Latest conversion done

[rumacara]

Nice one Api.

Here is another just finished. A ww2 british sailor with a smg.
Figure by foundry, head by pulp figures plus GS.

[traveller]

Nice work!

[Guerre]

Hello quite new to the site but saw this thread and thought ye might want to see something I converted for frostgrave, it's a plastic Perry knight that I worked in a bit of a dark souls theme on.

[rumacara]

First and not least, welcome to the forum.
Very nice conversion and painting.
Keep it coming.

[traveller]

Great conversion! what kind/brand of green stuff do you use?

[Guerre]

Great conversion! what kind/brand of green stuff do you use?

Sylmasta Kneadite (it's the cheapest I could find) ;P

it's more to do with getting the right balance of yellow to blue than the brand, different ballances work well with different textures and timing. Often best to let it cure a bit before sculpting in the detail but the timings depend on your mix; always something ye need to experiment with.

[traveller]

Yours looks very crisp and textured while mine usually is much more solid and hard to work with. Thanks for the advice, I obviously need to do some experimenting...

[FramFramson]

Previews of coming attractions.



Some of you may have noted the conspicuous absence of Nazis from an otherwise substantial collection of 30's pulp stuff (thread here: http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=63559.0). Partly this is because all the best Wehrmacht figures are in smaller scales, like 25mm or really runty 28mm, so it's very tough to find Germans who fit with my bigger stuff. There are some larger ones, but are mostly crap quality and have issues (like only having late-war uniforms which are all wrong and need heavy conversion).

I use a pretty wide variety of figures, with varying sizes, so in some cases I can use a small figure anyway and say it's just a little dude (for instance my Nazi leader is a shortarse), but having a Nazi battalion of nothing but five-foot tall guys is just not on, so the Nazis went on the back burner. Over a longer period I've collected a variety of figures from different sources, a couple of nice bigger figures which were one-offs here and there, along with some of the crap-quality bigger figures which I am probably going to do surgery on to fix up (headswaps for some nice GW heads, better legs, etc.). I've finally reached the point where I'm close to having enough figures, so I've started actually doing the work.

This is a relatively small figure who will function as the Nazi's go-fer (secretary, clerk, photographer, living languages translator, etc.). She was originally from some she-wolf pack and had an undersized MP40, which I cut away and replaced with a Luger and a variety of gear. The old stock of the MP40 will now stand in as a camera flash. The camera itself took entirely too long to make... though even now, I'm looking at the left most strap and thinking there ought to be a buckle or something visibly connecting it to the camera.

[rumacara]

Well done Matthew.
Keep it coming.

[FramFramson]

For pulp, I have generic workers, and I have a variety of more upper class types, but I noticed I was actually missing any sort of in-between types - the middle-class working man. A foreman for the workers, a decently-off farmer, someone of that ilk.

Had some American heroes among the Copplestone packs and found one that converted perfectly. The fellow on the left here:



Became this fellow here:



Removed the lemon-squeezer and six gun, added a common fedora, as well as a pipe and mustache (I didn't have anything against the cigar the original figure was smoking, but it had been smashed, so I replaced it with a pipe, which seemed to fit better).

Might do something similar with the not-Indy from the same pack, since I have a much better not-Indy from another manufacturer.

[von Lucky]

Nice. The pipe is sculpted around a piece of wire?

[rumacara]

Very simple and very efective.

[FramFramson]

Nice. The pipe is sculpted around a piece of wire?

Correct. I popped in an L-shaped bit of wire, then added a tiny blob of putty on the end and shaped it to fit. A bit fiddly, but it works.

[rumacara]

My latest ones.
A roman tribune - body from foundry, head from myself plus the usual GS for the hair and neck.
A dark ages soldier - body from Conquest archers, arms from conquest normans, arrow from a pin and GS.

[traveller]

Cool stuff! Simple one but I love the arrow in the shield, it really brings life to that miniature