Following up on the pics I recently posted of PAINTED conversions, here are the last few conversion jobs themselves: some Army Hospital Corps and some artillery crewmen.
The Hospital Corpsmen started out as WWI IN THE EAST “Character Pack One” from WOODBINE DESIGN, sold by GRIPPING BEAST…
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The injured Tommy on the stretcher was perfect as is, but I swapped out the chaplain in peaked cap head for a Glengarry-wearing Empress Miniatures head from their Zulu War Accessories Range…
I also took a Wargames Foundry standing Afghan Regular Artillery crewman, removed his head and replaced it with an Empress head in foreign service helmet…
Next, I took the headless body left over from a Foundry Indian mountain gunner whose head I’d used for General Roberts’ Sikh orderly, removed the ramrod from his hand, replaced it with a spare WATER-BOTTLE, again from the Empress Miniatures Zulu War Accessories range, and used one of the WOUNDED HEADS from Woodbine Design’s WWI IN THE EAST Heads & Accessory Sprues…
Last up are some Wargames Foundry Boer War Artillery Crew, who are sculpted to serve breech-loading guns…
I converted a few of the figures in explicitly “breech-loading” poses, so they could serve older, muzzle-loading canon, like those that were crewed by the improvised “Smoothbore Battery” crewed by a combination of RHA officers and senior NCOs and infantrymen from the 66th Regiment at Maiwand.
I used the sponge/ramrods and buckets provided with Foundry Afghan gun crews, as well as their Crimean War, Indian Mutiny and ACW artillery pieces.
