I have to send out a BIG CHEERS to Hugh from the UK who helped me out with some dimestore figures. Please take a look to his interesting blog about his toy figure collection.
I needed them to strenghen my soviet mortar groups which lacked of officers.
These figures were used to build a kneeling officer with binoculars:- a cheap Airfix clone soldier with binoculars (upper body),
- the kneeling gunner from the Airfix WW2 Soviet set (lower body), and
- the stupid runner of the ESCI/Italeri WW2 Soviet set (gun and spare magazine).
Sorry about that but I think the ESCI figure is one of the most useless figures that I have, beside the dull ESCI German paratroopers set.
New figure front view
New figure rear viewThere is still some flash on the figure but I think I will keep it because it is nearly invisible at this scale. Eventually I will add some more equipment to the figure, I have some sprues of Preiser's German equipment. I have to build 5 more of these figures, then I have all figures I need and I can start with painting at the weekend.
I hope I can animate a frient of mine to help me with painting, he told me that he thinks he can't paint figures in this scale, but I was thinking that too before I made my first tries.
Thank you Hugh, your were a great help for me :D .
Small update picture:
6 comments:
very nice gr8 convertion
It was a pleasure - Happy to help
I always think that Esci pose is trying to push an elephant through a window!
That's a really clever conversion, I'm looking forward to seeing him painted.
I need to do more of this myself. Did you cut them in half with a scalpel or with a heated blade?
Thanks for all of your positive comments.
I added a new picture of all six figures I needed.
@ Maverick
LOL, pushing an elephant.
@ Easternfunker
I cutted them all with a very sharp scalpell, I think that you won't need a heated blade.
OK, I can get plenty of access to hospital scalpel blades, that's great.
I remember reading somewhere abojut adding a scalpel blade to a soldering iron in order to to better cut and convert plastic figures - I'm glad that you don't think it's necessary!
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