Thanks for the info, and good job with the vest. It's looking much better like that.
Waiting for pics. Asap please
Thanks guys. And OK, here's the quick and simple how-to:
First, here's a comparison of the socket before and after (and the neck differential):
Tutorial:
First, here's what you should see when you pop off the head. Clearly the socket that receives the ball joint is too shallow.
So get a pair of needlenose pliers and pull that socket out. I used a kitchen knife to work the edges loose first. Heat the head if you like, it always helps. Just be gentle. But there's no glue so it will just pop out once you loosen it up.
Once its out, you can see the deep hole in the head. Plenty of depth there, but perhaps when the head was cast and narrowed, it tightened the hole.
Anyway, you see the nub on top of the socket plug?
I cut that part off with an exacto. I also trimmed to corner's off so that I could get it to slide in easier.
Then I heated the head again -- and shoved that socket inside using the handle part of my needlenose pliers to make it sink in all the way. Here's what it looks like all the way in:
And that's it. Depending on your own head, you may not even need to cut that top portion off. It depends how deep you can push the socket inside.
Hope that helps the few that kept their Gandalf. Once the head is better seated on the neck and shoulders, I don't see the "squished" face quite so much anymore. It really is a very, very nice figure.
I don't have a before-after of the final head mod compared to out-of-the-box but I think there's enough pics of that. Here's a couple of the post head mod:
Hope to have some fully futzed pics up later today of the finished Gandalf....
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