Just visited Man of Tin Blog, run by Mark. He's just posted some photos of female toy soldiers. Thought I would follow up with some plastic figures I converted last year. A few years ago I picked up a large bag of cheap plastic soldiers, a very mixed collection. They included several very odd 65mm Chinese-made figures. Not worth keeping, I did note some were moulded with out-of-scale female heads with beret and hair bun. Decided to fix these to some spare WW2 Airfix US Marines, to portray Israeli Signals.
The second photo shows various British WW2 figures, all plastic, this time converted and painted up as British Military Police. I guess these figures would not look out of place in Cyprus or Palestine 1930-50.
MGB
Excellent conversions Michael! Very unique indeed! Well done as usual!
ReplyDeleteCheers Brad, thought it was time for something slightly different lol.
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Really like what you have done with the military police.
ReplyDeleteHi George, I still have some Airfix commandos, going to convert these into something I'm more likely to utilise. Also, looking at using some odd 8th Army figures and expanding my MP contingent.
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Great idea, Military Police figures work well in many post-colonial settings. Aden springs to mind for a game set in 1967.
DeleteYes George, I think it would be an interesting war-game formation, rather than creating a typical 'army' unit.
DeleteMichael
Those are great conversions! As always, your figures are inspiring.
ReplyDeleteThanks John, I do enjoy converting and painting 'exotic or unusual' military formations. Cheers,
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Oh! I am behind! These are great!
ReplyDeleteCheers Ross, I'm to blame, my 'battle' is currently to reduce the number of projects on the table...... so I can start fighting some games! So expect a fair number of painting posts while my morale holds.
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