Modellers acrylic paint like they use for warhammer figures should work ok, i use "Vallejo model color" or any other brand that's available. The tricky bit is to put it on in multiple thin layers to match the texture of originaliteit paint. Youtube is filled with tutorials on how to use the paint correctly.
Awesome, thanks for sharing that, love the A-Team intro too.
No experience with the retro figures but cracking open a chestpiece is not the way to go.
Maybe an Indiana Jones Adventure Series Grail Knight??? At least you'd have the head, hands and lower legs covered, you could dremel out the part on his head and conceivably use it on another sculpt if the older grey faced one isn't going to work. There are Game Of Thrones figures, not big on them overall for customs as the three I'd picked up secondhand were not very useful to me.
Thanks for this but it is not quite what I had hoped. Its on me for not clarifying. I am looking for something over the torso, shoulders. Something sculpted, kind of like a Captain America torso but as an overlay not sculpted to the torso. I swear I remember some figure with like a shredded chain mail armor overlay from something but cannot for the life of me recall.
I gotcha, no problem. I can't think of anything offhand but I'll keep my eyes open and post if I see something.
Found out it's Mr. Negative from Marvel. I'm hoping the arms can be easily removed.
Also smoothed out the RFT peg with 800 grit paper and added a dab of dielectric grease to make sure it'd spin freely and not break the glue.
That's pretty great, your result looks like it's a best case scenario for a figure with a broken arm joint. I've attempted various solutions for such things and they're about as difficult a fix as there is. 10 out of 10 on the "how difficult is this" scale. No room for error and even if things go perfect, the joint could still break again down the road as you mentioned. I've fused together many joints just trying to delicately apply the glue on this kind of operation. Takes a steady hand and some pretty serious level of engineering.The situation: I ordered a few Rebel Ground Crew figures from Tunghori a few months ago. Unfortunately, one had a defective elbow joint that immediately broke... Looked as though it had an air bubble inside the cast. Tung has always been able to supply replacement parts on previous orders, but I guess these guys sold out and he couldn't come through this time.
With most figs I'd swap the arms and use it as a custom base; however, the RGC jumpsuit has a unique sculpted texture that would make other arms look out of place. I got sufficiently bored last night to attempt a repair:
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I began by removing the broken peg from the upper arm with an X-acto, several small drill bits, and a dental pick. Next, I used a pin vise to drill into the elbow's joint disk and the replacement peg cut from a miscast Rebel Fleet Trooper's lower arm (which Tung was able to replace; post #20155 in the link). As a precaution, I used a drill bit to rotate the disk after drilling the hole, to make sure that my reinforcing metal upholstery pin wouldn't go all the way into the disk and prevent movement. The last step was to superglue the pin into the peg and the disk. I basically rolled the dice and hoped the glue wouldn't ooze everywhere and freeze the joint. Caught a lucky break there.
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The weak spot of the repair is where the pin meets the elbow disk. The joint works, but there's no way it has the strength of a regular piece - Not much surface area for the glue to hold, and I'd imagine the metal pin would do a number on the joint disk if I fiddle with it too much. As a reminder to myself I filled one of his pegholes with bright blue paint so I know which one to baby.
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Thanks for looking!
The situation: I ordered a few Rebel Ground Crew figures from Tunghori a few months ago. Unfortunately, one had a defective elbow joint that immediately broke... Looked as though it had an air bubble inside the cast. Tung has always been able to supply replacement parts on previous orders, but I guess these guys sold out and he couldn't come through this time.
With most figs I'd swap the arms and use it as a custom base; however, the RGC jumpsuit has a unique sculpted texture that would make other arms look out of place. I got sufficiently bored last night to attempt a repair:
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I began by removing the broken peg from the upper arm with an X-acto, several small drill bits, and a dental pick. Next, I used a pin vise to drill into the elbow's joint disk and the replacement peg cut from a miscast Rebel Fleet Trooper's lower arm (which Tung was able to replace; post #20155 in the link). As a precaution, I used a drill bit to rotate the disk after drilling the hole, to make sure that my reinforcing metal upholstery pin wouldn't go all the way into the disk and prevent movement. The last step was to superglue the pin into the peg and the disk. I basically rolled the dice and hoped the glue wouldn't ooze everywhere and freeze the joint. Caught a lucky break there.
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The weak spot of the repair is where the pin meets the elbow disk. The joint works, but there's no way it has the strength of a regular piece - Not much surface area for the glue to hold, and I'd imagine the metal pin would do a number on the joint disk if I fiddle with it too much. As a reminder to myself I filled one of his pegholes with bright blue paint so I know which one to baby.
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Thanks for looking!
for anyone wondering this worked well. Post is my first attempt & although not perfect it does the job well enough.
Warm them up first in hot water or use a heat gun.
As @Utinniii said
Don't have it, but based on a review, it seems the skirt and belt are a separate piece. You might be able to get away with a simple boil and pop followed by new leg piece, provided that one has a belt to hide the potential extended waist that some skirt wearing torsos might have.
Ok, that's what I was thinking.
Can't think of any that are really red and a vest though there's options like the POTF2 Commtech Greedo's vest that you could dye. Rit dye is in the fabric section at Wal-Mart (gotta use "Synthetic" though not "All-Purpose") dye like this Racing Red....
