| AN ONGOING NEWSLETTER | May 2007 |
I like Clicky figures. They are cheap, especially if you don't care if they are broken. I had a scenario that required some shooting victims. (Rescue them without getting shot in the process: the farther from cover and the difficulty in moving them gave the point score) No blood: They are also useful as drugged kidnap victims, ambush lures, etc. Anywhere that you'd want an unconscious body.... Clicky figures are cheap, easy to cut & glue, they take paint & putty, and I don't care if I ruin a few.
Clicky 1 My pal Graham Wren (AKA GW, so I guess she's a GW figure) gave me some Clickys pulled from a Comic Shop scrap box. She was supposed to be on a flying base, but I don't know who she was. I filled in her wing slots and added a short skirt and hair. She sort-of lays flat, so I guess she's still wiggling. Her boots made for knee-high socks, and the rest just sort of followed.
Clicky 2 This was a figure of a charactere called 'Elektra'. She was in a 'dramatic' (AKA stupid) pose, dancing about with a staff. You just wanted to shoot her. I trimmed away all the flowing ribbons, etc, and cut her in half at the waist. I oriented the halves so she'd lie flattish, and glued & filled the joints. A skirt & hir were added from putty. |
Clicky 3 The 'Thug'. A very musclebound type, he just didn't lay flat. I was forced to remove his head and arms, and flatten his back a bit with coarse sandpaper. I reattached the head & arms at unnatural angles, filling the joints with putty. Clicky 4 The 'Thug' again. To disguise him I repositioned all his limbs, and added a bulky jersey from putty.
USUK Tank I found a broken dollar store trailer at a garage sale. I cut off the hitch & sanded the bottom flat. I mounted it on 2 Lego blocks (also sanded flat) on a Sintra base. |