How to convert plastic figures (1 Viewer)

[modwalls]

Nice job Fubar, those look good. They do match up well with Conte. I will have to take a look at some. Thanks for the info. Mike

 

[fishead19690]

Harold great to see you chopping some plastic up again, they look great, don,t forget to post some photos after you paint them up and maybe a diorama with them!
I got a box of those from Matt the last time I was in there also and I also think they are great figures. I hope they keep coming out with 1/32 scale sets and with a little luck maybe some napoleonics.

 

[Fubar]

Yeah, I was altering and carving them up within 5 minutes of opening the box.
I have all the Conte playsets, probably 50 of the metal Conte and another 60 or so plasticsI painted a few years back. NEVER been on the table all together. Hoping to get these painted up and do some sort of shieldwall wargame .

My buddy Gerry was by the shop today and bought the last 2 boxes I had of the emhar and said he has 50 or so original Marx Vikings he's bringing by Monday so we can chop on those too.

I think theres some Jescan and old Cherlia figs that MIGHT be useful. At least if we knock the horns off the helmets!

FubAr

 

[fishead19690]

Thanx Vamp! Here are a couple more that I did this week. These next couple show how the use of 2 part putty and pieces from other figures with the use of 2 part putty can open up new doors and ideas for your conversions.

The first 2 figures are meant to be a set of figures sharing a smoke after a hard day. Its good to think up little 2 and 3+ figure ideas where the figures can work together, I think they look realy cool and kind of tell a little story when put together.

In the other photo I used parts from various figures along with 2 part putty. You can mix all kinds of parts to come up with all kinds of new ideas.
The stretcher was made out of 2 part putty and some floral wire which was all that I had around at the time, which was not strong enough so I twisted 2 pieces together real tight and it seamed to work O.K. then the rest is 2 part putty.

The guy on the stretcher was all chopped up from varouis pieces, the legs and body are from 2 differnt conte pieces, the head is TSSD and the arms are from a marx viking with 2 part putty sleaves.

The stretcher bearers have arms from TSSD figures with a bit of 2 part putty and took awhile to get positioned right onto the body. They also had to have the hands hollowed out to hold the stretcher also. They need to be cleaned up a bit still and need a bit of filing cutting and filling still to make them look more natural. I think I might redue the stretcher and do it with some brass rod the next time but first I,ll try a bit of carving and fileing first and see if it looks any better.

Just a few more ideas for you guys. Think outside the box and try and make the parts do what you want too! If there not fitting to do what you want them to chop them up and put them back together with 2 part putty and cut carve and shape what you need to get the figure you see in your head into a finnished figure. I first fish through all my parts looking for what will work, if I find nothing I start to CUT!!! I had to cut off and reposition the hand on one of the smoking figures which is a little tricky but can be done with a bit of work. I wanted the other arm holdindg the gun in that marching position and had nothing like that so I had to cut the riffle from another figure and had to cut the hand grenade out of a figures hand from another pose to place the riffle into but I got what I wanted. Its all in studying your figures for the parts you need or the parts you can make work, with a bit of work.

Happy chopping guys!!!

I figured I,d bring this thread back up again since we now have a lot of new members!
Are any of you new guys into converting plastic figures???
If so please post some of your work and your conversion methods. Sharing ideas and tecniques will help us all get better at chopping up figures. Lets see some pictures!!!

 

[Middleguard]

Time to refresh this again. Great information and demonstration here. I've tried some of these techniques with pleasurable results. Thanks for the initial thread and to those of you who added your input.