Small Scale Military Headquarters

here is some eye candy for you guy's

http://community.webshots.com/album/423829831UyFMjA

tomd

Ahh! Just like the testudo relief on Trajan's Column in Rome! Excelent work!

Tomd,
Again mate superb Romans Love the turtle formation you have done

That`s a fair number of Roman legionaires you have there too

Ja
Steel Bonnet

That's great! Must have cost a fair bit to make, all those Papo figures plus other figures. Lots of work too. Looks very cool.


Great job

Nice job.
Todd

Thanks Guys for the comments

I used 18 papo romans and 18 GI Joe spytroops figure Nunchuck. I took the papo heads and shields and the GI joe bodies.

this is my hobby and my art. expensive? what isn't..

tomd

did you graft any of the papo roman armour onto the nunchuk figures or was the regular nunchuk figure used with just the papo head and sheild?

..and i know what you mean. If done some pretty pricey projects too, for my art/hobby.

I cut the armor off and made 4 figures a while ago, its a great deal of work,, cutting, grinding, sanding...most are just heads on nunchuck.

I have some old pics on webshots album name romans.

I have lots of now headless roman bodies, if I can find a easier way to use the armor I will make more. I think if I had a small bandsaw, like from micromark tools I could cut the armor off. For now I am going to move on to something else

tomd

Nice work!
really cool ideas as usual!
keep up the great work!

Here's an interesting message board thread on Testudos, their use and effectiveness etc. Some links with pics of reenactors in testudo formation. Cool stuff.


http://www.unrv.com/forum/index.php?s=1 ... =14&t=1324

Hey Ferg,
Nice site mate thank`s for the ref material

Tomd,
As another source for Roamn,have you tried using parts from the deadite Roman (Ash Army of Darkness range from Mcfarlane).
The armour can actually be prised off so you can then with some care & skill put onto another figure.

Just another option mate for more Romans I myself have only a few:- 2 chariots,4 legionaires,Centurian & a Tribune.

Still I did them when I first saw your`s.

Ja
Steel Bonnet

Wow, great stuff, any pics of the legionnaires by themselves? BTW a little OT here but I've been pretty hooked by Simon Scarrow's 'Eagle' fiction series of two Roman legionnaires. You can check out his page and more info on the books at the link below, pretty good reading IMO;

http://www.scarrow.fsnet.co.uk/new%20wr ... 20page.htm

here are some pic's I did about 8 months ago of the custom romans in action...t

http://community.webshots.com/album/212877574FfGJXP


the main reason I did all the cutting/pasting was to get articulated roman figures..papo romans only come in 3 poses.

yep those are the one`s that showed me

A,Papo has a great range & worth considering

B,Historical is now achievable without having to make all the armour yourself

Again Thank`s for showing these again Tom & also for inflicting more directions for the hobby to go into.....LOL

Ja
Steel Bonnet

Thanks for the pictures, those are really great stuff. Are the horses also by papo or from other lines? Any place with pics of Papo stuff online?

Hi Dzirhan,

Well mate try this link to the range of papo

http://www.papo-france.com/uk/

Also

http://www.ouraytoys.com/display.php?cat=281

&

http://www.woolgarstoys.co.uk/shop/page ... ights.html

&

http://www.platform8.com/acatalog/Onlin ... res_1.html


Have some of the Medieval stuff for future customs & there just as nice as the Roman stuff

Horses in Tomd`s photos are indeed Papo too

Hope this helps mate

Ja
Steel Bonnet

tderespino, that formation looks really sweet

heres a question for ya, what did you do with all the left over fireflys and crosshairs?

I used all the crosshair's for custom modern figures, there were no firefly's.. I bought just the two-packs with the crosshairs.

Excellent work TD!

as always - awesome stuff!!!

roman articulated 1:18! what a dream!
very cool you have the talent AND patience to make these. I enjoyed your first set of pics and these are great too!

(off 1:18 topic)
if you want to REALLY drain your bank account, Ignite is doing a 1:6 Legionnaire out in about a month or so...
http://www.igniteco.com/ignite/

again, love those romans tomd!

stuff looks great as always tom

thank's again to all for the nice comments,, I wanted to do the Roman Turtle for a long time,,I had to glue the feet down on the outside figures, I kept having the domino effect as I added the last few shields. I always use amaizing goop for my stuff because it never gets fully hard and it is easily removed to go onto the next display...

I am so happy that I found a place to post my stuff where there are no Snobby Artsy fartsy types who think everything has to have a museum quality paint job...

Many thanks to all those old time Ground-Pounder's for keeping this forum alive...tom