More SF Adventurers

I finished some more SF adventurers recently, including my first Reaper Bones figure. Details below.

I bought the Infinity Merovingian Rapid Response Force and Dozer Engineer a while ago, with the intention of turning them into some adventurers and intrepid starship crew types. Once I started to look at them closely, however, things about them began to niggle me and I knew I was heading into greenstuff territory.

I really like the Infinity figures, but I find some of their weapons very silly - mainly the futuristic AK47s with the comically large magazines. I had intended to replaced most of the weapons, but found that clipping the magazines and some parts on the weapons turned them into much more aesthetically pleasing guns. Anyways, details of conversions are shown with each figure below.

Just for reference, this is a copy of the front of the boxed set, to give an idea of what the figures are meant to look like

The pose of this figure was such that the sculptor had had to cram the stock into a tiny space, pretty much ruining the gun. I tried different weapons, but in the end amputated her left arm below the elbow and added a new one with greenstuff. For the most part I'm happy with the outcome, although her left hand is huge compared to her (original) right hand. Fortunately it's very difficult to see both of them at once.

The only thing I did with this figure was to convert his machine pistol into a pistol by clipping off the magazine. It just looked out of place.

There was a visit to the hair restoration clinic for this figure. I'm fairly sure it's nothing to do with events in my own life, no sir, not that at all :-) I have most of Heresy's ganger figures (still to paint) and they're folically challenged. This figure isn't going to be a ganger, so I decided adding hair was the easiest way to differentiate him (that sounds much more reasonable, much less crazy…)

I didn't realise this figure was female until I actually got the box set and noticed lumpy bits on her chest. It seemed a shame to hide the figure behind a mask, so I swapped the head for a Hasslefree one and sculpted on some hair. This is one of the cases where I prefer my gun conversion to the original one.

I dabbled in some camouflage on this figure, just as an experiment. Reasonably happy with the outcome.

I haven't painted the other two figures in the set yet. The one with the HMG has had his helmet converted to something less like a bicycle helmet. I removed the arms of the other figure below the elbows, but messed up my first attempt at a new pose, so I'm having to redo him.

No conversions to the figure, other than my usual gun conversion. The original has a crate beside him, but I've moved that into my general scenery pile.

Another camouflage pattern on this figure. Again, fairly happy with the outcome.

This is a Studio McVey figure that I've always liked. The original had a hose running from her back to her gun, so I removed that. I added a Hasslefree rucksack and sculpted on some harness detail.

Another Studio McVey figure, this is the restic version of Akosha, which comes with the Battle For Alabaster game (bought after the Kickstarter campaign). It was really just done as a test to see how well the restic cleans and paints. Painting's okay, but cleaning restic is a pain in the neck.

A Reaper Bones Nova Corps Rifleman. This was another test figure, to see how the Bones material was to clean and how well my usual paints worked with it (people have reported a lot of problems with Bones figures). Happy to say that cleaning wasn't too difficult and my Humbrol M33 Black spray paint worked without a problem. The figure quality isn't that great, if I'm being honest. They're fine for background filler (I have a few bones dungeon monsters), but I would take metal over the Bones material every time.

The whole group