1/6 Indy Customizations: Image Thread

[Solidsnake1256]

For those of you who have used the sideshow ROTLA shoes on your Indy. How did you get them to fit on a hot toys body?

Drop them in a cup of boiling water take them out and remove the side show pegs then put them back in the water for a a little bit take them out and then normal foot pegs can be inserted no problem done it loads of times and it works really well with minimal impact on articulation

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[Asta]

He looks best displayed wearing somebody else's hat.

 

[Rogerbee]

Getting my knock of HS next week (hopefully), Kit shipped it yesterday. I definitely plan on modding it quite a bit. I am definitely going to give it the DX hat, but I also am going to be repainting the eyes to be lighter, and adding a darker stubble.

While I am working on it, I am actually going to try and dremel down the ears a bit...I feel like they are too large and stick out a bit too much. I am also going to be adding a bit more hair to the back of the head to fill the sculpt out. He looks good in 3/4 view, but a bit too narrow-headed from straight on shots. I think removing some of the ears and adding a bit more hair will help with that.

Lastly, I am curious to see how just dremeling the contours of the jaw down a smidge will help combat the caricature-esque qualities people are seeing.

Here's my hypothetical before and after (left is the original KO):


I may also use the hairspray trick to get him to look a bit sweatier.

I just got my KO head and was considering changing the eyes too. I've decided not to though, they are really shiny in person and with highlights in them you don't really notice the colour. In hand I don't notice the chin or the ears either. Apart from the fedora, I'm not changing a thing and am just super stoked that I can finally, after 11 years I might add, complete my Indy.

 

[Rogerbee]

Here's some pics of my finished Indy:









(The HS is just sat on, the peg just didn't want to go in and I don't want to force it. Besides, he'd be neckless if it did click in.)

Well, as far as articulated 1/6 goes, that's it, I'm done! I don't think there's anything else I want or need now. I still have some garage kits to tick off, but, after that it's buy up some Figuarts and then who knows.......

 

[dwing]

I've been using the Heroheads hat-it's resin. The size works well. I try to post some pics.

 

[Rogerbee]

I remember that, I didn't realise it was hollow. The head was THE one to have for a long while, not sure how it would stack up now though. I always made a conscious effort not to follow the herd and do the figure I wanted to do.

 

[xmkbee]

I just got my KO head and was considering changing the eyes too. I've decided not to though, they are really shiny in person and with highlights in them you don't really notice the colour. In hand I don't notice the chin or the ears either. Apart from the fedora, I'm not changing a thing and am just super stoked that I can finally, after 11 years I might add, complete my Indy.

I hope you like your HS. Glad that you can finally call it done.

 

[Rogerbee]

So am I!

There is an odd looking step under the hat at the back when viewed from the side, but, I can't be bothered to do anything as I only really look at him from the front.

 

[Asta]

Looking good, Roger.

Glad you finally got there!

Well, as far as articulated 1/6 goes, that's it, I'm done! I don't think there's anything else I want or need now.

That's sad to hear, though doubtless a liberating feeling! You've freed yourself from the shackles of sixth scale. But it's not something I can ever imagine doing.

You never know, in 2027 you may well be posting photos of your second custom Indy. 

 

[Timemeddler]

Looks good Roger. I'm also glad your mission is finally at an end! The only things I'd probably change are the hands (they look a little too shiny/plastic/dummy-like) and the whip (it looks far too chunky and stiff to me - is it the Sideshow one?).

 

[Timemeddler]

Looks good Roger. I'm also glad your mission is finally at an end! The only things I'd probably change are the hands (they look a little too shiny/plastic/dummy-like) and the whip (it looks far too chunky and stiff to me - is it the Sideshow one?).

P.S. Have you seen the custom whips I make? It would look really nice with your figure.

 

[xmkbee]

Looks like this second batch of heads are just as high quality as the first batch

 

[Rogerbee]

Looking good, Roger.

Glad you finally got there!




That's sad to hear, though doubtless a liberating feeling! You've freed yourself from the shackles of sixth scale. But it's not something I can ever imagine doing.

You never know, in 2027 you may well be posting photos of your second custom Indy. 

Thanks,

It was just getting too expensive, custom figures and parts too. Also, nobody is really bringing out much that I can either get cheaper in other scales or that I'm really into like the Marvel stuff.

 

[Rogerbee]

Looks good Roger. I'm also glad your mission is finally at an end! The only things I'd probably change are the hands (they look a little too shiny/plastic/dummy-like) and the whip (it looks far too chunky and stiff to me - is it the Sideshow one?).

The hands are Enterbay, from Leon I believe, and were chosen so I could do that pose. The whip is indeed the SSC, not perfect, but all I had. Yes, I have seen your whips and I do like them, but, I just wanted to finish what I'd started and move on.

 

[greatlakes6]

Roger, that looks really good. I think people forget how young Ford looked during this film and I think this sculpt captures it perfectly.

 

[Rogerbee]

Thanks,

In context with the rest of the gear, which is all pretty much Raiders (I modded my DX hat to look like the Raiders one.), the head does work, though it works equally well as a Last Crusade Indy. I think MJ's reference may have been from that movie.

 

[mfisher]

Its a shame that the DX fedora is so short though.. substantially off from being a Raiders fedora... closer to TOD with that short crown.. wonder if one of the old resin fedoras from Hero Heads will fit that recast head... I have one on the way (recast heads).. will have to try it out...

 

[The Jerker]

(The HS is just sat on, the peg just didn't want to go in and I don't want to force it. Besides, he'd be neckless if it did click in.)

I pulled the connector out of the head with some needle nose pliers, placed it on the neck joint, and slid the head on. That connector is inserted too far in to the head to be used. it needs to be pulled out first. It's not glued in.

 

[Rogerbee]

Its a shame that the DX fedora is so short though.. substantially off from being a Raiders fedora... closer to TOD with that short crown.. wonder if one of the old resin fedoras from Hero Heads will fit that recast head... I have one on the way (recast heads).. will have to try it out...

I do know what you mean, but, it seems to work when I look at it in hand and I don't know of a better one that I could have bought loose and cheap. I think, a page or so back, that someone said the Hero Heads one would fit.

 

[Rogerbee]

I pulled the connector out of the head with some needle nose pliers, placed it on the neck joint, and slid the head on. That connector is inserted too far in to the head to be used. it needs to be pulled out first. It's not glued in.

Mmm, it's good that you can do that, I just don't know if I can be bothered. He's settled in my collection now and I don't plan on picking him up much. I'll bear what you have said in mind should I change my mind at any point.