What was the first miniature you converted?

[Fenton]

They looked better after I'd finished with them  .....Especially the one with the whip !! 
Cheers - Phil

I think Phil is  having a moment 

[getagrip]

They looked better after I'd finished with them  .....Especially the one with the whip !! 
Cheers - Phil

Sacrilege 

   

Beelzebub has a spike he's sharpening just for you! 

[Techno]

I think Phil is  having a moment 

They're in 'someone's' collection now....I just hope you never ever find them ! 
Cheers - Phil

[getagrip]

They're in 'someone's' collection now....I just hope you never ever find them ! 
Cheers - Phil

I am going to SCOUR Ebay.

No dark elf will be left unturned...

[Maenoferren]

First metal figure a Pendraken Mammoth. I remember having a pair of plastic ACW Gatling guns and doing a head swap to make them colonial.... Apart from adding weapons etc...not much else.

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An after and before shot.....

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Okay not the most advanced conversion ever....

[getagrip]

First metal figure a Pendraken Mammoth. I remember having a pair of plastic ACW Gatling guns and doing a head swap to make them colonial.... Apart from adding weapons etc...not much else.

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Does bending qualify as a conversion? 

[Maenoferren]

I nearly chopped my finger off sawing this thing into bits... And I would say it looks different from the original...

[Fenton]

No X rated depraved sculpts by Phil. But I did find this

[getagrip]

I nearly chopped my finger off sawing this thing into bits... And I would say it looks different from the original...

   

We've all done that  

Only kidding,  good job.  Better than my first shot  

[Ithoriel]

They looked better after I'd finished with them  .....Especially the one with the whip !!  
Cheers - Phil

I am reminded of Aly's Chaos Nuns (deemed unsuitable for production apparently) and the magician "Sam Fox" whose similarity to the Page 3 model of the same name was mainly down to their states of (un)dress

My first conversions were of the Airfix Robin Hood figures into Goths to fight my Romans.

I do remember converting Airfix figures into French Horse Grenadiers, then painting them with pink jackets, white bearskins and white trousers - not realising the uniform illustration I had was of a trumpeter!!

[mollinary]

The first that I can still remember (well, you know how it is!) fulfilled my need to create some British Napoleonic infantry to match my Airfix Highlanders. Even then, I knew that not all Brits went to war in skirts.   So, the bodies, as any fule kno, could only come from the highlanders themselves. They were then chopped off below the gonads, and Airfix Union and Confederate infantry legs attached. The bonnet was sliced off, and replaced by a bit of sprue with a paper front and a tiny peak.  I did 120 of these Frankenstein's monsters, and thought they were great. They fought nobly, but went to the great skip in the sky many decades ago 

Mollinary

[paulr]

British heavy dragoons converted to King's German Legion heavy dragooons by covering the helmet with the vast fore and aft bicorn in plasticine. Didn't look to bad from a distance, being 6mm figures helped 

[Hertsblue]

As with many others, Airfix US cavalry into French Chasseurs à Cheval by slicing off the hats and replacing them with shakos removed from spare French line infantry. Little paper coat-tails and a fresh paint-job completed the transformation. Sadly, the dark green paint I chose for the new uniforms turned out to be gloss. Oh, and my new light cavalry turned out considerably bulkier than Airfix's own cuirassiers. 

[getagrip]

As with many others, Airfix US cavalry into French Chasseurs à Cheval by slicing off the hats and replacing them with shakos removed from spare French line infantry. Little paper coat-tails and a fresh paint-job completed the transformation. Sadly, the dark green paint I chose for the new uniforms turned out to be gloss. Oh, and my new light cavalry turned out considerably bulkier than Airfix's own cuirassiers. 

Takes me back.  I glossed most of my German infantry and couldn't work out why they looked stupid (paint job aside that is).

Anyone remember these?  I inherited my dad's old paints in Airfix glass bottles:

[fsn]

I do, though I'd forgotten about the glass bottles until I saw the picture!

I still have some Airfix M21, which I bought in bulk to do bases.