Ideas for Attaching a Head with No Neck Plug

[Godzilla]

Anyone have any good ideas for this? Glue the head directly to the body? Try to build a plug out of something to glue to attach the head to and glue that to the body? I'm searching and I'm open to anything.

Thanks appreciated ahead of time.

[phil]

I have super glued heads to Dr. Mego bodies but it's been so long ago I don't remember the brand of glue I used. It did work well though.

[Tothiro]

Well... I mean as a last ditch thing you can fill a head with resin or magic sculp or similar epoxy and submerge an eyebolt in it before it hardens - then use that as an anchor to loop elastic through that you can tie off on the pelvis cross bar.

I have a Tomland Fly head (I'm hoping to upgrade in the future) that came in with the neck plug torn off. I went slightly less permanent and just inserted a large bolt with elastic through it after running the head under hot water and did the same thing. There was just a bit of the rim of the plug left to auto-center in the torso's neck opening. With less converse heads you probably couldn't use the nut or washer as an anchor trick though, and hence the resin or epoxy.
If it's not a damage issue, but just converting one neck plug style to another (say turning a female socket into male) I've always made a stand in plug by doing a quick and dirty recasting of the neck hardware (from the body if we're talking like Heroes of the American Revolution or something) and adding a mego mount to the base (either a ball joint or a full plug). Basically that's like making a vintage GI Joe neck element for mego use, but you can plug the alternate head style on and take it off without damage - probably even increase the pose range. It is a lot like work though, and casting/kit-bash skill is required.

[kingdom warrior]

.....go to a craft store get some polymer clay cut and make sure it can fit the neck, bake the plug attach the plug to the head with some kind of glue, adjust and that should do the trick.......

If you don't want to bake and do something faster and lighter but still works get some Crayola model magic cut a piece make it fit the neck the let it dry and glue the head to the neck.......

[phil]

I just realized I forgot to mention I only glued resin heads not roto cast.

[Captain Awesome]

I used to customize Famous Covers figures several years ago and had bought several resin Mego style heads from Reproheads and Customslab that I had cut the neck plugs off to modify them for the FC bodies. Wound up never using them and now that I'm customizing Megos, I've had to re-modify them with neck plugs again. Here's what I did:
Cut the neck plug off an extra Mego style head just above the post that fits into the neck hole of the body, leaving just about an 1/8" of the actual neck. (I bought a 5 pack of Potsie heads from CTVT. They were inexpensive and suit my purposes.)
Trim the little bit of neck that is left down even, leaving enough of the actual neck to glue it to the head.
Glue the neck to your head. I use Krazy glue but any of those types of glues will work.
Once the neck is firmly glued to the head, I then take my sculpting putty (I use Milliput) and stuff the neck space full, packing it in a little at a time thru the hole in the bottom of the neck plug. I use a 1/8" dowell to pack it with. Be careful not to fill in down too far past the neck itself. You still want to keep the post that fits into the body hole flexible. Let the filler putty cure. I usually wait at least a day.
After the filler putty has cured, fill in the gaps where you glued the neck to the head with more putty and let that cure. You may even need to fill the neck out a little if the neck and head are slightly different sizes.
After that cures, sand it down and paint it.
I have found that glueing it and then using the putty on the inside and out makes sure that the plug is securely attached to the head and doesn't stand a chance of coming off.

[Godzilla]

Those are all excellent ideas everyone. I appreciate the advice a ton.