Brittle Plastic and Head Swaps

Airfix WWI British Infantry in 1/76th scale.

Sadly, many of them have fallen in combat.

They have succumbed to plastic rot.  I have stored them indoors, in a climate controlled area inside a plastic food storage container, out of the sunlight, inside a dark drawer.  

The wheat are separated from the chaff.  All the dead and wounded are evacuated and the rest are returned to duty after the screening.

The unit suffered about 30% casualties. 

Hopefully they will solider on for decades to come.

The heads are removed from the brittle figures and they will be repurposed.  Strangely the thick parts like bodies and heads seem to last longer than the bases and arms and legs.  I will use these for head swaps, but when that happens about 10% will split apart and be discarded like their bodies.

I use these head to make Interwar US Army troops who wore a similar hat to the British service cap.  They also get used as police heads, as this was a common service cap for police from the 1920s and even similar ones are used today by US police.  I take generic civilians and replace their head with these guys and add weapons, billy clubs and other gear and use them as cops.  Some other figures look good with this head, the Matchbox US Army solider in greatcoat firing a .45 semi-automatic pistol and the Airfix WWII US Marine standing and firing a pistol, make good police, or even MPs with this head.