Re: Hot Toys – MMS183 - The Dark Knight Rises: Bane Collectible Figure
My Bane with few clothes mods:
What I actually did...
1) Cut half of both biceps on his forearms, so elbow could bend more than 90o (I'm not going to display him without coat anyway).
2) Cut and glued again the gauntlet on his finger for coat holding hand.
3) Added sweater under. It gives some more volume to his body and hides joints on belly and the left hand.
4) Dressed his armor very carefully and glued some belts and joint areas, so now he can be posed free without getting his belts stretched.
5) Glue together two belts over his belly buckle in the very beginning - it will give you the right V-shape for the belly belts. Be carefully! Don't glue them to the armor itself! Only between each other.
6) Take his pants down, so you could see 2/3 of the buckle. Stuff pants with cotton wool on the back of his knees and in the shin areas. Pants should be wider than boots. Don't put too much of pants into boots, no need. Leave as much folds you can.
7) There is a trick to stuck the gauntlet in his coat: you need to place the gauntlet inside the coat's sleeve and then turn it out until you'll see the gauntlet's end. Unattached the right arm part from the elbow and put it into sleeve alone, connect with hand in gauntlet. Then turn the sleeve on again very carefully and dress the coat on his body. Connect the arm in the elbow area. Bravo! You did it right! And when the part of the biceps is cut you have there some free space to place sweater.
8) Open both buttons on his coat's collar and raise it up.
9) Also I've made one little seam on the left part of his coat (where there's no hand holding it), so it wont tuck back and hide the armor. You can see it on the last photo, just click it for the full size.
10) The hand for photo is one from the Thor, first release, the left hummer holding hand. Anyway I'm not using it with Odinson...
11)
HARVEY DENT PHOTO! Just go into photo workshop and ask to print it 10x15cm with 350dpi on the gloss paper.
12) And I'm going to re-sculpt his mask on the nose area, coz there is no nose there right now.
Good luck with your Bane! ^_^
