[erastop]

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Originally Posted by VonPooten

If anyone's like me and can't stand looking at the horror of an alien face known as Hasbro's Sharon Carter, I might have found a decent remedy.
Switch out her head for one of the Winter Soldier Black Widow ones, and give her Widow's set of hands (to replace the monstrous ones the figure already has), and that's it. Extremely simple, and you now have an Agent 13 who won't give you severe eye pain to look at.

Genius, pure genius!!
Never thought to put my extra pair of hands to use, lol!

[kenm2474]

Finally Picked up Nick Fury. Only took 2 years. Everyone is here except Quicksilver which I am in the process of hunting down and My BAF Hulkbuster which is having a total new Movie Paint job and some added treats.

[Exodus]

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Originally Posted by hasbroherofan

For Marvel Figuarts, never go to BBTS. I have friends that got their Marvel stuff from AmiAmi and mykombini and it was significantly less expensive.

The American sites jack up the prices on them since they have to act as a middleman, but if you go straight to the Japanese retailers it's much cheaper. There are Japanese sites that have Black Widow up for 60 dollars American instead of the 100 BBTS is charging.

Same goes with TF's, although dang not much of a saving with the Koto figures, well depending on which site you go with on the Japanese market...

[Boy Blunder]

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Originally Posted by Exodus

Same goes with TF's, although dang not much of a saving with the Koto figures, well depending on which site you go with on the Japanese market...

Also, I don't know how much this applies to other toy lines, but my wife has snagged me some import TFs on Amazon for damn close to their retail price. Might want to take a dip in there.

[Trivial Psychic]

Quote:

Originally Posted by VonPooten

If anyone's like me and can't stand looking at the horror of an alien face known as Hasbro's Sharon Carter, I might have found a decent remedy.
Switch out her head for one of the Winter Soldier Black Widow ones, and give her Widow's set of hands (to replace the monstrous ones the figure already has), and that's it. Extremely simple, and you now have an Agent 13 who won't give you severe eye pain to look at.

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Originally Posted by erastop

Genius, pure genius!!
Never thought to put my extra pair of hands to use, lol!

Not a bad idea with the head swap trick, although truthfully, as much as Rogue...erm..I mean...Sharon...gets bagged on for her face, it's not actually that bad. I found that it's proper placement of the eyes and lipstick either makes or breaks the sculpt, and if you have a steady enough hand to touch up either one, (the lipstick on mine was all off, but I managed to fix it with a dab of acrylic) the original head can be salvaged for a unique look.

The hand trick was one I tried out when I first bought the Sharon, but I never mentioned here. It does work, but to anyone who tries it, be warned, the pegs on the WS Widow are very small and fit very loose, giving her wobbly, helicopter, wrists. You also lose a tiny bit of articulation (the wrist swivel.) I tried it for a bit, but I got tired of her hands spinning around in the sockets, so I ended up going back to Sharon's original set of paws...

I thought about trying this swap with the AoU 4 pack Widow, as the wrist pegs might be larger, but I didn't want to needlessly pull apart a unique figure from a 4 pack only to find there's no difference, nor did I feel like painting the fingers on those hands to give it the finger-less glove look the WS Widow had.

[VonPooten]

^^ You're very right TPsychic, the hands are quite loose, and they lack the wrist joint which is very unfortunate. I also wouldn't want to take apart a very nice 4-pack figure! I just had another BW hanging about, so I thought eh, why not? Sharon's hands are one of the worst things about the figure imo, with that malformed fist-thing and the extraordinarily bulbous trigger hand..

I think with the head, it worked very well for Medusa, who is technically alien, but with Sharon the point-ed chin (said in a Monty Python voice) and cheekbones that could cut steel just seemed very out of place. Ideally I'd've liked to have used a Ms. Marvel head, but this one suits her quite nicely (at least temporarily)!

Overall this figure could have been great. Misty Knight body in white plastic with the prototype head. Simple. Instead we got this scary vision.. I'm a big fan of the character, so she needed a LOT of modification (for a non-customiser, at least) for me to be happy with the figure. I even severed her feet and replaced them with Spider-Girl's to give her her flat black boots w/ ankle pivot.

[advocatepinoy]

Got this customized Frank Castle (1st look) head done! Made by Grit Custom Figure Art who's a good friend of mine as well. Check out the showcase video here if you want (and it's avaiable in 720p60): bit.ly/NFPunisher

Marvel Knights by Dominic Dimagmaliw, on Flickr

One Batch, Two Batch... by Dominic Dimagmaliw, on Flickr

and some of my recent Civil War shots!

BP4 by Dominic Dimagmaliw, on Flickr

Marvel's Civil War by Dominic Dimagmaliw, on Flickr

[Universe]

Your friend does excellent work; love your dioramas and photography style!

