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a good substitute for glue would be uv resin

One thing I do is hit the areas where the hot glue touches the inside of the head with super thin CA glue and let it wick in giving the hot glue a stronger bond so there is less chance of it separating if you take the head off more than a few times. Use a scalpel or plastic tooth pick/ glue loop to drop the glue so you don't get any CA on your paint job, it will ruin it!

Would air dry clay work just as well as hot glue?

I can't put it back in😐

Being stationed on Dagobah is no joke!

Great job and thanks for the info

Cool tip! Thank you for making this video.

boris Vallejos is the Frank Frazetta he knows what skin tones are painting Conan and other paintings he made Frazetta must of did little sculpting. i think he did some Star wars painting Return of the jedi & Tarzan painting John Carter Frazetta is the Man & Bob Ross

BobRoss is the man

skin tones Bages & browns Flesh color Like tans box of Aqruilic s bottles to make black Tone Brown Black. blend. tiny bit of white i never do skin tones there's Aqruilic s that's set for skin tones now They Have copper tone color s

have ever work with Final Faction Figurs

valeo u gota be ritch

Does supper glue work or must it be hot glue?

This is great thank you 🙏🏼 can I ask where the knight action figure comes from also please ?

Excellent solution sir! Thank you 👏🏾😁

A touch of paint here and there an looks amazing. Thanks for such an informative tutorial

Nice video question does this work on g.i. Joe classified as well

Great video! I’m just building my very first ever custom action figure and this, save my life! The force is strong with you my friend! Thank you so much!!!

IIIII ain't got no boddyy....(Two things you need: a head and a body)

Why is there an opening/hole in the ball joint? Is it for easier insertion?

I tried this and had to cut a bigger, rounder opening to have the head be able to swivel 'safely' and because I still want to be able to take off the head from time to time. But it's a great tip. Thank you.

Nice to see you still playing with modifying action figures. I miss it at times. But just no time and space for it at the moment. Ugh, I still have so many tubs of Apoxie Sculpt. 😞

This is a great tutorial and the results are amazing. I really want to try this out now.

Ill be trying this with some wwe heads for sure!

Interesting!, thanks

the sealant do you just spray whole fig??even when paintin certain area's??

hate the tvc female's, they makin em their own toy line pretty much, so you have the tvc 3.75 line, and the 3" line, bo katan and fennec and vel could have been awesome, but for some stupid reason made em half size

i actually used the black widow head to make mara jade, might upgrade it to shea head, but picked widow becuz she is who i picked to be mara, in my "head canon" if you will

"want soft underwear becuz do not want wrap...."leia said your crazy, metal is the way, or go home

This action figure pin just fucking declines to go through the joint

I want to do this on my transformer figures but I’m scared I can’t transform them

Yes...i see

I use the same process, but instead of water, I use my wives hair dryer. It's quicker and you don't have to worry about having wet plastic slipping out of your hand, and accidentally slicing your hand open

Thanks for this. Been wanting to fix some of hasbro’s mistakes on a few of my figures but been nervous to damage them. This is super helpful

Where can I buy these

Awesome video. Thanks. I want to dirty up a Hot Toys Scout Trooper, and I think this will work great for his armor. Now I just need a technique to fade his pants and undersuit.

What about Disassembling a body like ulysses klaw that you have? Do i need a boormachine? 04:44 but the way how do I find such a thing on Amazon?

Thanks for showing us how this works. A Brit guy I was watching did the same thing with Black Series figures. However, he never showed if the head can be removed or not. Since I have an expensive Mezco figure with interchangeable heads, I was too scared to do it in case the head gets stuck permanently. But glad to see it works and the head can be popped out. Thank you for sharing this very informative video!

Great tip Brother ...

Cool, thank you

I love your work Brother, thank you.

The Petroleum Jelly aka Vaseline w/ Shea Butter hurdle earned you my sub. I actually ordered a few containers of that type years ago and... now, at least one may see some use. 😆 Thanks for the the Tutorial! 👍

Thank u so much

Thank you. I was wondering about using acrylic versus enamel on action figures. I'm excited to spruce up my stuff.

Kinda want to weather my Blitzway Voltron but I've never done this before and it was a Mega Expensive figure. Scared I'm going to ruin it.

A lot of work when a little rtv and cornstarch would make a perfect joint...

Hey David! Just happened to stumble onto this video my dumb luck through TH-cam's search engine. Half the time when you're looking for stuff like this it just doesn't show up when you do the search. One thing I was curious about and I wanted to see if you can give any suggestions, is how do you REDUCE the ball joint if that's the way that I want to go. One of the things that I want to do is do a couple custom 3/4 Han Solo's for my collection. Back in January I came down with covid.. caught it from an idiot that we know.. and I was stuck in the hospital for a week and a half because I actually had allergic reaction to the virus. As one of the lucky one or two percenters that actually kind of reaction to it like a bee sting. I end up getting Guillain-Barre from it and still recovering. We're starting me on this journey was the same idiot that got me sick, and I keep calling her an idiot not to be mean or name calling anyone, but when you know you're sick, especially what's going on right now come on you don't go around people and possibly get them infected. You stay put and get over it before being around anyone. She just came over because she wanted money from my mom and that's all she got us infected. But she also messed up my legacy millennium falcon that I have. I had it at the foot of my bed because it's so big and I didn't have any place to put at the time, and while I was in the hospital she picked it up and moved it and lost all bunch of pieces of it. Twit! So I've been putting it back together.. and I've been buying figures to decorate it as well. I'm actually thinking of putting it into like a coffee table type thing so you can look at it as a display. I like the head sculpt, and what I wanted to do was put the head off the Han Solo in stormtrooper outfit onto a death star escape or just for your plane old Han Solo legacy or saga body since they're basically is the same mold as the vintage collection figure. Thing about all three lines is that the bodies have bigger neck ball joints then what are on the stormtrooper. Technically you can take a blade and just shave a little bit off the ball till it fits the head joint, but I'm looking for something that's a little more controllable and cleaner when you do the shaving. I forgot the name of the toll but it's something that I've used when I've made my lightsabers, but it's a tool that works similar to a pencil sharpener that cleans up all the sharp edges on piping, like aluminum and steel pipe so that they don't have sharp edges when you put things together. I was wondering if there was something out there like that I can use on the ball joint to shave it down ever so slightly so that I can get the heads to fit on the body. Part of the reason why I'm interested in this is by hand dexterities still crappy after having the Guillain-Barre, and I'm just wondering if there's an option out there for that. Do you or anybody on these posts have any suggestions that may be a good idea to use because I don't trust my dexterity after what I've been through. Just a thought and an idea!

This is a BRILLIANT method for making a ball joint! I've been looking for something like this for a long time.

Most paints fine i agree few a must have for my tamiyra x11 a must for great silver and i like folkart metallic black for black wash. I do seal krylon matte first so easy glide off excess black but full cracks. I dry brush the rest very fun stuff.

Cool video. I purchased acrylic nails thinking I would use them, but never did. I dig what you did with yours. What base female figure is that at 1:26? Great head sculpt.