Thanks guys!
Actually the first thing I did was pop off the jaw piece (which actually wasn't hard to do), and then after heating the head for a while with a heat gun I slowly pryed the head out from the back with a screwdriver. It did gouge the inside of the helmet quite a bit, but the damage won't be visible so I can live with it.
Thanks, although if you look close the eyebrows are actually sculpted pretty realistically. The production painters simply ignored that and painted their own crazy looking eyebrows instead. Lol
Yeah, dave your paint skills are astounding.
How did you end up getting the head out of the helmet? I left it in very hot water for a few minutes and the head and helmet "jaw" gets very soft and it did feel like you could maybe tear it out. Though it felt like you'd need to get pliers onto the hair to pull it out. If you use pliers it will mark the head, but I guess it's just on the hair. One other concern is the helmet "jaw" is pressed against the face so it will almost certainly scrape the face paint if you tear it out.
Actually the first thing I did was pop off the jaw piece (which actually wasn't hard to do), and then after heating the head for a while with a heat gun I slowly pryed the head out from the back with a screwdriver. It did gouge the inside of the helmet quite a bit, but the damage won't be visible so I can live with it.
Thanks, although if you look close the eyebrows are actually sculpted pretty realistically. The production painters simply ignored that and painted their own crazy looking eyebrows instead. Lol
that re-paint shows that likeness is there...just hid under gloppy sub-par painting
: I've been saying for awhile that even though their sculpts are hit or miss, if they could at the very least upgrade their paint work to something more realistic like what HT is doing, it would greatly improve their products. HT doesn't get the sculpts right 100% of the time, but their really nice paint work helps even when sculpts are lacking.
