Workbench painting And WW1 Conversion

Sometimes, well let's face it, a lot of the time, I get infected by the 'This and that' bug. This is one of those times.

First up is space warrior from the Airfix set. I have interpreted the scales as part of the ET. I could also have depicted them as metallic armor. If anyone ever makes a mold of one of the Airfix space figures this would be a good one to do as multiples of it would make a good unit.

The middle figure is a hollowcast I showed in an earlier post. It was pretty beat up. I accidentally broke off the left arm when adding a stick grenade and then reattached it with copper wire and Superglue. I also made new legs, to resemble puttees, from wire and putty. it was a bit hard to not make them so thick that they resembled Ugh Boots.

Then I had a brainwave. I had painted his face but I decided to add a gas mask. How could I retain the eyes and still make the goggles? Usually I'd just cover the face with putty and imprint the goggles with the end of a biro innard. This time I cut sections off it and Superglued them over the eyes. One eye remained visible but the other is obscured - oh well. I also added putty face mask, mask bag and pistol holster. 

       I show the old Britains gas mask figure. Unfortunately the tip of the rifle is missing, rather difficult to fix but not impossible. Now he has an officer to command his assault squad.

  This is a copy of Timpo Richard the Lionheart, partially painted. His sword was too long and also warped so I trimmed it and I added the stones to the base one which stops the sword buckling backwards. The other is just there for visual balance. The paint scheme is not based on a historical reference. he us in the colors of Bogavania.

  One of my retro space figures from WW2 figures was not previously completed so I painted him also. The lion with sword is a rubbery plastic figure But I am thinking of using him for my Wizard of Ozzz characters. I think I would have a rule for the 'Cowardly Lion' for random and variable leadership (courage). The prehistoric 'Big Bird' is one of five I found on special at half price at a toy shop. It is from Schleich. Of course, I'll make riders for them. I'll place them alongside my 'emos', large emus in Patran service. 

                            Here are the goblin conversions from Red Indians painted, prior to base flocking.

                               I like this figure except that it is 1/35, not 1/32. I think it is intended as an airforce ground crew figure. I think it is a copy of Marx and it is soft plastic, not hard plastic kit figure.