"Foundry/Victrix conversions" Topic
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| Grunt1861 | 01 Feb 2019 9:42 p.m. PST |
I know this is heresy to some, but I removed the original Foundry heads on some unarmored Caesarian Legionary and grafted on Victrix Republican heads. Reasons were threefold:
1. I have a Punic Wars Republican Roman army.
2. I felt the Foundry heads were out of scale, on the large side.
3. Victrix sculpting is superb, but the older plastics are a bit wooden in pose. FWIW, the woodenness is definitely not an issue with Victrix's newer stuff. link link link |
 BigRedBat  | 02 Feb 2019 3:47 a.m. PST |
Looks good; means that one could add crests to the crestless Foundry minis, and use them in the earlier period. |
| Emperorbaz | 02 Feb 2019 4:26 a.m. PST |
They would work well on the aventine figures too! |
| Damion | 02 Feb 2019 5:29 a.m. PST |
Great job, they look made for each other. |
| Marcus Brutus | 02 Feb 2019 6:53 a.m. PST |
I agree, they look great. Do you get a lot of extra heads in the Victrix box? |
| Grunt1861 | 02 Feb 2019 2:06 p.m. PST |
@Marcus Yes, the Victrix R. Roman sprues come with plenty of extra heads, (A Celtic Warriors dream). |
| Asteroid X | 02 Feb 2019 9:10 p.m. PST |
Looks very good! I have done the same thing with some. I have a lot of Foundry Greeks standing holding spears and a lot of Macedonians holding pikes. They all have the same heads/helmets so that will be something to do with them with all the extra Victrix Greek heads I have (and then some of the Foundry ones I remove will go onto others). |
| Margites7 | 03 Feb 2019 6:27 a.m. PST |
While they are beautiful,I found the plastic Victrix vertical crests to be quite fragile.
I'm not at all rough with my troops, but I have more than one crestLESS helm that did not start the campaign that way. |
| Grunt1861 | 03 Feb 2019 4:34 p.m. PST |
@Margites7 I have a simple solution for the snapping crests corundum. If you give the circumference of the base spindle a coat of thin cyanoacrylate glue it seems to give them a new lease on life. Also, the thin cyanoacrylate does not obscure detail, but ads significant strength. |
| williamb | 03 Feb 2019 7:11 p.m. PST |
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considers the Battle of Delium, 424 B.C.
