Sunday 25 May 2014

vignettes (II)

A couple more vignettes completed; the first being a Burgundian messenger, dismounted from his horse and passing written instructions to an Italian mercenary captain.


Most of the preparation work went into getting the positioning for the messenger right. His arms are different ones selected from the bows and bills box, with the hand holding the letter cut from one of the crosssbowman's hands I think. The long riding boots were added from green stuff for the turnovers and the liquid green stuff to bulk out the rest of the legs. The man wearing the coat uses the plastic arms of the drummer from the Mercenaries box, with an altered hand and a bit of cutting away to hold his sword.






The halbardier, who's biding his time, is a metal artilleyman with a simple swop of ramrod for halbard. The herald is also out of the box, but on a HYW horse, as I wanted a passive pose.





12 comments:

  1. Another group of excellent figures! I love how you can use just the simplest changes to make each figure an individual. Very inspiring stuff, thanks for sharing!

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  2. Great stuff. You always manage to put load of character into these bases.

    FMB

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  3. Greate work Simon ! Much inspiration !!!

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  4. Most impressive, excellent work!

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  5. Excellent! Very creative conversions!
    Cheers Stefan

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  6. Just a short note to let you know that I've nominated this blog for a Liebster Award. It's entirely up to you if you want to accept it and how you want to respond. Details at: http://wargamesleadslifenstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/liebster-award.html

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  7. Me too! Nominated you as well. I seemto be following Gary about! http://over-open-sights.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/i-love-you-all.html

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  8. Mark and Gary - equal thanks to you both!
    Simon

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  9. Hello,
    Another excellent vignette... thanks for this impressive blog...
    Nikko

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  10. These are great, and thanks for the photograph showing the pre-painted sculpting work, i especially like the messenger, all good stuff.

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  11. Those are excellent conversions, very convincing, I sense you sculpting confidence is growing, keep pushing the boundaries.

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