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Arooooooooo! This is just a couple of simple headswaps. I have a large
number of anthropomprphic dogs and lycanthropes that I use for this type
of conversion. This is my first foray into civilian dog people.
I like them, so they may become a nice, distinct scifi civilian population
after a little, "Rinse. Repeat."
This pic is really about the guy in the middle. I got him is a set of
discounted figures from a game that either didn't do well - or - someone overbought
and wanted to get rid of. He's in there with my other "little people" fantasy
races. Since he is fairly chibi proportioned, I think he will work well with
the "old school" hobbit and gnome, but not with the new one. A decent fit with
the other one (far right), which is my own conversion from some Medieval German figures.
Speaking of fitting in, this is the rinse and repeat thing. I frequently see a
hero or single figure that will work well as a rank in file figure. This set of
Kyodia Ken (Batman Beyond) changes colour to white outfits and fills out a nice
group of generic marital arts swordsmen. The sword that came with the figure was
horrible - too thin, so they bent every which way. But that is OK ... by replacing
the blades, I got the opportunity to individualize them a bit, so I didn't have to
do too many arm repositions to get variety in the hrode.
Speaking of variety, this BB Mr. Freeze figure makes a good rank and file scifi troop.
I just redid the shouldpads to give squaddies (red), teamleaders (gold), and a
squadleader (silver) ranks. Several sets of these will make up a nice defense force
or set of invaders.
Especially when you base some on magnets, so they can go on terrain that has magnetic
paint underneath. Very Spacey. This requires plastic figures, but since those are
so light, you can just go with excess fridge magnets you get from various places for
the bases.
Here's a sample of my various Amazon forces, including the cavalry, which are
converted to be so.
And speaking of converted cavalry, if I already some some on dinos, why not put a
few on giant cats, too?
Or whatever cavalry you want. These guys (Elves with bulby gas mask heads to
make primitive aliens) are riding the bodies of cheap kid's toy dinos whose heads
were used for other conversions. I like these Tyrranid heads, since I can get them
fairly cheaply as excess bits. They really liven up quadraped bodies.
And speaking of what do you do with cheap plastic dino heads, one answer is to put
them on old MechWarrior bodies. Nice, armoured scifi dino trooper.
And since the MechWarrior bits are out, how about this one ..? I really like the
industrial mechs for scenarios, and they convert to 28mm suits very nicely as well.
Something more pedestrian. Well, actually, getting some guerillas to not be
pedestirans. HeroClix put out this dune buggy which is a really nice size to make
some small tactical vehicles by adding a driver and a tactical gunner.
Not to ... well ... you know. Not a lot of WIP in this menagerie. Most of these
were taking care of the leftovers from other conversions. These were just some
WH horse bits I got in a job lot. Not enough to make a whole horse (I did cobble
together some complete horses, but always have bits left over), but enough for the
start of my cavalry casualty markers. Or maybe just some carrion lunch set dressing.
OK, so this one gets a WIP. Mainly because I took the pic. The main figure is a
HeroClix Arkillo
figure, whose fangs just scream dunklefish. And since I
already have one, an anthrodunklefish
sounds like a good idea. Just add a couple of bits to him ...
Then paint him up. From his base figure, he's a little bigger than a 28mm human,
but he's a monster, so that's OK. He fits in well with my other
aquatic horrors.
And here's how he looks from the front. Along with a giant two headed dog. Which
normally comes
with only one head,
a problem that is easily fixed.
Which then leaves us with the "problem" of a headless dog body. Not much of a problem
if you need nameless horrors.
And sometimes, you just want a variant. And you have just the right figure to do it ...
like the Blob
from X-Men. These guys are variant enough.
Note that Spidey swings, as he is just tied on with a bit of excess crosstitch floss.
I was happy to do something with the streetlight. It is a good one that came in
a kit with other HeroClix terrain pieces. But there was only one. Really hard to
work that into a street scene by itself.
And just so DC doen't feel left out. Well, they shouldn't since my first Giant Sized
Super Heroes were
also DC characters.
So these last four are just an extension of the
things you can do with the Blob.
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