A new set of Desert or Ancient Warriors to add to the Desert Warrior Riflemen previously shown here on the blog:
https://poundstoreplasticwarriors.wordpress.com/2017/11/06/pound-store-desert-warrior-unit-completed/
The “penny dreadful” Pound Store figures £1 for 100 (now 80) plastic 36mm figures from Poundland offer great conversion potential.
These spearman are converted from a Rambo-esque machine gunner. Desert robes are added with PVA, tissue paper and paint.
The patterned shields are upholstery pins ordered online from China.
The hands are drilled to take a garden wire pin or shield and ridiculously long spears seemed to work best.
As well as white desert robes, I tried a black robed warrior as well. The modern water bottle becomes a mysterious bottle or dagger and sword hilt
Officer type figures with swords were made from different figures.
More conversions rolling off the painting table on the gaming hex boards in blogposts this week.
Desert spearmen on the heights – A glimpse of my current colonial game on my portable 192 hex game board.
Blogposted by Mark, Man of TIN, 28 January 2018.
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Author: 26soldiersoftin
Hello I'm Mark Mr MIN, Man of TIN. Based in S.W. Britain, I'm a lifelong collector of "tiny men" and old toy soldiers, whether tin, lead or childhood vintage 1960s and 1970s plastic figures.
I randomly collect all scales and periods and "imagi-nations" as well as lead civilians, farm and zoo animals. I enjoy the paint possibilities of cheap poundstore plastic figures as much as the patina of vintage metal figures.
Befuddled by the maths of complex boardgames and wargames, I prefer the small scale skirmish simplicity of very early Donald Featherstone rules.
To relax, I usually play solo games, often using hex boards. Gaming takes second place to making or convert my own gaming figures from polymer clay (Fimo), home-cast metal figures of many scales or plastic paint conversions. I also collect and game with vintage Peter Laing 15mm metal figures, wishing like many others that I had bought more in the 1980s ...
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