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Miniatures Adventure => Pikes, Muskets and Flouncy Shirts => Topic started by: Pijlie on June 18, 2015, 10:21:49 AM

Title: Turning a cheesy German into Sean Connery!
Post by: Pijlie on June 18, 2015, 10:21:49 AM
When I acquired Warlord's free Count von Hosenschlange figure (it is a gift with the Devil's Playground book. Do NOT Google the meaning of the word!) I was immediately  reminded of a character in one of my favourite movies: Sean Connery as Juan Sanchez Ramirez de Villa Lobos.

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mZtdlQdTzbY/VYJ8k984CLI/AAAAAAAADJE/ZZJ_YLvDxKY/s400/Ramirez1.jpg)

The figure was close, but not perfect. The eyepatch was wrong and of course the iconic peacock feathered cape was lacking. But for the rest it was spot on as far as I was concerned.

See how it turned out here : http://pijlieblog.blogspot.nl/2015/06/turning-cheesy-german-into-sean-connery.html (http://pijlieblog.blogspot.nl/2015/06/turning-cheesy-german-into-sean-connery.html)

I'd like to hear how you like it!
Title: Re: Turning a cheesy German into Sean Connery!
Post by: von Lucky on June 18, 2015, 11:17:08 AM
Stunning conversion and painting there!
Title: Re: Turning a cheesy German into Sean Connery!
Post by: Youngster on June 18, 2015, 12:16:57 PM
Fantastic job!

Cheers

Paul
Title: Re: Turning a cheesy German into Sean Connery!
Post by: manatic on June 18, 2015, 02:40:07 PM
Great job!

Now you need to pick up these two from Rogue Miniatures:

(http://www.rogueminiatures.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/o/n/only_one_1.jpg)

(http://www.rogueminiatures.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/d/i/disguise_1.jpg)
Title: Re: Turning a cheesy German into Sean Connery!
Post by: Pijlie on June 18, 2015, 02:50:04 PM
Wow! Thanks for the praise AND the minis! I never knew those existed!  lol
Title: Re: Turning a cheesy German into Sean Connery!
Post by: Elk101 on June 18, 2015, 03:37:14 PM
The peacock cape looks great, well done!
Title: Re: Turning a cheesy German into Sean Connery!
Post by: Hu Rhu on June 18, 2015, 03:58:46 PM
Fantastic conversion and great painting.

As an aside you might want to embed a picture directly in this thread to get maximum exposure of your work.
Title: Re: Turning a cheesy German into Sean Connery!
Post by: Bugsda on June 18, 2015, 04:41:07 PM
Ace conversion, cheesy German to effete snob  ;)
Excellent work.
Title: Re: Turning a cheesy German into Sean Connery!
Post by: Malamute on June 18, 2015, 04:52:27 PM
 "There can be only one!" :D

Nicely done conversion. :)

 I am sure there was a thread floating around with various versions of Ramirez last year. Not sure which board it was on though. :?

Found it! :)

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=67076.0
Title: Re: Turning a cheesy German into Sean Connery!
Post by: Matakakea on June 18, 2015, 05:27:47 PM
Oh dear. More figures to add to the list  :(

Nice work on the feathers there Pijlie.
Title: Re: Turning a cheesy German into Sean Connery!
Post by: Mindenbrush on June 23, 2015, 12:33:56 PM
Excellent  8) 8) 8)
Title: Re: Turning a cheesy German into Sean Connery!
Post by: Modhail on June 23, 2015, 01:14:59 PM
Excellent conversion/sculpting! Brilliantly pompous, just as I remember Ramirez.  :-*