Tired of ultra high detail 'serious' wargaming figures I started to adapt old down on their luck Playmobil and similar figures for my games. Because these figures aren't usually dressed for the part I started to modify them by making clothes, boots and armour for them from leather scraps and other bits and bobs. And when it came to putting together a motley crew of Hobbits I got the two part epoxy putty out and modelled their faces and feet. With these figures I also experimented with using real hair and fur to put the hair on their heads.
Elf and Hobbit.
Another Hobbit.
I don't want go too OT with this thread and drift off into wargaming, but I just wanted to share with you the methods I'm planning on using to make the folk who live in the Kotanga Valley. Not much call for armour back in 1920, but boots and jackets and trousers & etc should be more than possible to make by such methods. As for the folk themselves they only need a basic wire skeleton that can be posed with only hands and faces needing to be crafted in any great detail.
Not so long ago I discovered some simple little dollshouse people dressed in fabric clothing, but with wooden heads, hands and feet. Their heights vary between 4.5 inches and 5 inches which I thought was just fine for 7/8 scale With new heads and hands and a little tasteful tailoring here and there they will do very nicely methinks.
Some examples:
