Hi,
thank you for the compliments, I didn't modify the teeth - as far as I know ;-)
Perhaps the colour changed because of the Nail polish I used to clean up the battle damaged endo a little bit!?
I did the following to his eyes:
Like on ebay:
WARNING:
Be careful, very careful and beware of damaging the skull! Protect the rest of your skull do avoid damaging it!
I'm not responsible if you damage your skull!
Read everything until the end BEFORE you start!
;-)
1.)
Removing the eyes was REAL horror as I was very afraid to damage the skull and the eyes.
The red covers/lenses are the easiest part: Try pliers to remove them easily (just glued). You can now see the red LED behind it. Now you can go the easy way and just attach the new lenses instead of the red ones and you're done. BUT: The LEDs are direct behind the red cover which means that you can see them through the new Lenscovers.
If you want it to do the same way like me we have to go further:
After this I tried to CAREFULY remove the chromed parts arount the eyes (4 pieces on each eye, they're actualy not attached to my Bust as it this is the last thing I have to do). Be very careful about this because I broke to of them... hopefuly I can reattach them with glue.
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After this you need:
- hammer
- big screwdriver (or s.th. similar)
I secured the skull with foil and adhesive tape to avoid damaging the chrome! Only the eyes where free so that I can work.
Now you take the screwdriver and hammer and apply the screwdriver carefully under the eye (the part inside the skull/eye area where the black paint is) and now you carefully hit the screwdriver with the hammer and move it around under the eyes.
You have to be careful and strong simultaneously. Enough work and you can pull out the eye. It is realy hard work as you have to watch out not to hit the remaining part of the skull, the eyes or your fingers with the hammer or screwdriver ;-)
You'll damage the LED cable of the skull because it's shed with this plastik mixture. There's no way to avoid this! Sorry.
Than you have to hit bigger holes into the skull to get access to the cables and to solder a new cable to it.
It will hurt your eyes to see your baby in this state, believe me
The LED cable on my skull was very short, too short to be precise
It ripped apart so I had to solder longer cables to the original cable. This is very difficult and if you don't dare it yourself, ask a friend and tell him what this thing is worth to make him even more nervous ;-))
I used a reamer
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to make the hole inside the chrome eyes a little bigger (the red LEDs are 5mm). I installed the LED from behind the eyes. They're are far away from the new lenses and you can't see anything when it's shut off.
Don't forget to isolate the soldered cables and legs of the LED before installing it inside the skull.
When you made it until here, you're almost ready.
If everything is isolated and there's enough room in your skull to reattach the eyes with the LEDs behind(!) the eyes you can use some glue (I used "contacta" from Revell).
Only the 4 parts around the eyes of my skull are missing; I will glue them this weekend.
2.)
The lenses are plastic covers designed as LED covers for "Lumi LEDs". That's how they're called in Germany.
When I'm back at home this evening I'm gonna make photos of them in raw condition (you have to cut and rasp them).
I hope this helps and I hope it is understandable - because of my poor english
