"How Often Do You Do Head Swaps?" Topic

All the time? Rarely? Never?

Rarely.

As often as possible, or time allows.

Unmmmmm…..
Rarely, but I like King's Mountain which gives you separate heads and bodies to receive them. I did a lot of Lamming figures back in The Day for the same reason.
I did a few genuine decapitations and head swaps, but I was never good at it.

Never….

Very rarely

All the time. One of the few conversions I do. Very easy and makes a big difference in figures.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

For characters fairly often. Rank and file not so much.

A jewelers saw for metals and x-acto knives for plastic. Yeah, I do a lot of them.

All the time. It's what convinced me to do separate heads for my KMM figures.

I mainly play in 6mm so not that often :-)

My current go-to period is the SYW.

In 1/72 scale, there's not a lot of SYW figures available so most of my figures are conversions. I've never done so many head/hat swops in my life.

Fortunately, one of the few available SYW sets are the HaT MAC range in Prussian infantry, which come with tricornes, mitres & fusilier caps for every figure: loads of spares.

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A lot. I use WF plastics with seperate heads so it is easy to do.

Very often, I'm always buying heads and bits to do what is a simple conversion actually. Love the Redoubt heads and use West Wind stuff often too, Tag weapons are nice, plastics often get metal heads and weapons. Got the jewelers saw exacto knife and the differing drill bits if needed, mu cut and bleeding fingers show testament to that too. ;)
Cheers

I used to but not for some time. I still intend to but my hands are not what they once were.

x42

Frequently. Am currently making a load of new hats- does that count?

When the need arises, it's easy in 15mm. I don't saw, I cut. If you saw, you lose part of the neck. Drilling and pinning is simple, and thee glue hides the joint. I do it for hands/arms sometimes too.

Rarely

Rarely

My most accurate short answer would be as needed. It really depends on what I have and what I'm trying to achieve…

Sometimes.

As Jarrovian and Rrobbyrobot …

Every week there will be some headswaps in progress (unless, say, like this week I'm pretty much doing smaller scale ships*)

Phil
*if I'm doing figures I'm doubtless switching some haeds around

Never. I suppose I could see it as a one-off, maybe, if really, really, really needed. But I just don't see it ending well for me.

Always, since 90% of my 40mm figures have separate plug in heads to begin with, it's pretty easy to do.

all the time

Quite a bit. it's one of the easiest way to change a figure. I have fairly large collection of the old RalPartha Battletroops that I have broken down into three factions. The first is all in the oversized clam shell helmets, the second in the football style, and the third is all in berets (from London War Room).

All the time.

Never

Pretty frequently.

At PP we sell a fair few seperate head pacs in 15mm size. The head is often the item that contains the most of the figures identity. The PP heads come on little sabots and 20 heads per packs. The existing head is best twisted off and a new one drilled in. they come with a short spigot for the purpose. So extra work but great fro that individual need. A pin vice and 1mm drill is used.

martin

I can't say I've ever swapped my head. Although some may well say they wish I had …

Occasionally.

Rarely to very rarely

i do. Mostly with the Mad Max Fury Road project I have been working on. Many of the warboys needed head swaps.

Heads, arms, weapons and even legs. All in 28mm.

Occasionally

I recall doing it exactly once (in 15mm). Never again.

As a percentage of total figures, rarely.

I have been doing it a bit more recently with true 15mm Napoleonics. I wanted to do 1813-1814 Wurttemburgers and had to change heads for all of my artillery gunners. I also did it for some cavalry and some infantry.

I rarely cut or saw. Most of the time I gently twist the head off each figure. It nearly always leaves a flat, even surface on both pieces.

While I have done a lot of drilling and pinning in my time, and still do, I rarely do that for heads. I use a super glue with an accelerator to initially attach the head, virtually immediately. I then strengthen the joint with a small amount of 5 minute epoxy. So far so good, without the time of drilling and pinning.

Tom

Some families more often than you think.