S Range Mexican Adventure - Mexican cavalry & Sombrero tip

A simple fix to make the figure shown below which can be painted in a variety of colours is as follows:

 Step 1 Find a friend who is making or has made the Perry Ansar figures and beg/borrow any spare shields.

Step 2 - File flat the kepi/head gear of the figure being converted.  This one is an ACW Cavalry Officer. 

Step 3 - File flat the point on the Ansar shield.  The shield had 2 little indents, a blob of superglue can be used to fill this in. 

Step 4 - Drill through the centre of the plastic shield and drill the centre of the now flat head that is receiving the  sombrero. Glue a small piece of brass rod/paperclip/florist wire into the hole in the head and push on the 'shield' and glue in place.  Then it is a simple job of painting the figure.  Hopefully making a better job of white or coloured lines than I have.

You can do this for almost any figure you want to give a simple sombrero to.  

Using a plastic 'shield' also enables it to be made smaller with scalpel.  The addition of a brim made from fuse wire creates a different sombrero.