Converting plastic figures!

[FISH]

How many of you guys like to chop up and convert your plastic figures here???
I started around 2003-2004??? a year or 2 after I got back into collecting toy soldiers.
As a kid I kinda already had the conversion bug in my head where I would change around my figures bending them into new poses and cutting off and changing weapons and trying to fix broken figures.

I remember getting Timpo and swop it type figures where you could change pieces around and making new figures with the pieces and using the removable weapons and drilling out the hands on other non Timpo style figures to make conversions and poking holes in the figures and putting spears and arrows into them making dead and wounded figures. Figures with broken bases became dead figures!
I had figures without arms that came mis-molded or broken that I liked so I would cut arms from other figures and melt them onto the broken figures to repair them.
Bottom line is I guess I,m just rediscovering something that I have done and been interested in for a long time.

So who else has the conversion bug here????

I have done a few how to threads and tried to dig up fellow figure converters to share and show there work and ideas and try and learn from each other on a couple of other forums, I,d like to try that here also if there are enough guys interested in the idea???

Here are a couple of links to some of those threads! My methods have changed over the years and I do a lot of this stuff different now but that,s all part of the learning expierence and the point of these types of threads is to learn new and better ways to go about converting figures!

http://www.treefrogtreasures.com/forum/ ... highlight=
http://132hatblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/ ... ssian.html
http://132hatblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/ ... etail.html
http://132hatblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/head-swops.html
http://132hatblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/ ... shers.html
http://132hatblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/ ... tools.html

[FISH]

One of my favorite sets for conversions has to be the Cone WWII G.I. sets!!! The way the figures were made like metal kits instead of the usual one piece cast where the figure pose is limited to how it can be molded in one piece. the other thing I hate about most plastic sets is blocking under the arms. That is that extra plastic blob under the arms you never know what to do with when painting for you guys who don,t know what blocking is.
I,m not a WWII guy at all but the number of poses in this Conte set and the great sculpting and the endless conversions you can get out of this set had me in conversion heaven and like I said this is not an era of real interest to me.
I converted a bunch of these and sold almost all of them off but I did snap pictures of most of them before I let them go. I wish I could have seen them painted up but the guy I sold them to does not paint his figures, he just keeps them solid colors.
Here are some of the conversions I came up with for these figures!

[FISH]

More Conte WWII conversions! And a few TSSD figures and parts also.

[Mai Strac]

Not my scale but they look great!!!

[KenzoSato]

Excellent conversions, great job

[Peter]

Excellent conversions!

[Beano Boy]

My! Word! You`ve done some chopping up with this lot FISH,but I Like em all. I like the way you`ve seen fit to stick them up whole again too. It`s imagination at its best,and this is great stuff! I have often found myself when converting figures that I converted them all,and wish I had the original pose! So I have to buy more just to obtain that one,but then keeping some aside,the Bonus is More Conversions!

[Ochoin]

Impressive. This is why plastic figures trump metal.

donald