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Made both curious and eager by one previous post, regarding the new glue by LocTite, that is supposed to glue that otherwise ungluable poyethylene plastic I gave it a try.


So I did some simple figure conversions, most of them simply swapping heads, replacing arms, sometimes adding a backpack, an operation that used to be tricky with the usual soft palstic used in commercial 20mm plastic figs.


And these are the results. The first are a number of Late-War Austro-Hungarians, almost all are HäT Figures, from different sets. The second is a smaller batch of Late-War Russians, all with Adrian Helmet Heads, taken from the old Airfix Set. They turned out pretty good, I think.


 


 


The glue works: the parts you stick on really... stick. The joint is stronger than the one you get with conventional cyano-acrylate glue. But this doesn't mean that the joint is super-strong. I happen to knock off a couple of heads with a careless move with my hand.


But it is a step forward!



-- Edited by Peter Kempf at 20:52, 2006-01-09

-- Edited by Peter Kempf at 20:52, 2006-01-09

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peter they look so good, and in small scale!


I have to finish painting my german ICM stormtroops




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Very cool.
I especially like these Austrians. I think that also HaT Turks can be used as Austrians, with Austrian caps or helmets. They have puttees!
Now I have an ides to make 1920 Poles by allying the Hadrian helmets to HaT Turkish infantry.
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One of the Austrians - the officer pointing with binoculars - started his life as an HÄT Ottoman. So I agree: that set is very useful!


All the best



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