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Socketing a peg head
« on: November 27, 2009, 08:50:10 PM »
This is a little video tutorial I quickly put together tonight detailing my technique of using a dremel bit to create a socket in a head sculpt that doesn't have one. 


check it out! tell me what you think!
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Re: Socketing a peg head
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2009, 09:57:35 PM »
That's what I'm talking about!!  Thanks!
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Re: Socketing a peg head
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2009, 06:54:34 AM »
Nice and easy tutorial,  Thanks for making it.
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Re: Socketing a peg head
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2009, 07:16:09 AM »
Nice video of the dremel work, Spud.
You make it look easy as always.
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Re: Socketing a peg head
« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2009, 11:10:22 AM »
thanks clint.  Lots and lots of practice...  of course the first one's I did when I started customizing were never as good!
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Re: Socketing a peg head
« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2009, 12:36:04 PM »
5 minutes well spent, Spud. Excellent how to. Now, if Hasbro'd fit all of their figures with the same neck ball, we'd all be happier campers  ;)
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Re: Socketing a peg head
« Reply #6 on: November 29, 2009, 10:56:00 PM »
incom... you hit the issue right on the head... well.. neck.... ;)
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Re: Socketing a peg head
« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2009, 12:27:01 AM »
Ah well, I like to think along sometimes  ;) Say, you wouldn't happen to know that trick to fit large sized heads on smaller neck posts? I believe it has something to do with a hot glue gun, which I happened to find in our shed yesterday. Didn't even know I had one!
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Re: Socketing a peg head
« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2009, 02:00:13 AM »
the hot glue method for securing a large ball socket head onto a smaller ball neck joint is the simplest method, albeit not necesarilly the prettiest...

Basically you let the hot glue gun heat up some glue and put enough glue into the head's socket to barely fill it... then quickly hold the head on the new neck joint so that the new ball is in the center of the glue.  Let the glue cool and then twist the head around to form the new socket.  You shuld have a nice tight new socket of glue formed inside the bigger socket.  if any glue was pushed out around the socket you can then trim this up to make it look better.


I have had better luck using apoxi sculpt, self hardening clay.  Either by the same method of fillin in the hold and pushing in the neck and letting it harden around that OR by filling in the head, letting it harden and then using the dremel to create a new socket much in the way that I did in the video.
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