I now have everything I need for this diorama, which I hope to start in November - i have a couple of projects i want to finish first, but since the last stuff arrived today I though I would start the thread. It all came about by chance.
A while ago I bought this set of figures, really love the animation:
the kit has been sitting in the stash with me taking it down, looking at the figures but not quite motivated to building them. I think the problem was that although I really love the foot figures - the animation is fantstic- the same cannot be said of the hussar, he looks a bit stiff and does not have the same dynamic feel of the foot figures.
that was the situation until during the summer I came across this in another forum:
These are 75mm figures and not my scale but gave me the idea - what about replicating this in 54mm and add them to the foot figures tocreate an English Civil War scene?
with the idea firmly planted it was just the little matter of sourcing parts for the cavalry. A quick visit to my stash in the loft where these were waiting for me:
the four ECW mounted figures will provide four of the five mounted figures, with the fifth mounted figure being converted from the parts from the foot soldiers, if the composition needs it, I have enough to add another foot figures The Scot's grey is for the horse - one of the best galloping horses available in 54mm.
this is where today's delivery is the final part of the jigsaw - Historex horses to make the charging horses, and sone heads and hands for the figures:
There will be a fair amount of surgery needed to change the horses into the dynamic poses I need but fortunately the plastic used by Historex is a soft form of hard plastic and quite easy to cut and carve.
as soon as I finish a couple of projects (including the submarine boxed dio, I will be able to make a start on this. my plan is to not focus totally on this but to take one figue at a time and do other models between figures so that this project stays fresh.
Peter
A while ago I bought this set of figures, really love the animation:
the kit has been sitting in the stash with me taking it down, looking at the figures but not quite motivated to building them. I think the problem was that although I really love the foot figures - the animation is fantstic- the same cannot be said of the hussar, he looks a bit stiff and does not have the same dynamic feel of the foot figures.
that was the situation until during the summer I came across this in another forum:
These are 75mm figures and not my scale but gave me the idea - what about replicating this in 54mm and add them to the foot figures tocreate an English Civil War scene?
with the idea firmly planted it was just the little matter of sourcing parts for the cavalry. A quick visit to my stash in the loft where these were waiting for me:
the four ECW mounted figures will provide four of the five mounted figures, with the fifth mounted figure being converted from the parts from the foot soldiers, if the composition needs it, I have enough to add another foot figures The Scot's grey is for the horse - one of the best galloping horses available in 54mm.
this is where today's delivery is the final part of the jigsaw - Historex horses to make the charging horses, and sone heads and hands for the figures:
There will be a fair amount of surgery needed to change the horses into the dynamic poses I need but fortunately the plastic used by Historex is a soft form of hard plastic and quite easy to cut and carve.
as soon as I finish a couple of projects (including the submarine boxed dio, I will be able to make a start on this. my plan is to not focus totally on this but to take one figue at a time and do other models between figures so that this project stays fresh.
Peter
Comment