#toymod

Some photo-bombing of my 1:6 scale, custom OG RE4 Leon S. Kennedy action figure. I just repainted him, after modifying his eyes once again. I am supper happy with him. I did ruin the irises once, after doming as is a habit of mine, one that I don't enjoy nor purposely do. Yet here we are. I feel like I managed to save the irises, despite them not being as clean, as I originally painted them. I somehow like them better, even if the right pupil is much larger and makes it look sheep-ish, it's not, it's just my poor doming technique. DX

Regardless, I am super in-love with my Leon, and I just hope to do a better, cleaner job next time I repaint him and/or/modify him again. Leon is by far one of the characters I love the most (aside from Sephy and Sasuke!). Original RE4 Leon will always be my favorite, and I will always dream of owning an accurate figure of that version of him. This is probably not it, but I am super happy with how he's looking so far. Maybe one day, I can make him look more accurate, even if the head is massive and will never look accurate on any actual 1:6 action figure body. The whole facial structure is ways off, but oh well. There's not much I can do, yet I might keep trying. Stubborn as I am.

So I got the Cdl 02 Alt in yesterday, AKA, the knockoff of Big Firebird Nicee with an Elita head and colourscheme slapped on, and something bothered me immensely about her: 

Her weird toddler-baby-doll face. (The promotional image on the box is displayed with her plastic white chest, which is one hard piece. No, it does not come with a more modest and robotic option.)

So I took one of the spare faces I had from my masterpiece Arcee, shaved down the parts that stuck out as indicated, cut off the forehead of the doll-head (as you can see in the pictures, where the face is there but the forehead is cut off) fitted and checked if everything looked good, adjusted where needed and glued the forehead and MP Arcee’s shaved down face together. 

So now my knock off Elita looks like this: 

MP Arcee’s face is a bit odd, but that is mostly because of the eyes, and the advantage here is, that Elita’s helm shape takes care of that; Personally, I think Elita looks better with longer eyes than Arcee anyway, and the faceplate portion of the helmet visually narrowed them so they actually look good on her. 

(Here she is displayed with the weird rubber chest, simply because the neck guard part matches the rest of her neck guard better. And with weird rubber chest I mean that the mammaries on the robot go squish. Yes. Really. That design choice was also part of the original Nicee. I am not the target audience.)

But, of course, that doesn’t change the fact that I have an MP Arcee with an awkward face, among other things (MP Nightbird did it better, despite being nearly the same toy), and a Big Firebird Nicee that, I found out upon buying, unfortunately didn’t come with the Arcee head she had in her earlier promotion pictures, leaving her with both the awkward doll-face and the awkward chest. 

The rest of her was still a really great design, though her transformation isn’t as fun as some, but that chest and face.... Fortunately, empurata is a thing in Transformers canon, so I could just apply some body horror! 

So yeah, MP Arcee permanently has her glasses on, and Nicee has a more personable face now... by not having one at all! 

Also: the KO Elita without the weird chest bit is somehow more accurate, simply because there’s a peach-coloured bar behind the part: