Damien, Post-Apocalyptic Mutant Ganger (conversion

Reaper Bones #77149 "Damien, Hellborn Wizard" (plastic 32mm scale game miniature) slightly modified, painted, and based to serve as a "post-apocalyptic" mutant character for game settings such as "Deadlands: Hell on Earth," or even "Interface Zero," etc.

The original figure was holding a staff in the left hand, but the "Bones" plastic came out noticeably warped and kind of sad-looking.  Normally, the remedy for that is to soak the plastic in hot water and bend it back to shape, but I've had rather mixed results with that, and if a part of the figure is *too* bendy, there's the problem with paint crinkling off in storage if the part gets bent around too much from light pressure of the storage foam.  I don't want that, so I often end up replacing staves, spears, etc., with pieces of wire, or with hard-plastic or pewter "bitz" from other sources.

In this case, I decided to go for a different sort of upgrade, as the attire of the figure struck me as something that could pass for modern in a cyberpunk-ish game (emphasis more on the "punk" than the "cyber" here).  The horns and tail would still need some explanation, but I figured that in a cyberpunk you could pass that off as a "biosculpt" or "wetware" modification, and in an over-the-top post-apocalyptic setting, you could pass him off as a "mutant."  I decided to go the post-apocalyptic route (since post-apoc figures tend to still fit in just fine in cyberpunk settings thanks to the various "badlands" areas that tend to crop up in such dystopian worlds).

The replacement gun comes from my "bitz box," and is a plastic piece likely originally trimmed from a Necromunda figure.  (I never played Necromunda, so I'm not sure, but I've accumulated a few figures and pieces through grab-bag deals, and the general bulk of the gun and "skullz" strike me as very Warhammer-esque.)  I left a small bit of the original staff in the left hand to serve as a handle/grip, then used a hand pinning drill and some wire to affix the gun.

I stuck the integral plastic base on a standard 25mm round game base, then used some epoxy putty to bring the diameter of the integral base closer to matching (though the resulting elevation boost is a bit of overkill).  The wrecked stop sign is a piece of printed cardstock glued to a bent piece of pewter Reaper sprue.  (I sometimes cluster together various images of street signs, license plates, posters, newspaper front pages, warning signs, caution stripes, monitor screens, etc., onto a full page, and then print off on paper or cardstock so I have textures/details I can cut out and glue onto pieces of tabletop terrain or large figure bases.)

Voila!  He's either a post-apocalyptic mutant survivor, or a bio-sculpted ganger from the wastelands in a cyberpunk setting, or maybe even some sort of infernal agent momentarily showing a glimpse of his true nature in some sort of "urban supernatural" campaign setting.