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Well, I guess this would be my first Episode 1
custom.
Not totally original, more of an improvement
over
the way Hasbro originally released him.
My first step was to update the articulation,
I wanted to increase
the range of motion in his arms primarily and
thought of swapping
his head onto a DRAGON figure body, but have
yet to come by
one as of yet. So I replaced his arms with
those from a CC Joe
instead of swapping the head. This way
I don't have to deal with
the different sized necks, and I don't loose
any of Liams height
in comparison to the other figs.
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Here is a shot of the damage done to the body.
The white marks
on the body are stress marks left from me opening
the body up.
And here are the first pics of the range
of motion added to his arms
I plan on resculpting the head and altering the
saber belt attachment
to match the movie, so there's quite a way to
go from here.
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Now I'm working on replacing the head. Some
have said that it's the
best likeness to come out of the Star Wars 12"
line yet and for the
most part I agree,... that's why I'm replacing
it.
Here's the start of my new head next to the Hasbro
one.
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Well here he is,... The scan doesn't quite
do the head justice, the details
didn't show up due to the angle of the light,
and his hair wanted to fall
forward causing it to expand sideways.
The new belt clip works well,
after the clip attachment on the saber was replaced
with a screw I
made the box on the belt from 3 layers of sheet
styrene.
Here's the final scan, hopefully I'll have a better
photo taken soon.
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I've started over from scratch as I bought a Dragon and my custom
head does not fit it at all, so look for a new sculpt to come soon.
!! COMING SOON !!
QUI-GON JINN II
click here for the new Qui-Gon Jinn
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