Wow.... It's been a long while since I had action figures on my table... 4 months...
That hiatus is broken.
I'm working on something cool for the contest, and I'm taking a concept that was begun by user Krztfr... using 6" figure parts to re-create a modernized version of the Shadows of the Empire swoop bike rider... then once I have the figure completed I plan on scratch building a 6" scale swoop bike!
So here's what I've been up to.
Taken apart here is a stormtrooper (luke disguise), Tie pilot, and scout trooper. I used a mug of water and the microwave to boil-n-pop all the parts I could.... but the dang hips, torsos and the chest on the stormtrooper are all hard plastic clamshells....
I wanted to use the scout trooper's legs from the hips down... easiest way to do this without breaking the ball joints was to pop open the waists of each figure and pull out the hips with ball joints attached. Luckilly these were transferable between all the figures.
To get the chest from the stormtrooper I had to pop off the waist in a similar fashion to splice in the lower torso from the tie pilot.
I originally also wanted to use the majority of the stormtrooper's arms, but swap the bicep with that of the scout trooper... I got it all together, but unfortunately the pegs just weren't compatible and it had floppy arm syndrome. I might have been able to fix this with some hot glue, but after looking at it these biceps wound up making the arms a little lanky... so I just went back ot the original storm trooper arms.
That's what I've gotten so far. Of course I'll probably use a halo helmet like Krztfr has done on his, and I'll be creating a brand new belt and harness system from scratch to match the original toy.
This has been my first big forray into swapping parts in the Black series 6" line... so far I've been super impressed with the construction of these figures. They are definitely not easy to un-assemble.
