Conversions certainly emerge as an important resource for increasing the number of figures in collections. In terms of WWII Germans, not only simply modifying poses of on the topic figs but also transforming miniatures initially issued for other armies can sometimes work.
In the article below linked there is featured the conversion of a couple of WWI soldiers into WWII ones. In addition, there is presented another more than attractive miniature, namely a war dog.
Much more images and the text of the article are available here:
http://www.ww2germans.com/index.php/miscellaneous/various-related?id=585
I hope you like them.
Cristian Florescu