Converting Plastics - WW1, Africa Corps and Fantasy Imagi-nation Figures or Why Hand-grenade figures Make Good Swordsmen..
First up is another picture of my WW1 German Pioneer. Should I give him standard equipment or has he taken it off to dig? What was done in reality, I wonder? I suppose it depended on how close was the enemy. As a small boy my dad gave me the lone Star Desert set. As I usually got dragooned by my friend, Pete Smith, into playing the Germans, a good portion of which were surrendering and running away, I would like to stiffen up the German side! So I have taken the Aussie with bazooka (did they actually get any in real life?) and I have given him an Airfix German head and equipment, putty ammo pouches and Airfix hard plastic Multipose bayonet scabbard. These figures, incidentally are repro Toyway ones that came out in the 80s, I think, They are made of a more long lasting polyvinyl. I still have my original figures but they are more brittle than they were in the 196os and 70s fighting in my sandpit. I trimmed the shorts down a little. Originally I was going to make them into trousers...
