Height Increase Surgery

I purchased some 15mm miniatures from the Alternative Armies TTF line to determine whether I could use them for my purposes, but for the most part they are true 15mm figures.



Pictured to the right of George are the Human Illusionist (MDA47F), Human Magician with Wand (502F), Human Assassin (506F), Female Fighter in Plate (514F), Female Magic User (510F), and Female Cleric (511F). Except for the Illusionist, they are all small and slender compared to George. I imagine that their Barbarians and Asgardian may be larger figures as well, but I didn't have examples of the figures to add to the line-up. All of the female figures in the TTF line are the same size and proportions as the examples in the pictures above.


Taking a page from the plastic surgeon's handbook, I decided to perform cosmetic limb lengthening surgery on some of the figures. I used a razor saw to cut the miniatures into two pieces. I then drilled holes in the upper and lower halves of the figure, roughly in the position of where their legs would be.


I then cut the points from some pins, and used CA glue to attach them to the lower half of the miniatures (see picture above, far right). I wanted to extend the staff for the Illusionist, so I cut the skull from the end of the staff, and used a pin to increase the length.


After the glue dried, I cut the pins to the approximate length that I wanted to increase the height and did some dry-fitting and adjustment before gluing the upper half to the pins. The result is about a 4-6mm gain in height.


Kneadatite was used to fill in the gaps, and voilà -- 15mm miniatures become 20mm miniatures.

フィギュア萌え族

I've always liked anime figures, but I never really became a figure moe zoku because the figures are not my scale. If I were though, the introduction to the Figure Fetish blog would encapsulate my view on female figure collecting to a tee.


The only anime figure that I have is Miria Fallyna, because as an 8.55m tall Meltran, she does not violate my 1/72 rule. The figure is from the 1/60 Macross Miria 639 3 piece set from Yamato. The figure scales out to 1/72 rather than 1/60 though.



Now if only someone would make a 1/72 Klan Klein...

デカクラン by pixiv artist 冬ｓ＠ﾓﾊﾞｹﾞ中毒

JK Klan Klang by 伽場倉幕府
aka さいろとろひん (NSFW)

クラン by pixiv artist うみうし

Figmentia

It's a brand new year, and after a couple months of stagnation, I decided to try and clean up my work area so I wouldn't be so distracted by all the clutter and lack of space every time I went in there.


I ended up finding a batch of old 25mm fantasy miniatures, which opened up a Pandora's box for me.


Taking a look at some of the older miniatures, I noticed that except for the size of their heads, they were actually pretty close to 1/72 in proportions. These figures would be a good starting point for conversion to 1/72 fantasy figures. I stripped the paint from these figures with Simple Green to save myself some embarassment. Starting from the right of George: Elf Princess (Ral Partha 01-021, first version), and Shield Maiden (Ral Partha 01-023, second version), both sculpted by Tom Meier; Fox Spirit, from the Oriental Werecreatures set (Ral Partha 01-119); Medusa, from the Female Creatures set (Ral Partha 01-087); Medusa, from the Fantasy Lords Monsters of Mythology boxed set (Grenadier 6004); and Harpy, also from the Female Creatures set (Ral Partha 01-087).


In order to do the conversions, I needed to find some properly sized heads. Here is a line-up of various newly purchased figures, starting from the left: 28mm Female Demon (Reaper 03084) sculpted by Werner Klocke; 28mm old style Satyxis (Privateer Press 29296); 25mm Elf Princess; George; 20mm Damsel in Distress (Elhiem M08, two other poses can be seen at the Elheim website) sculpted by Tidyfigure Maker; 18mm Elf Sorceress (Eureka 300HEL07); 15mm Amazon (from the Armies of Arcana line, formerly of Thane's Games and now available from Napthyme's Role-Playing Den/Lone Gunman Games) sculpted by Sandra Garrity. The 18mm and some 15mm heads would be perfect for 1/72.


In trying to find a source for heads, I also found that the bodies of some 28mm gnomes and halflings could work for 1/72. To the right of George: D&D CMG Halfling Slinger (War Drums #18); Halfling Thief (Reaper 02676), Gnome Bard (Reaper 03196), Gnome Sorceress (Reaper 2721), and Female Gnome (Reaper 2772), all sculpted by Sandra Garrity; Gnome Wizard (Reaper 03340) sculpted by Werner Klocke; Elf Princess. The CMG miniature is probably supposed to be 28mm scale, but is fully a head smaller than the metal halfling.


In the case of creatures, like these unicorns, they are suitable for 1/72 as is. The rearing unicorn (Superior WL-019) would be a good representation of the modern concept of the unicorn (more horse-like). The smaller unicorn is from the Reaper foals pack (Reaper 02207), and would probably go well with 15mm miniatures, but will be converted into the type of unicorn described in The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle.



And speaking of 15mm fantasy, I never realized this before, but there is actually quite a large selection of fantasy figures in 15mm. Many of them could be easily used for 1/72. Here is a Reaper bear, and some Bear-folk from Splintered Light Miniatures. Most of the Splintered Light line seems to be sculpted by Bob Olley.



Some Bugbears, also from Splintered Light Miniatures. Other than the OOP Ral Partha 15mm Bugbears, I don't think there are any other Bugbears in this scale.



Some Hobgoblins from the Ral Partha AD&D Battlesystem line. The only 15mm Hobgoblins as far as I can tell.



Some Kobolds from Splintered Light Miniatures (larger kobolds) and Ral Partha AD&D Battlesystem (smaller kobolds). Again, other than SLM and OOP Ral Partha, there are no other Kobolds in this scale (as far as I know).

Needless to say, my workspace has not been cleaned.