately no in game shots at the present....I so rarely get to game these days. Finding someone who shares my interest can be tricky in this part of the world. Still, I hope to get them at least on a more scenic looking surround at some stage.

Offline Madhouse Workshop

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Very good brush work.  I'm looking forward to painting some of those myself.

Offline Duncan McDane

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Again, a joy to behold. I like the conversion you did on the Black Tree "Eorl" with axe.
And funny you painted the thingies in the young lady's arms as laundry, I always thought of them ( and painted them ) as firewood lol .
Leadhead

Offline Jacksarge

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Again, a joy to behold. I like the conversion you did on the Black Tree "Eorl" with axe.
And funny you painted the thingies in the young lady's arms as laundry, I always thought of them ( and painted them ) as firewood lol .

Cheers! I imagined that they were dyed yarn ready for weaving.... :-)

Offline Jacksarge

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Re: My "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" UPDATE 6th JULY 2017 Converting Thor!
« Reply #64 on: July 06, 2017, 08:11:42 AM »
A while back I received a couple of free miniatures with the "Painting War Dark Ages Special" book, one of which was a miniature that appeared to represent Thor. I thought that miniature was too much into the "realms of fantasy" for my Dark Ages collection, so I set about converting it.

In the first picture (below), you can see another person's painted version of the original figure inset to the left. To the right is my completed conversion.



So, here's what did I to the original:

As there is no integral base with this figure, I first drilled & pinned it to a mdf base.
Removed metal plates from chest.
Hand & Hammer were a separate piece, so I had to carefully cut away hammer from hand & drill hand out so as to fit spear.
Left arm was bent around to take a shield.
Thin layers of green-stuff were sculpted to create trousers and tunic to go under the mail shirt.
Extra green-stuff was added to the beard to bulk it out a bit - hey if he's going for the "hairy barbarian" look, may as well give more facial hair :-)
Mail shirt was sculpted on - my first go at sculpting a full mail shirt - being careful to leave the belt exposed.
Added a green-stuff pouch to the belt.
Did a press-mould of a very simple sword, to which I then added straps with thin pieces of masking tape, plus extra decoration with green-stuff to give the impression of knot-work.
Stuck shield to left arm
Painted the miniature & did the basing.



















I hope you found the post interesting. I must say, I quite enjoyed this conversion lark, hopefully I will be doing a bit more and getting some sculpting practice.

All the best,
John.


Offline Duncan McDane

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Re: My "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" UPDATE 6th JULY 2017 Converting Thor!
« Reply #65 on: July 06, 2017, 10:09:16 AM »
Brilliant conversion! I'd buy that model any day of the week if it were to hit the shops  :-*.

Offline Madhouse Workshop

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Re: My "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" UPDATE 6th JULY 2017 Converting Thor!
« Reply #66 on: July 06, 2017, 12:33:31 PM »
That's a great conversion.  Love the looks of it.  Great paintwork as well.

Offline gostgost

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Re: My "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" UPDATE 6th JULY 2017 Converting Thor!
« Reply #67 on: July 06, 2017, 07:20:14 PM »
Nice work

Offline Jacksarge

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I managed to pick up a Hama & Gamling from the GW Lord of the Rings range of miniatures via eBay. They were relatively inexpensive as they are among the more common sculpts, some of the rarer figures really are rather expensive. I thought these figures would be ideal to convert for my Anglo-Saxon collection.

It was easy enough to bend the left arms and give them shields , (I picked up a pack of spare shields from Gripping Beast a while back) - they even received suitably equine decals from Little Big Men Studios.
I left the armour on the arms, painting it as leather, it would have been too much hassle to file it away & re-sculpt. I did however shorten the length of the hauberk & simplified the legs & boots - a combination of cutting, filing & green-stuff.



As in my previous conversion of a Rohan Royal Guard, I shortened the length of the cloaks. The long cloaks were fine if riding horses only, but not practical for fighting on foot.





The original slotta bases were discarded in favour of 3mm mdf, the feet were drilled and pinned into the base.















I would like to get hold of some more of the Rohan & Dunlending metal figures for converting. 

Offline Harry Faversham

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Both lovely figures, but I particularly like the bloke on the right... he looks like he could give you all the trouble you could ever handle!

:-*
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"

"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"

Offline moonshado

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As is my usual practice, I've only just managed to find this thread. Unusually for me having found a new thread I actually started reading this at page one. I was immediately captivated by your first photograph of the command base and the converted Rohan warrior. After that it just got better and better. I love your animals, the badger is superb. Look forward to this thread getting up into the 100+ pages.

Offline Little Odo

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Both of those are superb. I especially like the eyes - you have got them bang on.  :-*
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Offline Jacksarge

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Thanks guys, glad you are enjoying the new additions to the thread  :)

Offline nikko

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Hello,

Very nice project !!

Nikko

Offline Mason

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Thanks guys, glad you are enjoying the new additions to the thread  :)

I certainly am.
The new additions are wonderful.
 :-* :-*


 

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