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Post by showbizpizzabear81 on Jul 1, 2020 6:33:30 GMT -5
So, I'm having the opposite problem with my Tito Santana. If you put his Elite head on a Retro, he looks like a giraffe. I had that issue with the Raven retro I made. An old WCW Raven head on a Samoa Joe retro body. He looked like a giraffe so I had to drill out the bottom of the head until it was opened up enough to slide down the neck portion fat enough to not look so silly. It turned out pretty good though, you have to glue the head so it doesn’t swivel after So, heres what I do when the head sits too high. I had the same problem with my Tazz which I'm working on. Use a Dremmel tool to shave down the bottom surface of the head. It actually does go down more. Also shave inside the head as well if that doesnt help. If this makes the head really loose, place a little paper towel inside the head hole and it should be more snug.
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Post by showbizpizzabear81 on Jun 29, 2020 7:01:51 GMT -5
Thanks brother! I'm about 5-6 figures away from having the entire 2002 roster. Afterwards, I want to customize a Retro Ring into a WrestleMania X8 one.
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Post by showbizpizzabear81 on Jun 29, 2020 5:41:41 GMT -5
A shred of good news.. I see the prices have gone down just a bit on Retros on ebay. Not Roman, JYD or Flair, but many of the others. I guess people weren't moving them when prices made them choose between Samoa Joe and food during this crazy time we live in.
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Post by showbizpizzabear81 on Jun 27, 2020 22:34:22 GMT -5
A few more Retro's coming your way! But, if I could be serious for just a minute...Lance Storm. Bret "Hitman" Hart (2010 Return) D'Lo Brown
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Post by showbizpizzabear81 on Jun 25, 2020 6:41:04 GMT -5
Speaking of ECW Almuni, heres another tip...a Retro Bray Wyatt makes a great Tazz with a bit if tweaking. Get yourself some foam paper from Walmart and take a pencil to draw up and cut out a shirt collar. I have all tattoo and attire decals waiting and a Tazz head coming in the mail..
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Post by showbizpizzabear81 on Jun 25, 2020 6:31:34 GMT -5
That Hurricane looks awesome. It always bugs me when I’m trying to do one and it ends up looking like it has no neck after doing the head swap Here's a Ravven I'm starting with extra parts. Stone Cold upper body, and Lesnar lower body. I picked up a Jakks head on ebay and will design a shirt decal...
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Post by showbizpizzabear81 on Jun 23, 2020 22:33:14 GMT -5
"The Rock" Don Muraco
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Post by showbizpizzabear81 on Jun 23, 2020 22:31:47 GMT -5
Pick a hand with ROB..VAN..DAM!
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Post by showbizpizzabear81 on Jun 23, 2020 22:30:17 GMT -5
The last WWF Champion....Hollywood Hulk Hogan!
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Post by showbizpizzabear81 on Jun 23, 2020 22:28:26 GMT -5
The hippest cat around, Dude Love!
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Post by showbizpizzabear81 on Jun 23, 2020 6:07:34 GMT -5
4 more figures will be up tonight. Heres a preview of another future project in the works... Heres a tip...dont ever throw away extra pieces when you're mashing what you need for a custom. Having a spare Ambrose top and Lesnar bottom allowed me to put together a Bret Hart 2010.
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Post by showbizpizzabear81 on Jun 23, 2020 6:06:40 GMT -5
So, I'm having the opposite problem with my Tito Santana. If you put his Elite head on a Retro, he looks like a giraffe. I had that issue with the Raven retro I made. An old WCW Raven head on a Samoa Joe retro body. He looked like a giraffe so I had to drill out the bottom of the head until it was opened up enough to slide down the neck portion fat enough to not look so silly. It turned out pretty good though, you have to glue the head so it doesn’t swivel after I saw that. It looked good, but there are 2 things I'd do different. Use a Dremmel tool to shorten the neck at the bottom of the Raven head, and make a deeper hole inside the head. I also wouldn't have used the Samoa Joe body. I wouldve gone Cena, or Austin. I say Austin because I could still accomplish a but of a 3D effect with the jean shorts by applying grey primer, then 8-10 coats of blue acrylic. Allow to dry fully before each coat to avoid peeling old layer and promoting a smoother surface. You'll see it slightly raise up. I'll show you with my RVD tonight. Nevertheless, great job. I like bouncing ideas off each others heads. I went old school Rob Conway for my Planet Stasiak because of someone's tip to do so, and it's an awesome figure. Feel free to ask for tips. Keep up the great work! Edit: Check out my next post. Looking at it, I realized that Ambrose/Lesnar mashup would make for a great Raven template I think.
