"Converting your model soldiers, 1975" Topic

Originally broadcast 29 May 1975.

Link to BBC video: link

I do not know who that master modeler is but WOW! He was great!

Interesting, but why wouldn't he have started with an ACW figure in a sack coat?

Thanks for the link. Perhaps if I did my work wearing a tie, I would get better results. I like the idea of taping bottles of glue to a small brick to provide stability,

Now I need to find liquid plastic. That stuff looks amazingly useful.

No 54mm easily available ACW figures in 1975 (maybe something from Historix) – the airfix rifleman was pretty much the stock conversion dolly back then, mostly due to the bent knee option for kneeling/running.

Liquid plastic is literally the sprues melted in glue – very bad for the health if unventilated but we knew no better back then.

I remember watching Bob Symes making a Cromwell from paper, including cutting and placing all the track teeth one by one – thousands of 'em and the damn thing looked umpteen times better than any effort of mine to build a kit from the box!

Liquid plastic is literally the sprues melted in glue – very bad for the health if unventilated but we knew no better back then.

That's what the modeler said in the video, but I was hoping there was a professional product by now. Doesn't seem to be.

On the bright side, now I know what to do with the jar of Tamiya liquid styrene cement that has gotten too low for the cap brush to reach.

Tamiya makes a modeling putty in a tube for plastic.

I was thinking that the Tamiya putty was probably just a thicker version of the liquid plastic from the video.