Recommendations For Figure Alterations. (1 Viewer)

[arnhem44mad]

Hi everyone I am looking for any link o someone who can do figure Alterations to King & Country figures.

I have spoken to my friends Guy and David Marshall of TM Terrain and neither of them have the necessary tools to help.

I am looking at having two British tommies having their Tommy helmets remodelled to British Paratrooper ones and then repainted wearing denison smocks.

Thanks!

Scott

 

[Horus]

Hi everyone I am looking for any link o someone who can do figure Alterations to King & Country figures.

I have spoken to my friends Guy and David Marshall of TM Terrain and neither of them have the necessary tools to help.

I am looking at having two British tommies having their Tommy helmets remodelled to British Paratrooper ones and then repainted wearing denison smocks.

Thanks!

Scott

Scott

Why not have a go at it yourself !? I've done minor alterations myself to various makers figures over the years.
WB did do a step by step guide to figure conversions in one of their magazines a few years back you might want to look up.
Basically you have two choices. Swap heads with one with the correct helmet. Cutting off at the neck. drilling and pining new head back in place and making good with Milliput and painting or cutting away brim on existing helmet and again using Milliput sculpt to desired shape and texture and paint.
Same for changing Battledress to Denison smocks with some care, re-sculpting with craft knifes, Milliput and paint.

If not confident, try practicing on cheap DelPrado figures.

Steve

 

[arnhem44mad]

Scott

Why not have a go at it yourself !? I've done minor alterations myself to various makers figures over the years.
WB did do a step by step guide to figure conversions in one of their magazines a few years back you might want to look up.
Basically you have two choices. Swap heads with one with the correct helmet. Cutting off at the neck. drilling and pining new head back in place and making good with Milliput and painting or cutting away brim on existing helmet and again using Milliput sculpt to desired shape and texture and paint.
Same for changing Battledress to Denison smocks with some care, re-sculpting with craft knifes, Milliput and paint.

If not confident, try practicing on cheap DelPrado figures.

Steve

Not got the skills mate. Wouls rather have a professional do it than risk messing up a figure haha!

Scott

 

[theBaron]

Joe DeMarco comes to mind, but he's here in the US, so you'd have to deal with shipping. Brad (jazzeum) used to serve as a contact for Joe. If you send him a PM, he may still get it and can put you in contact with Joe.

Prost!
Brad

 

[Mirof]

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[arnhem44mad]

Joe DeMarco comes to mind, but he's here in the US, so you'd have to deal with shipping. Brad (jazzeum) used to serve as a contact for Joe. If you send him a PM, he may still get it and can put you in contact with Joe.

Prost!
Brad

Thanks mate Brad actually sent me an email so hopefully can get this rolling!

Scott

 

[arnhem44mad]

Brad's guy couldn't help any other recommendations?

Thanks!

Scott

 

[Normandy1944]

Hi everyone I am looking for any link o someone who can do figure Alterations to King & Country figures.

I have spoken to my friends Guy and David Marshall of TM Terrain and neither of them have the necessary tools to help.

I am looking at having two British tommies having their Tommy helmets remodelled to British Paratrooper ones and then repainted wearing denison smocks.

Thanks!

Scott

Hi Scott,
I read your post but what two DD Tommy's figures do you want remodeled to British Paratrooper?
And this only concerns the helmet or also the uniforms?


Harry

 

[arnhem44mad]

Hi Scott,
I read your post but what two DD Tommy's figures do you want remodeled to British Paratrooper?
And this only concerns the helmet or also the uniforms?


Harry

Hi Harry, hope you're well mate!

Its actually 3 plus an RAF figure.

The medic and wounded set in first picture, and the sitting wounded pic in 2nd picture. The helmets of the first set would need remodelled to paratrooper ones.

The sitting wounded figure from pic 3 could have the helmets cut from the base of the figure.

These would then need to be painted to be wearing denison smocks and maybe a little bit of milliput on to represent the bottom of a denison smock.

The third photo- The RAF radioman would need repainted to be wearing a denison smock and possibly some milliput to fill the denison out at the bottom. His beret would need repainted to maroon and an emblem representing the royal signals badge painted on.

I have included a pic of 2x different MG sets to gove an idea of the variation of colour which could be used for the denison smocks.

Thanks!

Scott

 

[Gazza]

Scott

You could ask Steve Dixon of Mariela Miniatures.

Steve paints models for customers; you can see his work on the London Show threads which he regularly attends.

He has done numerous figures for me (knights) and is very good.

Not sure if he does alterations but has made bits for my figures, when pieces of kit were missing.

Drop him a line

mariela_miniatures@msn.com

Gazza

 

[arnhem44mad]

Scott

You could ask Steve Dixon of Mariela Miniatures.

Steve paints models for customers; you can see his work on the London Show threads which he regularly attends.

He has done numerous figures for me (knights) and is very good.

Not sure if he does alterations but has made bits for my figures, when pieces of kit were missing.

Drop him a line

mariela_miniatures@msn.com

Gazza

Thanks mate!

Scott