Peg Shenanigans - Part 6

Still playing around with new ideas. Here's my latest experiment where I try out a different way of doing the arms and - you better sit down for this one - I add a NOSE! Gasp! 😲

I'm slowly getting to a way of doing things with my peg figures that I'm happier with...

This little guy is in the uniform of US Army infantry of the Mexican War of 1846-48. An interesting period which tends to be largely forgotten about, but which led to the addition of Texas to the Union.

Well, I think I'll have a go at two more experimental figures, just to try out a couple more ideas. But I think I know what I want to achieve, I just want to make sure my ideas don't look stupid.

On an amusing note, I had one comment that the above figure looked like one of the soldier from Pippin Fort from the children's TV series 'Camberwick Green'!

Quickie...Huzzah!

Just completed my fourth peg horseman prototype (it's slowly getting there) and I was pleased enough with it - although it's still not perfect - to take this model to a near finished state. I decided to make a 'hussar', not any particular historic regiment but rather just a generic cavalryman...

I don't think I will go as far as painting this because I want to use this model as a template from which I will make - what will hopefully be - my final models, using the dimensions and cutting angles I have established here.

Still, doesn't look too bad.

Horsing Around...Again!

Still not happy with my horse design. I think what it is is that I'm trying to go for a more realistic look which is still recognisably a 'peg' toy. Funny enough, a straight forward 'toy town' toy horse would be easier to make as I'd just go for a rocking horse design or similar, but because I am going for something half way between 'toy' and 'realistic' it seems harder to pull off.

What's happening is that instead of a model that's just a few wooden components glued together I'm starting to have to add more and more Milliput putty in order to make the design work. I'm also having to saw, sand and carve more complicated shapes out of the pegs to get the components I want and to make these components fit. (But, most of all it's the amount of putty I'm having to use that bothers me.)

I really - originally - wanted something that just went together out of a few simple components, but now it's turning into more of a real modelling or sculpting job. Maybe I'm just being too critical tough, as - in the end - it's the final look that matters.

I think what I will do is to paint this one up to see how it fits in with my painted peg soldiers.