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For some reason, I bought a US release Bond Moonraker, complete with Zombie Head and broken knee pin. He looked beyond terrible.
I got a replacement DM knee pin, and with a little controlled violence, made it fit. Then I set about degreying his ugly, little head.
I have NO doubt that had I followed the tutorial EXACTLY, my results would have been perfect. Instead, I applied my favorite maxim for doing pretty much anything, which is; "Twice as fast, half as good." I could cut corners off a perfect circle folks.
Instead of using the exact materials specified in the tutorial, I used what I had laying around the basement. I chuckled to myself at the part that suggested 3 or 4 treatments over the course of 3 or 4 days, and set about administering 6 treatments in 2 days.
Amazingly enough, my half a$$ed approach took the grey off quite nicely. Unfortunately, it also took off a lot of paint. Since I was pretty darn happy about the degrey itself, I asked Dave what he could do about the paint. He said to send the thing along and he would have a look at it. I got it back today, and it looks like this...
And I mean it looked like total crap when I sent it off. James looked like he had a bad case of mange. I may not know what I like, but I know art when I see it! DaveMc is the Michelangelo of Mego heads! Thanks a million Dave!!
I got a replacement DM knee pin, and with a little controlled violence, made it fit. Then I set about degreying his ugly, little head.
I have NO doubt that had I followed the tutorial EXACTLY, my results would have been perfect. Instead, I applied my favorite maxim for doing pretty much anything, which is; "Twice as fast, half as good." I could cut corners off a perfect circle folks.
Instead of using the exact materials specified in the tutorial, I used what I had laying around the basement. I chuckled to myself at the part that suggested 3 or 4 treatments over the course of 3 or 4 days, and set about administering 6 treatments in 2 days.
Amazingly enough, my half a$$ed approach took the grey off quite nicely. Unfortunately, it also took off a lot of paint. Since I was pretty darn happy about the degrey itself, I asked Dave what he could do about the paint. He said to send the thing along and he would have a look at it. I got it back today, and it looks like this...
And I mean it looked like total crap when I sent it off. James looked like he had a bad case of mange. I may not know what I like, but I know art when I see it! DaveMc is the Michelangelo of Mego heads! Thanks a million Dave!!
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I swear, if some of these 12" figure lines didn't have so much greying problems (as well as broken knees), there would probably be more of an appreciation of them among collectors than there currently is.
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