The Battle with Miniatures
Shiny Head!
So I decided to try a couple of conversions with my sprue that I got from BGIME issue 75..
I've had some warriors of Minis Tirith for a while now which Alex gave me, so I decided to put an old head on one of them, and convert one of my orcs into Golmoths Leiutenant. First thing I liked was that the heads came with a built in pin, which is very useful because it saves drilling the head at the wrong angle and bursting out of the back of the poor guys skull. As these were to be attached to plastic models, I had the satisying task of nicking off the models' existing heads with some wire clippers. Then both of the replacement heads were bald, so I had to shave off the remaning hair with a scalpel. Then a lovely easy drill into the plastic with a pin vice. The pins in the head were every so slightly too big for the drill I had, but because of this, and that they were going into plastic, they gave a real snug fit that wouldnt have required glue.
I glued then anyway, just to be pedantic. These sprues were so good you didnt need to fill any of the joins with green stuff, there were no gaps. Finally I gave them both an undercoat (which ruinied the existing paint jobs - oh well)
So just to paint them now - but I must say these were very easy conversions to do. I'll start to investigate some of the other conversion sprues that Games Workshop sell via mail order.
And on the subject of Shiny.. a couple of nights ago I also glued Captain Mal's arm to his body, so as I needed to get out the spray paint tonight I cleaned him up and undercoated him as well. More black models to finish!!
Monday, June 19, 2006
I've had some warriors of Minis Tirith for a while now which Alex gave me, so I decided to put an old head on one of them, and convert one of my orcs into Golmoths Leiutenant. First thing I liked was that the heads came with a built in pin, which is very useful because it saves drilling the head at the wrong angle and bursting out of the back of the poor guys skull. As these were to be attached to plastic models, I had the satisying task of nicking off the models' existing heads with some wire clippers. Then both of the replacement heads were bald, so I had to shave off the remaning hair with a scalpel. Then a lovely easy drill into the plastic with a pin vice. The pins in the head were every so slightly too big for the drill I had, but because of this, and that they were going into plastic, they gave a real snug fit that wouldnt have required glue.
I glued then anyway, just to be pedantic. These sprues were so good you didnt need to fill any of the joins with green stuff, there were no gaps. Finally I gave them both an undercoat (which ruinied the existing paint jobs - oh well)
So just to paint them now - but I must say these were very easy conversions to do. I'll start to investigate some of the other conversion sprues that Games Workshop sell via mail order.
And on the subject of Shiny.. a couple of nights ago I also glued Captain Mal's arm to his body, so as I needed to get out the spray paint tonight I cleaned him up and undercoated him as well. More black models to finish!!
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