Just about the easiest conversion going...
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| The original consists of a tube resting on a base plate under which is a spike to stick the thing in the ground... Didn't bother modelling the spike or baseplate... The top has to be glued to the figure with the mortar bomb as a second point of contact though. |
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| Crew are the Airfix sub machine gunner and the figure running about waving his rifle in the air. The rifle cuts down to make a mortar bomb. Quite effective. Well, at a distance! |
Effective conversions in the Airfix tradition , nice.
ReplyDeleteAgain, direct copy of the conversion from that Airfix magazine article. Still can't find it. Think it was by Roy Dilley?
DeleteYes Roy did a lot of conversions, generally using Almarks plastic figures.There was also a series of articles done by Chris Ellis, on the japanes e army.
ReplyDeleteI purchased a good from Naval and Military if my memory serves me, reduced to about £4, in the Images of War series.
It's all pic of the Sink Jap. conflict prewar.
Absolutely a best buy!!!
Warlords, commies, regulars the lot, including Chinese fighting for the japs.
You can use WW1 britis H infantry in caps, eitgth army in shorts, WW1 Germans in steel hats, boxers,civilian chinese,guns for mongols, or indeed use mongols!!!
If you wanted to, you could carry out conversions, but to be blunt why bother at 3 ft. viewing distance.?
Another paint job and you.he got another troop type.
Could have been Chris Ellis... back then, you could make anything from... well, usually the Robin Hood set, but...
DeleteAnd that 3' viewing distance is key to all these Japanese conversions!
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