MONDO - THE THING

Remembermyname said:

Your commitment to detail and making improvements is impressive, you Inspire others. Thank you my friend

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Thank you.

This figure's been a hell of a rollercoaster ride! Wednesday's unboxing was a real low point, acting as the motivation to rescue MacReady and make something worthwhile of him, something I was happy to display.

I was happy with him, until magpie9 and xvsopx unlocked the potential for Mondo's jacket and pushed me to start over again.

I was happy again, until the nagging feeling finally got me to change the body to cure his limited stance and adjust his height. The tipping point was realising that the flight suit legs should be fuller and over the boots.

Didn't think the body swap would take that long, but then I didn't realise just how non-standard the Mondo body is, and how long it would take to cut the elastic in the hems of the flight suit. The elastic in one leg presented itself to be cut, which gave me the idea, but the elastic in the other leg didn't want to reveal itself. I had to unpick the stitching, which was laborious.


He's still not done yet. I don't think I'll weather the suit legs as I didn't notice them dirty in the movie - it wasn't exactly a dirty location. The thing that stands out to me are the bright green flamethrower straps.

They need to be more khaki:



And is the lower belt part of the flamethrower harness that Mondo missed off?




After the false starts nothing I did went to waste. The DID jacket, which was already spare, found a new home. I used the modified Mondo body on the figure I took the narrow should from.

Began to modify my MacReady over the weekend. DiD jacket, Flightsuit & Flame Thrower together with a Hot Toys Spiderman Blue Hoodie.
Pretty happy so far. Next stage will be to add the fur to the jacket collar, as well as some weathering to the leather.

I painted the flamethrower straps khaki - the actual paint was Coat d'Arms' 'Russian Brown', which is actually green rather than brown.

The buckles on the front look dark, so I painted them Panzer Grey, which is practically black (Coat d'Arms can be confusing. lol).

I left the other hooks green. They're hard to spot in the film and searching for decent images of the M2A7-1, which isn't easy, those hooks were painted green.

Adama said:

Began to modify my MacReady over the weekend. DiD jacket, Flightsuit & Flame Thrower together with a Hot Toys Spiderman Blue Hoodie.
Pretty happy so far. Next stage will be to add the fur to the jacket collar, as well as some weathering to the leather.

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Looking good my friend.

DHL are holding mine till mid September (possibly can extend hold) as I am away from home. Might be a good thing though since by the time I get mine in hand you all will have settled on the perfect choice of body to swap to and all mods required. I will be able to just plagiarise your work for the perfect MacReady. Mwahahahaha

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I've lost track now - has ANYBODY in the States or Canada got theirs yet?




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Heavy Metal Spike said:

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I've lost track now - has ANYBODY in the States or Canada got theirs yet?

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Waiting on mine, still says in China, but clearance in Ohio.

I use DHL all the time for Japanese imports and its always been my favorite shipper, this would be the first time its taken this long...

Brokenhandpuppet said:

Waiting on mine, still says in China, but clearance in Ohio.

I use DHL all the time for Japanese imports and its always been my favorite shipper, this would be the first time its taken this long...

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Pretty sure DHL os actually not one company but multiple. IIRC they bought up courier companies and just rebranded them, so your jap imports were prob handled by a different DHL....

jaztermareal said:

Pretty sure DHL os actually not one company but multiple. IIRC they bought up courier companies and just rebranded them, so your jap imports were prob handled by a different DHL....

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Well whoever did those deserves a raise

You've got to ask yourself one question....

How long were you alone with that dog.

Heavy Metal Spike said:

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I've lost track now - has ANYBODY in the States or Canada got theirs yet?

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Mine arrived today, and I'm in the US. They didn't require a signature, they just dropped it off.

karamazov80 said:

Mine arrived today, and I'm in the US. They didn't require a signature, they just dropped it off.

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Thanks for the info.

So - the wheels are in motion for North America - albeit perhaps accompanied with the phrase "Yabba Dabba Doo!".


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Heavy Metal Spike said:

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In New York, mine came in today from DHL.

Its a weird sculpt this one, not sure if I really like it or really dislike it.

Michael Crawford will be putting up his review of the Mondo later. This is his warm up:

Got around to unboxing mine. As others said, typical Mondo to look different from the prototype. However despite faults, I do think it’s a solid release. I think with modding it can be great. Body articulation and jacket are the biggest let downs. Picture in my detolf here, happy with the pose as he look awkward with both hands on flamethrower
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This is getting a little annoying now. I really not liking DHL at all

The body is lame and plenty of thing are not accurate. I was really disappointed but after a bit of work, He's decent.

ebag27 said:

This is getting a little annoying now. I really not liking DHL at all

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Same boat here man

ebag27 said:

This is getting a little annoying now. I really not liking DHL at all

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They are playing with ours first before delivery. How long does it take? The customs thing is BS!