I'm a Convert

After resisting the idea for many years, primarily due to fear, I finally tried my hand at a figure conversion that involved more than trimming of some bit or a paint conversion. The result isn't radically different - not like, say, a Soviet rifleman to a 19th C. Samurai - but it was extremely satisfying.

Marx re-cast Grenade thrower + Marx re-cast Officer (these are not the ones I used for the conversion)

Indeed, I greatly underestimated the degree of satisfaction. Maybe it's the manual labor (no matter how minuscule) involved that lends a sense of greater accomplishment?

Became this proof of concept. I trimmed up the shoulder a bit more per Ross's suggestion on my previous post of this figure and it made a world of difference.

The finished product: Soviet officer with a grenade. (Please pardon my sloppy painting - particularly on the hat. Close up photos reveal the awful truth.)

And so a monster has been born - I suddenly find myself looking at my unpainted plastic thinking, "what else could this figure be?"

In mind at present:

• convert a standing Soviet SMG figure into a flamethrower operator - use green stuff to make a tank and hose, convert the SMG to a rifle of sorts (they tried to disguise their flamethrowers as ordinary rifles).
• convert a prone German MG figure into a PzB 39 figure - I believe this is simple as moving the bipod legs back farther, and a paint conversion.
• convert a prone Soviet MG figure into a Soviet mine detector - remove the bipod and trim off the gun sight/stock details - or replace the gun of wire - and either way add a loop on the end.
• For my colonial Russians, convert some riflemen in close combat poses into the crew for the Russian gatling gun

I have to say, I only wish I had tried this sooner.