Phew.......... bit of a slog but I have finally finished the Cumberland Yeomanry Cavalry. Pretty happy with the result. The
Black Tree Boers are definitely a good base, head swops worked ok. Looking at them now I might have made more conversions but I always get too impatient. They are fairly generic so they can play in VBCW for a range of factions West Cumberland Mounted Farmers, the Melmerby Hunt or the Alston Mounted Brigade. They can also play as the Wealden Mounted Homeguard in Sealion.
What next.................Panzers I think.
A couple of people have asked about the conversions, unfortunate the heads I stopped were cut off older figures whose province I don't know, apart form the artillery man. The good news is most were just cut down, filed and rebuilt with green stuff. The head swops are ringed yellow below. Since posting this first I have since found that the French heads are actually renegade ww1 figures.
they've come out really well. how brilliant is VBCW. really gets my imagination flowing
ReplyDeleteThanks, their first outing is likely to be as the Alston Mounted Brigade, so horses will probably trip up and go lame !
DeleteThey really look the part, an inspired choice of figures.
ReplyDeleteThanks Phil at some point I would like to get some More cavalry probably a hunt but I haven't located the figures yet.
DeleteThey are superb Matt! A truly unique and wonderful unit, bravo Sir.
ReplyDeleteThanks Michael very happy with the result.....I now need to source some Hunt figures.
DeleteThose are really first rate Matt! Which heads were used for the conversions please?
ReplyDeleteThanks Dave they are a bit of a mix i'll post a picture 😀
DeleteDave I have added a photo, most just cut down from the original to turn them into cloth caps.
DeleteI hadn't even thought to look on Black Tree for VBCW horsemen let alone in their Boer war section - definitely doing this in the future. I second David's question - where are the heads from?
ReplyDeleteThanks Mike these black tree were really quite nice sculpts, they do foot boers as well which might be useful in some form. I post a list of the conversions where I know them.
DeleteMike I have added a photo, the good news is most are cut down from original. Have hunted on the net but can't locate the WW1 General figure although I do have a third, which is why I didn't mind cutting the heads off a couple.😀
DeleteThey really do look the part. I wouldn't have guessed they were conversions, nor Boers, if I hadn't known already.
ReplyDeleteVery nice work Matt.
Thanks Roy, when I looked at them the beards were the main issue so all the clean shaven figures were ok but the majority of beards had to have their heads cut off !
DeleteAh yes, the hirsute Victorian beard. That might have looked out of place in the C20th :D
DeleteWow. They really do look brilliant! You've done a proper grand job on them!
ReplyDeleteThanks Gordon hopefully worth the effort.
DeleteThey look superb, excellent job!
ReplyDeleteThanks Phil hope to get them on the battlefield soon
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