Shades of real world issues . . . this is no big deal but I thought it worth remarking as it works so well and cheap!. As in the real world, converting ex-soldiers to mufti is a good, quick way of getting top quality civilian workers!
I recently acquired a bunch of plastic 1:48 soldiers and airmen, altogether more than a dozen in several missile/rocket/military vehicle kits it took less only a minute or two to file down the helmet into a cap and cut away military equipment so I had a civilian.
Good things about military figures from Tamiyua, Revell, and similar kits, is that they are often found cheap, and that Plastruk and testors cement really holds to their plastic: note I cut the arm and repositioned it on the figure below. Sometimes Lionel and other figures are hard to glue well because of the material they are made of.
This took almost not time to create a really nice looking figure, cut and glued in position I needed (see my addition this morning in the vignettes thread).