[Captain Nash]

Love the shots advocatepinoy, can't wait to get that black panther. I hope that wave and the X-Men wave drop soon. Not sure on my living situation schedule, in this house at least through May maybe even June (most likely)/July (maybe?), then an apartment til the new house is done (late 2016 we're hoping.) Reason I detail all that, I'm not very confident about preordering that comes post June because I don't know where I'll be. Ugh.

I'm guessing the Civil War Wave will drop in time but the X-Men wave won't.....

[TheBlueMarvel]

More Hulk appreciation with a side of FF...

[TheBlueMarvel]

Strange appreciation...

























Edit:Whoops didn't realize how "crowded" this would make the thread...well, the more pics the better!

[donmeca2020]

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Originally Posted by advocatepinoy

Got this customized Frank Castle (1st look) head done! Made by Grit Custom Figure Art who's a good friend of mine as well. Check out the showcase video here if you want (and it's avaiable in 720p60): bit.ly/NFPunisher

Marvel Knights by Dominic Dimagmaliw, on Flickr

One Batch, Two Batch... by Dominic Dimagmaliw, on Flickr

and some of my recent Civil War shots!

BP4 by Dominic Dimagmaliw, on Flickr

Marvel's Civil War by Dominic Dimagmaliw, on Flickr

Those costom DD and jon berthanal punisher are WOW !!!! i wish hasbro would give us those figures.

[SymbiSpidey]

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Originally Posted by advocatepinoy

Got this customized Frank Castle (1st look) head done! Made by Grit Custom Figure Art who's a good friend of mine as well. Check out the showcase video here if you want (and it's avaiable in 720p60): bit.ly/NFPunisher

Marvel Knights by Dominic Dimagmaliw, on Flickr

One Batch, Two Batch... by Dominic Dimagmaliw, on Flickr

and some of my recent Civil War shots!

BP4 by Dominic Dimagmaliw, on Flickr

Marvel's Civil War by Dominic Dimagmaliw, on Flickr

Wow those customs are dead on. Especially impressed with Bernthal Punisher.

[Spyne98]

Awesome pictures everyone! Nice stuff!

On a side note, I was re-reading the first two X-23 solo miniseries. I really wish we got a better version of her. The Toy Biz one never sat right with me. While I would like to see her in her Wolverine costume, I have always enjoyed the black sleeveless costume. I was thinking of working on a custom one, but I never went anywhere with it.

[Exodus]

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Originally Posted by Boy Blunder

Also, I don't know how much this applies to other toy lines, but my wife has snagged me some import TFs on Amazon for damn close to their retail price. Might want to take a dip in there.

Yeah I've been noticing that too, although the price tends to fluctuate a bit here and there but still pretty good and qualifies for free shipping.

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Originally Posted by Spyne98

Awesome pictures everyone! Nice stuff!

On a side note, I was re-reading the first two X-23 solo miniseries. I really wish we got a better version of her. The Toy Biz one never sat right with me. While I would like to see her in her Wolverine costume, I have always enjoyed the black sleeveless costume. I was thinking of working on a custom one, but I never went anywhere with it.

Agree with you on the toybiz one. I got rid of it after a while even though she's one of my favorite characters...It look too young.

[Boy Blunder]

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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

Not a bad idea with the head swap trick, although truthfully, as much as Rogue...erm..I mean...Sharon...gets bagged on for her face, it's not actually that bad. I found that it's proper placement of the eyes and lipstick either makes or breaks the sculpt, and if you have a steady enough hand to touch up either one, (the lipstick on mine was all off, but I managed to fix it with a dab of acrylic) the original head can be salvaged for a unique look.

The hand trick was one I tried out when I first bought the Sharon, but I never mentioned here. It does work, but to anyone who tries it, be warned, the pegs on the WS Widow are very small and fit very loose, giving her wobbly, helicopter, wrists. You also lose a tiny bit of articulation (the wrist swivel.) I tried it for a bit, but I got tired of her hands spinning around in the sockets, so I ended up going back to Sharon's original set of paws...

I thought about trying this swap with the AoU 4 pack Widow, as the wrist pegs might be larger, but I didn't want to needlessly pull apart a unique figure from a 4 pack only to find there's no difference, nor did I feel like painting the fingers on those hands to give it the finger-less glove look the WS Widow had.

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Originally Posted by VonPooten

^^ You're very right TPsychic, the hands are quite loose, and they lack the wrist joint which is very unfortunate. I also wouldn't want to take apart a very nice 4-pack figure! I just had another BW hanging about, so I thought eh, why not? Sharon's hands are one of the worst things about the figure imo, with that malformed fist-thing and the extraordinarily bulbous trigger hand..

