I don't remember where I saw it, but a while back I saw a simple idea for a conversion for the Buccaneer warjack. Seeing as I really love these warjacks and one is an important part of my Fiona list, I figured it was worth attempting myself. This was a fairly simple conversion in theory, so I wanted to take a stab at it and see if it was as easy as it looked. The idea is simple: use the top of Fiona's trident and do a swap with the head of the Buccaneer gaff pole! Here's
my attempt at it.
First I'll show you how the conversion works. Here's the assembled Buccaneer:
The head of the gaff pole will be cut off to replace it with the head of Fiona's trident (the bits of which I ordered from Privateer Press).
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| It looks fairly straight-forward |
Next I obviously hat to chop off the relevant bits using some clippers.
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| First the trident... |
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| ... then the gaff pole! |
Next up, I just had to file down both of the chopped off ends and then drill some holes for pinning the two bits together.
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| Drilled and pinned, ready to be put together! |
Well, all that was left was using some superglue to put them together. Wait... that's it? Really? Okay then, let's do it again!
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| Two Buccaneer conversions and they look great! |
I'm pleased with the subtlety of the conversion and it took me a total of 15 minutes to do both Buccaneers, and most of that time was spent drilling the holes. Now I just have to get the wooden plank bases I need from
www.ironhalo.net, prime them, and they're good to go on the painting table!
