BB's narrative style of top tips on toy soldier conversions

[Beano Boy]

Don't look down-hearted if there are lots of others to do too. Well hopfully well before the painting had been brushed upon them.



Welcome to 2023,
i hope 2 c u all soon.BB

[Bluefalchion]

Any hot water necessary to soften the plastic and straighten out that broken ankle?

[Beano Boy]

Thank you for the hot water question Bluefachion.
No hot or warm water required,
however thumb and finger nails do help out big time. BB

[Beano Boy]

MEDIEVAL FOOT SOLDIERS produced by AirFix
Here i string the bow of one 1/32 Scale Archer from that old set.

Above is my first painted sample awaiting a bowstring. The pins left in stopped paint from getting into the tiny holes on this one. Because such a tip BB,wished he had,had before in the old days of his middle age,but of course he had not written of it when there was his need for it. Bonkers !



Dress Makers Pin used as a tool can assist in many a project especially this one. Inspite of it being a rather tight squeeze i manage to get the hole as close to the fingers as i could. that's a might tricky! The little button mentioned after thoughtfully pondering upon it. Eh? WingNut, wondered to himself.



Fine Fuse Wire was thread through the hole. In the olden days every house had this old thin sparky stuff to fix em fuse plugs.

As a rather adventurous boy of nine, 'Gosh! that's 66 years ago',upon many a strange pitch dark night after the fuse had blown in our home, it was i who fixed it under the candel light of flickering flame.Well after all there was only my Mother, and my brother and of course little me. Yes being a latchkey kid, and other things besides one had to grow up quick.



Moving along the Bow had to be pinned too by pushing it through near each end.



And so it was that this little bow was duly strung! decleared Mr Green.
Eh! it was? it sure was wingnut. Ok!

Well that's, that then.
Take care of yourselves out there,
and help others if you can.BB

[Santi Pérez]

A great trick, B.B. Too bad that applying it to 1/72nd scale figures is a bit more complicated.

By the way, I remember that I have also used pins for some of my figures, for example, on this Swiss Guard sergeant and officer to make his cane and the blade and scabbard of his sword, respectively.



Best regards.

Santi.

[Peter]

Great tip for adding a bowstring!

Seen this just in time. I've got two of these on my painting desk.

[Beano Boy]

'Thank U for the likes and comments guy's, they help oil up my cogs of free expression.' 'They do?' asked WingNut. 'sure they do',replied the little button. 'They most certainly do', chimed in the well read Bookworm.
'But how?' ' This could go on, and on all the lived long day', decleared the Lonesome Cowboy, who always sleeps in his boots!
'That's OK,i'll hold the midnight candle!' Summed up Mr Green.

And so moving along now...
i also found out many years ago that due to being a Pet of our 'Bella', that those 'Dogy Bag's', used for you know what? Have twisty plastic ties laced with very fine wire that can easily be removed and yes used to string wire such odd looking 'Bow's', too.



Very bland and uninteresting old Cherilea, 54mm toy figure set from the 1950's,that sure needed dressing up. Back in the day i used dress makers pins for loose arrows,paper for their quivers! And wired the home made plastic strip bows too. There is another noble brave kneeling and bending bow with arrow afixed too,but he has gotten lost somewhere in my toy collection. Far to many dusty boxes to sift through now,but one day he might well appear. Although i supose but by then i might well have forgotten why on earth i needed him for.

i am thinking,a waterfall washed him away.

That's it for now,
Stay safe and help others if you can. BB

[Peter]

More pictures from the Cherilea figures please. You've got me, as a collector, interested to see them.

[Beano Boy]

Ancient Bones

The left arms were cut off and after setting fire to melt the plastic they were quickly stuck back into the poses that i wanted.
All the arrows were made from using fine dress makers pins that were hot wired into the hands that needed them.



This topic shows how i strung the bows with thin wire on these 32mm scale figures.



i pushed a hot pin through the base beside the foot and bow.



i stuck a small stone in the resess and later i glued the wire around it then soon after i fed the wire through the base and that was stuck into place too.



It was quite easy to do.



To finish wiring it was pulled tight and wound around the top of the bow and glued into place with contact glue. So the wire was very well anchoured using this system of making do and mend.



It did seem a puzzlement to me that all the bowbones were boney left handed.



i hope you will visit again real soon. BB in the United Kingdom

[sberry]

I love those guys!
And I suppose they must be that famous Skeleton Crew that is so prominent in the media these days...

[PaulRPetri]

Nice work BB!!

[Santi Pérez]

Those skeletons look fantastic and menacing at the same time, BB. You've done a great job with them.

Santi.

[Beano Boy]

Thank you kindly for your response Guys',
Warning this might scare some.
'this ain't good. i remember the last time bb,wrote of them'.
'Eh! Them! What on earth do you mean Little Button?'
' Trust me little button,this will not be the full story from long ago.'
'O, do tell BB? '
'no,no mr green, it will turn you white as a lit up sheet in a dark room.' Pleaded the little fellow.
Come on Pard's.Ya got'ta, trust BB!

That's right.And so i will begin.
i remember re-constructing those odd looking bones many years ago when i was much more able to think up rustic schemes of 'madness' using fine dry sand upon wet pva glue .By using it upon weapons and shields alike for the most part to assimilate thought into the perseption of rust eating away metal.
Another decorative touch was achived by using blue tac or,'green stuff', which was a two part formulation of blue and yellow plastic mixed by way of finger and thumb to create the oddity of ornamental headdresses upon ancient decaying skulls!

Skulls that glowed within from some kind of eary scary resident evil!
______ zip_____ right i'm off!
i'll see you on the next one Guys. BB