This Dave
02-03-2015, 09:39 PM
Being inspired by YorkNecromancer's troopers I bought some of the Statuesque Miniatures heads to make my own female trooper squads. But bare heads on military models kind of bug me so I want to put some headgear on them. I considered using the "empty" helmets that come with all the Guard, er Astram Militarum sprues. But these would require a lot of cutting of the heads and with the helmets on its actually tough to tell they're supposed to be female. And since they're supposed to be veterans I've decided on berets. Statuesque is supposed to be coming out with a line of heroic scale female heads with berets but there's no word on when that'll happen and I want to finish this unit by June so I'm going to try my hand at converting some.
i've come up with two plans. The first is to try cutting the berets off some of the new Tempestus heads and cutting off part of the female heads to make them fit, but this is a lot of work and may end up looking kind of janky. Or I could try to sculpt berets on them using green stuff. This is probably the easiest but my sculpting skills are next to nonexistent. Does anyone know a good technique to sculpt berets? Or know of a place that sells berets for other military figures I could make work?
i've come up with two plans. The first is to try cutting the berets off some of the new Tempestus heads and cutting off part of the female heads to make them fit, but this is a lot of work and may end up looking kind of janky. Or I could try to sculpt berets on them using green stuff. This is probably the easiest but my sculpting skills are next to nonexistent. Does anyone know a good technique to sculpt berets? Or know of a place that sells berets for other military figures I could make work?