So, after indulging in the metal trade at Reapercon this year I found myself going through my stores of salvaged miniatures and putting together various bits and pieces.  I tend to save a lot of scraps and fragments of figures in my spare parts bin (or drawer, rather) which I think may be useful for something someday or other, and after pouring the lot of it out and sifting through it I realized that I have accumulated an awful lot of this sort of thing, and it was high time I did something with it.
 
After messing around and experimenting for a couple of hours I came away with a promising assortment of parts, enough to assemble three or four female figures in all.  I thought it would be fun to make a WIP out them (hopefully it will help keep me motivated to finish all four of them).  Most of the parts are from Reaper figures (I'll try to list the catalog numbers), but there are a few other bits and pieces in between, which I'll try to identify as best I can.
 
First off, I've got one of the alternate torsos from the 03096 Pegasus rider.  This matched up really well with a random set of legs I had lying around, which I think once belong to a steampunk-ish figure.  Digging around in my stores of weapons I found the original shield that went with the torso. 
 


 
Next up, I have the upper torso from the 03631 Sea Elf Bard, which marries up surprisingly well with the legs from the alien pole dancer from 50270.  In particular, by using a hobby knife to carefully separate the thighs of the legs I was able to get a pretty dynamic looking pose (DISCLAIMER:  In the picture it looks a bit like she has some camel toe going on, which is an artifact left over from the incision I made to separate the legs.  That being said, I have nonetheless linked the picture to comply with forum rules on nudity).
 
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Lastly for now, I've got the torso from the 03459 Angel of Justice.  With a bit of judicious trimming, it marries up almost perfectly with the legs from 03336 Cancer from the Children of the Zodiac series.  Pictures are linked below due to nudity on the angel model.

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I started out with the angel of justice mashup.  The original figure was drilled for wings, and since I was already starting to get kind of a supernatural vibe from the figure I dug around my spares bin for something wing-ish to put there.  I ended up with a pair of fairy wings.  I then looked for something suitable to put in her hand where the original sword was, and after a bit of experimentation I decided that another sword is kind of looked the best.  As before, images containing nudity are linked separately below.


 
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Whatever she is, she's got a very triumphant look about her (a couple people I showed her to said she looked a bit like the Statue of Liberty).  As such, I have dubbed her The Fairy of Victory.  I have no idea what a Fairy of Victory does, but I'm quite sure its suitably magnificent.

This past week I decided to paint the Kristianna figure from the Bones 2 "Heroes I" set. I had recently seem someone post online somewhere (was it here?) some figures they had done with the clear weapons from Bones 3 weapon sprues; where they had painted parts of the clear piece, and left others see-through; and I had decided I wanted to try something similar with this figure.
I'm really happy with the results.
 
 
For the full conversion and painting article, please see my blog: Kristianna Conversion
 
 

So here are a few of the Bones weapon sprue conversions I've done.
 
14069 Sir Malcolm, metal figure, opaque gray hammer.

 

 
(Please forgive the chipped paint; this one has been done for a while and used in games.)
 
77413 Margara, Bones figure, clear red hammer.

 

 
77417 Ivar, Bones figure, clear red hammer. As a side note to anyone who is looking to paint this figure, the detail on the chain mail is very shallow.
 

 

 
And a Wizards of the Coast Renegade Warlock, plastic figure, clear purple staff.
 

 

 
All in all, easy conversions. I'm looking forward to doing some with the swords and shields.

Some of you are old enough to remember the old Dungeons and Dragons toy line from way back when. In that toy line, they featured an evil fighter named Warduke. He also made one appearance in the cartoon, and was given stats (more than once) for use in the pencil and paper RPG.
 
I have decided to make/convert a copy of him for myself.
 
This is who I'm talking about for those that don't know, or remember:

 
 

 
 
He got brought back for 3.0 or 3.5 edition D&D, too:
 

 

 
Now, that's some pretty cool artwork, and my apologies to Mr. Reynolds, but it's wrong. Warduke is LEFT handed.
See?

 
 
Anyway, now that we all know who I'm talking about, I chose the Bones version of Goldar : http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/goldar/latest/77047 
to use as the base for this project.
 
And this is what I've gotten done so far:
 

 
Hand removed for a weapon swap, left arm armor sculpted with GS, started reshaping the left boot.

The clay golem. So overmuscled! So cantankerous-looking! So versatile for conversions!

It's probably cliche at this point, thinking this guy would make a great Edward Hyde. But that doesn't make it wrong! Some green stuff tatters, a grommet, and a pin, and here we are. Look at that savage hairy-knuckled brute! 

 For my Western game, set in the 1870s-ish, I made a spinoff cleric-like class, the Sawbones, for healers that prefer Mad Science to religion; people like Dr. Moreau, or Dr. Jekyll, or Dr. Frankenstein, or Dr. Herbert West. The 59009 lady scientist is the mini my Sawbones player uses for her character, and Hyde Formula is absolutely something she would concoct and abuse.

So here's the pair of them. 

I am actually proud of the Hyde conversion!