"Converting musket-armed to archers?" Topic

Some colonial ranges include firing musket-armed figures, yet lack archers. Has anybody here attempted converting musket-armed figures into archers?

I suppose that the combination of bent left arm and raised (and bent) right arm of a firing figure might just work to represent an archer who has just nocked his arrow and possibly begun to draw his bow. However, am I overlooking something that would be drastically wrong about that?

Stick with soft plastic.
I once converted Airfix Robin Hood archers into peltasts.

I'm pretty sure I've done this and used a bit of bent brass wire for the bows, it's an easy one.

This past week, I was converting horse archers to javelineers, with a small shield held forward in the straight left arm, and dart cocked in the bent right arm.

This should be difficult, a long bow takes years of practice where as a few weeks a recruit should be able to learn the manual of arms.
( kidding of course)

In 28mm I would cut the arms off and use archer arms from one of the many available, using green stuff to add sleeves or cuffs.

Firing stance is quite different between the two, you'd probably need to replace the left arms at the very least.

I would think cutting away the musket from the chest and around the right arm and shoulder would be a very difficult, very time-consuming operation, and the end result would look clumsy… which might be acceptable if you're converting sub-Saharan tribesmen, but would look odd for warriors that are supposed to have some knowledge of firearms use.

On the Toy Soldier Company blog there is a "how-to" for creating Napoleanic bowmen that might provide some pointers you could use. Here is a

link

Thanks, all!

Probably easier to just buy ….. archers.
This isn't 1975 anymore. Archer figures are probably available.