Customizing DC Direct 13" Blunders

Has anyone here tried fixing DC Direct's 13" mistakes? I have a crap load of 13" figures from when I started collecting 1/6 scale figures. Now that I'm more seasoned in the hobby I've grown to hate them but would like to salvage them. Is there anyway to convert these ugly ducklings into 12" swans?

Sounds like you're the one who made the mistake buying all those crappy figures.

Yes I was. I'm the first one to admit it. But at the time I didn't realize how horrible they were. Like I said. It was a few years ago and I didn't know about Sideshow and all the other 12" companies.

I like the figures, but mostly for custom purposes.

How do you customize them? Their costumes are way too big for any other bodies... or do you just discard the costumes?

And yes I've seen your work. It's really nice.

I would love to put the DC Direct onto real 12" bodies as well so they can display with my Iron Man and Spider-Man figures.

I haven't seen your customs s_bennet, do you have a link so I can take a look?

Really DCD has made some good comic figures. Customizing them could be a pain tho...

SanShouXMA said:

Has anyone here tried fixing DC Direct's 13" mistakes? I have a crap load of 13" figures from when I started collecting 1/6 scale figures. Now that I'm more seasoned in the hobby I've grown to hate them but would like to salvage them. Is there anyway to convert these ugly ducklings into 12" swans?

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Sounds like the story of my life. I too started the 1/6 scale journey with the DC stuff. As soon as I found out about the true 1/6 world and what it had to offer, I stopped the DC junk. I think I'll give them to my grandson. They will make nice toys. I do have to thank DC for getting me interested in 1/6 figures to begin with.

Old Grandpa

A lot of them are great and will never be as good shoe-horned onto a standard 1/6th body.

Have to update the site, but all the pics are at https://www.flickr.com/photos/21242421@N04/

They're broken into sets along the right hand margin. There's a few pages of sets now I think, so click "More Sets" when you reach the bottom of the margin.

Bennett - The gold cloth you used on Iron man, what is it called? And does it stretch fine or pretty rigid? Great customs BTW!

Those customs are very impressive. The look great.

I know that Rorschach and Robin have been moved to a HT body by folks without an issue. So the teen bodies might work...

S_Bennett- I love the hawkeye.

The_Mike: if that's true then maybe it's salvagable. I tried selling these dc direct figure but no one wants this garbage. I tried Nightwing on a muscle body and it was way way too big. Ugh....

Devil_666 said:

Sounds like you're the one who made the mistake buying all those crappy figures.

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cold blooded but

Hey thanks.

Jester: The gold cloth is straightforward 4-way stretch gold lame (pronounced lamay... there's usually an accent egu over the e). Very stretchable.

Thanks, Bennett! I wanna do an Iron Man, too.

I made the mistake of buying 2 of the Dc Directs myself... Batman and Joker form Dark Knight... I gave the Batman one away and I still have Joker... He has a much better jacket then ether Hottoys Vers of him... Brite purple jacket with the burnt orange inside... When I Get the Dx im going to see what it looks like on it... If it looks all right Ill move the Dx too my V1 Joker... an the V1 to the Dc Direct... Yeah...

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Have to update the site, but all the pics are at https://www.flickr.com/photos/21242421@N04/

They're broken into sets along the right hand margin. There's a few pages of sets now I think, so click "More Sets" when you reach the bottom of the margin.

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Dude! Those are awesome! I love the Teen Titans (especially Speedy, Kid Flash and Wonder Girl). I wish I had time to take up customizing again - I used to do a lot of Famous Covers customs (made somewhere in the neighborhood of 30). It was way more satisfying than just buying a pre-made figure and taking it out of the box, plus you can make figures you know would never be released. Maybe once the kids get a little older, I'll be able to take it up again. My compliments on your amazing work!

Here's my original Robin TrueType body swap a coulpe months ago:






And now the improved Robin on a TT slim: