Topic: Simple Helljumper headswap

[smeagol92055]

So I've had this Helljumper figure for a while and I lost his head a while back. (Don't ask, silly story.)
Anyway, I bought a Halo: Reach figure that had a lot of alternate pieces and helmets, and it came with an ODST helmet! I was pretty stoked to have a complete figure again, but he'd been headless for so long that having the helmet back on just looked weird to me.

So, I did what any red-blooded customizer would do: I went out and bought a super-cheap $2 GI Joe knockoff, decapitated him, dremeled out his skull, and made an alt head for the figure!
Now he can take his bucket off in between skirmishes.



Next up, I'll be repeating this process on the Halo: Reach figure to give him an alt head as well! (Or maybe even a couple!)

[Tamer]

Looks great, on the front page.

[smeagol92055]

Thank you!
(And thank you for merging my topics! I hadn't realized that I had so many of them on the board! )

[Tamer]

Your welcome. With over 22 pages of individual artists for the custom figures boards it is so large we make sure each artists keeps all their stuff in one thread. I think there are a few I need to go back and merge, but this area is huge! Its an awesome problem to have!

[smeagol92055]

I screwed up the darn ODST helmet trying to make it a wearable bucket.

Doggone it.

[Tamer]

Punch a hole through it with a dremel?

[smeagol92055]

Ran the dremel too long and turned the faceplate into plastic soup.

[spudafett]

Ran the dremel too long and turned the faceplate into plastic soup.

it happens.  I always work in short controlled bursts from the dremmel.  Don't let that sucker get too hot, and I use my fingers around the helmet to keep track of how close I'm getting to the outside of the helmet.  typically I can feel the helmet start to give, warp and soften when the bit is getting too close so I can stop.  Also, holding it like that will help you keep track of how hot it's getting.  Of course... you have to be careful not to acidentally dremel your fingers...

[smeagol92055]

Yeah, it was so hot it burned my fingers! Sometimes common sense, she does not prevail.
That's all right, though; like I said, the Halo: Reach figure I got the bucket from came with an assortment of helmets. Though it won't be an ODST helmet he ends up wearing, I WILL make him a bucket!

What's left of the helmet actually looks like one of the helmets from the very first Halo game that the Marines were wearing... so, stealth win?