Future War Conversions 2

Today the Wargames Atlantic Afghan sprie arrived. Having used up the Perry one yesterday I was eager to see how it measured up.

The WA models are a little smaller than the Perry's and the detail is not as good. I used most of the torsos and heads with some more Scavenger parts. I ordered the Scavenger 2 sprue. It has lots of good looking weapons on it but the torsos are all female. Luckily this isn't very noticeable because of the clothes so I used them as more angry men.

The WA heads provided some more variety into the groups.

You can see here the sculpting on the WA figures isn't as good as the Perry's.

Being smaller, the arms had to be cut down to fit better on the torsos.

This figure will look good with a camouflage jacket on.

This Scavenger 2 sprue comes with this binoculars which is great for a leader or spotter.

The female torso is not that obvious with a male head on...no one will know.

I used a wet wipe soaked in PVA again to cover some bad fitting arm joints. This dries rock hard when dry.

Dodgy looking arm joints with the WA sculpts.

Making up a wet wipe scarf.

I like this kneeing figure now he is finished, he looks the part with his covered fave.

 

I've decided that the guy with the binoculars would make a great Spotter for a sniper team. In the Scavenger 2 sprue there is a lovely long sniper rifle too 

Finished fighters take over the building.

Future War Conversions

I had an idea of how to expand my desert fighter force using plastic kits. My original desert fighters from Trent miniatures have become quite hard to find these days, so I had to come up with another option.

I started off by getting a Scavenger sprue meant for Star grave. This was combined with a Afghan warrior sprue from the Perry's. Needing units of ten men I was pleased to find that the two sprues create 11 models, with a few guns to spare.

Here is the first test model. He is created from a Scavenger body and arms with a head from the Perry's Afghan box. After a while, I thought I might as well use the Afghan bodies as well and this proved a massive success.

Perry's Afghan body but with the modern weaponry added from the Star grave sprue.

I love these kneeing poses from the Perrys.

I had to do a bit of trimming on some of the arm joints but most went together well. The great thing about plastics is they give you loads of options with heads, weapons etc. All these extras basically means you can create loads of figures as long as you have torsos. The Afghan heads were important as they gave the model it's character.
 

I have also ordered a sprue of Afghan warriors from Wargames Atlantic to add into the mix. I know they normally provide loads of head variants.

Is this the brutal leader from the army list  in the Xenis Rampant book...may be. He certainly looks it with that mace.

Heavy weapons fighters.

Here is a comparison with a lead Desert fighter from Trent miniatures. I think the two will mix in well with eachother. I could spend some time with green stuff, but I really didn't want to with this project. Keep it simple and bash out soldiers quickly. A bit of trimming with knife on the sleeves and that's it, done!

There's also a lot more energy in the poses with these plastic figures.

The Marine from Wargames Atlantic scales nicely with the new comers.

Old and new heavy weapons.

These look good together and scale nicely too. The armoured assault trooper is from Copplestone miniatures.

These Ooh-Raa marines from Wargames Atlantic have really grown on me. They paint up really well.

It'll be interesting to see what the Wargames Atlantic Afghans looks like with futuristic weaponry too.

Slight tweak to the leader, I thought a defiant fist might be more apt.

Rather than get bogged down with green stuff, I tried a scarf made from a wet wipe soaked in PVA glue. It's not dry yet but hopefully should dry hard.

Update: unfortunately I used the wrong sort of spray to undercoat these figures, which gave some of them a rough texture. As they are wearing soft garments it didn't bother me too much, it just gives them a material look.

The first batch of five fighters are done and based up. These were quick to do as I blocked out the base colours with a big brush.

I bashed through these models using random browns, nice and quick. I later gave these a wash with brown ink to quickly shade the clothing.

It's nice to have fun making up camouflage patterns. Anything goes with these futuristic desert fighters.

The wrist devices on the arms in the scavenger kit add a nice bit of tech to these humble warriors.

These were great fun to make and paint, which is good news when you need a bucket full of them.

Rough base layers were slapped on.