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Lets see if we can get this thread going...
Apologies for the length of the intro before you get to what you came for, but I think there are a few bases that need to be covered first.
As you all know by now, the Hot Toys' effort with TFA Chewie has left all but the most indifferent collectors of these high end figures almost singularly underwhelmed if not openly angry at what we received, particularly since ANH Chewie set the bar quite high. But bar set high or not, this time around, the HT product came nowhere near the quality of product we have come to expect from the company.
So, enter our members with their own personal brand of remedies.
With the cooperation of our community, and if we can generate the interest, what we hope to do with this thread is to compile the steps and techniques - along with some of the finer points - that members have come up with to take this figure from major disappointment to as close to the figure we believe we were promised as possible.
Please feel free to add to the discussion with ideas and examples of your own, as well as ask questions of the masters whose work we will attempt to feature if/when we need to try to drill down into the details a bit more.
Clearly, this thread will a valuable resource only to the degree to which we can get the members who developed these mods to share and participate with some enthusiasm in order to try to help the rest of us... so we thank them all in advance.
As we begin this endeavor, please keep in mind a few things that are probably obvious, but are important nonetheless...
We are attempting some in depth mods on Chewie. We have all seen various mods that members have attempted in the past. They have ranged from minor, to moderate, to extreme. I think we will all agree that many of the mods described here will likely favor the upper end of this scale. So, for this reason, anyone who is considering taking on one or more of the mods we hope to describe below needs to perform their own Cost/Benefit analysis regarding what you're willing to try, what you are willing to risk, and what you hope to achieve.
No one here wants you to "wreck" your Chewie. So as you read through all of the mod steps before you begin, if you're feeling that anything is out of your depth, you might want to stop before you start and dig out Chewie's comb and some pomade instead and see what you can live with with those tools instead.
Everyone who paid for this piece deserves a better figure than we got. Let see if we can make that happen...
Apologies for the length of the intro before you get to what you came for, but I think there are a few bases that need to be covered first.
As you all know by now, the Hot Toys' effort with TFA Chewie has left all but the most indifferent collectors of these high end figures almost singularly underwhelmed if not openly angry at what we received, particularly since ANH Chewie set the bar quite high. But bar set high or not, this time around, the HT product came nowhere near the quality of product we have come to expect from the company.
So, enter our members with their own personal brand of remedies.
With the cooperation of our community, and if we can generate the interest, what we hope to do with this thread is to compile the steps and techniques - along with some of the finer points - that members have come up with to take this figure from major disappointment to as close to the figure we believe we were promised as possible.
Please feel free to add to the discussion with ideas and examples of your own, as well as ask questions of the masters whose work we will attempt to feature if/when we need to try to drill down into the details a bit more.
Clearly, this thread will a valuable resource only to the degree to which we can get the members who developed these mods to share and participate with some enthusiasm in order to try to help the rest of us... so we thank them all in advance.
As we begin this endeavor, please keep in mind a few things that are probably obvious, but are important nonetheless...
We are attempting some in depth mods on Chewie. We have all seen various mods that members have attempted in the past. They have ranged from minor, to moderate, to extreme. I think we will all agree that many of the mods described here will likely favor the upper end of this scale. So, for this reason, anyone who is considering taking on one or more of the mods we hope to describe below needs to perform their own Cost/Benefit analysis regarding what you're willing to try, what you are willing to risk, and what you hope to achieve.
No one here wants you to "wreck" your Chewie. So as you read through all of the mod steps before you begin, if you're feeling that anything is out of your depth, you might want to stop before you start and dig out Chewie's comb and some pomade instead and see what you can live with with those tools instead.
Everyone who paid for this piece deserves a better figure than we got. Let see if we can make that happen...