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I was working on figure #1, the one that will eventually be riding Cisco, and had fully assembled him apart from the gauntlets... and the bleeding obvious suddenly struck me like a lightning bolt.
A very annoying lightning bolt.![LOL :lol :lol](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/old/lol.gif)
Figure #1 would be wearing gauntlets. So you're not going to see that there are missing buttons on his cuffs.![Slap :slap :slap](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/old/slap.gif)
So I disassembled him, removed his perfect jacket and put it on figure #2.
Figure #1 is back to where he was yesterday with buttonless cuffs.
As for gauntlets I didn't want to use DID's fabric ones on their bendy hands if I could help it, so I searched through my spare parts to see if I could make some.
The starting point was a spare pair of Sideshow X-Wing Luke gauntlet cuffs. The hand sections came from a Hot Toys bootleg Blade II figure. The gripping hand should be perfect for the guidon, though the left won't great for holding the reins.
I painted the parts with Games Workshop Bleached Bone, and was surprised it took so well. The wash with Graveyard Earth ended up a bit heavy handed, pardon the pun, so I'll go back and tidy them up later.
It's either these or DID's oven gloves, and in hand (blimey, another unintended pun!) from a couple of feet away these look more convincing to me.
I couldn't have the sash sitting as low on the jacket as in the film because the length of the cross strap wouldn't allow the belt to drop that far down. I couldn't work out how to lengthen the cross strap, or even if it was intended to be altered.
I wrapped the sash once round the waist, tied two knots in it, and pulled one end back up under the sash to hang over the belt as it was in the film.
Figure #2 is using DID's Colonel Mackenzie sculpt:
Used up some of the spare parts to see what the cape coat looked like on a figure:
A very annoying lightning bolt.
![LOL :lol :lol](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/old/lol.gif)
Figure #1 would be wearing gauntlets. So you're not going to see that there are missing buttons on his cuffs.
![Slap :slap :slap](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/old/slap.gif)
So I disassembled him, removed his perfect jacket and put it on figure #2.
Figure #1 is back to where he was yesterday with buttonless cuffs.
As for gauntlets I didn't want to use DID's fabric ones on their bendy hands if I could help it, so I searched through my spare parts to see if I could make some.
The starting point was a spare pair of Sideshow X-Wing Luke gauntlet cuffs. The hand sections came from a Hot Toys bootleg Blade II figure. The gripping hand should be perfect for the guidon, though the left won't great for holding the reins.
I painted the parts with Games Workshop Bleached Bone, and was surprised it took so well. The wash with Graveyard Earth ended up a bit heavy handed, pardon the pun, so I'll go back and tidy them up later.
It's either these or DID's oven gloves, and in hand (blimey, another unintended pun!) from a couple of feet away these look more convincing to me.
I couldn't have the sash sitting as low on the jacket as in the film because the length of the cross strap wouldn't allow the belt to drop that far down. I couldn't work out how to lengthen the cross strap, or even if it was intended to be altered.
I wrapped the sash once round the waist, tied two knots in it, and pulled one end back up under the sash to hang over the belt as it was in the film.
Figure #2 is using DID's Colonel Mackenzie sculpt:
Used up some of the spare parts to see what the cape coat looked like on a figure: