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Post by justawrestlingfan on Dec 8, 2013 2:53:40 GMT -5
meh, hate the molded belt, shiny vac millions time better
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The Highwayman
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Post by The Highwayman on Dec 8, 2013 17:27:35 GMT -5
This is why I hack off the nubs on the backs of the plate and glue them to leather straps. So much more realistic and sits so much better around the waists and whatnot. I'd like to see some pics of these. Sure, I'll post some in the fix-up thread.
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Post by The Highwayman on Dec 8, 2013 17:30:13 GMT -5
This is why I hack off the nubs on the backs of the plate and glue them to leather straps. So much more realistic and sits so much better around the waists and whatnot. I've done this with some of my old Jakks belts, but only to the main plate. I tried once with the side plates and found that not only did you run into problems glueing them on with the huge hole in the belt where the nub went through, but also the sides of the belt curved too much when you placed the belt on a figure causing the side plates to eventually fall off. I agree that it makes the belt sit much tighter on the figure and look better. I like the idea of completely molded belts as I have one of the old ECW figures' TV champ belt and love the way it fits snugly around virtually any figure. Problem is that all the detail has to be painted on and you just can't get that shiny metal look that a vac belt has. I hear you, I ran into that as well. What I do now is I glue the plates to actual leather/fabric straps and completely do away with the Mattel plastic ones (although I do like Mattel's straps much more than Jakks' ones).
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