The only serious mod I did on mine was to reshape the un-helmeted heads jawline. Like Superman the eye plate pushes out the jaw line a bit too much and to me it really threw off the likeness.
Step One: Disassemble the head... a few dips in near boiling water, pliers, a knife and some good old elbow grease will get the job done. Just be careful not to do any damage to the eye sockets, it's easy to teary them if you aren't careful.
-after a bit you should have this (the eye plate has already been shaved down in this image):
Step Two: Shave down the eye plate, I removed the bottom of the plate with a dremmel and essentially removed enough that there would be no plate in the bottom of the jaw, so roughly the revised plate ends just above the line between the bottom of the ears then reassemble the head.
Here's the same image twice; first as it looked when I was done, then with the removed area highlighted:
Third/Final Step: let the head rest in near boiling water for a minute, or until the face is nice and pliable. Then pull out the head, pinch in the jaws as much as you can and while holding jaw in place with your fingers submerge the head into icewater. You can repeat this a few times until you get a look and symmetry you like.
In the end I much preferred how the head looked:
A second, less intense mod was to swap the body over to a
1.0 Pro... everything is compatible and swaps easily. I also replaced the gloves with the
Hot Toys DX Indiana Jones gloves. I prefer the Pro 1.0 over the HT slim because it's a bit shorter and has a stockier build and just seems to suit Luke a bit better. But either body works better than the 1.1 body he comes on.
The Indy gloves would need a repaint...
