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Shannon Reuss said:
Thanks fishead for all the great photos of your conversions! I can see that plastics offer a lot in the way of being able to mix and match heads and arms and things. Do you just cut off what you want to swap out and then super glue the new head or appendage? I look forward to your step by step conversion topic planned for winter.
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I,m glad to see that some one is out there:p I felt like I was talking to myself there for awhile. I use tamiya 2 part putty which is like clay that comes in two seprate sticks that you knead together and they harden and can be filed or sanded and you can also make things like new hats or gear or what ever you like. I also you zap a gap glue which is like crazy glue if I don,t need to do a lot of filling. I use razor blades or hobby knifes to do the cutting of the figures.
 
I do not convert any more. I have no interest. But I can appreciate a master craftsman. Most of us wish we had your's and other's talent. Maybe ,others are too embarrassed to show their work....Michael
 
So do you use the putty to glue their heads back on? I love your stuff. My father gave me some airfix highlanders. Actually the whole box! I love them but, their fragile lost some rifles:eek: Keep up the good work!
 
Fishead, I love your Austrians in particular.I Havent converted any at all but I like your work.I'll get around to it someday.I have 140 or so Italeri painted but no conversions.
I posted pix of conversions before so I'll refrain from reposting them just now.
Okay just one.
Anyway, I will post some pix of my Russian Gunners soon. Theres a few new poses I managed to come up with from the originals.
Tomorrow is my sons birthday, my birthday and a buddy of mines Bday, { he happens to be a toy soldier nut as well} and the plan is to have the wives leave us be so we can play with our toys.An annual event for about 10 years.
I'll have troops out of their tubbs and get some pix of some Napoleonic conversions.
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kilted vampire said:
So do you use the putty to glue their heads back on? I love your stuff. My father gave me some airfix highlanders. Actually the whole box! I love them but, their fragile lost some rifles:eek: Keep up the good work!
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Yes! And I also have a pointed hobby knife that I use to dig a hole into the head and into the body where the head goes so that it helps hold the head on better. Some guys use small metal rods but I find that digging a hole up into the head and body works fine and its easier to adjust the head to the position that you like and the putty will move around, not like the pinn that if not set just right will look a bit off. The hole will hold better if you can get it on a little bit of an angle and just pack in the 2 part putty then wipe off any extra. I do the same for new arms, legs, waists, ect.It helps to hold the figures together better. I like to use the disposable testers hobby knifes because the blade is fixed in real good and you can put the extra presure on them to cut thicker pieces of the body like the waist. The kits with the multi blades that you can change can,t seem to stand up to the presure needed for the harder plastics They tend to come loose. I hope this helps you and if you have any more ??? please post I,ll try and help you out if I can. I,m self taught at this and learned the little I know from trail and lots of eras and cut fingers so be very careful and always cut away from yourself or down onto an old piece of wood or something. Maybe we,ll get lucky and someone who knows more about this stuff will see this and help us out and post some of there work also.
 
Great stuff FUBAR!:D What other figures besides conte did you use on those? I love seeing your conversions and the conversions of others it gives me all kinds of great ideas. I have so many ideas also that I just havn,t gotten around to yet. Just in napoleonics alone I could go on for years. I,d like to do some other eras also at some point. I have a few more cival war conversions that I never got around to paiting yet. Painting is the real time killer for me I,m half blind when it comes to that and I,m real slow at it and get bored half way through painting them. Thats why half of my plastics are only half painted. P.S. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, sounds like a great plan for the day!!!
 
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Here are some various napoleonic conversions.
 

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Most of these are conversions there are a few replacanats plastics mixed in.
 

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Some voltiguers! the officer is an A.I.P. body with new arms and legs from a bmc alamo defender.The 3 in the middle are airfix conversions and the rest are just repaints as voltiguers. Some day i,ll get around to finnishing the paint job on them. I always hated the airfix pose of the guy loading the gun so here are a couple of solutions to fixing him. The pose isn,t that bad if you just have one figure like that loading the gun but when you see them in mass formation they look realy silly. I like poses that can be set up in colums.
 

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Fubar said:
Fishead, I love your Austrians in particular.I Havent converted any at all but I like your work.I'll get around to it someday.I have 140 or so Italeri painted but no conversions.
I posted pix of conversions before so I'll refrain from reposting them just now.
Okay just one.
Anyway, I will post some pix of my Russian Gunners soon. Theres a few new poses I managed to come up with from the originals.
Tomorrow is my sons birthday, my birthday and a buddy of mines Bday, { he happens to be a toy soldier nut as well} and the plan is to have the wives leave us be so we can play with our toys.An annual event for about 10 years.
I'll have troops out of their tubbs and get some pix of some Napoleonic conversions.
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Happy Birthday Fubar:D
 
I like AIP they are reliable at least. Where did the overcoats come from? I'm going to try the two part putty on those dulcop figures. Are we having fun yet?
 
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Here is a conversion. Del Prado life guard to Frech Lancer
 
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OzDigger said:
1) On the image shack web page click on the 'Browse...' button to find the image in your computer.

2) Select (tick) the resize image option to say 1024 x 768 size
Select (tick) the remove size resolution bar option
Click on the Host it! button to load the image from your computer to image shack.

3) Click on the 'My images' link at the top of the page to show the new image and all past images of yours held at the Imageshack site. While on that page why not bookmark it for future use as there is an 'upload images' link to load more pics

4) Each image will have several size options against it. Select the Forums size, which is usually the second selection from the top. Left click to hilite that size in blue, then on your keyboard press buttons Control then 'c' then click where you want the image in your post then press Control 'v' to cut and past it there. Then press the submit reply button on the forum and it should load the pic in your post.

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thanks Oz! I'll monkey around until I get it right.
 
Thats pretty cool I hope you post some more in the near future but, I think you meant to say he was a carabiner and not a cuirassier. How many del prado conversions have you done so far?
 
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