I had to get a new S01 chest after damaging my last one. Unfortunately, the new ones don't have the same lovely tan and shine that I loved of the old one which I felt worked great for Max in the Australian outback. But as per some scenes in the 4K UHD of Road Warrior, the paler and pinker tones of then new chest does looks closer to his flesh tone in those scenes. I might try spraying it/ painting it one sometime, or having it done and something suitable for some sweat.
I thought I'd share my progress and new neck mod. After a few weeks of different mods and attempts, I think I'm happy with this one for now. It was tricky getting the straight vertical edges/ lines of Gibson's neck and the correct shape and size. I opted for a neck piece cut to size, neck ball peg and barrel shaped neck adapter for this mod. Previously was using a different neck adapter piece. This time I have full articulation, so can do his iconic walking pose very well, which is great! For the DTs outfit, because the jacket collar sits too high on his shoulders (and also on 2 or so other chests I tried it on), I found that having the neck a bit taller than it should be was a good workaround to keep some distance between his neck and jacket collar, making it a bit closer to the film. A close second was a wine bottle cork cut to size. I tried various sizes and ways. One caveat with it all is that his neck might be a tad too chunky/ wide form the side profile, but that is needed if you want to fill Beast's head and have zero to very little gap beneath his chin.
I'm loving his iconic walking pose the most at the moment, so I am going to stick with that for now.
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Figure history and break-down:
I am the second owner of the base body. The amazing weathering and kitbashing was done by the previous owner. I have now added a new S01 chest and arms (as I damaged the S01 neck it came with when trying mods for it), trimmed the vest neck line to be a bit more screen-accurate and made a new neck mode and neck adapter.
Body: The torso and legs of the body are from two separate figures for the right proportions and to fill out the Dark Toys outfit. He did a great job there, it's a solid body and very similar to Gibson's, with a very similar chest as you can see, for example. The chest is shaped like a Maha or DID Advanced 2.0. The arms are more muscular than Gibson's were but I think the trade-off is needed to fill out this outfit, even then the outfit still hangs too loose on his arms, but it certainly looks decent/ passable, I think and is good improvement over stock.
Clothing: The clothes are from three different 1/6 Max figures, as well as a couple of areas the previous owner did himself with leather. Most of the outfit is Dark Toys, apart from the rear hand axe pouch, axe and the tire wrench and pouch, which are from the Premier Toys Max, which was switched out to have real material and accessories.
I will see about cutting his right sleeve the correct way, but it might take off too much material and then look worse, so will have to review this carefully first.
Weathering and other modifications/ enhancements:
Pleather outfit: the outfit was heavily weathered with various rust, dust and dirt paint details added, with a 'dust' acrylic colour mixture of the customiser's own.
T-Shirt: Max's T-shirt was cut and ripped to screen-accuracy at the neck line and the left breast area, which is torn in the film. I improved the neck line by fine trimming loose hairs and getting the shape closer to the film.
Shotgun: Max's sawed-off shotgun was weathered including with metallic scrapes, as well as grip wrapping added.
Leg brace: The stabiliser portion of the leg brace below the knee was reinforced and enhanced, as that aspect had been missing on the brace. Testers paint in a chrome was used to paint the brace to make it appear more metallic. An acrylic silver metallic top coat of paint went over that, since the Testers can be a little grimy. However, it is rubbing off easily, so I will need to seal it with a sealant.
Arm rag: The red arm rag, which was a cheap ribbon on the Dark Toys figure was also been replaced with an actual rag piece
Other accessories: Max's boot knife and all accessories, etc., have been weathered and in some areas, given stronger connections, such as the binoculars.
Max's Dog: The dog was re-painted to be closer to the actual colouring in the film.
There might be some other things that were done but I am not sure. If I think it safe to, I will treat all of the pleather with Aerospace 303, which I use for any pleather, it should be fine.
Just awesome work my friend….be proud cause you have one of the best I have seen
