Modified LPBs

[nachoman]

My layout needs more LPBs. My issue is era - there isn't much available for my time period, and they are more than I want to spend. Years ago I bought a box of cheap Atlas unpainted figures, and have a few left over. The problem is, they are in ridiculous poses, look like many are either doctors or military personnel, or are wearing way to modern clothing. But, being impatient, I thought I could cut some up and see what I could do.

   

The woman on the left began as a seated woman with her left arm kinda sticking out for no reason. She was wearing some kind of shorts and a short sleeve blouse. Way too modern for my 1920 timeframe. So, I cut her arm at the elbow, filed the cut edges at an appropriate angle, and re-glued her arm so it was directed at her lap. I then made a longer dress for her by plopping a blob of epoxy on her legs and then filing/sanding to shape. Her hat is a disk of styrene glued down over the top of her head (with the crown of her head sticking through the disc). I then put a blob of putty on the center of the hat and sanded that round. The rest is just paint.

The man/boy on the right started off as a man seated on some kind of chair that looked like a toilet. My first step was to remove the chair with a hobby knife and files. I then had to fix a deformed foot from where he was attached to the base. I used a tiny scrap of styrene for this. His hat is made the same way as the woman's - a disc of styrene glued around his head with the sides bent up. After I seated him on the bench, I noticed his feet didn't hit the floor Either he was meant to be a child or was modeled to a different scale. Either way, he can be the woman's 10 year old son.