Sunday 29 October 2017

S Range French FPW Officer with binoculars - the missing arm!

If you have read my earlier post about the search for Will you will have read the tragedy of the missing arm.  If you haven't, to recap I cut the arms off a Prussian Gunners body and whilst trying to make them wider they snapped and one bit disappeared into the deepest recesses of my loft.  I then remade the figure using the arms from a British CW gunner figure. (see S Range Help to Find Will post).

 I was looking through my spares box and found the other bit of the arms that I had retained and realised that this was the bit that was holding the 'binoculars' .  It also had the 'hand' from the other arm that went missing attached.  So I trimmed off the rest of that hand and sanded things down.  I then removed the arm from a French mounted general and fixed the new arm on.  Not too bad and since I don't need hundreds a worthwhile one off.




Now if only I could think of Officer on foot that would make a reasonable conversion?

 His Prussian counterpart using both hands to use his binoculars and mounted on an S range horse this time..


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  1. Ray Rousell29 October 2017 at 20:55

    Nice work.

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  2. Ray Rousell29 October 2017 at 20:55

    Nice work.

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    1. ABC Wargammers30 October 2017 at 12:51

      Hi Ray
      Thanks for taking the time to look and comment. Much appreciated as always.

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  3. Ross Mac rmacfa@gmail.com29 October 2017 at 21:17

    Nicely done. I have a 'thing' for officers looking through binoculars.

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    1. ABC Wargammers30 October 2017 at 12:54

      Thanks Ros, I know what you mean, I have been trying to work out how to do a figure with binoculars for some time. Need to get my head around how to make a dismounted figure. I think the mounted French Officer 'style' of one hand holding the binoculars could be used for any of the FPW mounted Officers.

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  4. MSFoy29 October 2017 at 23:37

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  5. MSFoy29 October 2017 at 23:38

    That's really very good indeed - I like him. The story is getting scarily like Jurassic Park though - so if we find a broken bayonet from an S-Range figure, you can very nearly reverse engineer a whole army from the bits?

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    1. ABC Wargammers30 October 2017 at 13:00

      Hi, it is strange you should say this. Twisting off heads, cutting off arms and hands is a bit sinister when you thing about it! More 'Frankenstein' than 'Jurassic Park' but certainly creepy! My collection of 'spare heads and bodies' is certainly growing!

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  6. Wellington Man30 October 2017 at 17:59

    Wherer there's a Will, there's a way, ABC. Splendid work, as always.
    Best regards
    WM

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    1. ABC Wargammers31 October 2017 at 16:04

      Hi WM
      All these binoculars trying to find poor Will. You must of course take the prize for the inspiration to do this.

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  7. Stryker31 October 2017 at 09:47

    Very nice, glad to see the French have re-armed!

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    1. ABC Wargammers31 October 2017 at 16:06

      Oh dear! I hadn't thought of that one! Just making my Hesse Kessel artillerymen and I think I have an idea for an officer on foot with binoculars. Need to find another arm!

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