Weird War II conversions and kitbashes in 1/35 (Von Krupt warped by Elder Gods)

[Freddy]

Great looking characters!

[white knight]

Thanks for encouraging the madness!

I certainly plan to add comicbook heroes and villains. I have a partially painted WW2 style Captain America (the version in the leather jacket and helmet) and I converted a Redskull using a resin historical figure's body, some plastic accessories and resin Redskull head from ebay. Need to fill some gaps and fix some casting flaw in the back, but I think he looks the part.

[Freddy]

Nice one!

[Tom Dulski]

 Very cool, I'd go with an SS dagger if I had one available.

[white knight]

I don't want to use any bits that are too obviously SS, especially on this forum.

[white knight]

Reaching the last of my older kitbashes with this Russian WW2 "Red Guardian" inspired figure. It is a reimagining of the character, based on what he could have looked like in this setting.

Still needs to be cleaned up and finish greenstuffing, but the essential idea is there. His shield (he is the soviet answer to Captain America after all) is an actual uniform button off ebay. The main body is a historical figure made by Evolution Miniatures, a really beefy character whose bulk and size fit the part in my mind. The head is the original head, with added mask for a pulp WW2 feel, though I also considered a more brutal look with a gasmask head. Which head do you think will work best?





First head attempt (28mm Greek hoplite shield before I got the button version):

[Orctrader]

Really enjoying this thread.

Which head do you think will work best?

IMO, the Zorro-type mask.  Just seems more Pulpy. 

[Freddy]

Nice idea again, but I would go more to the driver goggles style

[white knight]

Yes, the cap and mask with goggles is my preferred option too.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Definitely the cap and mask.

[white knight]

This is one of the more recent kitbashes. Ever since I got this 1/35 German figure from Mantis Miniatures in a lot, I wanted to use it as the base for a vampire. Initially I considered just painting the head to suggest vampire, but the Vampire head from Pulp War 35 is a perfect fit and looks so much better. Given the roughness of the coat's casting which is different from the quality of my other Mantis figures, I'm wondering if this might perhaps be a recast though, so I may have to pick up another one.

In my personal fluss, this is a third generation vampire, with the initial sire being the one released (and killed) in The Keep, who infected one of the German soldiers present who made it back to his base before turning and who was experimented on and then used as a sire to create more Uber vampires for the Reich.

[Freddy]

Another cool character!

[white knight]

Next one was done last weekend and is actually the second version I did (the first using a static body) after receiving some new historical 1/35 figures with more dynamic poses.

It is a movie style Karl Ruprect Kroenen, using the Pulp War 35 masked officer head, a resin body from Darius Miniatures, and a right hand and blades from an old GW Empire kit.

I was relatively pleased with the first version but the pose was very static and the figure from Darius Miniatures presented the opportunity to make a much more dynamic version of Kroenen, so I scavenged the head and hands from my previous attempt.

I'm happy with how this one came out.

[robh]

You are putting a great set of characters together, which figures are you planning to use as basic troops?

[white knight]

I have a variety of historical kits (resin and plastic) and Dust 1/35 but I suspect more kitbashing will be done too them too.