Amazon Cavalry? (FINISHED PICS August 29)

[Froggy the Great]

So I've got a sizeable army of the Wargames Factory Amazons (pictures forthcoming, honest), and I wanted to add cavalry.  Does anyone know of a good (and cost-effective) solution for this?  The Amazon legs are not suitable for reposing into a mounted pose, and their waists are really slender.  Someone on the Wargames Factory forums did a conversion with WF Persians, but it's a) really expensive for a unit and b) not as clean a join as I like.

Anyone else have suggestions?

[Sir Barnaby Hammond-Rye]

So I've got a sizeable army of the Wargames Factory Amazons (pictures forthcoming, honest), and I wanted to add cavalry.  Does anyone know of a good (and cost-effective) solution for this?  The Amazon legs are not suitable for reposing into a mounted pose, and their waists are really slender.  Someone on the Wargames Factory forums did a conversion with WF Persians, but it's a) really expensive for a unit and b) not as clean a join as I like.

Anyone else have suggestions?

Good - wait for the Croc Kickstarter Amazons to be available next year.

Cost Effective - Hmmm....

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Foundry has some, probably too expensive?

Eureka isn't that expensive though:
http://eurekamin.com.au/product_info.php?products_id=1654

[former user]

I am not sure if the old Fantasy Warriors range by Copplestone had amazons
Edit:
Yes they had and have
http://www.mirliton.it/index.php?cName=fantasy-2528mm-amazons
riding sabretooth tigers

or You can alternatively use the wood elves from the same system, who look female enough with latene equipment and have lots of cavalry

[Froggy the Great]

I should clarify - I would like if possible to use the WF Amazons, but these are all good food for thought and I'll probably end up off on a tangent with them.

[former user]

hmm

some of the Perry plastic napoleonic cavalry have two sets of legs, I think the hussars

[Froggy the Great]

hmm

some of the Perry plastic napoleonic cavalry have two sets of legs, I think the hussars

I'll check that out!  Are they scaled compatibly?

[former user]

I have only the hussars, not the amazons
but I guess since the Perry male legs are smallish to the WF female bodies, it should fit

plus on a horse it's not that obvious 
if the girls have long legs, they are classy
if they have smaller legs, they are petite

winwin situation 

[NickNascati]

Froggy,
            Try turning the foot Amazons into cavalry with heat.  Buy some of the extra horse sprues and assemble the horses.  Light a match and hold it briefly to the lower limbs of the Amazon.  Try to re-pose the legs, and then "mold" onto the horse.  I've done it with many figures in the past, and never had a problem.  Another way would be to use the German cavalry by WF, who with less clothing, likely have smaller waists.

[Froggy the Great]

I ended up cutting and pasting, using the mounted hips from a Reaper knight for the hip bend and chainmail skirt.



Here's a completed leader, a queen's standardbearer, a cavalry standardbearer, and a proof of concept for using the Amazon lower legs instead of the pewter ones.

I figure the Amazons are ahistorical anyway, why not have them borrow just a couple battlefield practices from the Romans?  Who knows, maybe the Romans borrowed it from them.



Here's a shot of what I did with everything in the box.  I've still got four leftover horses, but those will wait for another time.

I envision these as fast light cavalry that will harry the enemy's flanks with spears, probably give them the ability to use their Shoot action in the middle of a Move action, probably at a -1.  These are NOT designed to see frontal combat.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

the pic links don't work for me

[Froggy the Great]

the pic links don't work for me

Stand by for a fix.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

you could upload them to LAF gallery or attach directly to the post.

Or it's only me who doesn't see them?

[Froggy the Great]

you could upload them to LAF gallery or attach directly to the post.

Or it's only me who doesn't see them?

I don't believe I've explored those options.  At any rate, it's fixed.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Yes, it works now, thanks.

And I like what I see now a lot, a great bunch and some clever conversion ideas there.