AWI heads?

[toolsey]

Hello
I requested separate heads for various ranges a couple of months ago and it was taken as though i was some kind of idiot so i have never posted since.

[Leon]

Hello
I requested separate heads for various ranges a couple of months ago and it was taken as though i was some kind of idiot so i have never posted since.

I remember the thread, and I don't think the idea was taken that badly, just that it would be very fiddly.  I know I said at the time it wouldn't be something we'd be looking to do, but if Clib can put some together and people want to try, then fair enough.

The recent one that Derek H did for the Vietnam M60 figure was great, and good enough to go into production.

[toolsey]

Cheers Leon

I didnt mean your reply to me, some wag started a thread for seperate hands if i remember, but i still think it would be a good idea for seperayr heads for WW1 and WW2

[Leon]

I didnt mean your reply to me, some wag started a thread for seperate hands if i remember, but i still think it would be a good idea for seperayr heads for WW1 and WW2

I remember the separate hands thread as well!

We'd never considered separate heads really, but we'll see if Clib can come up with something, and how easy to use they are, and then we can possibly look at doing it for other ranges.

[17-21l]

Yes It was me who did the seperate hands gag - haway man it was git funny at the time - and still is - ha ha ah ha ha ha , aye but hey what a good idea when you think about the seperate heads - I mean I have done conversions in the past so -

What about seperate types of boots - thigh high , ankle putties -
some WAG will suggest this in a few months and then I will claim baggsies on the idea  rg arg

S

[maciek]

Great idea, Clib.
You could also so it in LoA range. e.g full tricorn heads to adapt some of your figures to WSS.

[macbride95]

As someone said it before I already use the hats of the casualty pack to make some different troops but it requires more work than seperate heads would IMO. I do not think it is a silly idea to consider 10mm as 28mm: some guys want a finished product but you will always find some mad guys just like I am  who would like to paint nearly every troop possible; so spare heads with hat variants would be cool 

[Bill Braham]

It is a pity that the idea of sprues of separate heads never materialised for the AWI range.

[Leman]

I converted some 10mm ACW troops to FPW dismounted French dragoons using head swaps. I regularly do head swaps on my Peter Pig figures using a pin vice.

[d_Guy]

Like Leaman I do a few head swaps (as well as arms with weapons) on my ECW guys. I'd posted about this over a TMP a few(?) months ago. I am not skilled so I generally end up wrecking three of four figures (it is all in the precision of the cuts so I stabilize the figures with modeling clay). I don't drill or pin, just superglue then add a tiny bit of green stuff. As the OP said you can "ping off" a head (which I found out the first time I manhandled one of the figures) but so far the GS patch seems to work.

It would be great if Pendraken did extra heads, etc but I really don't mind buying an extra bag of figures to canabilize - Takes me back to my early Airfix days 

[fred.]

It is a pity that the idea of sprues of separate heads never materialised for the AWI range.

There is a separate hat sprue with the AWI casualties. Don't know if this helps

[paulr]

Does anyone have a picture of what is on the separate hat sprue

I have found this picture of the casualties...

[fred.]

I think the top two sprues are the same - and I am assuming (guessing!!) that I have left all the original stuff in the bag...

[fred.]

I think the top sprue is grenadier's mitre, tricorn with feather, tricorn, small mitre
bottom sprue, floppy hat with upturned brim, tricorn, tricorn, and tarleton?

[paulr]

Thanks Fred

[Bill Braham]

Likewise thanks Fred I had not seen the spare headgear - alas I was hoping for more in the way of cap-hats and the kind of thing that would help with making yp rebel light infantry and some continentals such as the Penn Line in 1780-81. Still these do have their uses!

[Leman]

It does mean that most of  the casualties can be used for the SYW.