I made my Cap GA mod today. I think I found a new and better solution to fix the round fat shoulders/short neck problem.
I was planning to remove the shoulder pads like people suggested. After I took off the cloth, I found hot toys used a muscle body. There is a second layer of chest/back muscle covered over the upper body, like a vest glued on. Big chest is nice. **However**, this muscle piece has a tall "collar", this makes the neck sit inside the collar and look short, and made the shoulder tall. If you have seen a muscle body you know what I'm talking. This collar is exact under the 2 blue shoulder belts, it makes these 2 belts very tall. (check any Cap GA photos, this is a real problem)
To remove the high shoulder/collar, I removed this entire muscle layer (it's glued on, do it carefully), and then I padded the chest to keep the muscle looking. Or you can simply cut the collar, keep the glued chest muscle. I just want to keep everything undamaged.
This mod will truly make Cap has a longer neck and more flat shoulders, not round shape from neck all the way down.
For the shoulder pads, I decided to keep them in there. I did took them out, and result doesn't make much difference to me, and not really better either. Cap does have the shoulder pads in movies anyway. However, Hot toys made the shoulder pads way too big! They are not shoulder pads, more like upper arm pads. There are 2 layers of shoulder pads, a smaller/thicker one stick on a bigger/thinner one, sit in the middle of the big one. Both are made by black foams thing,
I removed the bigger pads, although they are thin, they cover almost the entire upper arm which is not necessary.
I cut the smaller pads a bit, to the same size as the outer shoulder pads(blue uniform), and then stick them back in. So, the pads are still there, but smaller. This work might not be necessary, either keep original pads/remove them/cut to smaller don't make too much difference, depends on how you like it.
Make sure remove the muscle collar, that changes everything!!!
.... change the head sculpt next if you can. Let GA Cap become the best Hot toys Cap!!
I don't know how to upload a photo, I might try upload if people ask.
