Figure Conversions

Eagle Games horse and colonial wars figure.

He has a sword at the ready.

Cheapo plastic civilian figure.

He sort of looks like someone copied a pilot figure from a 1/72nd scale airplane.  Legs apart to use the pedals, and hands ready to hold the stick.

But cut him in half and he is a seated colonial wars figure when combined with the upper body of the colonial wars rider.

Since I hate to waste anything, combine the civilian upper with the military lower, and you have a civilian rider.  I plan to use him for a war correspondent.

Unaltered colonial war and altered civilian.
 

British WWI Tropical by HaT Industry

With only eight poses this set might seem like it is lacking a lot of poses.

But in WWI the short pants were not always worn.

So in tropical combat these guys could have a few head swaps with the Hat Set 8177 WWI British Heavy Weapons, although the gas mask should also be trimmed away.

Or use some of the Airfix WWII 8th Army figures in shorts with head swaps, they are not that much different.

These are all good action poses with no wasted troops in the group.

I only got a few boxes and I figure for the small skirmishes fought in Africa that's enough.
 

HaT Set 8293 British Infantry (Tropical)

These are First World War British Infantry in the tropical uniform by HaT.

They are all wearing the Wolseley helmet and short pants.

In the first half of the 20th Century US forces in the Philippines wore this helmet.

Normally this set comes in tan plastic but apparently it is now molded in green.

There was no flash and all the troops were molded perfectly.

It is likely that at least a few of these will become US troops in the Philippines and some may also end up as civilian big game hunters or adventurers.

These are WWI troops but I think they would work well enough for British troops as late as he mid 1950s in tropical regions.
 

Another Submarine

This is my OTHER colonial submarine.

It's black rather than gray.  Modern submarines are both black and gray.

More HaT figures in 1/72nd scale.

The Revell Type VII u-boat has a choice of conning towers and so the extra one is useful.

I did a black and gray versions so they could be on opposite sides.

Or they could fight giant squids, or Kronosaurs, or native peoples.

Trevor

I went to the ToysRUS bankruptcy sale and picked up a few Fisher Price Trevor the Metal Engine toys from the Tomas the Tank Engine series.

I never watched and don't care about it.

And I think the little faces are stupid.

But this type of steam tractor is very interesting.

Vehicles of this type date to the late 1800s and were in common use until well after World War One.

Many of them served in various militaries as towing vehicles, sometimes for wagons, or heavy artillery, or even armored wagons!

British Command

HaT Industrie Zulu War British Command set.

Most of what I know about the Zulu Wars comes from watching the movies Zulu Dawn and Zulu.  I am okay with that, they were good movies and it's not a period I really wargame.  I have a number of British Colonial troops and some Esci Zulus but that's about the extent of my British Empire.  These troops are more likely to be used as Americans of the late 1800, the US Army used similar uniforms and helmets, or get used to fight invading Martians.

This set is a great idea, they provide several alternate arms holding different weapons and accessories that can be mixed and matched to make different troops.  The horse mounted officer can have binoculars, a pistol, a sword, or the flag.  American horse cavalry carried a guidon rather than an actual flag most of the time.

These figures carry supplies or buckets.

This pose is intended as the flag bearer, but I have him a pistol and a sword for more variety.

Here they got a pistol, two riflemen, or binoculars.  I like this ability to change up the poses.

The set also comes with these men who have integral arms.  All of these poses are grate for a command set.  Most are officers, or supply troops, sergeants waving, pointing or shouting also!  Great figures with no flash.  I used gap filling super glue, but figures were washed with soap, warm water and a toothbrush to remove the mold release.  Until they were washed they would not take the glue.

I think they fit rather well with the Christmas building.