[prowl26]

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Originally Posted by ryukumon

Thanks for the welcome, all. I'll be sure to post up more customs.



I did a wash of black into all the lines but it seems to be pretty subtle in this lighting. I can take some more photos in some white light to show them more clearly, if you'd like.

Prowl, I didn't remove any plastic from the socket itself just a little notch out of the opening to the socket at the bottom on the inside thighs. In fact, when I cut it out it looked like it was suppose to be that way anyway according to the mold separation lines. I also removed all the little bumps on the ball of the joint which frees up movement a lot without loosening the joint, provided that you only remove the bump and don't cut too much into the ball.

On straightening the legs, I taped the side 'pods' down with enough 6mm masking tape to go around the hips and taped the legs together at the lower thigh and upper calves and used a hairdryer to heat the plastic. Then I just let it cool down for the rest of the day and it was good to go.

gotcha, my Extremis and my SW Thor both have the very stiff hips and I knew that Thor had the bumps so I will look into trimming those off, what did you use, an Exacto knife? As for the legs wow, taping them down before heating really did a great job, I do kind of wish IM wasn't so bowlegged, I may try doing that. Was there any problem with tape residue?