[Shin Densetsu]

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Originally Posted by Slicewing09

I need some help, guys. I love MGS, and I recently purchased a PAK Solid Snake and proceeded to fall in love. This figure is awesome! All was well until just a few weeks ago, I was just casually posing him around and an elbow pad popped off. To make matters worse, as I continued fiddling around with him, the other one soon followed. Now, if any of you have this figure, you know that the elbow pad rests directly on top of the elbow joint itself. I don't know how to go about fixing this guy without taking the rest of gunking up his joints with glue. Any ideas? I knew of someone who fixed a Gray Fox figure with the same problem, but I never got a chance to ask them how they went about it. Any insight is greatly appreciated. This has been bugging me for awhile now.

Also, for those who can give me feedback, which figure would better go with Snake in terms of scale/overall playability, sneaking suit or jungle fatigues Big Boss?

Sorry to hear about the breakage on your figure, honestly everytime I think about ordering a PAK figure I do dread potential breakages. I have been lucky with the 3 I have so far, aside from the drooped silencer on my Solid Snake's pistol and the shoulder that likes to pop off on my Arkham Asylum Batman.

Making a new thread about this was fine, all topics don't necessarily have to always be discussed in the general discussion threads. For example if you made a "hey which Final Fantasy PAK figures should I get?", that's fine.

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Originally Posted by Rvallette

I had that problem and it was easy for me to fix.

First you have to take a Hair drier and carefuly warm the arm. You can do this with hot water too.

Then pop out the forearm from the elbow. You need to do this carefuly, dont rush this part.

The elbow is like a revoltech joint. In the middle of the two pieces that form the elbow there's a gap. Inside this gap-canal or corridor ( sorry 'bout my english) theres a tiny piece of plastic that connects the piece that broke off, and the other side is like a ring shaped plastic that connects to the center of the revoltech joint.

You have to separate the revoltech joint in order to glue the piece in an appropiate way.

This part when you separate the two pieces of the revoltech-joint was the most difficult part to do, and easily take me more than 20 minutes to do without damaging the joint. I used to do this a hobby knife ( Im a gunpla-macross-kit modeler)

You glue this part that broke with super glue, cianoacrylate.

Then you put carefully all togeter.

Hope this helps

Its not difficult, you just need to be patient, or you can ask a friend with hobby-building skills that assist you in this surgery.

Saludos

Great tips, thanks for posting.