Well, who better to call upon when you need a few good archers?
Speaking of which, let's have a look at some of those conversions. When I can, I like to have each figure on a stand be of a different pose, and my army list means I need to make five stands that will have three bowmen each. Now, I have a few archers from the Caesar set who can provide some variety alongside the Revell figures, but not enough for five stands. So I turned to my old friend Airfix Robin Hood:
Top row: the Caesar archer and two as-yet unmodified Revell archers.
Second row: Robin Hood himself, with his hat trimmed back a bit to be a headband (still with the original feather!) He will be mostly a paint conversion - I will paint his jerkin to be a quilted one like the Caesar archer, or the archer from the first Lienzo panel, and just paint his arms and legs in flesh tones. Second and third figures are Revell archers with some trimming. This may be heresy, but I don't like the plastic bow strings - also, it lets me carve out some awkward plastic from how the figures are cast. I know some people are hardcore enough to add bow strings with thread, but I am not!
I have also done my best to shave down the shield designs, as I want to paint my own. And I have cut back the feather crest on the kneeling archer, since it doesn't look quite right for the Tlaxcalans. For some I may trim it completely, but I have left this guy a couple of feathers.
Third row: Three variations on a converted Robin Hood archer. The first one just has a head swap from a Revell figure, and I have carved down his tunic a bit. The second and third have head swaps as well as leg swaps - their lower bodies are taken from one of the Revell slinger poses. All of them (and Robin Hood) have simple curved bows made from brass wire, and added quivers made from green stuff (or maybe shopping bags full of broccoli to snack on!)