Saturday 19 October 2013

Conestoga Wagon (Imex)

A heavy Transport wagon for Bodstonia, the Conestoga Wagon from Imex. I´ve had the set for a while now but everytime I looked at it,  the size of the wagon and the number of nags put me off..until recently I saw Brian´s paintjob of both the wagons in the set over at A Fistfull of plastic blog.
 The horse traces are made from very thin strips of paper...which took Ages!

So it fits into the world of bodstonia, the Driver got a head swop using one of the heads from the Italeri (AWI) American Infantry set. By the look of him the ride hasn´t been too comfortable!



14 comments:

  1. The wagon looks excellent, I have done the traces before using fuse wire, it indeed takes bloody ages, must be even harder with paper!

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  2. May have taken ages and you may have put it off but it looks great

    Ian

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  3. Fabulous work on the wagon and the militia, great colors and pictures!

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  4. Looks fantastic Paul! What I really like is how you did the wire on the horses. And that with paper! The conversions of the militia men are great!

    Greetings
    Peter

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  5. You know, one of the things I really appreciate about your blog are all the little conversions. Fun stuff, as always.

    FMB

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  6. Another fine model painted and presented per your abilities and zeal.

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  7. What a great build up. It is indeed a massive model and you did well with the traces. I liked the wood finish too.
    Mike Bunkermeister Creek
    http://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/

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  8. Great work, especially on those traces. I had a strange idea once, involving dental tape (not floss) cut up to be used as reigns for some old scythed chariots. I haven't got around to trying it - they'd need painting afterwards, of course, to stop my scythes smelling of spearmint, but they are the right shape!

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  9. Very realistic painting on the wagon, a lovely piece but my favourite has to be those American militia, superb painting.

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  10. Great work with using paper for the traces - it certainly looks the part! the overall look of the wagon is amazing! I The head swaps look excellent, the militiaman in particular looks very good, and have certainly given me some ideas!

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  11. Fantastic. It's convenient that these pioneer wagons look so similar to 18th century "Dutch" wagons.

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