Just wrote an email to Deadhaed and laughed at my own writing so i thought it best maybe to paste a copy of it here. Try not to laugh too hard at me.
When I took that big mass of comparison pictures, I had one platoon of the Thai/Cambodian figures converted.
I now have a complete infantry company in 28mm.
Three platoons each of;(34 figures each x3 platoons=102 figures)
a headquarters set of an officer, radioman and a medic(3)
a machine gun section of a leader, two M60 machine gunners, two assistants, a bazooka figure and a bazooka assistant(7)
three squads per platoon of an M79 gunner and seven riflemen.(8)
A company headquarters of a captain, second in command, radioman, runner and a three man medic/stretcher bearer detachment (7 figures)
A mortar support detachment of a leader, radioman, two 81mm mortars, two mortar assistants and two ammo bearers (8)
A direct fire support section of two M20 106mm recoil less rifles and assistants, and two M18 57mm recoil less rifles and assistants (8)
125 figures altogether. Glad to have finished the conversions because the 1st Corps marines are cast from some high density pewter and are pretty hard to cut using an exacto knife. I only put the exacto blade into my thumb two times for the last two platoons,,, a new record low. Kind of important to keep the damage down being a diabetic and all.
In addition I had my crazy big delivery of Malaysian police in berets from Grubbys Tanks.
So far I put together two platoons of them with the M1 carbines.
Since one of the four poses already has an M1 carbine, that was the bulk of them, then I also converted six more to M79 grenade launchers and twelve in total to M1 carbines from TAG. I am glad that I did not have more carbine conversions as the carbines are pretty tiny for my adult sized fingers.
There are four figures. M1 carbine, Sten gun, Number 5 rifle and shotgun.
The carbine and rifle figures already have a small pack, but the Sten Gun and shotgun figures are pretty bare, so they get dressed up with small packs and bandoleers from Iron Wind metals.
Two platoons of the Special Guerrilla Units of thirty of these guys each.
Platoon HQ
Oficer figure from Warbases,
Radioman by sticking a strand from a nylon broom into a small pack on a converted Sten Gun figure.
The nylon broom bristle strand actually looks really good for the flat sided three foot hip of the PRC25 set radio and the small pack is a pretty good way to carry it. God only knows I carried that radio enough as a youngster.
Thridly another Sten Gun or carbine figure for an NCO.
Three sections per platoon of one A Sten Gun equipped section leader, an M79 gunner and seven M1 carbine figures.
I am now looking at two more platoons of Special Guerrilla Unts but this time converted to M16 rifles.
since the Grubby Tanks figures are a softer casting pewter material, they are far easier to both cut and bend the arms to get better posing. I am so looking forward to working with them instead of those hard to cut 1st corps figures.
Long story short, I have been pretty happily cutting and gluing away.
The idea of eventually getting enough done to justify painting in bulk again has me dreaming like the Imperial German Navy Officers who spoke of the ,,, "Der Tag".
