I didn't have a lot of money, so cutting arms and legs off of your little plastic (or lead) fellows might just turn a perfectly good mini into so much junk.
Luckily for me, I was (am?) kinda good at it and the original plastic space marines were modular and practically begging to be converted.
One of my first attempts was a leader. I was inspired by this pic in the back of the WH40k Rogue Trader book --
I also tried to make some guys with "combi-weapons." Was that a thing back then? I don't remember... These aren't too spectacular, but you can see I went a little crazy converting bolter accessories into armor bits. "Chainsaw shoulderpads" on both models...
I think I originally wanted the guy on the right to have a Meltagun. I used an aluminum standoff as a giant muzzle on his converted bolter.
I have a bunch more of these that I will share in future posts!!
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Yep- mod it to make it your own. Been there. Good fun. :-)
I also went crazy in customizing my box of plastic beakies--chainsaw blade off the shoulder pad just like you, a couple of knife blades sticking out of a fist like Wolverine's claws, double barreled boltguns, etc. Unfortunately, I left them at my parents when I moved out, and years later they ended up getting thrown away.
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