My first few WW1 Palestine campaign games have been using forces made up of six units. While this is working well I would like the option to increase number of units in a game to eight units per side.
One unit I wanted to add was the Australian Light Cavalry. HAT Industrie do produce these figures, but these seem to be out of stock at all my usual sources. So I opted to try and convert some WW1 British cavalry figures.
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| A WW1 Australian Light Cavalry unit |
I trimmed the WW1 British cavalry hats and slid over a cardboard brim with the centre punched out. The punched out centre being the same size as the head so I could slid it over and glue in place. I also trimmed these models with a lance to be a rifle or bayonet.
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| A cardboard brim has the centre punched out. The centre is the size of the head are slips over to be super-glued in place. |
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| A view from the side. |
Other units completed this week were some more ANZAC infantry and a machine gun. The reason for the camel in the background on the machine gun base is so I can add the base to a mounted infantry unit. After the initial stages of the Sinai and Palestine campaign, mounted infantry increasingly had additional support weapons attached to them.
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| ANZAC infantry |
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| A machine gun base to be added to mounted infantry units |
On the tabletop I am having a quick break from the recent WW1 Palestine campaign and returning to some Samurai games.
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| A Samurai game about to get underway. |
Nice one, a really effective conversion - takes me back to the days when almost everything had to be a conversion from a very limited range of Airfix figures (the limited metal ranges of the time were out of reach of my pocket money).
ReplyDeleteThanks. Doing the conversions did take me back to my youth too. Plasticine and banana oil (I think) were often used extensively with conversions.
DeleteNice hat conversion! I wonder how long the camel would remain quietly sitting once the machine gun began firing?
ReplyDeleteNot long before the camel disappears I suspect. That said, camel were much calmer than horses and requiring one holder to 8 camels, compared to one holder to 4 horses.
DeleteExcellent work. I do have a single pack of the old HAT Cavalry - I do still have less MGs than I would need, so your conversion ideas are always welcome.
ReplyDeleteThe samurai look superb.
Thank you and good luck with the conversions.
DeleteNice conversions there Peter of the AUS Cav- well done!
ReplyDeleteThanks. It turned out to be a simpler conversion than I originally thought.
DeleteA neat conversion job.
ReplyDeleteThank you. I am pleased on how they turned out.
DeleteLovely work there Peter and the conversions work a treat:).
ReplyDeletePunching a hole in the brim made the conversion much easier than I expected. Thanks.
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