40mm: Pandours for Wittenberg - WIP3

The tools and stuff what I use

I prefer a pin-chuck as I can only stab myself with the bit, rather than drill a hole in myself using an electric powered mini-drill. For cutting bits off figures I use a good strong pare of snippers - the orange handled pair (normally used for Xuron OO/HO model railway track cutting). For moving arm position I use the pin-nosed pliers.

I've put a few photos together to outline some of the techniques used for my next batch of three Pandour conversions

First one using the standard advancing figure - first I cut off the musket & hands, raised up the left arm, re-positioned the right arm and stuck a new musket into position. For sticking smaller parts I use a dab of Evo-Stick on one part and a dab of super glue on the other.

 Next up a marching pandour based on a Hungarian march attack figure - a head swap, new musket and the coat tails removed - all the bits laid out

 All put together, using some green stuff to attach the head,

 Next a pandour carrying his musket; this time after cutting of the musket&hands I repositioned the right arm, for the left arm I've added a new one part made of wire and the cuff of the original arm

I usually leave the figures for a day to allow glue and green stuff to set. Then I add missing hands and do any additional re-buiding.

All three finished with new hands where needed, plus a new arm for the middle chap using green stuff.

Now to decide the on the poses for the next batch of three.

A spot of hunting ....

The King and the Field Marshall, with an escort of horse grenadiers, arrive at the King's hunting lodge in the forest some 10 miles from Wittenberg.

After a restful evening and night they head out hunting. They have a good day and have already shot five deer and two wild boar. Late in the afternoon while stalking a herd of deer they reach a small clearing, staring defiantly at them is a white hart ....

 The King in awe of this beautiful and brave animal, declines to shoot it and lets it go off into the forest.

40mm: Pandours for Wittenberg - WIP2

I have finished off three more pandour conversions ....

so 6 done, 18 to go. I've run out of figs, so I've ordered 18 more pandours to convert plus some hungarian infantry which may provide some more body poses to play with.

40mm: Pandours for Wittenberg - WIP

I've decided to add a battalion of pandours to Witteneberg's Boritzy Freikorps; I'll be building the unit up from some Creartec homecasts and Irregular Miniatures pandour figure. The aim is to have lots of different pose figures, so conversions to do with green stuff etc.

I've finished doing the officers

and have 3 of the pandours done, original Irregular Miniatures on the left and a couple with simple change of pose.

I have another 21 pandours to work on, so will post pictures as things develop.

40mm: Wittenberg - Kurassiers

Colonel Waldebeck finishes his round of inspections of the forces at his disposal. Today he is checking out a detached squadron of Kurassier regiment von Plotz.

[note: the Kurassier figures are Creartec homecasts]

Burnt to dust ....

continued from the previous post ...

After the frightening events at the palace on All Hallows Eve; the monks of Alt-Wittenberg have been charged with the safe disposal of the mummy of King Rubbatiti.

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On All Souls Day a precession of monks left the abbey of Alt-Wittenberg for a nearby field where preparations have been made ...

 The mummy was placed on top of a large funeral pyre...

the monks sing prayers as the pyre burns ...

 

thus the mortal remains of King Rubbatiti are gone, burnt to dust; may his soul find eternal rest. 

The end of this strange and chilling incident .......

The awakening ......

continued from the previous post...

The next evening at the Palace the All Hallows Eve events were in full swing. Outside it was a crisp clear evening, and the constellation of Orion was rising .....

 In the store room next to the museum the mummy stirred and rose from it resting place in the sarcophagus

The mummy wandered into the store room by the kitchen, frightening a scullery maid who ran away screaming  ...

There is much panic and consternation in the palace as the mummy blunders around; visitors and members of the court are ushered into the ball room for safety (one poor chap has fainted). The palace guards move to try and confine the mummy to the main hall.

Two monks from the abbey of Alt-Wittenberg, who by good fortune were visiting the palace that evening, confront the mummy in the main hall of the palace - chanting prayers in harmonic unison...

 The King and Count Herman watch anxiously from the balcony of the hall ...

 The monks chanting works and the mummy lays down, folds his arms and ceases moving ....

Afterwards ensuring the mummy is inert, it is sealed in its sarcophagus and given over to the safekeeping of the monks who take it away to the their abbey.