More tank riders

I finished this group a little over a week ago, but work has been keep me busy lately, so I've been a little late to make this post. Things have been slowed down here by my attempt to find a replacement for my favorite gap filler: green Squadron Putty. I am not a fan of their newer formula and have searched high and low for remaining stock of the old stuff, but haven't come across any. I've tried many replacements and haven't identified what exactly will work for me, but it has got to be out there ... somewhere. At this point I could write up a pretty good review of all the options available.

This batch of figures are meant to be Azeri tank riders in winter dress for the war in Nagorno-Karabakh with some miscellaneous figures for that conflict. It involved a lot of head swaps, some weapon swaps even and a ton of green stuff sculpting.

The rightmost figure below originally had a life preserver on him, but I carved that off so I could make a big collar and simple afghanka coat with front and sleeve pockets. The figure second from the right is an Azeri medic.

RH Models EER11*; EER11* with head swap; MULT*HMG with head swap; RNIAKSU

RH Models RUSAT4 with head swap; WEA22; NEGSPOT with head and hand swap

The next two pictures are all Azerbaijani tank riders in winter garb. Except for the leftmost figures, kneeling with an RPG-2 ... those figures had their base removed, they were originally Mujaheddin. All except one of these figures got a head swap and many got big collars added with green stuff.

RH Models HDBRPG; MUJ25 with head swaps

RH Models HDBRPG with head swap; MUJ25 with head swaps

These final four figures all started out as sitting Russian figures with helmets. I swapped all of their heads. The leftmost figure got a new hand to hold his head up, the figure third from the left got two new hands to hold a swapped in SVD and the last figure got a new arm, hand and other hand to hold a swapped in RPK. With these figures I had a lot of fun challenging myself to see what varieties I was capable of creating.

RH Models RUSAGSH with head swap; RUSHMGH with head swap; RUSHMGH with head swap; RUSAGSH with head swap