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So after seeing MIB's original post about how bad the FTC Space Ghost figure was, I was shocked to see that he's a quite good figure by FTC's standards.
First and foremost, the body sucks. The head doesn't fit proper on the body and the black body causes the suit to be transparent. The suit itself is fine. It's not particularly thin or anything, it's just the black body that causes an issue.
But let's face it, all Re-Mego bodies suck sans Type-S. FTC's are some of the worst, but this one's got nothing particularly wrong with it other than the head not fitting to if flush. But I was never going to keep this figure on there anyway.
A quick swap to Type-S and he already looks a million times better. But there is still a gap where the costume sits on the body. This is part of the design and although it's a bit annoying, this is why FTC went with the black body.
So a couple of quick brushes of black paint on the very top part of the neck and BOOM, problem solved. I like MIB's idea of using another white jumpsuit and using the top half to add more beef to the neck cowl, but frankly this works just fine.
I also snipped a little off his belt since it's longer than it needs to be.
The head sculpt is pretty great. Not sure what the complaints there were about. It's probably a hair too big, but it's definitely not FTC huge. In fact, it's pretty spot on scale wise, he just has a bigger neck than most. The sculpt is solid as is the paint work.
It probably took me a total of 10 minutes to swap bodies and paint the small amount of area on the neck. So I don't think Space Ghost is a bad figure at all. You have to ditch the body, but you have to ditch the body with 99.9% of Re-Megos anyway, so I don't see much to fuss about here.
First and foremost, the body sucks. The head doesn't fit proper on the body and the black body causes the suit to be transparent. The suit itself is fine. It's not particularly thin or anything, it's just the black body that causes an issue.
But let's face it, all Re-Mego bodies suck sans Type-S. FTC's are some of the worst, but this one's got nothing particularly wrong with it other than the head not fitting to if flush. But I was never going to keep this figure on there anyway.
A quick swap to Type-S and he already looks a million times better. But there is still a gap where the costume sits on the body. This is part of the design and although it's a bit annoying, this is why FTC went with the black body.
So a couple of quick brushes of black paint on the very top part of the neck and BOOM, problem solved. I like MIB's idea of using another white jumpsuit and using the top half to add more beef to the neck cowl, but frankly this works just fine.
I also snipped a little off his belt since it's longer than it needs to be.
The head sculpt is pretty great. Not sure what the complaints there were about. It's probably a hair too big, but it's definitely not FTC huge. In fact, it's pretty spot on scale wise, he just has a bigger neck than most. The sculpt is solid as is the paint work.
It probably took me a total of 10 minutes to swap bodies and paint the small amount of area on the neck. So I don't think Space Ghost is a bad figure at all. You have to ditch the body, but you have to ditch the body with 99.9% of Re-Megos anyway, so I don't see much to fuss about here.
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