Mike's plastic army conversions for DBA


There is more and more becoming available in 1/72 plastics, but a big part of the fun is making do with what you can.  It is simple to collect an army of Macedonians, Hoplite Greeks, Persians, Romans, Gauls, and so on.  But creating an army from spare parts and conversion gives you the chance to give your collection more personality.  So far I have improvised:

Philistines
Early Hebrews
Classical Indians
Early Bedouins
Amorites
Sumerians
Lybians
Assyrians
Elamites
I've also done some conversions to flesh out partly-available armies, to wit:

Teutonic Kights and Knights of St. John
Samurai
Huns
Numidians
Persians
Spanish
Saracens
Conquistadors
Aztecs


Then, there are armies that are kinda-sorta-plausible as I've done them:

Mitanni
Mound-builders

Links

I should point out that several other people have some nice conversions to show off, too:

Nick Grant has a great site, which directly inspired me the most.  Tony De Lyall's pioneering efforts in conversions are also featured here.  The site is now updated occasionally by "Young Stan" Walker.

Greg Kelleher also has some cool armies to show off.

Claudio Berni  has some conversions in progress and also sells some 1/72 terrain & stuff.

Over at the HaT "Everything Toy Soldiers" pages there are some great conversions as well.

Keith Finn has contributed some excellent-looking stuff for DBA -- check out the Elamites and Lydians.

http://www.hat.com/Othr/DPConv.html  -- Some Roman auxiliaries and Elephants

http://www.hat.com/Othr3/Munch09.html -- Interesting Roman Velites conversions

http://www.hat.com/Othr5/Kris11.html -- Nice Celtic chief and chariots

http://www.hat.com/Othr2/Stan01.html  -- Not actually ancient or medieval but very well done and covering an otherwise unavailable army.

http://www.hat.com/Othr2/Pivtorak01.html -- Also a later period, but damn cool.

http://www.hat.com/Othr2/Vaughan1.html -- Some fantasy conversions (See Nick Grant's page for more ideas).

http://www.hat.com/Conv/Munchd.html -- A good casualty conversion.

http://www.hat.com/Conv/Muncha.html -- some good examples of the the "boil & twist" method of reposing figures.

http://www.hat.com/Othr/Hattites.html -- No pictures but good ideas for making Hittites.  I'll have to try that some day.

http://www.hat.com/Othr4/Sander03.html -- The simplest conversion of all -- mix & match riders & mounts.

http://www.hat.com/Othr4/Lillie01.html -- Nicely done pirates.

http://www.hat.com/Othr3/Lhu01.html -- Imaginative pose conversions.

http://www.hat.com/Othr3/Pivtorak04.html -- Cool Russians in red coats.

http://www.hat.com/Othr3/Ducoret01.html -- Great Scots!