Perry Tudor Conversions, Mounted Archers, page 54

[Stuart]

My Green Stuff adventures have turned to casualty markers.

I've had these warbases dial casualty markers for quite a while now and never done anything with them - not gaming that often probably didn't help but not anymore.

I think i'll try and get into the habit of doing one of these for every unit that I complete.

All figures are from the Sudan Ansar box with various WOTR, Foot Knights & Mercenaries arms added, I think there's even a WW2 one in there too.

First up, we have a Tudor and a French casualty

The Tudor Longbowman has come off worse from a fight with an unknown assailant, his sword broken and a rather nasty open fracture on the foot he pleads with the attacker - or judging by the expression perhaps wills on the coup de grace.

Accompanying him is a French Arquebusier sporting a heavy blow across the face, writhing in agony he clutches his rosary beads in acceptance of his fate.

[Stuart]

Next up a Tudor Billman at the wrong end of a crossbow bolt

[Stuart]

Finally, a French foot officer with a fine plumed hat and sash reaches out with his last gaze at a missed objective or perhaps reaching for a weapon

[Jeff965]

Wow excellent, you've clearly given this a lot of thought and I can't wait to see them painted up

[painterman]

They are excellent Stuart - amazing how versatile the other out-of-period plastics can be - with your talented putty work added!
Love the facial expressions, which do add to the drama...
Simon.
Working on mine, which I'll show when all painted up 

[Mason]

Nice work, all very well posed.
I especially like the idea of the loose shoe.
 

[Mick_in_Switzerland]

Very nice indeed

[fred]

I was going to use the word nice, to describe these, but they are far to evocative of pain and death for that.

But they are very good, and highly effective. They make the big dials much more terrain rather than just a marker.

[Stuart]

3 crew converted from the two available Perry WOTR culverin packs.

left to right the chap with the breech was perhaps the simplest conversion; I added GS to his arms to give more voluminous sleeves typical of the early 1500's and did a head swap from a Wargames Foundry Landsknecht (also Perry sculpted), he wears the red & yellow livery of Louis XII.

The master gunner wears a woollen base coat in national colours, the base coat was added after the figure was prepared; I filed away about 1-2mm off the torso and created a GS fill between the legs, allowed it to dry and then sculpted the coat on top. The filing / cutting in the gap between the arms and body was quite fiddly but I think it's turned out OK.

Finally, the chap with the sponge was perhaps the most difficult sculpt, the puffed sleeves are quite hard to get right in terms of how much volume there is in the material and how much I can emphasise the fold in each pull of material. The head is a plastic Ansar head with added GS cloth hat - get yourself a box, they're a must have !
I also built up the breastplate a bit and altered it to look like a maximilian style breast plate in the latest fashion.

So, a small crew of chaps with some money spent on them by their lord to fire guns at unsuspecting Tudors.

Stuart

[Hu Rhu]

They are superb!!!

[Captain Blood]

Very nicely done again Stuart. The casualties are really great too - you talented swine, you! 

[MaleGriffin]

Suberb! I'm not sure which I like more, your conversion work or brushwork.

[Atheling]

Usual brilliance with the old putty matey 

Darrell.

[Stuart]

Both light guns are complete and on the blog;

http://stuartsworkbench.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/french-light-artillery-crew.html

[Stuart]

Another Casualty marker, having knocked him to the ground, a Tudor billman kneels on his opponent pushing his head forward to expose the neck to a finishing sword thrust.

Really pleased with this one, I had a go at a bellows visor and I've cracked how to sculpt belts (which can't really be seen here, doh !)