I think with the head, it worked very well for Medusa, who is technically alien, but with Sharon the point-ed chin (said in a Monty Python voice) and cheekbones that could cut steel just seemed very out of place. Ideally I'd've liked to have used a Ms. Marvel head, but this one suits her quite nicely (at least temporarily)!

Overall this figure could have been great. Misty Knight body in white plastic with the prototype head. Simple. Instead we got this scary vision.. I'm a big fan of the character, so she needed a LOT of modification (for a non-customiser, at least) for me to be happy with the figure. I even severed her feet and replaced them with Spider-Girl's to give her her flat black boots w/ ankle pivot.

Coat the pegs in some Pledge floor finish with Future shine (AKA Future Finish) to tighten up that looseness. A well-known tip passed around the Transformers collectors for a good long while when it comes to loose joints and pegs.

[Captain Nash]

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Originally Posted by Exodus

Yeah I've been noticing that too, although the price tends to fluctuate a bit here and there but still pretty good and qualifies for free shipping.
Agree with you on the toybiz one. I got rid of it after a while even though she's one of my favorite characters...It look too young.

I'd also love a new X-23 (see I DO want some redos lol). The Rogue was the worst but I honestly think that X-23 was most likely the second worst figure they released....just so fugly....

[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by Boy Blunder

Coat the pegs in some Pledge floor finish with Future shine (AKA Future Finish) to tighten up that looseness. A well-known tip passed around the Transformers collectors for a good long while when it comes to loose joints and pegs.

I thought about it...but I'm not sure it would do much, as the pegs are REALLY thin compared to the fitted hole in Sharon's arms. The hands actually come out with near to no effort at all, and can be nearly shaken free (at least on mine anyways.) I'm not sure a coat of anything could add that much of a base to it.

Which reminds me...with all these places doing casts for head sculpts and what not, I really wish some of them would spend more time doing casted hands and feet. They would make a killing off of me if they were to simply do the Spiderman hands alone, as there's so many little tweaks that I want to do to other figures, but can never cheaply find the parts for.

[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by Spyne98

Awesome pictures everyone! Nice stuff!

On a side note, I was re-reading the first two X-23 solo miniseries. I really wish we got a better version of her. The Toy Biz one never sat right with me. While I would like to see her in her Wolverine costume, I have always enjoyed the black sleeveless costume. I was thinking of working on a custom one, but I never went anywhere with it.

I always thought that with a repainted WWE Brie Bella from the recent Bella Twins Battle Pack, coupled with a either a WWE Paige or WWE AJ Lee headsculpt (preferably from her very last figure), would make for a perfect X-23 custom. The female WWE figures are rather nicely articulated, and most of them size up well with Marvel Legends. Unfortunately, the money has been tight, so I haven't been able to gather up the pieces and give it a whirl myself.

[Harbinger]

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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

I always thought that with a repainted WWE Brie Bella from the recent Bella Twins Battle Pack, coupled with a either a WWE Paige or WWE AJ Lee headsculpt (preferably from her very last figure), would make for a perfect X-23 custom. The female WWE figures are rather nicely articulated, and most of them size up well with Marvel Legends. Unfortunately, the money has been tight, so I haven't been able to gather up the pieces and give it a whirl myself.

Most of the divas are a bit taller than a laura x would be. An elite aj lee though ( the green checkered one ) is on a smaller body for a diva so she might be one to look for.

[Harbinger]

Damn bm those shots, especially strange, are f'in epic man!

[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by Nitelife

Most of the divas are a bit taller than a laura x would be. An elite aj lee though ( the green checkered one ) is on a smaller body for a diva so she might be one to look for.

I would actually go with the Series #53 AJ if that were the case, as the figure actually has a slightly smaller body than the Series 21 Elite. The T-shirt is also sculpted on the lower torso of the basic figure as as well, making for a better look. I personally think the face sculpt is better too, as she's without that creepy smile many of the other figures have, plus you don't lose any of the articulation as unlike the male counterparts, basic and Elite Diva figures feature the same articulation. It's also much cheaper. =)

[Harbinger]

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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

I would actually go with the Series #53 AJ if that were the case, as the figure actually has a slightly smaller body than the Series 21 Elite. The T-shirt is also sculpted on the lower torso of the basic figure as as well, making for a better look. I personally think the face sculpt is better too, as she's without that creepy smile many of the other figures have, plus you don't lose any of the articulation as unlike the male counterparts, basic and Elite Diva figures feature the same articulation. It's also much cheaper. =)

I dunno the creepy smile seems like it might work for laura given how oft her genetic template did it, especially during his patch days. all she needs is a cuban cigar and a straw hat.

[erastop]

Passed this up at my local walgreens, but only because I already have Walgreens DD and Rhino and Hulkbuster BAFs.

[Kirathis]

Nice swap out on Sharon VonPooten! The original hands really hurt that figure.

Amazing pictures as always AP and TBM!