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Voting closed: June 02, 2018, 12:26:00 AM
Fram, the four school kids are all conversions to lesser or greater degrees, though with one of them the only converting is the addition of a hat and a hockey stick. They are Westwind Vampire Wars figures. Lord Montague the cat was bought from eBay, I forget the manufacturer. The only conversion he has had is a sloppily-applied coat of liquid Greenstuff to make the pink paint.The other figures are not conversions. They are Foundry/Casting Room figures (Casting Room is where Foundry hides all the sculpts from "The Dark Time" that they are ashamed of these days, but there are still some things worth having in there).I suppose a little bit of background is in order. These are some of the staff and pupils of Mrs. Lucton's School for Troublesome and Wayward Girls. Mrs. Lucton is the owner and headmistress, she's the old dear in red. Next to her is Miss Pretty, form teacher of the Tomboy Tearaways, blithely ignoring all their mischief as usual.Left to right the Tearaways are: Marmalade Tomkins, who likes to paint things pink, with her current muse, Lord Montague the school cat.The Sweeting Sisters, Loredana and Noor (known respectively as Lethal Lora and Bloody Nora, for their exploits on the Hockey team). They aren't Zulus, but East End Urchins, plucked from the streets by Colonel Sweeting, the Commanding Officer and founder of Sweeting's Sikhs. They attempted to pick his pocket (with fishing rods from the rooftops). His response was to adopt them and send them to a private school to have them turned into proper young ladies. How well that is going is open to debate.Nora's shield was what won her the form prize. She made it for her history project about the Zulu War. Interestingly enough, this was at about the same time the school goat went missing. Finally we have Amy Limehouse. Her hobby is collecting Policemen's helmets.Believe it or not, this is all part of the backstory to my Congo project coming soon to a thread near you (grown-up Nora and Lora are the protagonists). It, er... got a bit out of hand.
I think it is safe to say that this entry draws much of its inspiration from twelve-or-so years of Hammers craziness. So call it a tribute. These are your babies too, H.