I posted this in the customs channel, but figure it should be here instead since it's not really a custom:
EB Kato is an awesome figure. Everything about it is a winner and I'm glad I got one - even though I probably paid too much.
Although the black chauffer uniform out of the box is excellent - I felt that it was slightly too loose fitting. You don't notice in action poses, but when standing neutral the pants especially is a little too baggy.
I'm sure this was intentional to allow for more poseability and there's usually production reasons why 1/6 clothing is usually slight oversized for the figure.
So I bought a spare suit and altered the uniform to be more tailored looking like in the tv show.
- Tapered the trunk of the jacket to have more of the characteristic "V" shape profile from the front. This also allowed the collar to be meet at the middle. In the show - the collar makes almost a complete ring around BL's neck - with the white rimming the top.
- The original suit had shoulder pads sewn into the shoulders. I added additional padding so that the shoulders are more defined (again in the characteristic look of these uniforms).
- Added a thin layer of padding on the back to maintain the "V" from the back profile and to flow with the new shoulder pads.
- In the show Kato wore two styles of pants depending on the scene. If the scene was just casual he wore pants that were more form fitting and slightly flared at the bottom. Very mod style of the lake 60s. If the scene involved physical shots - he were more loose fitting slack-like pants. The EB pants out of the box is more of the slack style. So I altered them to be the more mod style.
- I would never do this unless with a spare suit, but I mixed scotch guard with water and misted the suits. Then used an iron on medium to iron in creases in the arms of the suit and the pants.
I'm super happy with how it came out since poseability wasn't at all affected. The overall effect of the alterations creates wrinkes and stress lines in the fabric that wasn't evident in the original suit and makes for a more realistic scaled representation of the real suit.
Here are some pics:
EB Kato is an awesome figure. Everything about it is a winner and I'm glad I got one - even though I probably paid too much.
Although the black chauffer uniform out of the box is excellent - I felt that it was slightly too loose fitting. You don't notice in action poses, but when standing neutral the pants especially is a little too baggy.
I'm sure this was intentional to allow for more poseability and there's usually production reasons why 1/6 clothing is usually slight oversized for the figure.
So I bought a spare suit and altered the uniform to be more tailored looking like in the tv show.
- Tapered the trunk of the jacket to have more of the characteristic "V" shape profile from the front. This also allowed the collar to be meet at the middle. In the show - the collar makes almost a complete ring around BL's neck - with the white rimming the top.
- The original suit had shoulder pads sewn into the shoulders. I added additional padding so that the shoulders are more defined (again in the characteristic look of these uniforms).
- Added a thin layer of padding on the back to maintain the "V" from the back profile and to flow with the new shoulder pads.
- In the show Kato wore two styles of pants depending on the scene. If the scene was just casual he wore pants that were more form fitting and slightly flared at the bottom. Very mod style of the lake 60s. If the scene involved physical shots - he were more loose fitting slack-like pants. The EB pants out of the box is more of the slack style. So I altered them to be the more mod style.
- I would never do this unless with a spare suit, but I mixed scotch guard with water and misted the suits. Then used an iron on medium to iron in creases in the arms of the suit and the pants.
I'm super happy with how it came out since poseability wasn't at all affected. The overall effect of the alterations creates wrinkes and stress lines in the fabric that wasn't evident in the original suit and makes for a more realistic scaled representation of the real suit.
Here are some pics:
