Antonio lobo 1 72 | 11 Nov 2019 2:14 p.m. PST |
Hello everyone, my way to do them, at least trying…other ideas?
See here link Thank you very much, Antonio. |
Philotep | 13 Nov 2019 11:19 a.m. PST |
Nice minis Antonio. I had a look on your blog, lots a interesting figures and great conversions! |
historygamer | 13 Nov 2019 12:06 p.m. PST |
Very well done. Just a few nits, as that is what TMP is for (LoL). British officers (except flank company officers and General Elliot) only wore one epaulet on their right shoulders. Not your fault since it is the figure, but trying to look through a telescope with one hand is a sure way to put your eye out. Good luck trying it from horseback (I have), even with two hands. Really neat stuff you have put together. |
Antonio lobo 1 72 | 15 Nov 2019 2:52 p.m. PST |
Thank you Thank you very much for the corrections, historygamer; of course… I couldn't imagine it was impossible to use the telescope with one hand; I´m accustom to see the plastic figures with this type of position using it in this way; I think to cast the figures in the correct way, must be very difficult… Antonio. |
colkitto | 16 Nov 2019 12:01 p.m. PST |
Lovely work Antonio. The Airfix Royal Horse Artillery Officer using a telescope with two hands puts other manufacturers to shame … |
Antonio lobo 1 72 | 20 Nov 2019 11:49 p.m. PST |
Thank you colkitto. I have never seen this reference,-I decided many time ago not to begin with the Napoleonic period tooˇ, I have just seen in the PSR page; is just amazingˇ With this variety of poses…and "Tarleton" hats…mmm… Antonio. |
colkitto | 21 Nov 2019 2:25 p.m. PST |
I think it may be my favourite Airfix set of all time! |
Robert le Diable | 03 Dec 2019 2:27 p.m. PST |
Agreed, colkitto, about the Airfix RHA (1815) officer, the set also having a very good trooper with rammer and another with two buckets, though perhaps the one with port-fire, like the officer's horse, was unconvincingly elegant. However, in the photographs, I think I recognise the ESCI artillery officer? Beautiful work. |
Antonio lobo 1 72 | 06 Dec 2019 12:41 a.m. PST |
Thank you Robert, Indeed, the arm with the telescope of the mounted officer has been obtained from the ESCI artillery officer… |
Robert le Diable | 30 Jan 2020 3:30 p.m. PST |
And I'm sure you used pins to secure heads to (different) bodies! Years ago, I did something similar but in reverse, as it were; that is, I used figures from the Airfix "Washington's Army" and "British Grenadiers" sets, among others, for Austrian and Russian command groups. This was long before the availability of 1:72 plastic figures for every conceivable period increased greatly with Esci, Italeri, Revell and so on (by which time I could afford 15mm Minifigs). Still carving away at lead figures now, fully forty years later. Good Luck. |
Antonio lobo 1 72 | 03 Feb 2020 11:45 p.m. PST |
I´m sorry, I didn't use pins; only gluingˇ I thing is a very special moment when you "create" a new figure that doesn´t exist before, I see you must nowˇ Speaking about Airfix "Washington Army". I have just received this from Chicago; they were not expensive ( 13 euros), but they marked its original price 58 centsˇ they are still on sprue…I´ll fill a little guilty cutting they away…but they are done for using them; don you think so? Antonio |
Antonio lobo 1 72 | 03 Feb 2020 11:57 p.m. PST |
here they are…
in comparison with an accurate AWI figure..
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Widowson | 03 Apr 2020 1:54 p.m. PST |
You must remember that the original Airfix sets are not 1/72. They are HO, which is slightly smaller. |
Jeffers | 04 Apr 2020 2:17 a.m. PST |
Antonio I used this on an abortive Pony Wars project: link Managed to glue old Airfix cowboys & Indians to horses, body halves, arms etc. Exactly what you are doing, in fact! I found so long as you use the activator (which seems to last forever) any flavour of superglue works. |
Robert le Diable | 04 Apr 2020 11:29 a.m. PST |
Glad to see this thread again. Agree that there's a great satisfaction not only in creating a new figure from parts of others, but also in the imagining of the kind of new figures which could be contrived. It's going back a long time, and superglue may well have been invented, but I never saw it, and always found the use of pins to be essential in keeping heads in place or torso joined to legs. The Airfix "Washington's Army" set had certain good features – the kneeling figure one of their best, in my view – and other peculiarities (the figure carrying the barrel is awkward). I always regretted that there was not any marching figure, unlike the "British Grenadiers", but never got around to cutting off one tricorne and one bearskin and switching them round. I'd have used the standing officer figure, naturally. Now, with metal 15mm figures, there isn't much cutting-and-pasting, more carving and paring and a bit of twisting. Actually, in my view and at the scale, it's easier than slicing and glueing plastics. But it all takes time. |
Antonio lobo 1 72 | 09 Apr 2020 7:58 a.m. PST |
Jeffers, Thank you very much for the link; I have used it sometimes, And is excellent; but I cannot buy it in my neighborhood, and sometimes I buy the common one. Robert, finally I have used the Airfix reference for conversions,I had shown them in the following post; TMP link I use only plastic figures, I have so many of them…and they are always on my mind, since my childhood. Antonio. |