Conversions for contest and fun

My miniatures arrived about a week ago for the Warlord diorama contest, and I'm partway through converting them for their intended purpose. Dahlbergh is basically the stock model, just with some slight arm reposing and subsequent repair work. The driller is a mortar crewman, with added winter clothes, and his artillery ladle converted into a drill. The other henchman is a plastic pikeman with WiP winter gear, a converted arm, and what will eventually be a measuring rod.

And here are a couple other miniatures that came with the command unit. The officer is "supposed" to be holding a flag or partizan, but I couldn't resist putting together a chalice out of sprue bits.

Merry Christmas!

...and happy holidays, and in case I don't post again this month, happy New Year's too!

I have two new projects for the winter. One is a diorama contest entry, and the other is still secret because I don't have any good pics for it yet.

The contest basically has just three rules: Warlord minis only, no more than 20 cm in any dimension, the theme is harsh/hostile environments.

I've started a thread on their forum to document my planning and execution. I've pretty much decided I'm going to model Erik Dahlbergh and his assistants on the Baltic ice during the Great Northern War, checking the thickness to see if Karl X's army can safely perform the March Across the Belts. I'm thinking Dahlbergh himself will be a metal infantry officer, the assistant(s) will be various gun crew models, and I'll also have the dragoon horse-holder minding their mounts, and if the base isn't too crowded by then, a couple reiters keeping watch.

Unfortunately, my card is having weird issues with foreign transactions, so I don't have the miniatures I want yet. But I've been playing around with a mock-up, and 20 cm isn't a whole lot of space. This will be interesting...