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Power to the Plastic ! ( 1/56 figure kit bashes )
ripley:
I'm going to borrow Tracks idea and create a thread on 1/56 plastic figure conversions . We've all done them , weather its just replacing a arm or head so your tank commanders look a little different , to full on butchering of bodies , arm and legs to get that unique figure for your squad . Everyone feel free to jump in and post pictures of dudes you've created . Would even like to see Frostgrave type mashups , I've got an idea of the Soldiers chain mail type bodies with BA German helmets and gas masks , armed with a variety of German and Russian weapons ::) . Sorry I get side tracked sometimes . If possible tell us what parts you used on your conversions , of course if your like me you have a large stash of left and right arms with no concern from whence they came ,you just pick through the bin till you find one that fits , sort of ... and then you make it fit . Hopefully we get to see lots of neat creations and will be inspired by them to make more of our own . I'll start . I've always like the iconic look of the German mg teams firing over the shoulder of one of the crew . So I decided to make my own using the 2 kneeing Para figures . A lot of trial and error went into this with one arm ending up being made from parts of 3 other arms . Of course no pictures were taken during the kit bash , I've tried to note my progress on builds but I find as I think about what I'm doing , I tend to stop doing it . Creativity for me is just going ahead and doing it . Anyway here's my Para mg crew , and yes that is the extra machine gun arm from the BA 251 half track crewman , finally found a use for it
ultravanillasmurf:
Cool idea.
Nice conversion.
ultravanillasmurf:
Well, here is a small squad of US equipped infantry, armed with M16s and wearing war time kit.
I bought a Warlord US Army sprue at Warfare 2016 and combined it with M16s from the Wargames Factory male survivors equipment sprue (now included in the Warlord Games Project Z survivors set).
The majority of the figures are unmodified, the left hands have been opened up to grasp the wider foregrip of the M16.
ultravanillasmurf:
My commando lieutenant is using a captured weapon.
ripley:
The Yanks look great , like something out a 60s Alien Invasion / Monster Movie right down to having one kind of weapon and another kind of ammo pouches , well done . You meant to do that right ? Don't know of any M-16 style looking pouches in 1/56 , ( cut the BA Brit ones shorter and cast in resin maybe ) you might have to get out the green stuff . Italeri had some pouches in some of their 1/35 sets that were underscale that might work . The Commando looks awesome , very much Tiger Comic if you know what I mean . But he has a Thompson not a captured weapon , did you post the wrong pic ?
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