So I have been doing these for about a month now I have finally finished them.
8 Converted Fountain court guards all with shields.
I hate that these guys were made with basically two poses and the two poses are very similar, I have wanted to convert them so I did some research and looked at what other people have done before.
There is is not much you can do without cutting them up a whole lot.
Here are the two most simple conversions, chucking a shield on their left arm.
Here in the middle we have a left handed soldier what!
just move the shield on the free right hand and the spear fits nicely facing upwards.
For the guy on the left I cut the spear in half for him to hold the spear in one hand.
The right guy cut the left hand off and made a new arm for him. Cutting his hand off also left some marks on his front that I have done my best to fix.
View from the back (not much to see here)
Here are the cool ones.
Guy on left cut his head off and made him look another way, and cut his arm off and reconstructed his arm to point his spear out, I am very pleased with his hand.
Guy in middle I cut his legs off and needed to redo his whole clothing and chain-mail bit which worked really well. I am super pleased with how he turned out.
The right guy I cut his arm off as well and made him look like a standing guard (which is what a fountain guard is meant to be) The sleeve on the arm looks really bad which you can't see it is all bumpy and misshaped. He also has a gorilla hand. But I am still pleased with him.
Here you can see the cloaks which all worked well and look quite smooth.
The middle guy has such beautiful folds; as his cloak drapes on the ground
You can also see he has a shield.
You can also see the armor on the arm on the guy on the right. It is quite hard to make a wrist guard, the shoulder guards took some time but I got there and it looks great.
So this is my first time using wire armature (if that is the right word) I used it for the arms I made and it is really helpful.
It is also the first time I have done a cloak on the ground and that has worked well; gives me confidence that I can do a cloak flowing down on a horse now.
Its the first time my chain mail has looked actually good.
Thoughts and advice guys?