Is converting easier than starting new? (1/35)

[Jim Lawrie]

I'm starting on my first conversions and scratch built models. I want to do a vignette of the Micheal Terry 1925 expedition in Australia. I've been looking at some tutorials on youtube of cut-and-shut limbs but these often seem to create unnatural postures, especially in the shoulders and the torso in general.
Is it easier to create new limbs and torso? I'm not too proud to buy hornet heads and hands.

 

[Merryweather]

I know what you mean. If unnatural poses matters to you then sculpting over a wire is the best way to go.
Using existing torsos will never give you the proper creases if you change the position of the arms, but it's way less work, of course. It depends how much it irritates ...
Sounds to me like you care, though ?
If you've never done it before, be kind to yourself, it takes practice.

 

[Jim Lawrie]

I know what you mean. If unnatural poses matters to you then sculpting over a wire is the best way to go.
Using existing torsos will never give you the proper creases if you change the position of the arms, but it's way less work, of course. It depends how much it irritates ...
Sounds to me like you care, though ?
If you've never done it before, be kind to yourself, it takes practice.

Thanks. I might put the vignette on the backburner and do some practice on straight up starting figures. My real problem is that civilian clothes of the 1920s are totally unlike military uniforms.