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06-12-2020, 05:19 PM | #11 |
Cobra Soldier
Join Date: Jun 2020
Location: Vantucky, Washington
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Thank you! cool forum, i've lurked here many a time
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06-18-2020, 12:33 AM | #12 |
Cobra Soldier
Join Date: Jun 2020
Location: Vantucky, Washington
Posts: 90
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So I haven't gotten the snow serpents in yet, but I did get a black major gid invasor on sprue in the mail today and figured out how to assemble him! yay!!
it was pretty difficult I'll admit. People aren't over exaggerating the effort it takes. took me a number of hours to customize the tool you need to press the rivets. The way I understand it some use modified grommet pliers to set the rivets but I did it with the ez rivet tool which worked great!! The tricky part is you have to reshape the die the comes with it using a power dremel. You grind it down a little at a time until the rivet head fits perfectly in the little dip in the die, and the you re-taper the sides so no plastic touches metal during the rivet pressing. It took me awhile to get it right but now that I have the correctly shaped piece I think I could assemble a figure from sprue in a few hours. the other part that was really hard was cutting the extra flash out where the mold wasn't right. the arm pieces above the swivel wouldn't fit together if you didn't trim some flash out of the inside with an exacto. anyway, this was super fun! if you have a power dremel don't be afraid to do this yourself. it's not that hard if you have time and patience. I got the ez rivet tool for $15 used off amazon and I think anybody that has the means should own a power dremel anyway, they're amazing tools and not expensive. I hope this helps someone out there that wanted to assemble their own bootleg action figures like i did lol peace |
09-26-2020, 05:44 AM | #13 |
Cobra Soldier
Join Date: Sep 2020
Location: U.K.
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Thanks for the tutorial KodenameKris, I’ve ordered that tool, and I’m looking forward to trying this.
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