I apologise that this is a terrible wall of text, it would take as long to do the switch as it would to read it so don't worry about it, the anxiety of altering an expensive figure is the only inhibitor
When undressing fett from the SSC body, I'd recommend cutting 1 side of the hip armour to get it off easily and onto the tt slim, it gets held in place by the belts - there is a tricky way to get it off and on without cutting though as somebody said they did it.
- If you have a TT with a neck post like jack sparrow, they often come without the neck ball joint - this can be scavenged from the ssc body, just pull the grey ssc neck post out and cut down 1 side and open it like a book (I used a small metal saw), the upper ball peg should come out and slot right into the TT neck post.
- If screamish about this, try and buy a HT
slim neck, which is only going to be Sweeney Todd's thesedays for $15-20, or a cheap SSC neck from a part site to cut open. You won't need to cut open a HT neck, as their ball pegs pop out easily. Mostly though you won't be using the Boba body again so dw cutting it's neck (also if you do, its still usable, just put the ball peg back in and reinsert neckpost, the surgery isn't visible on a fig with a covered neck
- If your TT slim has no neck post, like the red skull body, I recommend the cheap option of buying a SSC neck post from another fig, as this is cheaper than a HT neck post and still fits exactly in the gap. You may have to pull out red skull's weird neck adaptor that he has in place of a neck post, and keep it, because its ebayable
It lets hot toy heads with sculpted necks fit a TT slim
- Pull the SSC ankle pegs out of boba's boots, I recommend heating and using narrow pliers to get a good grasp, don't worry about damaging these ankle pegs, they are the sort of thing you end up with too many of as figures come with extra feet.
DO NOT TWIST with the pliers, or you will snap the peg in half, making it a lot harder to get out, just try and pull without twist and keep the heat on it.
- Pull the SSC wrist joints from the SSC hands you want to use (really easy). If the body came with the hot toys wrist pegs, slot them on, if not and you don't wanna buy them, you can try and shorten the SSC wrist pegs as shown in a pic earlier by PJB-1138
- Dress Boba up, his clothes may be a bit baggy, but you can use tape underneath the back plate to sinch it in around the body. You'll never see this as the back armour plate and jetpack are over it, and it will probably never come undone. If taping your figures is secret is distasteful, learn to sew lol
- To get his feet onto the TT slim, leave the TT ball joint ankle pegs in the body, heat the shoe, and push the leg all you can into the foot hole, make sure the ball peg stays straight and wait till you feel it pop in, should be tighter as these ankle ball pegs are bigger than SSC's
- To get the gauntlet armour on, push the sleeves down over the vacant hand slot, twist it around and tape it, then slide the gauntlet on, while holding (with tweezer if need be) the bound sleeves so they don't slide up the arm with the armour. Like putting a jumper on over long sleeve shirt but weirder.
Futzing may be required to have the legs not look so baggy, this isnt to do with the tt slim as such, but ssc made his jump suit baggier and as the TT slim is a tad shorter it can make him look dumpy, literally just gotta shape it around his leg and let the slack be at the back as if he is standing facing wind.
Sorry for no pictures, it is all pretty easy and I did it in about 15mins casually with the tv on, don't worry as everything is fixable with superglue
Warning -
mind where you grip him, some of it is quite physical, like getting the feet on. His gauntlet tube and darts are really fragile, as is the knee armour pointy bits.
postage hurts but oh well
