Here's a few of the figures I've had a go at converting. They are all a work in progress, nothing is finished.

The trio is the tristar waffen as set simply converted to paras by adding a little putty here and there. Not happy with the stud fastening as they are oversized (I used the metal tube from a glue dispenser to press into the a and b.).
The prone/ dead figure is pretty much from scratch using a sculpy armature and a and b putty to add detail. Head, helmet and equipment from the spares box.
The wounded para being helped by the m.p. started life as one of the Dragon paras. Not sure about the m.p. I'll add a hand to hold the para's arm.
The jeep driver is resicast with a new arm waving for attention, the wounded passenger heavily converted from the miniart tank rider set.

that helmet with mesh on it looks mint!! How was it done may I ask?

Hi Paul,

I like the way you go about conversions!! Who dares, wins, right!!

You are right about the studs, and they look a little punched too! Why not simply make some from stretched sprue!!? Just a thought!

Will watch progress closely! Thanks for sharing so far!!

Cheers

Romain

Good work Paul, coming along.

Al

David- the helmet is part of a hornet head. Primed white and then washed over in green.
Romain-I've tried the stretched sorry method but couldn't get the studs correctly placed. I'm going to order some different sized hypodermic needles and see if they help.
Alan-thanks for the support.
I've another 40 or so paras that are at various degrees of completion. I'll try and get some more photos up later ( I'm always amazed how my work that I think look good in the flesh look awful in photos).

Some impressive work there. Glad you posted. You know I love the subject!!
I know what you mean about the pictures showing things that you may miss in real life on the workbench. That is why I now make it a habit of putting pics of my work on photobucket so that I can see them under magnification. It helps me see the mistakes my poor old antique eyes may miss!!
Keep going and posting brother!
J

A few more figures (apologies for the photos).

Nice work Paul. Very imaginative conversions. It's inspired me to have a look through my non airborne figures to see what I can come up with for the Market Garden campaign. Really like the jeep crew and the surgical set up. Looking forward to seeing more of your work.

Nice conversions Paul! I'll be following your progress with much interest.

—mike

Casualty with the red hair looks the best to me,even though it's a fuzzy pic. Well done and good conversions.
Maybe settle the e-tool on the dead guys' back a bit? Looks like it's floating? It's one of my pet peaves,"weightless gear".
J

Jerry - Good call on the e-tool. It's a verlinden item and looks too chunky anyway.
Thanks for the interest guys. More to follow.

Here's a few more figures:



And here's a WIP shop of my Border Reg vignette.

No piccies here either,you may have exceeded your band width for photobucket for the month.
I had to sign up for the professional package as they don't give you that much for free. Go figure.
J

They all look fantastic!

yup! And I'm with Hancock, ....nothing a good cup of tea couldn't fix!

Just a Photobucket heads-up guys:

If you rename your existing libraries and/or move posted images into subfolders, the original image links will be severed. This happened to me a while back. Plan carefully when naming libraries or when using the 'subfolder' feature.

HTH

—mike

hi paul.....i dont know why but i dont see antmore your pictures.......but i opened your photobucklet and saw them....they are fantastis...i like so muchthe ones with the arm wounded near the german figure.....in which way yo realized that wounded arm in the jacket? Th figure i prefer is the one with the leg wounded,sits on the floor.....but his bust is of Verlinden label???

I hope to see again other british figure for your Arnhem diorama!!!

Many congratulations.

Mario from Italy,

Lesson learned - arrange files before posting, not after!
here are the pics again:










Thanks for the comments guys.
Mario - I cant remember which torso I used for this figure, it does look like it could be verlinden.

Here's a few more:




Plenty more to come.

A few more:









Let me know what you think.

Man, oh man I thought I was a Dr. Frankenbuilder when it comes to figures -- I bow before the master. Seriously though, you do some great work, love the conversions with the docs and casualties, a subject near and dear to my heart. I can say that the poses interacting where they seem to be under fire are spot on with how I would have done it in the 1:1 world as a doc.

Thanks John. Some are better than others.

hi Paul. i like so much your figures.in particular the british ones.....could youn explaon us which is the project? I mean ,there are in your pictures same british para' at rest with tea cup or standing with teapot.....and other firing,or in action.....they couldnt stay togheter.....isnt it???

However mmany congratulations!!!!

Mario.

Cheers. The figures are for a range of dioramas I'm working on. I've about 5 dios I've started.