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Post by showbizpizzabear81 on Jun 21, 2020 5:51:07 GMT -5
That Hurricane looks awesome. It always bugs me when I’m trying to do one and it ends up looking like it has no neck after doing the head swap So, I'm having the opposite problem with my Tito Santana. If you put his Elite head on a Retro, he looks like a giraffe.
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Post by showbizpizzabear81 on Jun 20, 2020 18:21:20 GMT -5
Could you post a picture?
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Post by showbizpizzabear81 on Jun 19, 2020 9:11:00 GMT -5
The Goldberg to the right is what I had in mind for Series 3..
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Post by showbizpizzabear81 on Jun 19, 2020 9:06:46 GMT -5
The Retros feel different to the Hasbros, but I’m rather neutral on it TBH - I never felt they were too inferior in that respect, I was more looking at missing attire details (e.g. Kane’s belt, Macho Man’s name on the back of his green trunks, etc), missing singlet details, legs being too far apart to look natural or things like that. My only concern with the material was that the skin-tone didn’t look as deep as the Hasbros did, but that might be more down to Mattel’s choice of base colour for certain skin-tones, I don’t know. But I accepted the softness of the heads without any difficulty - maybe I was just so emotional getting my childhood figures back that I didn’t care 😆 Making the figures customiser-friendly seems a good move (deliberate or not) - it seems like a lot of buyers have been picking-up extras for that reason (though we obviously don’t have the data to see how big this segment of the market truly is; probably not very big but still), so I’d think it’s worth pursuing. The changeable heads and hands of the main line might have a similar benefit in terms of attracting customisers, but of course Elites are twice the price of most Retros at retail before reaching the discounters. It’s for the customiser reason as well that I think the Retros might do rather well under a Matty Collector-type arrangement - I know I would order at least four of each guy (one to have MOC, one loose, one to maybe sell down the road, and one extra in case something happens), but if I went back to customising like I had been considering then that number would likely increase further. Depending on price that could be the same for quite a few folks. Man, I've spent more on the line doing customs than I did collecting them to have loose and MOC tenfold. That's why I'm bummed that most of these figures are seeing such a price hike. I've kind of determined which customs I'd like to do the most and buy the Retros I need now before they go into the JYD-stratosphere. This is my customs corner. The art of creating is exciting to me. The figures on top are just completed or near completion.
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Post by showbizpizzabear81 on Jun 19, 2020 8:49:22 GMT -5
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Post by showbizpizzabear81 on Jun 17, 2020 16:26:19 GMT -5
I've found the reply from Steve when asked about the Retro heads: All Retros had new stylized head sculpts. None were shared with Elites or Basics but a few were based off of the older sculpts as a starting point. JYD as an example was based on the Elite sculpt but in my opinion wasn’t pushed far enough to be overly different. Shawn was based on an old ponytail sculpt but was pushed way too far and lost a bit of his likeness in my opinion. A bit? Lol
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Post by showbizpizzabear81 on Jun 17, 2020 6:41:52 GMT -5
Finn Balor is fast becoming an action figure "Local Man" along with Nakamura, Rollins and Styles.
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Post by showbizpizzabear81 on Jun 15, 2020 12:54:24 GMT -5
(Mattel reads thread, later announced WWE-TMNT crossovers) they already did those though You know, now that you mention it I vaguely remember them. Any Power Rangers? Lol
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