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Miniatures Adventure => VSF Adventures => Topic started by: Christian on January 24, 2010, 12:00:09 PM
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So, I have some Wargames Factory colonials here. I'm thinking of what conversions I could do with them. I know they come with a glengarry cap, but I haven't been able to ascertain what a glengarry cap indicates and who should be wearing it...
I was also wondering if I could give the colonials big bearskin hats and make them grenadiers?
Any other ideas?
Can I shave off the cuff loops and make them represent another country?
Hope you can help me!
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I actually did a thread about what to do with WGF colonials: lol
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=14806.0
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Are those the zombies? :/
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Glengarries were worn by Scottish regiments. Not all Scottish regiments wore kilts - these were only worn by Highland regiments. Lowland regiments (eg the Borderers) wore trousers but had Glengarries instead of helmets. I think their trousers may have been tartan, but I'm not sure.
So, if your figs have trousers and Glengarries they are probably meant to represent a Lowland Scottish regiment. Obviously, if they're wearing kilts, they're Highlanders.
There are lots of other things you could do with them. I was pondering recently the idea of painting up some chaps in Glengarries with dark green jackets (like the Royal Green Jackets) and khaki caps, or alternatively black uniforms and red caps, to represent 1889 UNIT (from Dr Who) troops.
Or you could of course invent an entirely new unit, which is always good in VSF I think. Perhaps there was a 'Sydney Scottish' regiment raised to cope with the Martian Invasion of Western Australia in 1886, or perhaps the East Australian Rifles who captured Easter Island for the Crown (and fought Pirates and Cthuloid monsters to gain it) in 1887 wore Glengarries... before they were shipped off to the ongoing Venusian Campaign anyway.
Hope some of this is useful and not just an old man rambling!
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A new unit of Highlanders allows one to go mad with Kilt design, my Hardington Highlanders have some mad awful yellow based kilt, based on an actual design! The Glengarry was worn by all Regiments of the British Army from about 1868.
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Are those the zombies? :/
They used to be Colonials.
I think the WGF brits are HORRIBLE! Just look how they hold their rifles. :)
I wish you good luck in finding a use for them
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A new unit of Highlanders allows one to go mad with Kilt design, my Hardington Highlanders have some mad awful yellow based kilt, based on an actual design! The Glengarry was worn by all Regiments of the British Army from about 1868.
I didn't know the Glengarry was worn by all British regiments, well, one learns something new every day. I apologise unreservedly for giving inaccurate info!
@ nickinsomerset; that better not be the MacMillan tartan you're talking about there, if it is, why you ...! (Shakes orcky MacMillan-descended fist in a vagely south west direction.)
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Red Orc, non-Scottish regiments did not have the diced band on their glengarries, and so looked a bit like this:
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/50012C-cut.jpg)
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I'm currently using the ramshackle gasmask heads with pith helmets to make them suitable for vsf, as others here have done...
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I had no idea of those gasmasked heads... thanks for that! (I also haven't really seen them used much)
Thanks for all the information so far guys!
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Jonas used them here:
(http://www.sadomator.com/warmachine/VSF-086.jpg)
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Ah great! Thanks for the pic.
I have already ordered a set of those.
I think the WF Colonials have a lot more potential than some give them credit for... I've done a bit of converting here and there but I'll have to wait to reveal what I've been up to...
muahahahahahahehehehe...
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Ah great! Thanks for the pic.
I have already ordered a set of those.
I think the WF Colonials have a lot more potential than some give them credit for... I've done a bit of converting here and there but I'll have to wait to reveal what I've been up to...
muahahahahahahehehehe...
I think they're rubbish, but I do like my zombies.. haha.
They worst part about the WGF's is that they look partly melted. The detail's not that clear.
But I'm waiting anxiosly to see what you made up! lol
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(http://www.sadomator.com/warmachine/VSF-086.jpg)
Is the guy in the middle scratching his crown jewels? :(
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Is the guy in the middle scratching his crown jewels? :(
Well, no, hahaha, but it looks so in the picture... he is actually standing with his hand on the way to a reload...
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Well, no, hahaha, but it looks so in the picture... he is actually standing with his hand on the way to a reload...
No he's not... admit it!
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Well... it takes a man to become an Unobtanium Gas Commando...
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Or part of the Orichalcum Longrifle Brigade...
It appears I have obtained some resin heads from Ramshackle.
It appears I have been playing with some greenstuff and some plastic rod.
It appears that I've also put some odds and ends together commonly known as "bits".
So what does an Orichalcum Longrifle Brigadier look like?
... pics on the weekend ;D
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Dammit man stop teasing! The sooner you post pictures the sooner I can steal all your good ideas! (thus far I've got the ramshackle heads, and the plastic bodies, but I'm striking out on what to do to the guns - current opinion is in favour of tiny sequins on a paperclip to make a raygun-looking piece, but I can't seem to find any small enough... bought some tiny beads today to make transistor/lightbulb type bits...)
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Ooh sequins... well, here is what I did. This is going to be a special weapon, rather than their standard issue weapons.
I present to you the Wolsley-Higgins Orichalcum Longrifle:
(http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg142/Intergalactic_photos/Workshop/DSC00119.jpg)
(http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg142/Intergalactic_photos/Workshop/DSC00123.jpg)
Being a relatively unstable substance, orichalcum cannot be propelled by the use of gun powder (as several of our dear old technicians at the Royal Armoury discovered). Thus, the projectile is launched by an intricate system whereby steam-power is harnessed to launch the orichlacum pellet out of the longrifle with a jolly loud pop! If the poor sod on the receiving end isn't shot dead, he'll be near dead with fright!
A breathing apparatus must be donned by the Longrifleman and his fellows, as orichalcum releases a fine dust that has some unpleasant side effects... at the most inopportune times.
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Nice! What's your plan for the standard weapons - leave them as plain rifles or raygun-ify them?
Currently fed up of sticking beads onto dressmakers pins to make raygun barrels, as it's taking sooo long...