A New Pose For an Old Roman Pose
Our very good friend Greg Liska is back with a simple conversion. Here is what he had to say.
I had 2 of the Marx WoW Romans with whip that were broken. As they are, I often use them as slingers (requires some imagination) but these guys were broken. I decided to give them a Timpo shield and crest off of a Thomas Toy Roman who’d I’d turned into an archer. It’s a completely different look, if not a rather unlikely pose. I just can’t throw anything away and I didn’t really need more slingers. One of these is an original and the other is a HK copy. Can you tell?
Looks really good Greg,interesting fighting pose, I cant’t tell which one is the original !
Thanks, Mark. In reality, it’s not a good fighting pose at all. The Roman Scutum was not used that way. It’s too heavy for that to be a practical maneuver and really, all he would have to do to block a strike there is shrug his shoulder up to cover his body or head. I’d thought about moving the arm in a downward position, but I was a bit worried about how I’d cut the hard plastic of the original WoW guy. In the end, I just went with the easiest conversion. I’m OK with it.
Greg,same I did ,just mine I use oval shield and spear. I lot of Marx WOW broken could be converted, the hot melt process work great on the old HK plastic too.
Awesome job u did!!!
Thanks, Erwin. The swords were in tact on these guys, so I left them.
The one on the right is the Hong Kong copy?
Correct! He’s smaller by about 3mm. Not as detailed in the face area, but most else is pretty close.