It's pretty tough to zip the jacket as-is. Not sure I would want to risk putting more stress on zipping the frankly pretty fragile jacket if you add padding.
That's what I was wondering.
It's pretty tough to zip the jacket as-is. Not sure I would want to risk putting more stress on zipping the frankly pretty fragile jacket if you add padding.
Congrats on the pickup man and looking forward to the video.
Got mine in a few days ago. Only gave it a once over for inspection and then put it back in the box but my initial impression is one of disappointment. I think the head sculpts are a little weak, particularly the lesser damaged one. They both look soft. I don't know. Maybe my opinion will change once I take another look. I feel like it looks better in everyone's pictures and video then it does in hand.
I think the head sculpts look much better in person. The mods are easy and only take a few minutes to do. I think overall the figure is great. However opinions vary of course.
What are these mods? I'm thinking on buying this figure since there will most likely never be a 1/4 scale with the battle damage from T1. The idea is to buy this and the DX13, and display them together. I normally collect 1/4, but since it is Terminator I'm tempted to make an exception.
Here's pics of mine. Vid is uploading soon. In my vid I show a before and after and I compare him to my custom Police Shootout. However these pics show him after I did the neck mod...beefed up his chest pecks and popped up the jacket collar.
Finally I took off the shirt and added foam underneath his rubber chest piece to pump up his chest a little more. See pics above. That part does require the most work which is to undo one of the sides of the rubber chest piece so you can get access to stuffing something underneath. But its easy to cut and glue back. I have a video that I will post here later where I talk about these mods.
Hey a-dev...yeah I was able to glue the sides back. I customize a lot so I wasn't scared to cut the sides but I can understand some not wanting to. The one side kind of pulls of. The other I just did a small slice. I stuffed the foam under each peck and then glued the sides back. Honestly even if you didn't glue the sides back..the piece still stays in place and doesn't interfere with the functionality of the body once the shirt goes back on. The foam stays in there nice and snug either way.That's an interesting idea, not something I thought of and yet it seems so obvious - it's what everyone's doing with the neck after all. So even with stuffing under the chest you were able to get the seam (where you presumably cut) to line back up and reglue it properly?
I've seen your pics but I'm curious what it would look like in person. I'll try that on my next kitbash, this month hopefully.
Thanks Skull!!Fantastic pics, congrats
Hey a-dev...yeah I was able to glue the sides back. I customize a lot so I wasn't scared to cut the sides but I can understand some not wanting to. The one side kind of pulls of. The other I just did a small slice. I stuffed the foam under each peck and then glued the sides back. Honestly even if you didn't glue the sides back..the piece still stays in place and doesn't interfere with the functionality of the body once the shirt goes back on. The foam stays in there nice and snug either way.
I will have a vid up real soon so its closer to you seeing it in person. LOL...I show the figure normally first and compare him to my older custom figure. Then towards the end I show him after the mods.
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