Smurf Wars: Smurf Racers... A Lucky Find?

It's purely by accident I wandered into one of the local toystores and noticed a couple tiny smurf diecast cars to the side, which seemed about just right for my Smurf Wars project. Naturally I had to buy them and research the range when I returned home. Apparently these were a 2013 release (no doubt dusted off with the release of the new movie) and as such no longer in production. I still managed to find a place online that had a few sets left, so I snapped them up. They are called "Die Cast Racers", not to be confused with larger scale equivalents that go by other labels.

There are 5 variants. One is a seriously underscaled Gargamel with Azrael, but I figured it would convert nicely with some of my smurf heads and some greenstuff to get rid of the "evil" look. Or I could add a black smurf as the driver and leave the car as is.

Here are a few examples with a size comparison to my metal smurfs:

And a comparison of the heads. They are very close in size, though the plastic heads aren't looking to good from the front.

Since I had spares, I decided to have a go at beheading a couple to see how they would look with some of my metal heads. I think they look good (note that Smurfette's head isn't sitting well currently because I didn't remove some excess hair volume for a better fit yet.

Not sure what to use these for. As extra smurf civilians perhaps, driving some of Handy Smurf's inventions. Or maybe add a new "racing" minigame to the project called "Smurfy Kart". That could be fun...

Smurf Wars: Smurf Villager Mastercastings

No new paintjobs but here are some picturesof mastercastings of some more smurf villager bit.

Smurf heads. 

The top row are a sad smurf, a surprised smurf, a laughing smurf and a Papa Smurf character head.

The bottom row are shouting smurfs. These should work well as "good" fighting smurfs too (as in opposed to "evil" grey or black/purple smurfs, which will get more angry expressions).

The Smurfette. One body, five headvariants (you can tell the sculptor has a soft spot for her). From left to right, they are smiling, sad, angry (grey Smurfette), laughing and surprised/shouting.

Then a Jokey Smurf or Greedy Smurf body with accessories (jack in the box, packed present or smurf cake). The head is the laughing head from higher up, just loosely stuck on for the picture.

Some assorted bits and weapons to be used with other Smurf figures:

Smurf Warfs: Smurf Villager

The prototype got mastermoulded and while these were intended for converting more variants, I couldn't resist the temptation to get one painted up to see how it looks.

This revealed a few points of improvement (like putting the eyes closer together, but overall, not a bad start.