Over the past few weekends the gandsons have been learning how to convert, paint and base figures for our house wargame rules. The first "armies" come from a large number of surplus Games Workshop Lord of the Rings figures that we were given.
The first lot were the crossbow armed Uruk Hai converted from pike armed figures
Some archers from swords men and the first metal conversion. This was a bit worrying but the oldest boy (14) managed the sawing and pinning just fine.
Next a pike unit. The shielded pikemen are sword armed figures rearmed with the pikes liberated from the crossbow figures. The officers and drummer are conversions but the banner is a metal figure.
A spear unit and leaders - lots of conversions, weapon swops mainly whip, mace, horn and spears - plastic and metal.
A sword unit - not many conversions other than a drummer and couple of axes but nice just the same